“Castle” has been moving in some rather strange directions lately, as various characters are being taken out of the show temporarily and later brought back. It’s not the first time someone has disappeared on this show, and while some fans have apparently started to get a bit annoyed at this trend, we’re going to get something similar in the premiere of the eight season.
Season 8, episode 1 will apparently feature a twist on the story from the premiere of season 7, where we saw Kate Beckett on the search for the show’s titular character who had gone missing. And now, it’s Castle who’s searching for Beckett, although learning this raised even more questions in the community of the show’s fans than it answered.
The main question is why Beckett is missing in the first place, and it looks like this is something we’ll find out only when the season starts airing. This is a bit different from season 7 which opened with a direct follow-up to the ending of season 6, but now the show isn’t going to continue from a major cliffhanger like that. It looks like any new dramatic developments in the new season will be laid out within the season itself and it won’t build on any major storylines that we’ve seen previously.
Of course, the plot summary also reveals that Castle will get in trouble during his search as he’ll get a strange phone call that will result in a dramatic sequence of developments which may or may not involve someone dying. The producers are also planning something more interesting for the first two episodes of the season, telling the story from two different perspectives.
That is, we won’t just follow Castle on his search for Beckett, but we’re also going to see how things are developing from the point of view of Beckett herself. The two points of view will be split between the first two episodes of the season, with episode 1 focused on the story as seen from Castle’s perspective. Then we’re going to see things from the other side as episode 2 will show us what’s been going on from Beckett’s point of view.
This implies that a lot will be left untold in episode 1, and we’re going to see the majority of the story developed in episode 2 of the season. With that in mind, we’re probably going to get quite a lot of cliffhangers at the end of episode 1, and it might leave fans in a peculiar situation.
The show definitely knows how to leave its viewers at the edge of their seats, and it’s not a stranger to cliffhangers – and if the first two episodes of this season are any indication, we’re going to get quite the tense set of developments this time around. Are the writers trying to push the drama even further, or is this just a temporary trend in the beginning of the season?
There have been rumors that the overall style of “Castle” might change a bit for season 8, as the show may take a more dramatic turn and focus on developments that explore the more intricate aspects of each character’s personality. It might do away with some of the lighthearted humor in favor of more in-depth conversations and scenes that truly reveal what makes each character tick, and although we haven’t been able to confirm those claims yet, they definitely sound plausible with regards to everything we’ve seen in “Castle” so far.
You told us all that you are not going to destroy the love story between these two, we will take your word on that, and time will tell. What episode are we going to be hearing about Rick and Kates baby?