You know, at first viewing I was disappointed that Kate did not say the “I love you” to Rick. And I like you, started to feel bummed about it. But….. on further viewing ( ok A Lot of further viewings ;-} ), I changed my mind. We all know Kate Loves Rick, really loves him, but she does not wear her heart on her sleeve like Rick. So…. When she is hanging from that wall (very Freudian there) and she whispers only Castle’s name, when she hears: “Beckett, Beckett hold on”, she hears only Castle’s voice. Yet we along w/Kate realize after being rescued, it was Ryan’s voice. Later quits the force, and goes to the swing set that was in “Rise” where she tells Rick she cannot have the kind of relationship that she wants (and at this point she cocks her head and looks at Rick- i.e. “I cannot have the kind of relationship I want with you…. Castle) until that “Wall” comes down.

So what I am trying to say in my babbling way is this: Her wall came down, so when she grabbed Rick at his front door and said “I’m so sorry Castle” 3 times, knowing how deeply she had and has hurt him, that is her ” I love you” in that particular moment. For Kate to have reciprocated the ‘ILY’ to Rick would have been contrived and I believe not in character. Her actions spoke louder than words. Rick backed away at first, not sure where this was coming from, and when she said “He got away and I didn’t care; I almost died and all I thought of was you, I only want you”, Rick looked very deeply and searchingly into Kate’s eyes. He knew she was telling the truth, and that she did love him.

I believe with all my heart that we will see and hear Kate say ” I love you” to Rick. But it will be true to her in the moment it happens. And when it does, we will all rejoice. Andrew knows his characters, and Nathan and Stana, know their alter egos, it will be an “I love you” that will stand the test of time.

The lighting to me was perfect. It was at Rick’s front door, probably not a lot of lighting at most front doors. The shadowing was perfect for me. Plus if you notice as Rick is on the phone with Alexis, there are only a few lamps on and he hangs her graduation tassel on one of them. Plus there was a storm outside. The final scene: Kate guiding Rick’s hand to her scar, they both now kiss each other gently, warm lighting framing their faces and as their fingers intertwine and hands clasp, the camera moves back to that soft lighting on their faces as Kate smiles and leads the way.

All in all, in my opinion, the lighting, the music, the eyes meeting each other, and the KISSES (sigh…) were done tastefully and true to “Castle”. And yet, as Lanie once said about the sex scene in “Heat Wave” in the episode ‘A Rose for Everafter’ Season 2: It had me “reaching for the ice water”

First Genelle, I would love to read your poem. and like you Phillip, I am not a facebook fan or client. I was on it a very long time ago and for
various reasons took myself off. I would love to see your drawing. Fooxoo sent one of Rick and Kate to our forum “Trueheart’s Castledom. She too is a talented artist. I would be great to see yours. My late mother, like your mother was an artist. She drew charactetcher, ( I know I spelled that wrong :-} ) but mostly landscapes. I have a few of paintings in my apt. When friends see them they glance at me, & I tell them to not expect that from me for I did not inherit that gene. I write prose and poems like my father.

Keeps safe and please check out our forum mentioned above.

Best Wishes,
Steve Q.

And if you like the Nikki Heat books, pick up the In Death book series by J.D. Robb (starting with Naked In Death)

I still remember the first time I got my hands on Jane Eyre, on Pride and Prejudice, on The Last of the Mohicans, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Paradise Lost, Hamlet….

There are books out there that change your worldview, and once you’ve read them, you must read everything else that author has written because you want to understand more, grow more, feel more, empathize more, even with those who are your enemies.

Castle is truly the only Network TV show that has made me feel like I am more human after each and every episode. Do some make me mad? Absolutely. Do some make me sad? Desperately. Do others make me laugh at my problems? Positively.

Always will be hard to top — but AWM and Terri Miller have penned other episodes that I didn’t think could be better, and the writing team they have put together never ceases to amaze me.

And, on top of that, we get great production values, amazing art direction, cinematography, costuming — and actors who always manage to convince me that they are more and better and different than they should be, given their grueling schedules.

So, SafeWordApples — when you feel the need to write that essential essay on [insert great work of literature] that you actually didn’t like, my advice is to remember all the things about Castle that engaged and enraptured you. Now, in an academic setting, I won’t go so far as to suggest that you cite Castle (too many Professors look down on television), but use those characteristics you love as a way of explaining what you genuinely saw as flaws in the “great work” (unless your Professor wrote it, in which ignore everything I’ve said). Ground your opinions honestly in how it felt to connect to the art that makes Castle so special, just as srieley has done in this piece, and I think you will get the grades in school (and the experiences in life) that will make you glad you developed an “unhealthy obsession.”

http://castletv.net/forums/get-creative/classic-hollywood-that-reminds-me-of-castle

I should have also mentioned that the dog choosing scene in “An Embarrassment of Bitches” comes from “The Awful Truth”

I find it fascinating to get an insight in the real lives of cops or doctors or writers. Hell, books and tv draw us into these intriguing stories, but hearing it from the real deal – just awesome.

Please continue your discussion, I’m eagerly following every word.

P.S. Will drop by Trueheart’s Castledom for a read

I could not “Reply” to your post so here it is

I understand Megan’s feelings on this so I am glad you explained it to her. And, I so wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of Rick’s reaction. He just came a few hours earlier of putting all his feelings on the table. Confronting Kate and himself. And when she said to his plea of “If you care about me at all, please don’t do this” (go after the bad guys), and she basically just told him that he was as important as her pursuit of her justice was. So he had to let go, he loved her to much to see her get killed, (he had been there and done that) and he was done. He had spent 4 years teasing her, cajoling her, bringing her coffee (just to see her smile), getting almost killed a few times himself, and 4 years of loving her. And to feel he was not enough (or so it seemed) was more than he could take.

So yes, he hesitated, a thousand thoughts could have gone through his mind at that moment of her grabbing him. He had been waiting for this moment for years, fantasying about it, and now here she is! But why, why now? He did kiss her back at that first kiss, but after her sincere apology, and she tried to kiss him again, he grabbed her arms, pushed her back and asked the question, looking deeply into her eyes for the truth, he saw it and heard it from her lips. Then he could embrace her fully and with all the love and passion that had been building in him. And Kate too, her wall coming down at a rapid pace, knew her cause almost cost her the one man who she knew loved her for who she is (Remarkable, Maddening, Challenging and Frustrating), and she loved him as much. No longer hiding behind her Mother’s murder.

I know you might be thinking why I just went into all of that, when you already knew it, but I love to write too. Forgive my indulgence (smile). I write poetry and little stories. And apparently, long winded posts like this one. By your posts, I can get a glimpse of your writings. I hope one day you publish, I would love to read about your: “Bookish detective, and his lady love a whip-smart uniform officer”.

Tell Becca hello for me, I am glad she enjoyed Portland. I love it here, as I do all my Oregon.
I hope you and your family visit here also. I have never been to Wisconsin, but would like to see it one day.

Oh, and speaking of visiting. Check out in Forums under “Off Topic” a thread called “Trueheart’s Castledom”. Trueheart is also a contributing author here in the articles. If you have not read any of her renderings do so, it would be interesting to see what you think. On that thread, we are up to 140 pages, so if you do check it out, just read the first few, then skip to the last. We are all very friendly, and crazy bunch and love our Castle (we can go a tad overboard, admittedly, but that’s why we have the thread), we are OCD’rs completely!

Take care Phillip.

I recently discussed “Always” with Megan, a report typist for our department who in a week’s time will be sworn in as a recruit police officer along with 15 other new hires. Her delight at the Season 4 denouement was tempered by doubts as to the onscreen chemistry of Nathan and Stana. Megan cited Castle’s visible hesitation and discomfiture Nain the immediate aftermath of that first scorching kiss.
I argued that Nathan was playing a man in turmoil, a man who moments earlier had consigned the last four years to the memory hole and was grieving for a lost love when said lost love materialized on his doorstep. He is wary, even off-putting (“Beckett, what do you want?”) and in no way anticipates Kate’s response. Her kiss shocks him to his core; four years of repartee and hand-holding and shoulder bumps could not have prepared him for Beckett as sexual aggressor. Listen closely and you can hear a jagged intake of breath, disbelief paired with wild hope. Once he sees her honest yearning and raw emotion he realizes she has come to him with no hidden agendas, and it takes but the touch of her fingertips on his face for the floodgates to open. All in all, I told Megan, a performance of uncommon depth and subtlety by two accomplished actors plying their trade.
I write fiction in my off-hours, and one reason I was pulling for Castle and Beckett was that I saw in them a reflection of two of my characters, both based at least in part on cops I’ve worked with here in Madison “Berkeley with Cows” Wisconsin. My hero is a bookish detective, his lady love a whip-smart uniform officer. No more implausible than a crime novelist who becomes enamoured of a woman homicide cop.
Incidentally, my colleage Becca, a beat officer currently on pregnancy leave, visited Portland recently and loves your city. She reports that it parallels Madison in many ways.
Until next time… –Phillip

If there is an argument for Castle as art, it is your article itself. In tweets, on blogs and in forums, Castle inspires its viewers to talk about the art of writing, of acting, the craft of how things were shot, the psychology of relationships etc – as shown by your article. One Castle fanfiction writing is now getting her first book published, a Castle video made it into the finales of national contest, and there are MANY truly amazing Castle videos out there. There are drawings posted on-line and people design icons and wallpaper. In short, the creativity of Castle brings out the creativity of its viewers. Art inspires art.

http://castletv.net/forums/off-topic-discussion/truehearts-castledom-2

Anyone else?

Like I said, there are others — happy for other people to suggest some.

I love Carole Lombard to distraction. “My Man Godfrey” is her other great film, with William Powell. One of the few films to deal with the Depression in a semi-comic way (or at all, for that matter). Powell, from the city dump, becomes her butler. An hour and a half of sheer bliss.

For Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, “Hoilday” (1938) is their other pairing, which is an odd play-turned-film, but fun to watch. She’s a socialite, he’s a “self made man”.

“Only Angels Have Wings” (1939) is Cary Grant as a mail pilot and Jean Arthur as a wisecracking singer meeting in a South American bar/airport/fliying business. Pure escapism.

“Notorious” is a great film, great recommendation.

I, too, have seen all of these except The Moon’s Our Home. It’s available from Facets Multi-Media – facets.org It’s currently listed as out-of-stock, but it says they will have more coming in.