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He is asked why castle asks Beckett regarding Alexis and not Gina? IMHO tha answer shows that even the cast has no sense what are these LIs for. He tells why can Beckett give advice – but not why a man not asking this advice from her private partner, who is by the way his ex-wife at the same time.

I think Castle is going to the one with the most useful advice. Beckett grew up differently than Gina, more grounded, and that's how he wants Alexis to be.

It's also interesting that he says that Castle speaks to Beckett because that's who he's always around. That doesn't say much for Gina, IMO.

Shadows_21 said:

I think Castle is going to the one with the most useful advice. Beckett grew up differently than Gina, more grounded, and that's how he wants Alexis to be.

 

It's also interesting that he says that Castle speaks to Beckett because that's who he's always around. That doesn't say much for Gina, IMO.

OK, if normally meaningless informations are withhold, people start making conspiracy theories. I can only think that Ep 5 will partly revolve right around this question – why does Castle ask an outsider about things what are belonging to the family and to the responsibility of the family.

 I agree that it's kind of weird the way they've been handling Gina off screen through these first 3 episodes.  There's hardly been any mention of her.  I just think that it's pretty OOC for Castle to not talk about his signficant other/LI to Beckett and the boys.  I think we all can agree that Castle still is clueless that he broke poor Beckett's heart before the summer, so I don't think Castle's lack of talking about Gina is out of "courtesy" or anything like that.  In the first episode, I totally understand.  Everyone was mad at Castle, and that wasn't the focus of the episode, so leaving Gina out except for Beckett's comments in the interrogation scene is believable. But the last episode, I don't get.  While I am totally fine with Gina not being on-screen, it is odd that Castle wouldn't have talked to her about his predicament with Alexis and the scooter.  Just a line referencing a discussion like "Gina's advice was this…", or even Beckett asking "what did Gina think?" would have made the Castle-Gina relationship more believable.  Maybe the writers are trying to minimize the angst after the season finale by not having Castle mention her or is it just because their relationship is not really that serious that he cares about her opinion (doubtful)?  But that's not what the writers have lead us to believe is the point of having the LIs around this season.   Is the absence of discussion about Gina meant to show maturity on Castle's part?  Most of the time when he discussed women in his life before, it was with some sexual reference (deep fried Twinkie, "comforting", etc), with the exception of Kyra.  But then again, I guess those were more flings than relationships.    So does this mean things really are serious with Gina?  I would imagine in some ways that they have to be even if the writers haven't shown us that.  There's only so much one can learn about a person that they've already been in a committed relationship with.  Castle and Gina are going on 5 months now, so I think the "re-getting-to-know-you" phase has passed.  Next few episodes will be interesting to say the least!

Danny Franks said:

Thanks for posting this.

The stuff about Beckett's anger over him not calling "rearing its ugly head again" is interesting. I can't really figure how this might come back into play, but if it allows them to actually have a real conversation about what happened and why it happened, then it can only be good. But the way Fillion talked about it there, I'm fairly sure we aren't done with the issue completely.

Seems like he avoided mentioning Gina at all. Instructions from the writers or the marketing bods, perhaps? They're being very very vague about both love interests at the moment, which is part reassuring, part worrying.

castleobserver said:

Admin said:

I think the question of Beckett may simply be right place at the right time kind of thing – if he'd just received the pic on his phone Beckett was around it would make sense to him to ask her rather than dropping everything and calling or going to see Gina…right?

As for the issue of Gina not being mentioned much – I don't think it's being left out for any reason other than time. There's so much to try and fit into every episode there's probably just not enough time to make reference to Gina if it doesn't somehow fit with the existing context of the episode.

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I agree with you. I feel that Gina is left out because there is only so much that can be put into one episode and the stories so far just haven't revolved around her character. I also think that Beckett and Castle do spend a great deal of time together. They may even spend more time together than Castle and Gina, so he does ask Beckett for advice. It also helps Castle feel comfortable talking to Beckett about these things because of the fact that Beckett is someone Alexis looks up to and they are similar in a lot of respects.
 

Who is asked: I can make 24 hour shifts with somebody, I won't ask advices or opinion on family matters only in case if I feel him/her close enough to show my closet.

Nev827 said:

Shadows_21 said:

Danny Franks said:

Thanks for posting this.

The stuff about Beckett's anger over him not calling "rearing its ugly head again" is interesting. I can't really figure how this might come back into play, but if it allows them to actually have a real conversation about what happened and why it happened, then it can only be good. But the way Fillion talked about it there, I'm fairly sure we aren't done with the issue completely.

Seems like he avoided mentioning Gina at all. Instructions from the writers or the marketing bods, perhaps? They're being very very vague about both love interests at the moment, which is part reassuring, part worrying.

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It'll probably 'rear its ugly head' when they both get fed up with playing the friends card.

 

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I'm thinking it "rears it's ugly head" when Castle confronts Beckett about hiding Josh and she says something like "Why do you care?  What was I supposed to do all summer while you were with her in the Hamptons?  Sit around on my butt?  no way, Mister.  I met him and we've been having a good time.  Deal with it."