Four years in the making, through tricky timing, life-or-death cases, and the steady build-up of sexual tension that could be cut with a knife, ABC's Richard Castle and Kate Beckett finally sealed their relationship on Castle last season. He's the famous writer; she's the sharp detective. Together, they have progressed from annoyance with to tolerance of each other, from bickering to a grudging respect, on to a reluctant friendship and increasingly heated flirtation, and now to lovers. Even better, instead of a plot point or instant gratification, they are all in for a real relationship.
Castle: Beckett, what do you want?
Beckett: You. I’m so sorry, Castle. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.
Castle: What happened?
Beckett: He got away, and I didn’t care. I almost died, and all I could think about was you. I just want you.
If you haven’t watched all of this season of Castle yet, stop reading and go catch up. This episode is worth it.
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Television today is filled with strong women crime fighters. Detective Kate Beckett on Castle, Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on The Closer and Dr. Temperance Brennan on Bones are prime examples. But where would these women be without their devoted male sidekicks, and what qualifications are necessary to get the job done (besides, of course, being ruggedly handsome)? More importantly, who would you rather partner with to fight crime: Richard Castle, Fritz Howard or Seeley Booth?
How are you surviving TV premiere week? Bleary eyes, lots of coffee, lots of inward squees and groans?
Did Andrew Marlowe, the creator of the TV show Castle, misname the show?
Great crime fighting duos are timeless. Batman & Robin, Starsky & Hutch, Holmes & Watson, and the list goes on. But they’re not very romantic. Not to me anyway. So, who are the couples who detect by day and well, a-hem, you know what by night . . .
Another odd idea that seemed to have become accepted as fact was that television audiences didn’t read. (Radio audiences were a different matter entirely—The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, for example, began as a radio program.) Television audience went to the movies—after all, both were visual media—so they could be trusted to attend Star Trek movies or The Blues Brothers (which started out as a Saturday Night Live skit), but they weren’t likely to actually read books based on television shows.
