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Date Posted: 21:48:10 05/23/16 Mon
Author: JJ Ronda - Where is everyone?
Subject: It's been so long I almost forgot how to start a new message! I can't believe no one has said anything about the Castle finale yet! Spoilers below if you haven't watched it yet.

IMO, the Castle finale was a great ep, *if* it had just been a regular season finale. However, given that it was the *series* finale, I was a little disappointed that we merely got a 45 second bandaid to close out an 8 year run. Yes, I know the decision was made last minute and I'm thankful the showrunners even had the foresight to plan ahead at all, but that doesn't make me feel any better about it. It's like JAG all over again. But if I'm going to make that comparison, at least the last Castle episode was actually about the two main characters!

I was most irritated that they skipped from Castle and Beckett lying on the floor dying to a seven years later happy ending. I guess we are just supposed to fill in the blanks with whatever we want? That�s great for fanfic purposes, but I expected better from such a shippery show that promised a satisfying ending. I noticed that while they had initially said the filmed an alternate ending, later articles referred to an alternate *epilogue*. So I guess if the show had been renewed it would have ended with the cliffhanger of them lying on the floor at death�s door. So it really was just an added scene to force an ending. A �bandaid� if you will. While the last scene of them with their three kids (as foretold by the guy from the future) was lovely, it was hardly �satisfying�. I was still reeling from the shock of Caleb Brown coming back from the dead to shoot them in their home with only a minute left in the ep. They had DNA evidence that the burned body was his! Even if the dead body had been someone else, and his DNA evidence had been planted, who�s to say they would have tested the planted evidence and not tested any of the other poor soul�s DNA? Sorry, I just can�t get past that one. Not buying it. And why should I? The Loksat mystery was all over and by that point I was ready for my happy ending doggonnit!

So, last week when the ep was over, I was disappointed, irritated, perturbed, sad, mad, you name it. I was wide awake and it was time for bed. My husband wasn�t happy about it either, but I think I was complaining louder than he was. Lol Then inspiration hit me. The way they *should* have edited the episode, if they had asked me, was to just leave Caleb Brown in the morgue. Castle could be making breakfast, maybe his special dinosaur pancakes, but instead of zooming in on the flame of the stove, they could have zoomed in on the frying pan with the pancakes, then zoom out and have it be seven years later and he�s making those dinosaur pancakes for those three kids. Then show all the warm and fuzzy scenes with the flashback dialogue and stuff. And make it last for more than 45 seconds! Why did they even need to show the part where Caleb shot them? That was valuable time that could have been used to improve that happy ending we were promised. So, in my mind, that is how it happened. No Caleb, no guns, no blood, no unresolved cliffhanger, just a plain and simple happy ending like we were hoping for. And when I get the DVDs, that is how I will watch it. I�ll just skip through those awful few seconds and play it the way I would have edited it.

After I told my husband my version of the ending, I said �There, I fixed it. Now that that�s resolved, we can finally go to sleep!�

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[> Agree hate the shooting and so unnecessary. This show for the past year has had new showrunners not the creator and part of why the ending was not like it should have been. No way they wouldn't have filmed two endings. Yes will skip that scene as well. -- Hope reading all the fic and watching s1-7, 17:34:09 05/25/16 Wed [1]

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[> Well, I was disgusted at the end because it was an add-on and nobody can convince me otherwise. They had the cliffhanger ready and just tacked on the last few seconds or so because it was cancelled. I was hoping for a little more than what we got, but it's history. Like you, JJ, I'll end it the way I fell it should have been. -- jenks, 09:27:35 05/27/16 Fri [1]

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That why I told you a long time ago than I decided to stop TV show and be for characters to fall in love. I feel sorry, than you didn't have the final you all hoped. -- Laurence, 16:01:46 05/29/16 Sun [1]

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