#cancelcastle

I thought Season 9 of Castle was a done deal. Maybe there wouldn’t be a Season 10, but I was certain we’d get at least half a season’s worth of episodes where Castle has moved on from deceased Beckett. Cue cringey time-jump to five years in the future where misguided producers are trying to pair him with Hayley.

It wouldn’t have been good. I probably wouldn’t have watched at all, along with thousands of fans tuning out because of what happened with Caskett. It’s pretty hard to trust a show that wreaked havoc on the main reason we all watched for so many years.

(Let’s face it, the last few seasons we didn’t watch for the superb writing...)

So, I’m happily shocked that I was proven wrong today. I’ll be able to watch reruns knowing Beckett doesn’t die in the end, that despite whatever went on behind the scenes, I can enjoy older episodes same as I have before. I’ll also be able to read or write fanfiction without getting sad about a once-great TV couple. Trivial when compared to real life problems, but isn’t that why we watch TV in the first place?

I haven’t been watching Castle regularly since the beginning of Season 7. Season 5 was decent, then I was morbidly intrigued by the Season 6 cliff hanger. When Season 7 hit it was like the writers forgot how the characters interacted. I watched on and off during S7 and about two episodes of the now-infamous current season.

Then news about Stana Katic broke and my Twitter timeline was flooded with “#CancelCastle”/”#NoStanaNoCastle” tweets. I’ve mostly kept quiet about this tactic but I can’t help feeling it’s counterproductive. 

This campaign is advertising Castle more than ABC has in years. The sad part is that ABC won't cancel as long as there's so much "interest.” People will still tune in out of curiosity. The best way to cancel Castle would be every single viewer tuning out on Monday nights. ABC will keep the show going forever as long as it’s making waves. 

I'm annoyed mostly because “budget" was the lamest excuse ABC could have possibly given. They’ve been taking the show in a different direction for a while now and don’t have the balls to say it.