“Not doing it would have been even ballsier because I think the audience is near it’s breaking point,” he says. “And it’s 2012, people fall into and out of bed together all the time. If it had gone on any longer, we would have been bad storytellers.” And this new path, which will find Castle and Beckett entering a relationship together in season 5? It’s full with opportunity, he says.
“It was important to open up the storytelling. We had done as much storytelling as we thought we could do credibly with not having them together. So the characters either had to do their separate ways or get together,” he says. “We thought there was a lot of fun to be had mining their relationship once they were together because no relationship goes smoothly, and they’re fundamentally different people.”
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Subject: Re: 4x23 "ALWAYS" (Season Finale) Spoilers Tue May 08, 2012 3:33 am
So, you finally put Castle and Beckett together. Why was now the time? Andrew W. Marlowe: Ultimately, you get to a fork in the road. If we kept them apart any longer, say another season — after what Castle had put on the table at the end of last season — in my mind, that would have been the death of the series. Then, we would have just been being artificial. They would have become brother and sister, and then we're just ignoring everything that had happened. There comes a point where you have to confront it. ... We wanted to get the point where we resolved it and made a promise for next season that these two are going to have to be dealing with their feelings for one another.
Of course, we didn't see whatever was about to happen in that bedroom. Are you planning to pull a fast one next season? Marlowe: I have no intention of pulling the rug out from the audience. I think that when that scene ends, everybody is clear on what's about to happen. We don't need to see it, but we know it's going to happen.
So to be clear, there won't be an urgent phone call that Castle's mom has been in an accident or something like that? Marlowe: No. I think we need to get to the other side of the storytelling. I think we've played the interruptions as much as we possibly can. And I think we're really interested to see what's going to happen with these two. What does that relationship look like? This is going to allow us to reembrace some of the fun, because relationships are tricky things and they don't always go the way you want them to.
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Subject: Re: 4x23 "ALWAYS" (Season Finale) Spoilers Tue May 08, 2012 4:53 am
Longer end scene
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Subject: Re: 4x23 "ALWAYS" (Season Finale) Spoilers Tue May 08, 2012 5:32 am
Although some fans might've gotten frustrated after Castle revealed his love for Beckett and they still didn't get together, Marlowe says he hopes they'll look back on the season as a whole and realize the writers were heading toward this ending the entire time.
"Yeah, it was absolutely the plan, from actually two thirds of the way through Season 3 when when we knew we were going to end it with Montgomery getting shot and killed and Beckett getting shot, and the revelation of Castle's 'I love you.' We had that long before we ended the season," he explains. "I knew that we could sustain about a season once the 'I love you' was out there, so it was always to have arrived at this place. And you know, I think the fans that have been frustrated by what we've done this year will look back at the year differently once they know that our two guys got together. Just because it was always the plan from the beginning."
Geez... A showrunner that thinks of the long haul in story planning..... The finale was over a year in the making.
I just can get enough of this scene, and I want to see every single detail. Apparently someone else felt the same and decided to brighten things up a bit. With this brighter clip, we get to see more detail of this amazing scene.
Tue May 08, 2012 3:25 am