How do you know she is sleeping with Schlemming?
I never claimed any such knowledge. I merely pointed out that there's no reason to take it as a fact that she isn't. You know, "I don't know" is an allowable answer. It's not as if every question has to be a choice between two opposite certainties. My point is that there's no basis for certainty either way, that ambiguities should not be ignored.
My interpretation of how their relationship has been presented thus far is that she has yet to sleep with him. Maybe in the next episode they'll come right out and show or tell they've slept together and that'll be that, but until they actually do, Beckett is still going to be the faux-virginal object of desire perpetually perched on her pedestal, while Castle angsts his way from one bed to the next.
"Faux-virginal?" Where do you get that? Beckett has clearly been established as a sexually experienced adult woman who's interested in dating men. (Remember "The Mistress Always Spanks Twice," where Beckett demonstrated a surprising familiarity with the BDSM scene?)
I think you're projecting some expectations of your own that come from somewhere else, because I don't see anything like what you're describing in the show I'm watching. For one thing, I don't think Castle's really been shown sleeping with anyone this season beyond that actress who was screwing him to get the part in the
Heat Wave movie. (I also remember him reconnecting with his second ex-wife, but I think that was last season.) I think you're exaggerating an intermittent thing into a regular pattern. The stereotypes you're seeing are ones that you yourself are forcing the evidence to fit.
I'm not asking for perfect symmetry here, I'm asking for a bit of realism. Beckett has had plenty of opportunities for casual sex, or do you think a decorated, model-hot police officer would actually have no choice but celibacy?
Of course I don't think that, because it's a straw man that bears no resemblance to what I'm actually saying. My point is that she's a different person from Castle and the fact that she approaches relationships differently can be attributed to the fact that she's an individual, not just some gender stereotype. That
is realism.
Castle has taken nearly every opportunity he's been given to sleep with other women, while Beckett has taken every opportunity not to sleep with other men. She's had no potential romantic relationship with any man except Demming in just the last handfulof episodes.
Since "The Third Man," where both Castle and Beckett went on simultaneous dates and both of them failed to get lucky, the only liaison I recall Castle having is with the actress in "The Late Shaft," and she was clearly the aggressor. And Beckett started making goo-goo eyes at Demming the very next week, and that relationship has been going on a lot longer. So this disparity you're seeing is much smaller than you're making it out to be.
Yet she smiles and shrugs when he sleeps with another in a long line of women and he starts losing it when she kisses another man once.
Now that is simply a false statement. First, I've already debunked the "long line of women" exaggeration. Second, Beckett's veiled jealousy about Castle in "The Third Man" and "The Late Shaft" was no different from Castle's veiled jealousy about Beckett in the Demming episodes.
The world isn't conspiring against his getting together with her. The writers are.
Of course they are. That's what you do in a show like this. That's why they brought in Mark Harmon in
Moonlighting. It's the inevitable next step in a show where the leads in an Unresolved Sexual Tension scenario begin to admit their attraction: you throw distractions and obstacles in their path. After all, stories are about conflict and crisis. If your characters want something, a writer's
job is to make it hard for them to get it. If it's an ongoing series, you try to delay it as much as possible. In a format like this, that means once the couple starts showing signs of recognizing their feelings for each other, you toss in guest characters to divert their affections and complicate the situation.
They seriously need to get beyond this crap. Either have them get together (whether it works or not) or have them decide to be friends (whether it works or not), but the will they/won't they trapeze act is hugely cliche and boring.
I don't disagree with this part. I just think your allegations about sexism and stereotypes are totally off the mark. Yes, Castle's been shown to be
somewhat more sexually active than Beckett, though not to the extreme degree you claim; but that's beside the point, because what he feels for Beckett isn't just about sex. She's not just a conquest to him; if she were, he probably would've gone ahead and seduced her already, or at least tried. He has real feelings and respect for her. She means more to him than his casual affairs, and his connection to her is on a more mature and deeper level.
I'm not a B/C shipper anymore at this point, either. I don't care if Beckett and Castle never have a romantic relationship. Have her and Demming get together permanently and show us all that entails. Have Castle lose interest in sleeping around, focus on his family even more, or sleep with even more women or whatever. Show me how that all plays out. Just DO something.
The season finale's in four days. I'm sure they'll "do something" then.
), why didn't they probe for some specifics like race, hair color and length, things like that? At least they could've ruled one or two people out.
