Series Finale Live Thread (East Coast Airing)

[WendyCR72]

Chat about the finale in real time. As the tag says, there will likely be spoilers. Enter at your own risk, west coasters!

This will lock at 11. Take all postmortem chat to the episode thread, which will unlock when this one locks!

[KaveDweller]

This scene makes me think Vikram is going to die. 

[McManda]

Yeah, not surprised Caleb is the one that ended up dead.

(I'm extra cynical tonight, so that part of me thinks: is there anyone associated with this case that stays alive? Geez.)

[371012]

Here's cynical for you:  how did Ryan and Esposito figure out something was wrong when they believed Castle and Beckett were split up most of the season?

[KaveDweller]

I thought Caleb went on the run when he gave Beckett the phone Loksat called him with? Otherwise why give over the phone, just tell Beckett the assignment.

[McManda]

I think Caleb said he was going to continue on as normal, so that he didn't tip of LokSat that he gave the phone to Beckett. I don't think he could run.

 

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Here's cynical for you:  how did Ryan and Esposito figure out something was wrong when they believed Castle and Beckett were split up most of the season?

One can only imagine that they didn't get told the truth, but got told "oh, j/k ... we're fine" and ... went from there?

Edited May 17, 2016 by McManda

[371012]

I suspect we already saw our last of Lanie, BTW...

[LexieLily]

So, no concern for Ryan and Espo when Castle/Beckett were concerned that LockSat could come after their families? But we had to squeeze Hayley and even Vikram into the "family"

[McManda]

To be fair, as long as Ryan and Espo don't know about LokSat there's a chance they'd be fine. I mean, I'd still be concerned (especially about Jenny and the kids) but I'm a worrier.

[KaveDweller]

Nice to see that Castle and Beckett have worked out their issues and always keep their promises these days...

[371012]

2 minutes ago, KaveDweller said:

Nice to see that Castle and Beckett have worked out their issues and always keep their promises these days...

And, they will lie to the end...seriously, what are the odds that HIS CAB was the one who Castle flagged down?

[KaveDweller]

The cab was probably waiting outside the PI office for him to come out. I saw the same thing in a Lifetime movie where rapists pretended to be Uber drives to pick women to drug and rape.

It's bad when you start comparing things to Lifetime movies.

[irisheyes]

I'm bored. And I don't care about Loksat. 

[KaveDweller]

My prediction - this GDS guy is Loksat

[371012]

Rita is Locksat?

[tljgator]

a. this is horrible and weird and disjointed

b. what's with the cell phones?

[McManda]

I don't like the always-high-stakes finales. They're just ... trying too hard to be something Castle never was. So far I think Hollander's Woods was a better series finale (but my ultimate Castle season finale is season 2).

I might be on board with a cutesy, end wrap up scene, but ... eh.

[metaphor]

2 minutes ago, irisheyes said:

I'm bored. And I don't care about Loksat. 

Yep. I'm wondering how it would have felt to get a series finale similar to the earlier episodes I fell in love with. COTW and Caskett interactions.

I wonder when the writers decided on the identity of Loksat.

[371012]

They are successfully helping us to not miss the show after tonight.

[KaveDweller]

4 minutes ago, KaveDweller said:

My prediction - this GDS guy is Loksat

Wow, I didn't expect to be proven right so quickly. 

[371012]

Maybe ABC canceled because they saw this and just couldn't go on with what the showrunners were trying to sell.  And, I guess that Castle wasn't going to relocate his PI agency to work with Gerald McRaney...

[LexieLily]

Bracken and Vulcan Simmons worked with this guy? Really?

[McManda]

Wait ... Mason Wood is LokSat? The guy we were just introduced to ... or even heard of for the first time ... in one episode that aired 10 episodes ago?

... what a letdown. This guy was supposed to be epic. And it turns out that it's the guy that I literally had to google a half an hour ago to remember who he was?

[scenicbyway]

I'm watching with the sound off and have missed the first half.  Has Castle been tied to the table the whole time?  I will say it looks like NF has lost weight.

[metaphor]

Yep. I seriously wonder if they decided to make him Loksat when they signed McRaney to guest in 8x14. 

[KaveDweller]

This is kind of ridiculous.

[McManda]

Although, some of Nathan's best acting this season was when he had to tell Mason Wood who knew about LokSat, so there's that.

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Has Castle been tied to the table the whole time?  I will say it looks like NF has lost weight.

Not the whole episode. And also, yes. Dude's lost quite a bit of weight.

[irisheyes]

It takes a nurse three tries to find a vein for an IV on me, but these two amateurs can do it without any problem??  I guess I need Castle as a nurse the next time I go to the hospital. 

[metaphor]

4 minutes ago, McManda said:

Although, some of Nathan's best acting this season was when he had to tell Mason Wood who knew about LokSat, so there's that.

True. I thought that interrogation scene was well played by Nathan. It and the goodbye to Martha and Alexis have been the only two scenes that have landed for me in this episode thus far. 

Edited May 17, 2016 by metaphor

[metaphor]

Ah, the Caskett piano theme. Never gets old.

[McManda]

I find it a little too on the nose that Mason Wood ended up being LokSat when Beckett doubted him all along. I shouldn't be annoyed because she's always been the skeptical one, but I kind of am.

[metaphor]

I guess this was supposed to be the S8 cliffhanger, eh.

[irisheyes]

They really are going to kill her off. Wow. 

 

ETA: or not

Edited May 17, 2016 by irisheyes

[McManda]

So ... happy ending? (I'm on a 4 minute delay because I didn't think I'd be able to handle it if I head something went horribly, horribly wrong.)

[tljgator]

Um, what?