How does this show continue to be perfection week after week? It astounds me.
Everyone thinks we have all the time in the world. But the reality of the fact is that one day, we’ll all die. We all have an appointment with death. But that’s not the only death that has an appointment. We are constantly dying to things in our life - constantly running out of time. Ending of relationships. Ending of adolescence. Ending of dreams.
The truth of the matter is that we don’t have all the time in the world. In fact, we’re constantly operating on less time.
This episode truly displayed this truth.
First we deal with the ending of dreams for Alexis. She doesn’t get into Stanford. She spirals out of control wanting to get rid of everything that reminds her of the time she’s invested into getting into college. Castle, as any good father would, reminds her that there’s more to life than just working to get into college. When Alexis comes to talk to Castle, he assures her that she’ll find the next thing - that while she ran out of time on that dream, there is still time to pursue her next dream whatever that may be.
The second aspect of the episode is the more obvious and blatant thing - cryogenics. The whole idea of it is to extend life - to literally have all the time in the world. It was the center of the episode.
But the underlying importance of this is how it affected Beckett and Castle, obviously. And this is the fourth time in four episodes that they have been reminded that they don’t have all the time in the world. Knockout? Beckett gets shot. Rise? Beckett flatlines. Heroes & Villains? She reminds the other cop not to let her past affect her future happiness. Head Case? She’s put face to face with the facts that no matter how much you love someone you’re only given a certain amount of time on this earth to spend with that certain someone. I mean, heck, she even says it at Beau Randolph’s office that she’s learned this truth. And you can tell from the ending with the woman killing herself that it really hits her hard. And then we get the Caskett scene at the end where they’re basically telling each other they want to beat the odds and get together.
And this, these facts, are why I think we won’t have to wait much longer until something happens with them. Maybe they won’t get together officially, but something has to happen. All the signs are pointing to Beckett coming to the realization that she doesn’t have all the time in the world. And the reality of the fact is that every time she spends not with him is a day she’ll never get back of not being with him.
She is slowly coming to the realization that they don’t have all the time in the world. None of us do.
Castle writers, thank you for your genius. For your life lessons. For your amazing characters and for your amazing writing. Thank you for finding the significance in the subtleties.
but… but… the wall! i am interested to see how her immovable object (the wall) takes the hit from her unstoppable force (losing time with Castle)
castle writers, you are doing it right!!!