{"id":4526,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/a-quick-comment-on-castle\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:45:25","slug":"a-quick-comment-on-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4526","title":{"rendered":"A quick comment on Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Castle is one of my top three favorite shows currently airing. It may be in my top ten ever; <em>definitely<\/em> in the top twenty.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8211;and this is important&#8211;they&#8217;re also on the verge of committing what I consider to be the cardinal sin of &quot;Dragging certain details out for <em>far<\/em> too long.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just begun season four. By the <em>end<\/em> of season four, I want to see the &quot;Who&#8217;s the big mastermind behind the conspiracy that killed Beckett&#8217;s mother?&quot; plotline wrapped up, and I want to see the &quot;Will they\/won&#8217;t they?&quot; actually result in a romantic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>(And don&#8217;t feed me any lines about &quot;The Moonlighting Curse.&quot; I don&#8217;t buy it.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course there can still be complications between them, and of course the show can introduce a new long-running plot arc (though I&#8217;m not convinced it needs one). But these? Time to tie the bow, people.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, no matter how much I love the show, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll be sticking around for season five. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castle is one of my top three favorite shows currently airing. It may be in my top ten ever; definitely in the top twenty. But&#8211;and this is important&#8211;they&#8217;re also on the verge of committing what I consider to be the cardinal sin of &quot;Dragging certain details out for far too long.&quot; We&#8217;ve just begun season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}