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astri13Thoughts on the Bones Season 3
Now Bones is a show I just watch for entertainment, thus I`m not that invested in characters or knowledgeable about behind-the-scenes, so question the first, did the actor for Zack want to leave? Usually the case when something like this happens.
I did read a spoiler a while ago that stated one of the lab would be Gormogon`s apprentice and demographic-wise the only ones fitting were Sweets and Zack, everyone else is either the wrong gender or too old for what we have seen of the apprentice so far. So I figured Sweets, I mean he was obvious as hell as a newly introduced, cute-ish character and it wouldn`t have been a big reveal but neither has been Quentin Costa on Nip/Tuck being the serial rapist and yet he still was.
So yeah, my money was on Sweets - and I do like Sweets very much - simply for the time-honored reason that main cast is rather sacrosanct, unless an actor wants to leave. Or was this a case of "writing for that character is so hard" where an actor is left, so to speak? An Atlantis-Ford?
The other reason I dismissed Zack was that he was shown to have a large family, so not so much widow`s son. And Gormogon seemed very strict with the rules on that.
Thus, its not so much that I don`t buy it from the character, for all his ultra-logic, he is naive enough in the world to be swayed to some wacky ultra-logic but story-wise it doesn`t make lots of sense and it seems like a good deal of retconning involved. At the very least I won`t buy that Zack`s sudden "enlightenment" would have gone unnoticed by anybody or would have been so unnoticeable in the first place.
Whole thing feels pretty odd.
Now Bones is a show I just watch for entertainment, thus I`m not that invested in characters or knowledgeable about behind-the-scenes, so question the first, did the actor for Zack want to leave? Usually the case when something like this happens.
I did read a spoiler a while ago that stated one of the lab would be Gormogon`s apprentice and demographic-wise the only ones fitting were Sweets and Zack, everyone else is either the wrong gender or too old for what we have seen of the apprentice so far. So I figured Sweets, I mean he was obvious as hell as a newly introduced, cute-ish character and it wouldn`t have been a big reveal but neither has been Quentin Costa on Nip/Tuck being the serial rapist and yet he still was.
So yeah, my money was on Sweets - and I do like Sweets very much - simply for the time-honored reason that main cast is rather sacrosanct, unless an actor wants to leave. Or was this a case of "writing for that character is so hard" where an actor is left, so to speak? An Atlantis-Ford?
The other reason I dismissed Zack was that he was shown to have a large family, so not so much widow`s son. And Gormogon seemed very strict with the rules on that.
Thus, its not so much that I don`t buy it from the character, for all his ultra-logic, he is naive enough in the world to be swayed to some wacky ultra-logic but story-wise it doesn`t make lots of sense and it seems like a good deal of retconning involved. At the very least I won`t buy that Zack`s sudden "enlightenment" would have gone unnoticed by anybody or would have been so unnoticeable in the first place.
Whole thing feels pretty odd.
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GRRRRR
Date: 2008-05-21 01:30 am (UTC)Stupid writers!!
Re: GRRRRR
Date: 2008-05-21 03:05 pm (UTC)Huh? And then they`ll visit him and bring him socks like Bones`dad or something? That would be extremely weird.
I thought it was out of character in the sense that they showed him for three years and it's not in him to KILL someone.
I was torn on the issue. They never did develop the character and show his inner workings as much as they could have. And to some degree I bought his reasoning in the hospital scene where he logically explained why`s the what. So evidence-tampering and the likes, I could see him do in the names of logic.
Stabbing someone in the heart? Believing that "the master" is everything? Very much less so. To put an idea or rather an ideal over everything else is one thing but some no-name nitwit? Presumably Master Gormogon didn`t touch Zack`s intellect with a ten foot pole so why would logic dictate submitting to him?
If Bones were the Gormogon master, yeah, in pure logic it would make more sense to listen to her.