astri13 | (no subject)

Thoughts 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.