On the occasion of the release of her last book in Italy we interviewed Kathy Reichs, whose life inspired the tv series Bones.
What's been the best moment of your career as an author?My first book, without a doubt. The starting point, creating the characters, the setting...That was my blossom time, the heart of everything. For the rest, I write a book per year so I have to be creative. What's important to me is to carve out my spaces so that I can be creative though my professional commitments that absorb me and for which I travel a lot.
Exactly, why did you decide to become a writer?It was when I became a professor. I wanted to try something new, something different from academic papers.
What has been the best gift you've ever received from a fan?Something I got recently: a student slip a cd with photos and a video in one of her academic projects. In every picture she posed pretending to be me at work. I found it very original and funny.
This year Bones hit it big, confirming viewer's passion for crime series. In your opinion what's the recipe for the perfect detective story?I think that what detective stories' readers look for are an interesting character, a good contextualization of the story and a well-oiled plot that allows them to follow every case and weigh up each and every clue. Further more what it needs to be done is to conclude the story without rely on accidental coincidences, but by converging each clue disseminated during the story. In other words a conclusion needs to be satisfying for the reader and, what's more important, to make sense.
Bones has reached his sixth season. You are a producer and a consultant of the series. How long do you think it could go on?Generally speaking a series lasts to its seventh season. In our case rumors say it could go on and on, like till the ninth or tenth season. And I think so because of different clues like the selling of our rights to cable. But with Hollywood nothing is for sure so we'll see what will happen year after year.
One could say that Bones, and the chemistry between the two main characters, inspired another series, Castle, broadcasted by ABC. Have you ever seen this show? Do you see any similitude with Bones?I'm not an expert but I think you're right. We were the first to create a crimedy series. Viewers like this formula and Castle is a perfect example of a series which took us as a reference.
You have already written the script for an episode. Do you think you'll do it again? Can you tell us something about the sixth season?Yeah, I wrote an episode and it's very likely that I'll write another one for next season. Spoilers about what will happen? I really don't think so.
David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel are perfect for their characters, Booth and Brennan. If they hadn't accepted their roles who would you have like to see in theirs shoes?They've been Booth and Brennan for so long and they're so good in their roles that I can't really imagine someone else playing their parts.
Do you follow other TV series? Which ones?To tell the truth I'm a huge fan of CNN's news, but I really like dear old Boston Legal, Mad men and Grey's Anatomy.
Did you happen to watch Lost finale? As an author and a producer what do you think of the disputed final episode?I haven't watched it so far. You say it's a disputed finale but my friends, who have seen it, told me it was an amazing episode!
In my opinion the main difference between Bones and other series it's that it gets better and better: the further you go ahead and the better are the cases and what lies behind them. Do you think that the fans are riper to understand technical and scientific details that they wouldn't have understand before?I totally agree with you. Bones' crew has improved: plots are and hold up better. And now the fans are more at ease with the terminology and the characters and how they're involved in the story.
Bones' success is also based on the UST between Booth and Brennan. I read that you want to keep them as colleagues, even though bond by a strong friendship: is that true?If I knew the answer to that...I wouldn't tell you! It's true there's chemistry between them as there was between X-Files' main characters. But I don't think it's a good idea to let this chemistry develop into a deeper relationship. Usually when that happens it means that the story between the two is going to an end.
At the end of season three, Zach Addy, Gormogon's apprentice, left the series. Last year we found out that he didn't kill anyone. Does that mean that he'll ever come back for real?Zach reappeared in the hundredth episode, but I don't think he'll return.
Soon it'll begin a series inspired by Terry Gerritsen's novel “Rizzoli&Isles”. What do you think about this new TV show? Do you think it will be a serious competitor to Bones?Unluckily I don't know these novels so I don't know how to answer this question.
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