Question: Everything I read about
Bones right now is focused on Booth and Brennan and how long their separation will last. Personally, I'm more interested in the
other
couple on the show: Hodgins and Angela! Are they really going to move
to France? Are the two leaving the show? What do you know? —
Kelly
Matt Roush: This is as good a time as any as we
re-establish this column on the TV Insider site to remind everyone that
this is not a spoiler column. I'm happy to comment on what has already
happened on a show (or has been widely reported), but I'm not going to
spoil, speculate or tease too heavily about what's to come. I will tell
you I've seen this week's episode of
Bones, which advances this
particular subplot—which clearly seems to have been spoiled elsewhere
(I don't seek out such things)—about Hodgins and Angela and their
romantic notions of Paris. Several characters make note during the hour,
in a very meta way, that they never thought they'd be doing this job so
long.
But here's how Fox describes next week's storyline for the June 11
season finale: "Angela is skeptical about her and Hodgins' decision to
move to Paris [maybe
that's where the spoiler came from? Good
move, Fox!], and Brennan and Booth contemplate options outside of the
Jeffersonian and FBI." All of which sounds to me like standard-issue
end-of-season teases, in this case perhaps amplified by the fact that
the producers may not have known at the time of production whether this
was in fact the end of the series. (The finale's episode title just
changed from "The End in the End" to "The Next in the Last," which
sounds a lot less final to me.) So basically, since I don't know
anything for sure—and if I did, I wouldn't tell—I'd assume if you don't
hear anything different, or unless the actors start giving exit
interviews, that everyone will be sticking around for a while longer.
Although they may be leaving some of that up in the air for cliffhanger
purposes.
Question: I am glad I found you on Twitter and your column again. My question is about showrunners. I have always been a big
Bones
fan and now I see that they are changing show-runners again. I have to
admit I wasn't as crazy about the past few seasons as previous ones, but
I feel that may also be due to the age of the franchise. So, I was
wondering how big of an effect does the showrunner have. Does he or she
set the overall tone of the show, hire their own writers, dictate
general character development? I do miss Hart Hanson. I was surprised
about the change in the feel of the show since Stephen Nathan has always
been a part of the show. —
Tina
Matt Roush: Welcome to TV Insider and thanks for the
question. I'll admit I don't watch this kind of show with the sort of
constant attention that would allow me to make this kind of judgment.
But it's a fact that, no matter who's in charge, it's harder to keep any
series feeling fresh when it hits the decade mark, and a sense of
franchise fatigue is bound to set in. The need to keep shaking things
up, as in Booth's gambling addiction causing a (presumably) temporary
separation in their marriage this season, will strike many as contrived
and annoying, and that's fair. Your bigger question is harder to answer.
As you noted, Stephen Nathan has always been part of the show, so his
taking over the running of
Bones was more an evolution than revolution.
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