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Twitter'Bones': Booth's brain isn't better yet
It's safe to assume that Seeley Booth will eventually recover from his brain injury on "Bones" -- after all, the show has been picked up for two more seasons.
But the Booth (David Boreanaz) fans see at the start of this season won't be the same hypercompetent man they knew before the injury sent him into a coma -- and a dream state in which he was married to Brennan (Emily Deschanel).
"It's an interesting thing that's going to happen," Boreanaz said Friday when the summer TV press tour visited the "Bones" set. "What I really want to maintain with the arc with him ... is that he does have a remembrance of certain things, but he's not as adept at other things as he thought he was."
Some of the things he doesn't remember are little ones: In the season premiere, for instance, Booth doesn't remember that he tends to wear brightly colored socks with his standard-issue FBI dark suit. Others might be more serious. "Whether it's knowing how to interrogate someone, and he doesn't do a certain thing and [Brennan is] looking at me going, 'This is what you usually do,' and I'm just a tad slow on that -- those are the little nuances they kind of discover."
Executive producer Stephen Nathan also says that the dream sequence that closed the season won't be dismissed out of hand either.
"I think it's a matter of rediscovering [Booth], and in that process rediscovering Brennan," Nathan says. "That's why that event, while it might not have been technically real, was very, very real to them as characters. ... They see each other differently."
"It makes me want to reinviest my time and energy into that relationship," Boreanaz adds. "Because I don't remember certain things, now we're back to ground zero."
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As long as they don't screw up one of the better shows on TV, I don't mind the creators tinkering with things a bit. If, however, it ends up a goddess-awful mess as House has been the past two seasons, then a plague on all their houses.
Yes, a plagues on all their houses! Indeed, well put!
Yes, a plagues on all their houses! Indeed, well put!
It might be better if he dosen't fully recover for awhile. Each week he could lose it a little more & only Brennan can bring him back from the edge.
Sounds to me they decided it would be cool to reboot a character because that would be interesting. I just think they ran out of idea so lets sort of pull a Booby Ewing mostly because we don't want to get Booth and Brennan together.
Seems lame and gimmicky to me.
Just hope Angela and Hodgkins get back together as a result of the surgery which was hinted at.
I HATEED THE LAST SHOW IT WAS STUPID!!!! PLEASE LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE WHY DOES THESE PRODUCERS HAVE TO GET IN THERE AND SCREW UP THESE SHOWS!!!!!
Alot of us thought the show mite "jump the shark" with the episode with Stewie in it, it didn't. (it was great) Just because the last episode wasn't great, it doesn't mean they're all going to suck.
Let's just give it a chance.
Perhaps this new Booth might actually show Brennan he loves her.
That would be great.
The "coma scene" reminded me so much of CROSSING JORDAN's Season 4 finale that I wanted to scream. Jordan's Woody waslaying in the hospital after being shot and was telling Jordan to screw her pity. From that moment on the show lost a lot of it's charm. Yes it went on for two more seasons, but the producers went on to screw it up bad in the fifth. They tried to rescue it in the sixth but the viewers were already gone.
I don't believe anything they say. I'm just gonna wait and see whats gonna happen.