Bones Season Finale

Bones was becoming one of my favorite shows...mostly because of the interplay between Tempe and Booth...reminiscent of Skully and Mulder's unacknowledged attraction. (And wasn't Booth magnificent in the bathtub scene--quite a physique!!) Plus the characters are all beautiful and have delightful personalities. They were a joy to watch...

But it was ruined for me last night with the season finale. They didn't continue the suspenseful cliffhanger from last week...they just opened with everyone at Booth's funeral. I saw him wounded the week before, but it wasn't in a fatal place. So hey, when did he die? How? If he'd died, wouldn't Tempe have been at his side in the ambulance or the hospital and said good-bye? She would have known. Right?

The way they did that whole thing was harsh and unrealistic.
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But the capper was making Zack into a hostile character before, evidently kicking that character off the show for good. There was little story line to follow there...they just summed it up and charged and convicted him in about 2 minutes at the end. It made no sense whatsoever.

There is NO WAY the real Zack would have turned evil or gone insane. That is just bad writing. They should have just killed him off if he was going off the show and let us mourn him and then wonder for a few months if he were coming back next season the way they faked Booth's death. By the next season we would have gotten over it if he were truly gone. We could have had a happy memory of him and moved on. Thanks for nothin'.

Now the show is ruined for me completely. I was going to watch all the previous shows I'd missed (like buying the DVD's of the first and second season so I could watch them over and over like I do Sex and the City.) But not now. Knowing that Zack is not what he appears to be in the previous shows, has ruined it for me past, present and future.

Hint, hint, if a character is bad, you have to write in some evidence throughout the show, not just spring it one us in the last show. DUH. It's OUT OF CHARACTER. I'm a writer, I know that element. It was just bad writing.

You'd think the writers' strike wasn't truly over yet and one of the stagehands dashed off a script, such that it was, for the last show. (No offense to stagehands. They might know better!)

Give it up. Bones is history.

It was reminiscent of the way MASH writers killed off Col. Blake when we thought he was going home. Cruel. And then they had that woman strangle what Hawkeye thought was a chicken and it was really her own baby. (Doesn't Dr. Phil say if we witness abuse we are also abused? I think so.) Tsk. Tsk.

People of intelligence do watch TV shows. We want enjoyment as well as sensibility. We don't care much for being tricked or emotionally abused. I mean isn't the viewer important to the show? Why would they risk running off viewers with stupid story lines and poor writing?

It was similar feeling for me with Numbers when they made that one FBI agent into a bad-cop in league with the terrorists. I thought the female lead with in love with him...what was that about? I couldn't watch the reruns again because he was a bad guy and by then I knew it. I didn't trust him or the writers. And up until then, he'd was one darn good agent. Not consistent.

Besides, where do the producers get off leaving the viewing public with a painful, negative view of law enforcement? Teach a whole generation of young people (who are already running wild) that law enforcement can't be trusted?

Whatever happened to promoting some respect and trust? Is there nothing to trust in America? Well, of course there is. Just not the TV industry. Not anymore.

I worked at Las Vegas Metro PD for a long time and we had only ONE cop misguided enough to commit a burglary while on duty and then got called to write up the crime report which was how they caught him...too many details that only the perp would have known. [Oh, and the one cop that married two woman at the same time and got divorced by both (not to mention fired) while he was jail.]

It was a shock to see Warick killed at the end of CSI the other night...but I saw it coming and I guessed who the bad buy really was...he was a disagreeable mean guy throughout the whole series. They had been setting up Warick for worse and worse things all season. So, it was well-written and believable when he got assassinated at the end. It was a tragedy but sympathetic for the viewers.

Thank goodness when Sarah left the show she just got in a cab and rode away. It was sad to see her go, but not traumatic. Though, I thought that she should have just married Gil and then stayed home as a housewife making pottery or doing scrapbooking. Maybe have a baby eventually. Gil could have mentioned her from time to time. They missed out on a satisfying ending for women!!!

So, I'm saying good-bye to Bones. OH, I still love Kathy Reichs and and her Temperance Brennan novels. But this TV show has little to do with them anyway. I like the Tempe in the books, older and and wiser with a daughter, ex-husband and a cat (plus part-time dog.) And she's smart enough to be in-love with her Detective Ryan. Yes!

I was thinking TV had something better to offer in recent years. Medium is good. They had a HAPPY ENDING this season. Thanks for that.

Bye for now. Live and learn from your mistakes, huh?