After what seem like an endless torturous wait, the light is finally at the end of the tunnel. Only another 3 weeks to go before the season begins for Bones. I am so excited!!! Just finished reading the two “advance reviews” of the lucky journalists that got to see the first 2 episodes of the season. The show seems to exceed all expectations and didn’t screw it up with their new “direction” in the relationship between B&B, it looks that the writers did a fantastic job. What was really interesting was a few of the points that the reviews had to say. I can’t help but draw a comparison to OP, I know I am probably hopeless regarding this. Anyways, one of the comments was that Bones did not fit into a “box”. It wasn’t really a procedural drama nor was it a screwball comedy and the critics at the time didn’t know what to make of it. (Here’s to all those know it all that complained that OP wasn’t a sitcom). The show broke the mold, gave the audience something a different but still end up being very successful.
Here’s one of the reviews…
The Everything in the Eventually by Heather D of The Voice of TV
Once upon a time there was a little show on Fox. From the beginning it broke the mold, as it was neither straight procedural drama, nor a screwball comedy. Critics of the time weren’t sure what to make of it, but enough viewers gave it a shot that it was not only picked up, but renewed for a second season. From there a core group of some 2-3 million fans latched on to it, following it from night to night and time-slot to time-slot, never sure if the network would make good on its promise to shift it to the Friday night death slot.
They never did.
Little by little, however, word spread: Bones was a smart show and one worth tuning in into week after week. It had good stories, and even better characters. It took the Kirk-Spock dynamic and made Spock a girl, then threw in a dash of Moonlighting, Remington Steele, and The Thin Man for good measure. The result was that as the seasons rolled by the show picked up steam and viewers. And not just viewers, but fans; loyal fans whom series creator Hart Hanson once likened to a noisy tiger and whose cries and cheers could be heard as the show bobbed and weaved its way along.
The noise reached a crescendo last season when – instead of bringing the lead characters together after a seven month separation – Booth (David Boreanaz) was given a new girlfriend just as Brennan (Emily Deschanel) was waking up to how she truly felt about her partner. Bones was still refusing to color in the lines, but for as much noise as the fans made they still tuned in week after week, sometimes in record numbers. Then with six little words uttered in the last seconds of the final episode, Bones redefined themselves yet again. And yet again Hart Hanson achieved his goal to give fans exactly what they wanted in the most unexpected way possible.
Now we stand, poised on the precipice of a new season, waiting to see what will unfold next in the lives of these characters who have been coming into our living rooms for the last six years. Some still have a bitter taste in their mouths from last season and I’m sure more than a few will view the new Booth/Brennan dynamic and say, “See! We should’ve had this last year already!”
But I wonder: Would Booth’s evident joy at this new state of affairs carry as much weight if we hadn’t been forced to see him slog through the depths of despair? Would Brennan’s picture-taking antics be as hilarious were they not contrasted by the stark picture of her sobbing in an SUV because her timing in discovering how she felt about him was so horridly, cosmically, wrong? Yes, the viewing pleasure would’ve been there, but would it be as rich and sustaining?
Fine jewelers know that the best way to showcase all of the facets of their gems is to place them on a deep, black background. Artists know that to highlight the sun, you must use the shadows. Mountain climbers know that you cannot enjoy the vista if you don’t endure the brutality of the rock face on the way up. Perhaps that is what season six will prove to be to season seven.
So enjoy the view from the mountain-top, Bones fans! Soak it in as all of the things you’ve always dreamed could happen between this dynamic couple do happen. Oh, Booth will still be Booth, Brennan will still be Brennan, and the Squints will keep on squinting, but recognize that if the past teaches us anything it is that Bones will never be a show that conforms to our expectations; it will always push, always prod, never be static, never deliver things quite the way we expect them to be delivered. And we, the noisy fans, will be all the better for it.
Thank you, Bones; I’ve enjoyed the story you are crafting thus far and can’t wait for this newest chapter and congrats, Hart, on being awarded for the word artist you are!
Thank goodness for creators that think outside the box and not conform to the ordinary!
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