I think Zach went to Afghanistan/Iraq to ID bodies in mass graves (or something similar)
Brian
Booth’s son’s name is Parker. He is only in the show when he can be threatened by the bad guy, or when Booth has to show his sensitive paternal side.
Despite the fact that Bones is socially inept and completely out of touch with modern culture, she manages to write best-selling crime novels. (The show is based on the books written by a forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs. I had never heard of her before this show but now I see her books everywhere.)
BTW, I would so love to see Zooey Deschanel make a guest appearance on this show.
Oh, and Zach the young protege may be a psycho killer.
(There is a psycho serial killer on the loose. He attacked a judge (I think – it’s been too long) with a knife and we got a glimpse of him. I swear he resembles Zach.)
I think it’s much more likely to be the young psychologist (and Freaks & Geeks alum!).
But it would be so much more interesting, and creepy, if it were Zach.
Totally, that would be an instant classic story arc if they had the balls to do it. I like Zach well enough, but it’s not like he’s integral to the show. Hodgins can do all the magic science discoveries until they replace Zach with someone else for him to play off of and especially if Zach did something wild, like say…put Booth in a coma or kidnapped Angela. Yeah…
Anyone else have a major deja vu when in the shower scene Bones turns to Booth and says “How did he get into college?”
This episode was originally scheduled for a year ago, almost to the day. It was previewed after an episode on the “next week on” bumper, as well as promoted all during the week. Until Monday, that is, when the Virginia Tech shooting happened and they canned the episode for apparently a year.
Same thing happened to a Buffy episode, if I recall correctly.
They did make some changes to the episode, however. Originally, it contained scenes clearly placing it where it was supposed to air last year, most notably Hodgens proposing to Angela which were fairly important to the later eps that did air. I assume the replacement scenes were the ones with the workplace sex video subplot, which felt like filler.
I don’t know why they couldn’t have just left it alone, as it kind of makes last season forever incomplete to have those scenes cut. Then again, I don’t know why they had to wuss out on airing the ep in the first place. It’s not like the murder in the ep was even remotely similar to what happened at V-Tech, beyond both being at a college.
I thought the oddest thing about the episode was that all these big-time college basketball stars were under 6 ft tall. A power forward at a major university would be 6’ 6", at least.
And yes, StGermain, the details of what was happening under the bleachers was a tad graphic.
Well, Angela’s dad doesn’t just play a rock star He IS that rock star. Billy Gibbons is playing himself there.
That is, almost word for word, my husband’s critique of this episode.
This is the thing I find the most unrealistic about the shows, much more so than Angela’s magic computer program. How can someone who understands the average person little better than Spock write best sellers? Scifi novels, I could see if she created an alien culture, but not what she writes.
Does Brennan write, or just Reichs? Yeah, I can’t believe Bones would understand the need for popular fiction, let alone write it.
StG
Oh please. Like Dan Brown novels are so in touch with popular culture?
ETA:
Yes, in the show Bones is a best seller. One of the episodes revolved around somebody recreating the murders from one of her books. The suspects boiled down to posters from her fansite messageboard.
I’ve never any of read his books, so you tell me.
Kathy Reichs writes books with Temperance Brennan as the main character… and Temperence Brennan writes books with Kathy Reichs as the main character.
In Kathy Reichs’ books, Tempe is considerably older (has a college aged daughter), has decent relationships with people, and splits her time between Quebec and South Carolina. All in all, I enjoy the books more than the show; however, there is considerable humor in the show not found in the books.
Ah, a chicken-and-egg paradox. We can expect the time-space continuum to explode anytime now.
Well… yeah. Isn’t there a reference in one of his books to how the main character looks like Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones movies? Bones would have no idea what that referred to.