Watching Bones

Well, we’ve been promised more background on Booth’s family, and it looks like we’re going to get it after all, just not this season. Understandably due to the strike, the writers are working doubletime to readjust the final episodes of the season and are having to streamline the stories. Regardless of the extra work, everyone is excited to be back to work, and some are even a little emotional. “The moment I drove on the lot for the first time in three months, I got a little choked up,” said Executive Producer Hart Hanson. He went on to say that as far as Booth’s storyline goes, “Booth’s family story is just gone. It will go into Season 4… We don’t want to give it short shrift.”

As you probably know already, the new episodes for the end of Season 3 will resume in April, and we’re going to enjoy six more episodes before we have to break for the summer. Among them will be the episode that was pulled from last season due to the VA Tech shootings.

Meanwhile, if you’re still jonezing for a Bones fix, TNT has picked up Bones reruns and is airing them as part of their weekly schedule. So, just a few more weeks of reruns and then we’re back to the real deal. Yay for us!

We love Bones. We love the cast, the storyline, the writing. We love the dynamic relationship between Booth and Bones that keeps us wanting more. We love Zach’s inability to relate to common people, Angela and Hodgins unconventional relationship and Cam’s ability to be a boss, friend and colleage all at the same time. Now, as we finish up Season 3 and look forward to Season 4, there may be a new thing for us to love…

According to an interview with David Boreanaz and Hart Hanson, the show has just received a go-ahead for 20 new episodes in Season 4, and the possibility of shooting abroad! Hanson said “Some of the contenders are Spain, Monaco, Italy — it just depends on how it gets put together.”

Now that Boreanaz is a producer on the show, he’s enjoying the ability to make a bigger impact on the show, which includes location. He’s finding out that being a producer isn’t all glitz and glamour though. “I’m actually busier now. I’m not scheduling myself out of any episodes. This has enabled me to do more things, expand my horizons, meet other people, make more impact.”

I guess we’ll have to wait and see where the show ends up as far as location, but regardless of where it is, I’m sure it will only get better!

Ever wonder what’s behind some of our favorite shows? Well, besides a good cast and crew, we already know, and have never felt their importance more so than recently, we know there’s the writers. Well, ever wonder about them? The writers, I mean. Who are these people that so brilliantly, and sometimes maybe not so brilliantly, bring these characters to life that we follow week after week, hopefully pining away for them as the seasons come to an end, waiting anxiously for the next season to start so we can pick up where we left off… Wow, these guys have a lot of sway over us, the audience!

Well, Bones Creator and Executive Producer Hart Hanson, has answered the question Why We Write in an article posted on the blog by the same name. His response is incredible, I can’t even give you a review that would bring it justice. I’m not really talking about mind-blowing, eye-opening stuff, but you really get a look into the mind of a creative vessel, if that’s what you would call it. Hart Hanson comes across as someone who would be a heck of a lot of fun to hang out with just to see what he was going to come up with next.

He beings his piece by saying “Obviously, I write because something in my psyche went horribly wrong. You know what I’m talking about. If I were a healthy, fully-integrated, functional human being I’d explore the ocean floor or build bridges or perform heart-transplants on blue babies. So would you.

My number one job? Blimp driver! C’mon! Drifting over big cool events waving down at throngs of the earth-bound? Flying at about the same speed as a wobbly drunk crossing the street? How sweet would that be?”

Later on, he says, “I write because I’m totally confused by the world. I never know what’s going on. I absolutely never know what absolutely anything absolutely means. I ask and the good-hearted, intelligent souls around me do their best to explain but I don’t get it.”

If you’re a fan of the show, do yourself a favor and go check out Hart’s answer to why he writes and get a little insight into the person who’s driving the show. You won’t regret it!

GotNews.TV has posted the following interview with Bones creator and writer Hart Hanson on the writers strike. Hart, along with Emily Deschanel, Micheala Conlin, and Eric Millegan address the strike and says that fans can help get things rolling again by writing letters, sending emails and by sending pencils. Yes, pencils. If you check out pencils2mediamoguls, you can send a box of pencils to the studios show your support for the writers. The hope is that they will come back to the table for more talks with a better outcome than we’ve had previously. The site says that the point of all of this is “we want the media moguls to start negotiating in good faith. We want the strike to end with a fair deal for both sides.”

Nikki Finke says, “Now is the time to save ALL our shows. Mail pencils to the AMPTP and to any studios whose shows you enjoy… Maybe we can help the studios see just how much support the WGA has. And maybe, just maybe, we can give them a graceful way out (not because they’re buckling under the writer’s demands, but because they care so much about their audience. Us. And isn’t that supposed to be their job?”

As much as I would hope that as the fans and viewers of the shows that we could make a difference, it seems that more often than not it comes down to the money. However, if they don’t keep the viewers happy, I guess that will hurt their pocket books in the long run… I hope that our efforts as fans DO have an impact, so definitely take the time to send a box of pencils if you can (it’s only $1) or send a letter or email. The site also has the names and addresses of the six media moguls - the men that run the multi-media conglomerates - and who are in charge and actually have the power to make a difference. They’re the people we need to contact - in a NICE, POLITE way please!

One of the really great things about the pencils2mediamoguls campaign is that any money left over will go to the Union Solidarity Fund, which supports the non-WGA members affected by the strike. I just think this is an awesome thing! Oh, and if you’re concerned about the waste of pencils, the vendor who is supplying them makes them from sustainably harvested wood (they don’t deforest) - Emily would be proud!