Welcome to our newest squint
(At least temporarily, that is…)
Well, we’re not completely over the shocker that Zack is not going to be magically back next season, but we’re having to come to terms with it quickly, because the casting for the rotations of grad students has begun! Meet Michael Badalucco, whom you might remember from The Practice - he played Jimmy. (Although since I don’t watch that show, I remember him best as “Baby Faced Nelson” from Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Kind of a weird person to be playing on Bones, if you ask me… but hey, whatever works - and let’s hope he does!)
It seems like the news is being met with varying degrees of outrage and acceptance. For those die-hard Zack fans who can’t seem to let go, this is just another hit for the show. Some people are wondering what’s happening to the writers and if the show has hope of pulling out of the downward spiral that it seems to have taken. Others are more accepting of the change and are willing to move past the sorrow of Zack’s removal from the show. Either way, the die has been cast, so I guess we can only wait and see how the new “rotation of grad students” goes and hope for the best.
Thus far, the show has been great, with the exception of the complete loss of weeks of episodes due to the strike - which I think played a big part in the absolute shocker of Zack’s turn to the dark side. So I can only hope that the next season will pull through with the same great writing as we’ve become accustomed to. Only a little over two months!
July 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I want that nice guy back, the one who so graciously stepped down/away when Zack appeared and Bones was refusing to hire someone new after Zack had gone to Iraq. That guy was perfectly delightful.
September 16th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
[...] episode we’re also introduced to 40-year-old, and father of four, Scott Starret, played by Michael Badalucco - Bone’s oldest grad student who will be filling in for a bit to “try out” for [...]