Zack Addy no longer a squint…
I can’t believe this. I never saw it coming. Don’t know how really, the signs were there, but somehow it’s a complete shock that Zack Addy, the baby-faced, innocent, genius squint on Bones’s team is in fact the Gorgomon’s apprentice. I’m shocked. I’m disappointed. I’m a little bit in denial.
This is a sad, sad, day for us.
Like I said, there were signs. I’d heard the rumors that Eric Millegan may not be coming back next season - even after he said he wasn’t leaving the show. And there had been speculation, although the same discussion boards also offered Hodgins and Sweets as possible Gorgomon suspects. I didn’t take any of those seriously. How could it be Zack? I feel like we’ve missed a big part of his story - due in large part to that stupid strike that took away so much time from us! Is this in some how related to what he went through in Iraq?
The people in charge of the show have pointed out that since Zack wasn’t killed, they still have the option of bringing him back as a guest star - but short of having the staff of the Jeffersonian visit him in the looney bin, I can’t see them giving him a day-pass to help out on a case. Even as silly as having his ex-co-workers visit him may be, I suppose it would be better than not finding out the why’s and wherefore’s behind what happened. How in the world was someone as brilliant as Zack conned in to becoming the apprentice to someone so obviously sick? Bones said on the show last night that his intelligence got in the way. Well, I’d still like a better explanation than that.
How about you - did any of you see this coming? I have to say that even my husband who’s usually annoyingly good at figuring out the plotline before it’s revealed on the show didn’t see this one coming.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I feel a little jipped by this episode. Start out with the whole Booth faking his death to capture someone thing. That lasted, oh, 4 minutes? With such a huge event at the end of last week’s episode, we only got 4 minutes of it being anything close to relevant. That could have been a whole episode!
I really liked how the whole episode, it was conspiracy crazy. You couldn’t NOT suspect anyone on the squints team! I didn’t even think it was Zach until they said he lied about the jaw bone. Great work on that part!
Now…the fact that it was Zach irks me a bit as well. He should have been developed a lot more this season, with the Iraq stuff, and possible a short clip at the end of an episode with Gormegon meeting him, in the shadows of course so we don’t know its him. I love this show, and the characters, but i think that this season was really choppy and thrown together too fast. I understand the writers strike aspect…but still disappointing.
Still…can’t wait till next season already!
May 21st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I agree about being jipped since we didn’t get to see more about Booth’s supposed death. They could have done a LOT with that. Oh well, I guess we’ll just have to accept that the strike screwed us all over as far as losing so much time that could have been spent developing the stories.
Hopefully they’ll pick up some of them a little better next season. Some background on Zach would be great. And hey, Bones being left out of the loop that Booth wasn’t really dead is definitely something they can bring up again - not that Bones would be so human as to hold a grudge, but hey, it could happen!
May 28th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
[...] done with a few more episodes to build up and/or help explain how in the world Zach converted to a cold-blooded killer, and what the heck happened to him while he was in Iraq, but hey, they were pressed for time. It [...]
May 29th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
UK watcher here just seen this: WHAT?! What were the creators and writers thinking, that was rubbish! Totally out of character, even with brainwashing there’s no way Zach wuld have fallen for that. Strike or no strike, the writers are going to have to get their act together for season four….
June 16th, 2008 at 12:19 am
I seriously could not believe it! My mom saw that coming- i totally didn’t. when I found out, I was in shock the whole day- i couldn’t even conciously watch bones. Zach is my favorite character in there… I could NOT believe Zach is the apprentice. I’m still in denial… I actually vowed once that i would not watch bones again, but i could not help it…
They have to bring Zach back. They have to.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I was very dissapointed by the fact that Zack was evil! He was my absolute favourite!!!The producers of this show made a big mistake ending it like this….it’s a shame!!
July 4th, 2008 at 6:21 am
[...] 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 [...]
August 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
“How in the world was someone as brilliant as Zack conned in to becoming the apprentice to someone so obviously sick?”
I was satisfied with the explanation given. Bones going through it with Zach, logically, step by step, told us how. It’s the problem with being too rational, too logical. And it shows why logic can’t be relied on totally as it can lead you down the wrong path.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I honestly don’t see how Zack could be the killer of the lobbyist. My reasoning is this: in the episode in which the lobbyist is killed, we see a man jump out of a closet and stab the lobbyist; the man is not Zack. Additionally, in the montage where we see the lobbyist murdered, we also see Zack, clad in his lab-coat, examining the first Gorgomon’s skeleton sculpture. I seriously hope they bring up these inconsistencies in Season 4- I’d like to see Zack back in the lab.