Bones Preview: Will Brennan's Awakening Be Too Little, Too Late?
There is plenty to look forward to next Thursday on Fox's Bones.
For one, the Brennan-centric hour features a bravura, waterworks-inducing performance by Emily Deschanel, whose socially detached alter ego finds her world rocked by a case involving a woman whose physical, professional and psychological makeup matches her own - and whose tragic disappearance sadly went unnoticed.
It is through working that case that Brennan is prompted to reevaluate her own connections with people, especially with regards to one Agent Booth.
"It's a different episode, and one of my favorite scripts," Deschanel shared in a Friday conference call. "[Brennan] is looking at her life and seeing what she would be leaving behind when she dies - and you don't see that side of her very often."
"It forces Brennan to a place where she is bold, and aware of her feelings in a way she hasn't been before," Deschanel adds.
While we won't reveal just how Brennan acts on this new insight, there is the question of whether this unsettling case will have lasting ramifications for the character.
"It affects her in many different, opposing ways, as you'll see in episodes to come," Deschanel told Movieline.
Alas, any "awakening" enjoyed by Temperance could prove to be too little too late, as Booth's romance with newswoman Hannah is set to only further escalate.
"It actually does get more serious [between those two], and that creates a whole 'situation' for all of them," Deschanel says. "There are internal conflicts for Brennan because she wants to be with Booth, she is realizing, but because she loves Booth, she wants him to be happy - and he is happy with Hannah now."
And what guy wouldn't be? "Hannah is wonderful, smart, tough, cool, beautiful.... You can't blame Booth for falling in love with her," Deschanel notes. So as opposed to some TV love triangles where the third party is in one way or another unlikable, "It's great to have a conflict where no one's intending bad things," Deschanel says. "It's a wonderful dance."
Then again, three people dancing with each other can get awkward - and awkward will be the operative word when Hannah soon gets wind of exactly who feels what for whom in the Booth/Bones relationship.
That upcoming reveal, Deschanel previews, "creates an interesting dynamic between these two [women] that you don't see very often. It definitely creates some issues and conflict."
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It's already three years too late. After the show reset to neutral after the hallucination, and then showed that Booth and Bones had started even one year earlier, I gave up on wanting them together and settled for good partners.
I prefer Booth with Hannah now. Brennan blew her chance, as did Hart Hanson.
The Bones people have waited too long. I've gotten to the point where yes, it would be nice if they got together, but I really don't care if they do or don't. I think if they do get together, it will be the end of the show, and if they don't, it will also be the end of the show. They have really screwed themselves over by waiting too long. They are 3 years too late with this. They should take a lesson from Chuck, a show where the 2 leads got together and it worked. But the difference is, Chuck decided to get them together within 3 years of the series. Bones has waited 6. And not going to lie, I'm guessing if booth and bones don't together this season, and bones get renewed for a 7th season, Bones could possibly be cut off mid season. Hart Hanson has made a huge mistake in which the way he has written the show for the last 3 seasons. He has driven Bones into a hole that could be hard to get out of.
I took Bones off my DVR after watching last night. My frustrations have been building for a while and I'm finally done. The acting is great, but the storytelling is not satisfying, believable, or even tolerable anymore. I wonder if there is a 3 season rule (+/- half a season?) about romantic leads and the audience's ability to stomach stupid drama. Hart Hanson keeps at his "dance" anyway. Someone should make him understand he's stepping on his own feet and nobody thinks it's funny.
Eh, I disagree. To be honest, I can't understand how you(Kate and Dani) feel the way you do. I mean it for the first 4 seasons it really wasn't time for them to be together it wasn't going to work. Nor was it time in season 5. I have to admit when I first saw the 100th episode I was disappointed. But after coming on the internet and thinking about it I saw again that it just wasn't their time yet.
I can't see this from Kate and Dani's perspective at all. For me this is like trying to understand how people could prefer Grissom with Catherine instead of him with Sara on CSI. At times I feel like some of the complaining for this show with Booth and Bones is all because it didn't happen exactly when people have wanted it to. Again I just really can't understand.
I am sorry you do see it this way.
Now as for the article itself, it was great. I loved the episode and am looking forward to the rest of the season.