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So I've read some rumours about how the season ends...
Supposedly, Booth and Bones will have sex in the last ep of the season.
I don't think I want this to happen.
Don't get me wrong, I think they're eventually destined for each other, but when TV types remove the 'U' from the UST, it usually doesn't bode well for the series. I guess I don't trust them not to screw it up.
'Moonlighting', anyone? 'Remington Steele'? 'Scarecrow and Mrs. King'?
Supposedly, Booth and Bones will have sex in the last ep of the season.
I don't think I want this to happen.
Don't get me wrong, I think they're eventually destined for each other, but when TV types remove the 'U' from the UST, it usually doesn't bode well for the series. I guess I don't trust them not to screw it up.
'Moonlighting', anyone? 'Remington Steele'? 'Scarecrow and Mrs. King'?
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Date: 2009-03-05 09:45 pm (UTC)From:Yes, yes, yes! All good shows until their relationships became canon.
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Date: 2009-03-05 09:46 pm (UTC)From:It is the fastest way to ruin the relationship that they currently have.
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Date: 2009-03-05 09:53 pm (UTC)From:It's tough really... many viewers want to see people get together after several seasons (Remington Steele - that was actually a long run of teasing) but it does take the UST out of the series.
But yeah, I'd like to see Angela and Hodgins back together as well.
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Date: 2009-03-05 10:30 pm (UTC)From:And I have no idea why. It's as if they can't figure out that couples flirt even when they're established. Or bicker. Or whatever. Remember how they ruined Rhoda?
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Date: 2009-03-05 11:02 pm (UTC)From:Yes, many a show has been ruined when they resolved the unresolved sexual tension. But that's because the writers were timid. If UST is all they've got in their bag of tricks, throwing it out the window is a bad idea. But it doesn't have to be.
I've noticed that lots of shows that [b]begin[/b] with a happily married (or unmarried) couple get along just fine despite the fact that we may assume they're frolicking together frequently. Why? Because UST is not what the show is about. The relationship is part of it, but the "will they or won't they dance" isn't.
If you're going to deep six the UST, you have to have something to replace it with. Or at least change it up. The producers/writers who were willing to reveal Zack as a serial killer's apprentice (whether we liked that plotline or not) should not be afraid of shaking up the status quo between Bones and Booth.
Or hell, just have them sleep together once--and then deal with the prickly consequences of THAT. Bones has already been shown to have no qualms about purely sexual relationships. So she sleeps with Booth. As far as she's concerned, it's fun, it's pleasurable, as long as it doesn't interfere in their working relationship, why not?
Booth, of course, wouldn't see it that way. They would still have issues a-plenty, plus the question of whether they'll do it again. Booth might resist because it means more to him, or he wants it to mean more to Bones. She might decide that Booth's reaction means they should resume their previously chaste relationship. Or both. Even while both of them want to do it again.
It doesn't have to mean they'd screw up the show. And I'd rather see the writers take that risk than continue the dance indefinitely with no resolution.
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Date: 2009-03-05 11:22 pm (UTC)From:THAT plot contrivance annoyed me more than Sweets, or even the assassination of Zack's character. The pudgy hand of god was wa-a-ay too evident in their breakup. (Which, I suppose, suggests that a Brennan/Booth hookup might NOT be a good idea after all...)
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Date: 2009-03-05 11:58 pm (UTC)From:I really don't trust the writers to build a lasting relationship. I mean Angela and Hodgy has this awesome relatinship that had some conflict but just enough to keep them growing as humans. Then .. they break up.. over what a pause in a conversation.. that is NOT the Angie and Hodgy that we watched grow an adult relationship (as much as you can on tv).. to just chuck it all over really nothing (maybe a little jealousy.. but honestly). If they can screw that up and don't get me started on Zack *huggles him* then I soooo don't trust them with Booth and Bones.
If they had a nice track record .. I would say cool.. but based on the past .. yeah no trust here.
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Date: 2009-03-06 11:58 am (UTC)From:I bet the whole thing will wind up being someone's dream sequence anyway. LOL
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