so maybe we'll be lucky and get some Zack cameos in the psych ward?
*crosses fingers* While Zack has never been my favourite, he's such an important part of the squints dynamic for me - actually for me to choose a Bones favourite would be tough, because they're all precious to me, especially the core five that have been with us since S1. So I agree with everyone who thinks this is utterly shattering, even though he's not my special thing.
I'm spoiler-free for Bones so I can't comment on S4. Broadly, I would agree that certain scenes in this episode felt out-of-synch with the rest of it - the bath scene and the funeral scene, specifically. Crucially, these were the scenes that connected it to the previous episode. Someone I was reading said, and I think I agree, that ep 15 may have been conceived of as the cliffhanger season ender, and then when they got ep 16 as a proper conclusion, they had to wrap up 15 sufficiently as well as do ep 16. So I think the ep did suffer from that.
In re: people understanding the "why" for Zack, I both agree and disagree. yahtzee63 has a post here (http://yahtzee63.livejournal.com/361394.html) about the Whys of Zack for this episode and I think it's very good, especially the way she notes how Zack's personality, despite theoretically being utterly rational, is constantly being influenced by people around him, especially Bones and Hodgins but also people like Cam - in some ways I think the evidence of each of our characters is present in Zack's actions here: Angela's encouragement to be in touch with emotions, the bigger picture, Booth's influence to do something right and important, Jack and Temperance's contributions were of course adequately outlined in the show... Cam's a little harder to pinpoint. I would like to tie it into the way she behaves maternally as well as boss-like towards him - always in the mode of mother-knows-best rather than cuddly-mother. I can't quite hook it in.
I don't think they could possibly move on from this barefaced: they made a character decision to write him out (Eric Millegan didn't want to leave) which means they must have made it consciously and I hope not as a cheap easy solution...
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Date: 2008-05-20 03:33 pm (UTC)*crosses fingers* While Zack has never been my favourite, he's such an important part of the squints dynamic for me - actually for me to choose a Bones favourite would be tough, because they're all precious to me, especially the core five that have been with us since S1. So I agree with everyone who thinks this is utterly shattering, even though he's not my special thing.
I'm spoiler-free for Bones so I can't comment on S4. Broadly, I would agree that certain scenes in this episode felt out-of-synch with the rest of it - the bath scene and the funeral scene, specifically. Crucially, these were the scenes that connected it to the previous episode. Someone I was reading said, and I think I agree, that ep 15 may have been conceived of as the cliffhanger season ender, and then when they got ep 16 as a proper conclusion, they had to wrap up 15 sufficiently as well as do ep 16. So I think the ep did suffer from that.
In re: people understanding the "why" for Zack, I both agree and disagree.
I don't think they could possibly move on from this barefaced: they made a character decision to write him out (Eric Millegan didn't want to leave) which means they must have made it consciously and I hope not as a cheap easy solution...