Exclusive: 'Bones' boss promises 'big changes' next season

If Nathan doesn’t want the new season to be status quo, why doesn’t he kill off the girl and get Bones and Booth serious about each other kind of like Hart to Hart and solve crimes and travel to different places outside of the Jeffersonian. Love Undercovers for that reason. They kiss, they solve cases …..

Hack again?!

booth is sooo adorible him and bones r gonna have pretty baby this season it is an girl

Agreed! After awhile angst just becomes annoying… definitely feel like the moment will have passed by the time S6 begins, especially if Bones or Booth or both of them don’t come back single.

P.S. Please go watch the previous year of CHUCK, whose writers see a romantic relationship as a challenge to be embraced rather than avoided.

Don’t speak for everyone, thanks. I’ve read through the comments here, and I know A LOT of fans are disappointed with the finale, and speaking as a Booth/Brennan fan who wants them to get together, I actually liked the finale. Yes, it’s a little disheartening that they haven’t taken the monumental next step, but let me tell you that I suffered through 9 years of this with the X-Files and Mulder/Scully and the will they or won’t they. If I can handle that? I can handle anything, even this. One thing I’m not going to do? I’m not going to give up on the show when I haven’t even SEEN what the writers and producers are going to do next season. I think I’ll save my judgments until I’ve at least seen the start of next season.

Agreed. Sure, they’re going away for a year, but they’re obviously going to A) come back, and B) eventually get together. This episode was all about the Booth/Brennan love and tension. They just didn’t kiss. Which is, I guess, all people want.

I agree… They needed to decide earlier if the show was about BONES or Booth and Brennan, you know

For me the question about whether or not they should or shouldn’t doesn’t matter. They have change the whole tenor of the show over season 4 and 5. They have turned it into an out right comedy. The worse of that being Brennan and now her total inablity to relate and have so few emotions. Go back and watch the first Three season and you will see she supressed her emotions but she did have them!!!. H. Hanson has ruined my favorite show. Now its just sad to watch them together. I said this after last season stop making up reason for them not to be together. Just go back to writing good shows than it would not be just about whether or not they get together. Either way I am done!!! They have missed their time now it’s just annoying and the show itself has changed. I give one more night for reading.

because they love to disappoint fans. and because they are afraid of moonlighting effect. stupid moonlighting effect. this time, HH is really making us down when we are expecting something more.

I completely agree. I’m done. No more Bones for me.

I expected more, because interviews with HH and SN said that we’d get payoff in the season finale for the heart-wrenching 100th episode, and we really didn’t. I’m disappointed, and I’m going to be really annoyed if they don’t come back alone. I love this show, the writing and acting are still amazing after 5 seasons, but the will-they-won’t-they is enough now. I preferred last year’s season finale, frankly. She can admit she loves Hodgins but not Booth, who is going to a war zone? Come on!

I agree completely. The amount of hysteria over a TV couple is slightly disturbing.

I agree with The Voice of Reason Coalition.

THIS so much! It’s definitely creepy.

Well, HH was tight with the information. We barely got any spoilers for the finale. So, I’m sure Ausiello didn’t know.

Um, then you might as well stop watching right now. You really think they are going to get BB together in the first few episodes, next season? LMFAO That’s ridiculous. You’re not going to see B/B together until the series finale. They are doing a year time jump to rest the BB relationship. The finale for the BB “relationship” was the 100th episode.

Why?? God forbid things should change – the irony is the episode is about change and booth mentions about not liking it and you are doing the same. Lovely.

I agree with the guy about the door and imaginary shark. Who cares if you’re not going to watch it. At least explain your criticisms! Validate your arguments next time.

It staying same means that much to you then just by the DVD’s and put on continuous play.

Me too!

I agree. That “some people” were in the minority.

ditto, ditto, and ditto- loved this episode, loved this season & loved the song they played at the end!!!

Yes, I really agree….while I say they should’ve been together at the end, it was awfully lame for a little handshake and that’s it. Seriously, why on earth would Booth waste any more time on Bones? She’s not worth it, and each passing episode shows that more and more. Her character is laughable now, and not in a good way.

Not every “true fan” feels the same way. As a fan I have paid attention to the way the characters have been portrayed, and I feel I understand the creator’s vision for them. I liked the episode, I like what it suggests for the future.

The moment came and went a long time ago.

Bones and Booth have been stuck in place for years now with no real character growth and the shows quality has suffered for it.

By trying to hold off making a decision, the writers have done a great disservice to these characters.

Actually, it’s a great comparison. Networks love to screw around with relationships because the shows are easier to deal with in syndication. Chuck being on the bubble has allowed the writers to do what the fans want; it’s not like they can hold cancellation over their heads even more than they already do. The best shows produced in TV history have always been on the bubble.

I agree Frances. If they had ended up staying I would have stopped watching. This finale actually has be intrigued for Season 6.

I’m confused…would a die hard fan really be “over this show”? That’s a bit of an oxymoron don’t ya think?

That is not the only think I want…but I definitely could see that happening…and then it kind of brings up the whole baby issue for Brennan again…

I was thinking that Angela/Hodgins are actually going to already have a baby when they all come back together. A year gives them plenty of time.

That is the first thing I said when the episode was over! I hope she is that would be a great addition to the show

Not necessarily. Their engagement happened before the 100th episode, and the 100th was shot in January, so their engagement was problem written towards the end of 2009. Pilot season is February/March, so it was probably set before Carla got her pilot. I imagine she’ll be back now that her show didn’t get picked up, though. Hart says they like all of their intern characters.

And you know this how?

Maria has it exactly right. There are PLENTY of shows that have their main characters together and can still bring in viewers, take Greys Anatomy or Vampire Diaries or Desperate Housewives.
I swear, if someone mentions freaking moonlighting again when it comes to Bones…that show was in the 80′s for goodness sake! There are other reasons why that show ended.

Well, not everybody.

A little kiss on the cheek??

Nonsense! In last week’s Gravedigger episode, she hugged him with such intensity and emotion, you could feel it AND see it!! She HAS feelings for him and a kiss would not have been out of place.

Thank you, Kristen.

I Agree – I feel totally let down after this episode, and even more so after hearing about all the “changes” next season. This show does not need to be shaken up – and do the writers and producers actually think we will like to see Booth and Brennan with other people? NO!!

YES! This. What people don’t get is that sexual tension can be resolved in other ways than by having sex. They resolved it in the 100th when they decided not to go there. Period. It’s over.

At a guess, they realized what they’d done and decided that skipping forward a year would distance them enough from the 100th to allow them to pretend it never happened. So we’ll back to the unrelenting, beyond boring, way beyond believable, UST. Oh, good.

I think that is why he said things will change. They have already established Brennan will not date or be with Booth, which means during her one year away from him she will meet a scientist who she relates with. She will come back with a man and Booth will have to deal with her in a relationship. Yet again. Though I think he will take it better since she has turned him down already.

Is this show taking pointers from Shane Brennan? B&B is worse than Tiva in the “will they-won’t they”, and hello end of Season 5 NCIS. Ugh. Nothing new under the sun, I guess.

Regarding Brennan’s character, I agree she’s very inconsistent. I sometimes wonder if her character changes from episode to episode depending on who’s writing for her.

Quite honestly? If they came back in the fall and really followed up on this with real life changes, I’d buy it. I’d watch it.

Friendship/partnership love between them, but no more of the relentless UST games. Both in real relationships with other people. The UST is gone. They resolved it. They said no to a relationship. That’s fine. It happens.

That’s what we’d get if they were trying to do a real show, something that would happen in real life.

But the show hinges too much on the UST, whether it’s believable or not, so they’ll come back and things will be the same as they were before this year, before we experienced all that inconvenient character growth.

It’s was only a theory, no need to be so offensive…

and my husband kept sitting there saying ‘Just kiss her already…..”.

Luuuuuved Billy Gibbons guest spot as Angela’s dad

Hart Hanson created this shows, the characters, the relationships, and you want him replaced because your wishes aren’t being granted? End the show because you’re not happy? The h*ll with those of us who love the show just the way it is, right?
*sigh*

Cordy.. xena is INSULTING. Nobody is debating the fact that it’s television. I am pretty sure we are all aware of the fact that Booth and Bones don’t exist in real life. But.. I suppose the two of you are cut from the same dispassionate cloth. The type that don’t allow yourselves to get immersed in a story or care about creativity. That’s okay – the world needs your kind too.

By the time they REALLY got them together no one showed up (i.e. I Want to Believe flopped)

I agree with Dan and Becca!

I had the opposite reaction. The year apart is a perfect soft reset. It lets there be changes without having to make the changes a huge deal. After the 100th episode, Booth’s longing for Brennan and her constant refusal to go there was getting painful. I think I as a viewer also need the objectivity a little time can bring to make their relationship more of a possibility. Obviously the characters weren’t going to be put together right away but laying everything out on the line like they did in the 100th episode made many of the following episodes hard to swallow. Too much was hanging over their heads. The one year fast forward will let the characters realistically be at a new place in their life, places that I’m sure in some cases would have been a bore to watch.

I kind of expect Booth to be in a serious relationship and I pretty much expect Brennan to come back more open to being with Booth. It will flip the script, give the eventual relationship more balance and therefore make it stronger.

It will be fun to catch up with what’s gone on with Cam and Sweets and hear what Angela and Hodgins did for their year in Paris.

This was the least angsty season ender in ages for me. A welcome relief and something to look forward to, not dread, in the fall.

i also agree with BUKWRM. After 100th ep it was just too hard watching everything hanging over their heads, I couldnt even care ab the murder, I just watched for scraps of looks b/n them, and it was torture. I am looking forward to the 1 year jump for both to get perspective. I actually expect Booth to come back engaged. Can’t wait!

I’ve seen so many shows go stale around the season 4/5/6 mark, I think it’s GREAT that they’re trying to prevent that before it happens! If they wait until it NEEDS shaken up, it’ll be too late. They’ll have lost all their viewers and no one will have any faith that they’ll be able to restore the former glory. Best to keep things moving and changing now – that’s how real life works anyhow.

i agree i do not want to see booth or bones with anyone else and i believe that more people watch this so because of the romantic tension between these two charcters. i know it keeps me wanting to see more.but i do think the writers will mess things up and the show will not be as good if they both come back in different relationships. i could not watch it then.

@oddmonkey:Really?… there’s a point when the sexual tension gets too painful, and you just want to see your favorite characters get together and be happy. Putting them together would likely make fans happier with the show, since we have waited SO long for it. And there is more than one way to create tension and interest within the show besides sad, painful relationship issues.

@Heather: I totally disagree that the show would be over once Booth and Brennan get together. I think there is so much more story to tell when/if they finally do get together. It would be so interesting to watch Brennan struggle to open up to Booth on a whole other level and to see Booth try to guide her along the way. Having them together would be sweet, funny, and, um, hot.

I also felt let down by the finale, mainly because Hart Hanson kept saying that even though ep 100 was heartbreaking there would be a “big pay-off” in the finale. Did I miss that big pay-off because I have no idea what that might have been.

Also, I felt that a majority of the episode was spent on the case (which was boring) and the dumb storyline between Hodgins and Angela’s dad. Why wasn’t the focus of this episode on Brennan and Booth coming to terms with this change in their lives and relationship? I love this show and think it’s top-notch but I thought this episode was a dud. It had so much potential to be great but I thought it was kind of boring and just fell flat.

I’m hoping season 6 does NOT start with one or both of them returning with a new guy/girl in their lives. I’m not saying it should be smooth sailing for them and they should just be together but I really don’t want so many setbacks thrown at them that they wind up not getting together until the final scene of the final episode. That would be terrible and such a waste of potential for the chemistry those two have together.

NO WAY !!!! I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THEM WITH ANYONE ELSE!!! R the writers trying to upset 99.9% of the viewers ? I think maybe they are !!!!

I think a change would be good – especially if it is a big change. Some of the characters are starting to grate a bit – somewhat: Angela and Hodgins as a couple, and Daisy completely (maybe she’ll fall victim to some rare jungle disease or something). Of course, there is still great chemistry between Booth and Bones, but I think the two of them just getting together and living happily ever after would be a huge let-down and a bit anti-climactic. At the same time – how many seasons can you go with things in limbo between them?

I don’t think the comment about a new recurring character means they’re hitting the reset button with a love interest. I think the fact they’re doing a time jump is a way of hitting the reset button. The point is to put distance between the post-100th emotions, make it as if it never happened so the dynamic between the two of them will go back to some earlier point, probably pre-S5.

In short, I think they realized that they screwed up, that if they weren’t going to get them together, having them actually face that and say so changed things so much they couldn’t continue. The only option was to somehow lessen the emotional impact of the 100th and the best way to do that was to separate them for a year.

I don’t think they’ll forget about the relationship they’ve had. But I’ll bet nothing else is ever referenced about Booth having been in love with her this season. Or at least not until whenever the show ends and they finally get them together.

Agree with nearly everything you said, but particularly the Parker stuff. Using his child to guilt him into leaving for a year when no child of that age would want his dad to be gone (particularly to a war zone) was wrong on so many levels.

He couldn’t kiss her. Not after her rejection in the 100th. She’ll have to be the one to change things, and since she’s the one running…it was never going to happen. I held out hope that she’d have some last minute revelation at the thought of being away from him, particularly after Caroline’s assertion that it was their last case. But nope. And I guess that makes sense, that she wouldn’t act impulsively at point.

But quite honestly, if that didn’t get her to change her mind, I can’t imagine what will.

I had the opposite reaction. The year apart is a perfect soft reset. It lets there be changes without having to make the changes a huge deal. After the 100th episode, Booth’s longing for Brennan and her constant refusal to go there was getting painful. I think I as a viewer also need the objectivity a little time can bring to make their relationship more of a possibility. Obviously the characters weren’t going to be put together right away but laying everything out on the line like they did in the 100th episode made many of the following episodes hard to swallow. Too much was hanging over their heads. The one year fast forward will let the characters realistically be at a new place in their life, places that I’m sure in some cases would have been a bore to watch.

I kind of expect Booth to be in a serious relationship and I pretty much expect Brennan to come back more open to being with Booth. It will flip the script, give the eventual relationship more balance and therefore make it stronger.

It will be fun to catch up with what’s gone on with Cam and Sweets and hear what Angela and Hodgins did for their year in Paris.

This was the least angsty season ender in ages for me. A welcome relief and something to look forward to, not dread, in the fall.

i also agree with BUKWRM. After 100th ep it was just too hard watching everything hanging over their heads, I couldnt even care ab the murder, I just watched for scraps of looks b/n them, and it was torture. I am looking forward to the 1 year jump for both to get perspective. I actually expect Booth to come back engaged. Can’t wait!

Why, oh why? They keep dragging the Booth and Brennan storyline to this point over and over again. Please just stop that. Nobody wants to see that for the 100th time. I just hope they don’t get one of them a new love interest AGAIN!

@Heather: I totally disagree that the show would be over once Booth and Brennan get together. I think there is so much more story to tell when/if they finally do get together. It would be so interesting to watch Brennan struggle to open up to Booth on a whole other level and to see Booth try to guide her along the way. Having them together would be sweet, funny, and, um, hot.

I also felt let down by the finale, mainly because Hart Hanson kept saying that even though ep 100 was heartbreaking there would be a “big pay-off” in the finale. Did I miss that big pay-off because I have no idea what that might have been.

Also, I felt that a majority of the episode was spent on the case (which was boring) and the dumb storyline between Hodgins and Angela’s dad. Why wasn’t the focus of this episode on Brennan and Booth coming to terms with this change in their lives and relationship? I love this show and think it’s top-notch but I thought this episode was a dud. It had so much potential to be great but I thought it was kind of boring and just fell flat.

I’m hoping season 6 does NOT start with one or both of them returning with a new guy/girl in their lives. I’m not saying it should be smooth sailing for them and they should just be together but I really don’t want so many setbacks thrown at them that they wind up not getting together until the final scene of the final episode. That would be terrible and such a waste of potential for the chemistry those two have together.

i dnt agree with neither off yall bitches

Mandy, well said.

Judging by comments here and other places……YES, a LOT of fans thought it was a terrible finale.

You are absolutey right….I couldn’t have said it better!!! I personally can’t wait Till season 6 Bones Is great!

HH has said they’ll be together by the end. He’s also hinted at times they might do it earlier. Either way, if they’re really going to wait until the end of the show, this entire season was a serious screw-up then. The sexual tension is gone and has been since Booth declared himself and she rejected him. And I think they know that, and that’s why the time jump — they need to distance themselves from this season so they can pretend the whole he’s-in-love-with-her thing never happened. I think they’re hoping that a year’s absence will allow them to reset the sexual tension.

I’m not sure it will work, but I guess they’ll give it their best shot. It’s a pity no one told them in advance that more things resolve UST than just having sex. And having them talk about it and decide not to do it resolved it.

Next season is THE last season.

I saw it coming from just the interviews I had read the last week, both here and other places.

You said it better than I did, but the sentiment’s the same. I agree with you’re last sentence, if not the rest of it. If they weren’t going to get together eventually, why make the whole first 5 seasons all about them? (‘Cause they undeniably were, SO MUCH more obviously so than most shows I watch that prefer subtlety). All that tells me is that HH has something up his sleeve and eventually things will turn out okay, for shippers and non-shippers alike. Because anyone who watches the show for the bones instead of the people won’t complain if B&B DO get together, and all the crazy shipper fans will jump ship of they don’t. It seems logical to me.

I don’t want this show to be House, or Chuck, or Moonlighting. I want it to be true to itself, and some of us feel that is exactly what is happening.

I missed the last part of the show when she was going to get pregnant with sperm from booth. why did she not get pregnant. that was during time booth had the brain tumor. never did hear anymore about having a baby. Why? please advise.

TOTALLY agree with what you said, Maureen! That’s what it is: laziness. I cannot believe they want the fans to fall their “hype” about next season. AND if B&B end up with others, well, they ought to kiss their jobs good bye. I believe they think this is originality but it’s not – it’s having no cajones or talent to write episodes that have B&B together.

Booth will never fall in love with anyone else.

That’s your opinion.

Hart Hanson has RUINED the chemistry between B&B.

You may be right. In real life, the direction the characters have taken are very realistic.

Yes Booth would be called back to the Army because they need people ofhis caliber to train those fighting those unnecessary wars we are in;

Yes, Bones is running away from how she really feels about Booth. Actually, the BOTH are running away from how they feel about each other.

And, if B&B are meant to be together (which we all believe that to be true) being separated for a year isn’t going to change things. No matter what you do or how much distance you put between you and the “love of your life”, there will always be a connection. It doesn’t go away because you date and sleep with other people, it doesn’t go away because you are in a war zone or digging up more “bones” from bodies. It will always be there. And after a year – the feelings will still be there and will always be there…regardless.

Also, in the real world – Booth would have asked for a transfer by now. There is NO WAY that he would stay working with Bones after the way she has treated him. A man (or woman) would walk away no matter how much the other person says “but I still want to work with you”, That’s insulting and who would want to put themselves into that position on a daily basis? It takes a saint to handle that kind of rejection AND to stay working CLOSELY with the person rejecting is asking to much for a caring person to handle. That’s not realistic. It’s down right cruel.

So maybe thinking in those terms, we can see where maybe the writers are headed.

But I have not liked the Bones’ character hardly at all this season. It’s liked she regressed…and then all of a sudden a light bulb goes on and she can’t handle all the love and caring from those around her. She is doing what her parents did to her. Maybe the year away will make her grow up.

I dont’ think so… emily and him are pretty good friends, i don’t think it will affect

Sully is the perfect example that Bones CAN BE IN A RELATIONSHIP!! She was fun when she was with Sully and she almost took him up on his offer to go sail around the world but she couldn’t leave her friend, ie Angela, at the Smithsonian. So the writers have regressed with Bones’ character.

i totally agree this ending was so perfect. only bones can pull off such a subtle finale….nothing too grand and explosive, just simple emotional and mental stimulation. perfecto!

Oh honey, those figures are wrong. My friend works for a TV Network (yeah, Fox) and she gives me the real ratinggs every week on shows. TBBT beat WEAK competition on Monday night, had a good lead in show in 2.5 Men – it may not do as well on Thursday nights.

Also, your explantions, ie 2′s, 3′s -are hard to understand. I wouldn’t take as gospel what any of the entertainment websites say about TV Ratings. There are trade publications that have the correct ratings but unfortunately, is inaccessible to the general public.

Dancing With The Stars BEAT everyone in their time slot, and continues to do so.

Also please take into account, every region of the country is different. Some shows do well on the East Coast but don’t do as well in the Midwest.

Agree. Our interest will go elsewhere with just a peak in to Bones once in awhile. Or just read the message boards without having to watch the show!!!

I totally agree, Suzanne. I’d love to see Daisy become a regular. She needs to come back and fix the mess she made.

fyi that actor is older, he just looks young. he played a 20ish soldier on China Beach which was on abc about 20ish yrs ago.

Oh, you mean the show that ended because they let the main characters sleep together and then immediately separated them — not even one scene together for months — and then had her marry someone else? That show?

I’ve heard of it. I just can’t understand why people think it was merely the act of getting them together which caused the show to fail.

I’m starting to think the so-called ‘Moonlighting Curse’ has more to do with people being *told* any show that allows two people to get together *must* fail, and thus the expectation is there, rather than that anything genuine about two people in a real relationship (which obviously wasn’t the case with Moonlighting) can’t possibly be interesting. “Oh, look! They got them together! I can’t watch the show any more to find out what happens next!”

Sorry for the sarcasm. I get tired of Moonlighting being the standard for all shows involving relationships when it didn’t allow them to actually have one.

Ha, ha – It’s funny that you mention that, because that’s exactly what I’d like to see, even if it’s cliché.

Most of the people who want to blame Moonlighting probably never even SAW the show. And if they knew anything about it, they wouldn’t blame it all the time. For the five millionth time the show did NOT go downhill because Dave and Maddie had sex. Do some research people.

Anyone else think it was super-cold of Daisy to leave Sweets in the dust like that, with no discussion of compromise or anything? I mean, weren’t they all in love a few eps ago and she was freaking out about being dumped? Just seems inconsistent. I mean, Brennan put more thought into Booth’s feelings on the matter of her departure than Daisy did about Sweet’s feelings, and Daisy and Sweets were engaged! Random.

But thats what so many people are saying…this supposed “change” is just a red herring, devised so that the writers can keep the characters apart even longer. Its 5 seasons of it.

YES, we all know it is a TV show and reel life, not real, but we are vested in the outcome and care for these characters, so understandably fans are disappointed when the characters’development is messed with and they keep them apart for contrived reasons…BB would not have behaved this way 2 seasons ago, let alone now. I think this is why we are upset, that they are not growing as they should…

I find it unfair the way the writers are dragging us around too. But if they don’t get those two together sometime soon I’m sure a portion of their viewers who are not at all interested in the cases (me) will leave. The tension between them can only last for so long. Personally I also believe that after the two are together there is room for more conflict. Just think how protective Booth would be of Bones and how he might not let her do everything she does now because he has a say in it. Her struggling to understand what kind of relationship she’s in. But I do disagree that all the episodes are “stale”, I think the writers are doing a good job of keeping us interested, but honestly the two of them aren’t getting any younger and I don’t want to wait until they’re fifty to figure out they belong together.

I like it, hope it happens. Or just some good writing.

I think Daisy will marry a native and stay in the jungle. She’s hard to take on a frequent basis.

I don’t know about that. Women carry the torch. Men marry the next woman they meet.

Brennan may grow enough to want a relationship with Booth, but my money says that Booth will have moved on. My guess is that they will get back together just before the show ends, so they can ride off into the sunset together and spare us the inevitable fights about water splashing all over the sink, dirty clothes on the floor, who is responsible for meals, dishes, and laundry, and WHAT ABOUT KIDS? Yes or no? And who will have primary responsibility for child care?

I am guessing that Brennan won’t get the whole “She cooks, cleans, does the laundry, and takes care of the kids, and he fixes things around the house and all the yard work” dynamic.

In other words, he works 40 hours a week and she works 24/7. Does that sound bitter?

Yeah i agree give it another shot,this show is the best!!!

I think most every one feels that way. I LOVE Bones but sure am getting sick of the way it is going. I have been so so since end of season 3 and have stayed on board but season 6 premere will sure determine how long I continue.