I stopped watching Bones awhile ago, right about when it was revealed that Bones and Boothe had a brief thing before becoming partners. I hated that. It completely trivialized all the UST that the writers had been building up to that point and contradicted EVERYTHING about their dynamic and relationship. It pissed me off.
So, I didn't know about this whole Bones/Boothe baby thing, and in a way I'm very glad I DID stop watching before this went down because that sounds like th stupidest, most absurd, supremely overused plot twist ever. Ever. There are ways to change character dynamics without knocking up your lead female character. Fucking use some of that creativity writers are supposedly blessed with and come up with something.
Furthermore, I completely, 100% agree with you that actress getting pregnant should NOT equal character getting pregnant. I mean, hi, Mariska Hargitay on Law & Order? The media made a big, huge, massive to-do about her being pregnant and all the careful wardrobe and staging and camera angles they were doing to cover that bump. You do not need to resort to equally pregnant female character to carry on the storyline -- especially with a show like Bones where there are like five MILLION ways to disguise that through scenery and props alone. Hello? She works in a lab. That requires baggy, unflattering lab coats, lots of tables, charts to carry around, bending over things.
*sighs* I am so frustrated with television right now.
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So, I didn't know about this whole Bones/Boothe baby thing, and in a way I'm very glad I DID stop watching before this went down because that sounds like th stupidest, most absurd, supremely overused plot twist ever. Ever. There are ways to change character dynamics without knocking up your lead female character. Fucking use some of that creativity writers are supposedly blessed with and come up with something.
Furthermore, I completely, 100% agree with you that actress getting pregnant should NOT equal character getting pregnant. I mean, hi, Mariska Hargitay on Law & Order? The media made a big, huge, massive to-do about her being pregnant and all the careful wardrobe and staging and camera angles they were doing to cover that bump. You do not need to resort to equally pregnant female character to carry on the storyline -- especially with a show like Bones where there are like five MILLION ways to disguise that through scenery and props alone. Hello? She works in a lab. That requires baggy, unflattering lab coats, lots of tables, charts to carry around, bending over things.
*sighs* I am so frustrated with television right now.