Episode 5.22 The Beginning in the End Air Date: May 20, 2010
I’m both excited and sad. This week, the season 5 finale of Bones will air. I’m torn between being eager to see the episode, and wishing that the season wasn’t already over. I’m guessing that you feel the same way.
Anyway, to get you ready for this week’s big finale episode, here’s the latest promotional clip:
Episode 5.20 The Witch in the Wardrobe Air Date: May 6, 2010
Here’s a photo that was released after last week’s Bones episode aired. They didn’t want to give away the surprise about Angela and Hodgins getting married.
FOX has finally given us more photos from the Bones season 5 finale. These show Angela’s father, played by ZZ Top band member Billy Gibbons. It’s going to be a very fun episode!
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Yesterday, a number of us got to take part in a conference call interview with Bones star Emily Deschanel and Bones creator Hart Hanson. They filled us in on things we can still look forward to this season and were a lot of fun. Here’s the entire transcript of the interview. [You may also be interested in last week's interview with the inspiration for Bones, Kathy Reichs.]
Q: What kind of impact will the final two episodes have on the Booth-Brennan relationship?
Hart Hanson: We had an interesting dilemma this year. We sort of had two big finale type shows this year because we wanted the 100th episode to ring on the Booth-Brennan relationship. Lo and behold, the season finale has to live up to that or at least be as interesting as the 100th. I think we were fairly successful in getting an interesting episode out of our 100th episode. Emily, you’ll have interrupt me if I start to blab too much. I think our season ender, in its own way, has as much impact on the future of the show as the 100th episode did. Was that oblique enough?
Emily Deschanel: I think you said it accurately. “Was it oblique enough?” Yes. We can’t give too much away, you see. What happens in the season finale is as impactful for the relationship as the 100th episode was. There’s a lot to live up to after the 100th episode. I think Hart did a really good job writing the script.
Q: Do you usually hear anything from the fans about the storylines?
Hart Hanson: We definitely hear from our fans. I’ve talked to a few other show runners and I think we have the noisiest, most involved fans if my experience is any indication, and they certainly do not shy away from commenting. I don’t know how everyone feels, but I see that as a very, very positive thing even when I’m getting hollered at.
Emily Deschanel: I think it’s a positive thing too. It means that people care even if they disagree with something. I appreciate people caring so much. But Hart definitely has more experience with the fans directly than I do because he’s a tweeter. Twitters. He’s on Twitter.
Hart Hanson: Be careful there, Emily.
Emily Deschanel: He tweets. He’s twittering. Something. You get a direct line to the fans.
Q: How do you see the evolution of Brennan over the years?
Emily Deschanel: I think you’ve seen through the seasons Brennan opening up a lot more. She’s definitely had a hard time socially with people and knowing what to say and to be sensitive to other people’s feelings and where they’re coming from. That’s one reason why she chose science as a field. and she’s put up a lot of walls — because of being abandoned as a child and what she went through believing her parents were dead or missing as well as her brother leaving her.
I think that the walls are starting to come down. You even see at the end of the season she’s questioning her field — solving murders. It’s a pretty huge thing that she’s even thinking about that because it’s something she’s chosen to escape into. It’s mainly from her relationship with Booth who has opened her up and encouraged her to be more sociable. I guess a higher social intelligence. It was just fun to discover this character learning how to interact with people. I think she’s gotten better. She’s still the same person. She still has difficulty, but she’s making improvements for sure.
Q: Do you anticipate fan reaction to the season finale?
FOX only gave us three photos to preview for the Bones season finale episode. And from the looks of them, everyone will be making big, difficult decisions. I can’t wait to find out what happens.
Here it is, folks. This is the Bones season finale description. I’m both excited and sad. I can’t wait to find out what happens in the episode, but I don’t want the season to end.
Are you like me and thing the wording of this press release is deliberately vague? We have to wonder what “unique opportunities” Booth & Brennan will have. And do you think that Angela and Hodgins will actually get engaged or married? Why else would Angela’s father come to visit? It’s only a guess….
Press Release: THE TEAM INVESTIGATES THE REMAINS OF A HOARDER ON THE SEASON FINALE OF “BONES” THURSDAY, MAY 20, ON FOX
Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) Guest-Stars
The team works to uncover clues buried under a life’s worth of possessions saved by a hoarder in order to solve the mystery of his death. Meanwhile, Angela’s father (guest star Gibbons) has a specific purpose for his most recent visit, and Brennan and Booth are confronted with unique opportunities in the “The Beginning in the End” season finale episode of BONES airing Thursday, May 20 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (BON-522) (TV-14 L)
Cast: Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Brennan; David Boreanaz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth; TJ Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins; Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro; Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille “Cam” Saroyan; John Francis Daley as Dr. Lance Sweets
Guest Cast: Patricia Belcher as AUSA Caroline Julian; Carla Gallo as Daisy Wick; Billy F. Gibbons as Himself; Skyler James as Dylan; Gina Torrecilla as Mom; Scott Atkinson as Morgan Finley; Ned Vaughn as Col. Dan Pelant; Ty Panitz as Parker Booth; Deidrie Henry as Elaine Akusta; Reginald Ballard as Rocky DeKnight [Source: FOX]
Here’s the transcript of the interview with author Kathy Reichs. She wrote this week’s episode of Bones and the show is loosely based on her life.
Q: I was wondering, do you see Brennan as two separate people: The character on TV and one that your readers know?
Kathy: No, I really don’t. I think of book Tempe and TV Tempe and I think of TV Tempe as an earlier point in book Tempe’s life. She’s 30-something rather than 40-something. She’s unmarried. She‘s living in Washington, which I find very appropriate because that’s where I started my career at the Smithsonian. It’s the very first place I ever worked with skeletons, so I think of TV Tempe as a prequel.
Q: Were you told which intern to use and what needed to happen in the B-plot line of “Witch and Wardrobe” or was that your specific idea?
Kathy: That was pretty much formulated by the executive producers. I was told that we were going to be using Clark.
Q: Well, we just had our hundredth episode of Bones not long ago. I was wondering how you see the longevity of the show.
Q: Kathy: Well, I think we should go to a thousand episodes. Yes, what do I know, but everything I hear is that we’re going strongly. It’s been picked up for the sixth season, of course, and that hopefully we can go several more beyond that.
Q: You’re on Twitter. How do you see social networking becoming such an important part of promotion and interacting with fans?
I just hung up from the conference call interview with author Kathy Reichs. Her books and life were the inspiration for the TV series Bones. She was delightful and talkative and everyone seemed to enjoy talking to her.
Of course, I will post the entire transcript of the interview as soon I can, but here are a couple of bits of info to tease you and get you to check back for the entire interview.
Kathy answered my question with advice for anyone aspiring to become a forensic anthropologist and she seemed pleased that some of you are now considering that as a career. [Thanks for the question, Daphné]
She told us her opinion about Booth and Brennan getting together.
She also clarified a bit about how the book character of Tempe is similar and different from the TV Tempe and where each of them is similar or different from her. It’s pretty cool, I can’t wait to post it for you!
Karen Jobim asked about the rumor that Kathy is writing a young adult novel. Kathy said that she is working one and it will be out in November. She gave a touch of info about the new character that this novel will involve and it’s not Temperance! She has another Tempe novel coming out in August too.
Be sure to check back for the entire interview!
Episode 5.21 The Boy With the Answer Air Date: May 13, 2010
It makes me sad to think that this is the info for the next-to-last Bones episode of the season! AARGH!! Why can’t the show have new episodes all year long…? [sigh]
Press Release: THE TEAM WORKS TO CONVICT THE GRAVEDIGGER ON AN ALL-NEW “BONES” THURSDAY, MAY 13, ON FOX
Ryan O’Neal Guest-Stars
The trial of The Gravedigger hits close to home for members of the team, and everyone at the Jeffersonian must work overtime to uncover the forensic evidence to elicit a conviction in the all-new “The Boy with the Answer” episode of BONES airing Thursday, May 13 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (BON-521) (TV-14 L, V)
Guest Cast: Ryan O’Neal as Max Keenan; Patricia Belcher as Caroline Julian; H. Richard Greene as Judge Dufrey; Dave Allen Clark as Newscaster; Deirdre Lovejoy as Heather Taffet [Source: FOX]
On another site, I found these more casual and candid photos of the cast at the Bones 100th episode party. It looks like everyone had a great time!