So, last night, Eric Millegan (Zack) was doing a cabaret at my theatre, so we chatted about the show, got a little gossip.
First, he didn't think that the Gormagon thing was planned before the strike. He had been told that they were going to explore Zack's time in Iraq, and that Zack might die. The Gormagon thing apprentice bit might have been a way to write him off of the show.
Despite being a spoilerphobe, I did learn something about next season:
There was a big backlash to Zack being written out of the show, so the producers have signed him to do some scenes from the hospital. There had been rumours, I think, but Eric confirmed that he will be back.
Gossip right from the horse's mouth. WHO WANTS TO TOUCH ME?
gropes Vortex (that's touching, right?)
Ooh, Vortex - that's very cool. I wonder how they didn't
realize that pulling that out of their asses would cause fan backlash
?
I think that they underestimated
Zack's popularity.
which is not surprising.
I saw somebody saying, "Oh, they wanted to get rid of the actor because he's openly gay."
I saw somebody saying, "Oh, they wanted to get rid of the actor because he's openly gay."
I doubt that. I didn't get that vibe at all from Eric (I mean, the whole 2 hours we were around each other :) ) I bet that most people didn't even know.
BN: That was so good. And it had Joan Girardi's principal! But conning the cons is always fun to watch.
Yay!! re Zach!
I'm not sure what the protocal is about mentioning fic writer's name but the writer F_ _ _ ka wrote a brilliant thing years ago from the POV of Bones and it really was about her kind of having Asperger's, if I am recalling correctly and not mangling it all. Anyway, Bones still has aspects of that but has moved away from it. Zach is so much more like that than Bones is, the POV piece made me understand him more and really care about him.
eta: Which is to say, count me in on backlash against the Gormagon-Zach thing.
I'm actually OK with Zack being the Apprentice, because you can look at why he thought it was a good idea and it can address things that happened to him in Iraq. It gives something for Zack to do other than be adorable and geeky.
