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Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.

This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]


sumi - May 20, 2011 7:24:00 am PDT #7784 of 11831
Art Crawl!!!

If there hadn't been the meta-pregnancy I bet they wouldn't have moved forward at all.

Other things: we are to assume that Bones isn't on the pill - and that being the case it is therefore most likely that she got pregnant the night of Mr. Nigel-Murray's death because if they were together at other times I cannot believe that she would forego birth control.

ETA: Unless, of course, she intended the pregnancy.


Amy - May 20, 2011 7:28:20 am PDT #7785 of 11831
Because books.

I would be really surprised if they go forward with it, though. They're going to have to write Angela and Hodgins as new parents, even if every episode doesn't feature the baby, and I just can't imagine they're going to go there again with Bones and Booth, especially when their relationship is so vague (at least to us).

I could have sworn I had heard they weren't going to deal with Deschanel's pregnancy on-screen, either.

But I also can't quite see them having her end it, or having her miscarry, because that would be a hard thing to ask of a pregnant actress.


Connie Neil - May 20, 2011 8:20:16 am PDT #7786 of 11831
brillig

that would be a hard thing to ask of a pregnant actress.

I remember what they had to do with "Married with Children", when the actress had a miscarriage. That must have been horrific.

re: Bones, I remember Sweets' bafflement when he learned that Bones and Booth had done some serious flirtation when they first met. I thought that was great, that Mr. Super Shrink had misread things. Though maybe not, Denial is the watchword for Booth and Bones--and I still think a serious relationship between the two of them would be a disaster.


erikaj - May 20, 2011 8:37:25 am PDT #7787 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!

Connie, that was even worse. Poor Katey Sagel had a stillborn baby.


Maria - May 20, 2011 8:37:33 am PDT #7788 of 11831
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Amy, they're going forward with it. Hanson and Nathan are all in. [link]


§ ita § - May 20, 2011 8:42:48 am PDT #7789 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

the show’s producers not only blew off that pesky (and outdated) Moonlighting curse, but they kicked it in the groin

?? First off, I hate the premise that there is a Moonlighting curse. And then, past that, I hate the conceit that any show is so clever that they have avoided it. Just keep writing, guys! If your show has hinged on the fact that they're not together, it's probably too late to fix things now.


Amy - May 20, 2011 8:51:08 am PDT #7790 of 11831
Because books.

That's really interesting, Maria. I'm not incredibly enthusiastic about it, though.


Maria - May 20, 2011 9:08:33 am PDT #7791 of 11831
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

We'll see what happens. The premise is intriguing, in that they wouldn't be a couple at this point if she (Brennan, not the actress) wasn't pregnant, but the writing and execution are going to make or break this.

edited for subject/verb agreement.


§ ita § - May 20, 2011 9:09:33 am PDT #7792 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think the Cousin Oliver curse is a lot more real and worrisome than the Moonlighting one, too.


erikaj - May 20, 2011 9:33:45 am PDT #7793 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!

it happens a lot more often. Moonlighting was having other problems... I think CS and BW weren't getting along and one or both had pissed off some writers, too? I only watched it a few times, though.