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Dear Hart Hanson and Barry Josephson,
What.the.fuck.
When I said that I wanted Zack to have a storyline, particularly since he was coming back from Iraq, THIS WAS NOT WHAT I MEANT. I am so very angry at you. I'm more pissed now than when the 24 writers blew up Michelle and
On the theoretical level, I get where Zack could be the killer. With the Iraq stuff never resolved, with the hints from 2 episodes ago about the danger of the hyper-rational being, they laid out enough clues and of all the people, Zack has always been the most malleable to ideas, especially when presented with a logical argument.
However, this felt rushed in the execution. It should have been drawn out over a 2 hour finale, because it starts out with the Booth-funeral-fakeout and they didn't resolve the emotional fallout of Booth almost dying the way they should have. Because of that, we didn't get to see Angela crying for days, Brennan trying to hold it together when Booth almost died, and most of all, the Zack reveal came in the 4th act, with little to no time to process it or see every single person's reaction to the news. I HATE them for depriving us of Angela and Hodgins' first reaction to the news. (Although I think the whole drugs scene was Hodgins figuring it out and doping Zack before he could completely fess up to Angela. Maybe.) We deserved to see that.
And we could have stood to get a really explicit explanation of what happened to Zack because so much of his development into a killer was offscreen or in the background. It's a hard enough pill to swallow that it's ZACK. We needed more than just one scene with Brennan and Zack, however moving it was. They should have drawn out more conflict/impact of his experience in Iraq, because Zack has *always* the most likely to be a serial killer of the show. But the show had established him as simply being Zack, and we accepted him as simply being special. They should have given us *something* where we could go,"Oh, yeah. There, that's when it happened, when he turned." They needed to show us more that he was more troubled, that not all was right in mudville, that he was so susceptible to being brainwashed by Gorgamon. Not enough to give it away, but definitely more than we got. And yeah, perhaps this is the problem of the writers' strike, but the whole thing just felt like it was done for pure shock value because the poor execution undermines any and all clues they may have left over the season. I'd rather they had resolved this in S4 instead of rushing it now, if that was the case.
Also, I feel like on the long term, they've really damaged what wasn't broken. What makes Bones the show as awesome as it is is not just Emily and David's awesome chemistry. It is also the pure nerdy joy of the squint squad, and the sense of created family. *CAM* of all people, killed me tonight with her reactions because hers was the reaction I resonated with the most. I'm so very angry, and I don't know why Angela and Hodgins and Bones and Booth aren't. Because Zack was supposed to be the innocent one, Zack was the one they all bonded together to protect, and for it to be him cuts the most because they've sucked out the joy and love of *pure* science of the show. Because of all the characters, even more so than Bones, Zack embodied the purity of logic and reason. Now it's tainted and I might not be able to watch any of the old episodes anymore and not get sad. I won't be able to take joy in Zack's rambling brilliance, how he's always the victim, how disjointed from reality his view of the world is- not when I know it leads to him getting brainwashed into becoming a damaged, sociopath. I can't even watch the Christmas episode without getting angry and sad. THE Christmas episode.
YOU RUINED THE CHRISTMAS EPISODE, KING OF THE LAB, and ALL THE CRAZY EXPERIMENTS THAT I LOVE, stupid Bones writers. MASSIVE FUCK YOU. You broke my show.
no love,
me
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