What?!! This Column!?? 5.26.08: Issue #110
May 25th, 2008 by alexalexySource: 411mania.com (Original Article)
What?!! This Column!?? Issue #110: TV Season Finale Thoughts: “Bones,” “House,” “NCIS,” “Shark,” “Criminal Minds,” “Law & Order,” “Ugly Betty,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” some thoughts on Uwe Boll’s latest predicament, Indy 500 thoughts, and more
Well, the writers strike abbreviated TV season is pretty much over (”Lost” has a two hour season finale coming up, which 411’s own incredibly cool Ben Piper will no doubt cover in depth later this week) and, for the most part, there were a few interesting surprises thrown in, as well as some annoying as hell cliffhangers.
Wouldn’t it be nice if TV shows stopped doing the cliffhanger thing at the end of every season and just did it every other season, or every two seasons? I don’t know about anyone else, but I prefer my cliffhangers to appear during the regular flow of a season, not at the very, very end of the season. That way, there isn’t anything really, truly pressing that I will likely end up forgetting about by the start of the next season in the fall. I guess that’s not a problem for people who only watch a few TV shows, but for nerds like me and Al Norton who watch a lot of TV, sometimes things can get confusing. I don’t want to have to start taking notes while watching TV like I do when I watch movies. I don’t have that much money to spend on notebooks.
So, here I go with my thoughts on a few shows that ended this past week:
- “Bones”: The ongoing “Gormagon” storyline, I assume, is over, with Booth (David Boreanaz) and an FBI SWAT team entering the killer cannibal’s spooky lair and dropping him like a bad habit. Booth, of course, got the information from the Gormagon’s apprentice, Zack Addy (Eric Millegan), Dr. Temprance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel)’s protege at the Jeffersonian. Okay, so am I the only one completely shocked by this revelation, or were there hints throughout the season that Zack was hiding something? Were there moments where he University Course 44 was missing while at the lab, …continue reading