MAJOR SPOILER ALERT: Fans of Fox’s crime drama, Bones, were shocked last night when a main cast member died. The death came out of left field while viewers were distracted by the Booth (David Boreanaz) arrest conspiracy plot line. Now the show’s executive producer, Stephen Nathan, is opening up about the shocking death, as well as the tone for the rest of Season 10.
Following the Season 10 premiere of Bones, Stephen Nathan opened up to TV Guide about losing Sweets (John Francis Daley):
“Going into Season 10, you really want to kick everything up a notch. Our intention, initially, was not the demise of Sweets. However, John's career as a writer and a director was really taking off, and he came to us and asked if he could leave to go and direct a film, which he's directing now. We were incredibly sad to lose him, which was really going to be the case because to have him come and go and come and go during the season would have been very disruptive for storytelling. When we realized that, we thought, ‘Wait a minute, what is the best way to use this unfortunate incident for us as an asset for the show?’ The cliff-hanger from last season was leading up to a relatively complex story for Bones, and this seemed to be a very shocking and emotional way to deal with the story so it wasn't just a conspiracy story.”
Nathan went on to discuss the tone for the rest of the season:
“The show will get its footing again. The second episode, we'll see a conclusion of sorts of this first story that we've been dealing with from the end of last season, and our characters will be heading back on the Bones bandwagon. We're not forsaking what makes Bones, Bones, which is all the humor, the romance, the oddities of our cases and the skewed comic nature of our show. That's a groove we're going to get back into, but that doesn't mean it doesn't come with baggage now.”
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