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Bones: The Change in the Game (2011)
Very powerful episode
This episode had it all, laughs, tears, almost heartache. I wish it would have been a longer season finale. The actors really sold their emotions; I could feel how much pain Angela was in and the pain Angela was inflicting on Jack. They really sold how much they loved each other when describing what they loved about in one another. When the baby was born you could see the anxiety in their eyes and the relief that everything turned out well in the end. When Hodgins came out with his son, his face was beaming with pride, like every father should. I especially loved the ending, the way Bones was worried about the repercussions of a baby and how Booth reassured her that a baby was an amazing gift. When Bones told Booth she was pregnant with his child his smile brought me to tears, I have watched it over and over again. I do want to clarify that Hart Hanson stated that even before Emily found out she was pregnant they were going have Bones expecting eventually. The story line worked out, we have been following this show for six years, a lot of fans were getting anxious for something tangible to happen between Booth and Brennen. On a side note, what made this episode so much better was the lack of blatant Toyota advertising and the sometimes not so subtle political quips. Here is an excerpt from an interview with Hart Hanson;
Would this be happening now in the story if Emily Deschanel hadn't become pregnant in real life?
Yes. This was something that we had been discussing even before Emily found out she was pregnant. It's very difficult to find a way to deal with two characters who everybody knows should be together without embracing what everybody calls the Moonlighting curse. We had to find a way to keep the integrity of those characters intact, and yet move them along because you can only wait so long. So we wanted to avoid that part of the relationship where you first get together and the fresh glow of love, and you're sharing dessert, and you're overly polite. We didn't want to do that. Booth and Brennan have disagreed about fundamentally everything — except each other — for six years. That will continue. Their characters will remain the same: Booth and Brennan will have completely different ways of dealing with the pregnancy, completely different ways of dealing with where their life goes from here. Booth is the marrying kind as we know, and Brennan is not. Where are they gonna live? How are they gonna raise the child? How are they gonna continue to catch murderers together when they have a baby hanging around? So all of these issues will be dealt with in the way that they're always dealt with — from opposite sides. The ultimate pragmatist meets this romantic who has faith that everything will be worked out as long as you look at it the right way. These are issues that won't die. We hopefully have found a way to continue what everyone loves about Bones while really kicking it up a notch and adding a whole new set of complications now that these two people actually find themselves together.
Here is the link to the rest of the interview with Hart Hanson explaining the story line was not compromised.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/20/bones-season-6-finale-pregnant/