Roush on Bones
Question: My wife and I like to watch several shows, and on every single one that we watch, one of the lead characters has been killed, shot or blown up in the last few weeks. The list:
Bones,
CSI: Miami,
CSI,
Criminal Minds,
House (OK, Amber is not a lead character, and didn't get killed/shot/blown-up, but she did get seriously injured) and
Supernatural. What's up with all of the death and destruction? Is this just a combination of season finales and luck of the draw, or is there some sort of determined push here on the part of the writers? Is it maybe because of the writers' strike, and the writers feeling the need to keep people's attention?
— Flint D.
Matt Roush: Basically, you're suffering from a bad case of season finale-itis. I surely wish the idiots who make TV would someday wake up to the fact that they don't need to end every season of every show with some cataclysmic incident (although as noted above, sometimes — like with House — they're done exceedingly well). It just tends to make them look silly, and us feel stupid for having watched.
