Castle boss to Bones execs: Booth and Brennan need to hook up NOW

[klutzy_girl]

As creator and exec producer of ABC’s Castle, Andrew W. Marlowe has spent a whole lot of the last three years keeping his title character and Beckett apart, and wondering how long that can go on. One thing he does know: He’d be getting pretty anxious right about now if he were Bones‘ Hart Hanson and the couple in question was Booth and Brennan.

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[fearlesst15]

They can. I don't watch it religiously but I'm pretty sure Stabler and Benson have never been an item on SVU. The issue with Bones is they have flaunted that they should be together from the start. You can't have that going on and then not put them together. It's one thing to make tension and have it be there, like with Benson and Stabler, but know that they should never be a couple because that just isn't what they were meant to be... but to have them keep coming so close to being a couple, to have them have coma sex, to have them almost have sex the first time they worked together only to back out due to timing.

Not to mention Bones is about to go into its 7th season. As much as I love it I don't expect more than 7, maybe 8 seasons if we are lucky. It's time. It is possible to have main characters get together and not kill the show. It just involves good writing and planning.

I don't know. My parents used to watch Bones before I did but then they stopped watching. A few weeks ago my dad saw me watching an new episode and asked me if Booth and Brennan had had sex yet. I said no.

"What is it? Like the 5th season?"
"No the sixth."
"That is way too long. They should have gotten together already."

I found it funny that that was his only question and reaction to a show he used to be invested in and he was someone who really didn't give two shits about the relationships on the show.

I think it is interesting though to see what Marlowe has to say. When a fan says they want to see Booth and Brennan together Hart can shrug it off and dismiss it as an overly enthusiastic fan who doesn't know any better. But in this case it is someone who is in the same position he is but has a drastically different view as to what should happen.

[wagrobanite]

I don't watch it religiously but I'm pretty sure Stabler and Benson have never been an item on SVU. The issue with Bones is they have flaunted that they should be together from the start
No they haven't and they're in their 12th or 13th season and have had the tension there... so I don't understand why Bones is different?

[fearlesst15]

Because Bones has had all these characters, main and guest, saying how Booth and Brennan are destined to be together. Signs here and there pointing to them ending up together and being something more than "just partners" where as SVU has had the same tension Bones has had but minus those signs and characters constantly saying they belong together.

Not to mention they had Stabler having his on again off again relationship with his wife. If you aren't going to have the characters get together, then you should make sure they have lives outside of each other. With Bones, Brennan rarely gets involved with people and when she does Booth is there to get in the way. And then when Booth is with someone it's made clear he really would rather be with Brennan. It's things like that, in my opinion, that makes Bones different from SVU. So while it's possible for a man and woman to be partners and be close and just work together on a show set up like SVU, it's not like that with Bones. It was always intended for the show to depend on their tension, their relationship and eventual getting together.

[stina_bo_bina]

Plus, Bones has now already gone there by playing it out the way they have. Booth wanted Brennan, and admitted it. Brennan wanted Booth, and admitted it. Both admitted it at the wrong time. Now all the obstacles are gone, and they flat out TOLD EACH OTHER THEY WANT TO BE TOGETHER ONE DAY. They've walked this close to the edge of the cliff, for them not to jump SOON now would be ridiculous. You don't have all the history they do, and come this close, for them to procrastinate 3 or 5 more years.

[fantasy_notes]

"I don't watch it religiously but I'm pretty sure Stabler and Benson have never been an item on SVU. The issue with Bones is they have flaunted that they should be together from the start"

They are currently in the 12th season. To be honest Stabler & Benson havent really gone there, and im not sure if fans have been asking about it! The reason why Bones is different is that the cases and there character development is far better! Its probably why, we havent gone cranky!

[va32h]

Maybe he's saying it to kill the show ;)

Seriously, there's no reason for a rival network showrunner to go around blathering about what should happen on other shows.

Have a big bowl of STFU Andrew, and worry about your own show.

Right now, disgruntled Bones fans are worshipping at the AM altar saying "he's so much smarter than HH and knows how to write a real romance."

Well...a lot can happen in a show season. Any season could be the last. And if ABC says "keep the leads apart or no renewal" is Marlowe going to say "but I promised the online fandom I wouldn't do that!" ?

I hope someone brings this article up in two seasons if Caskett still aren't together.

[crazyboothsocks]

They shouldn't have flaunted it so early on. They should have let it ride a few seasons before really exploring it. Because that is their problem. While I don't ship them, I can understand why people do because you almost have to if you want to get through this show.