I haven't seen it yet (it airs here tomorrow night), but know what happened. I had my WTF moment, and then thought about it and decided it actually made some sense, at least from the making of the show point of view etc.
1) Once Zach graduated, he was, in a way, superfluous. They already had Bones, and Zach's job position was pretty similar. As far as the show goes, that means his character is no longer there for Bones to explain things to the viewer, like he was when he was learning.
2) Given his lack of social skills etc etc, once he was no longer Bones' student, he was set adrift in the world, sent overseas into a warzone, didn't do too well over there, and when he came back he was a lost little lamb. It does make a certain kind of sense that he would latch onto the Gormagon like that, because he needs some kind of mentor.
3) Sweets kind of replaces Zach character-wise for the cute, light relief. He also makes sense in that he brings the psychoanalysis to the team, something that they haven't had previously beyond a few eps with Stephen Fry. From a making the show and the dynamics of it, he makes far more sense now than Zach does, especially with his ability to be geeky, BUT also have the tenacity to stand up to both Bones and Booth, and allow for some nice verbal exchanges between them. I thought Sweets was the killer, until the episode with his girlfriend and the fish. At that point I decided they were putting far too much effort into giving his character a background to toss him at the end of the season. This said, they could have replaced Zach with Sweets just as easily by having Zach get a job elsewhere.
So for me, it doesn't actually seem plucked out of the air, I can see they've been laying down the seeds since the start of the season, though I'm all sad that Zach is going. Waaaaaah. *sniffles* I think they might have been able to make it more convincing if they'd had a couple more episodes to play with, but the Writers' Strike buggered that up. But yeah, I have to give them credit for pulling a twist that no one expected. That gets more and more difficult in TV these days.
1) Once Zach graduated, he was, in a way, superfluous. They already had Bones, and Zach's job position was pretty similar. As far as the show goes, that means his character is no longer there for Bones to explain things to the viewer, like he was when he was learning.
2) Given his lack of social skills etc etc, once he was no longer Bones' student, he was set adrift in the world, sent overseas into a warzone, didn't do too well over there, and when he came back he was a lost little lamb. It does make a certain kind of sense that he would latch onto the Gormagon like that, because he needs some kind of mentor.
3) Sweets kind of replaces Zach character-wise for the cute, light relief. He also makes sense in that he brings the psychoanalysis to the team, something that they haven't had previously beyond a few eps with Stephen Fry. From a making the show and the dynamics of it, he makes far more sense now than Zach does, especially with his ability to be geeky, BUT also have the tenacity to stand up to both Bones and Booth, and allow for some nice verbal exchanges between them. I thought Sweets was the killer, until the episode with his girlfriend and the fish. At that point I decided they were putting far too much effort into giving his character a background to toss him at the end of the season. This said, they could have replaced Zach with Sweets just as easily by having Zach get a job elsewhere.
So for me, it doesn't actually seem plucked out of the air, I can see they've been laying down the seeds since the start of the season, though I'm all sad that Zach is going. Waaaaaah. *sniffles* I think they might have been able to make it more convincing if they'd had a couple more episodes to play with, but the Writers' Strike buggered that up. But yeah, I have to give them credit for pulling a twist that no one expected. That gets more and more difficult in TV these days.
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