Hart Hanson: Bones’ Lead Characters Will Discuss Having a Baby
October 29, 2008 by Lynn
Today is one of those wonderful days in the life of a Bones fan. No, there’s no new episode on TV tonight, but the super thing that happened to me was that I got to take part in another conference call interview with the creator and executive producer of Bones, Hart Hanson.
First of all, in the interest of full disclosure, I really like the guy. He’s such a warm and nice person…and so easy to talk to. That just makes the whole conversation all the more fun.
Anyway, you remember yesterday when I asked you to give me a couple of great questions to ask him? Well, one was the exact question I was planning to ask and the other I chose was related and he loved it. So here’s a quick summary of my two questions and his answers, but I’ll put the entire interview up as soon as I can get it typed up. (I promise to transcribe as fast as I can…)
This was my first question:
In August, I did an interview with the Bones writing team and they gave me the scoop then that sometime this season we will find out that “Brennan would like Booth to be the father of her child.” Is this still in the works and when can we expect to see it?
He seemed delighted that I asked it and went on to say that yes, it definitely is still in the works and we will see it sometime this season. The writing team has to figure out just the perfect story in which to reveal it, and still allow it to be a bit of a surprise to the audience. He doesn’t want it to be too obvious.
[Don't you love that about Bones? They find ways to constantly surprise and amuse us.]
As a follow-up question I asked him the question that Yoda put forth:
Would you feel more comfortable letting Booth and Bones get together if you thought of them as Nick and Nora from the “Thin Man” series instead of the often referred to “Moonlighting” series?
I’ll have the exact answer typed up with the rest of the interview soon, but he laughed and seemed to enjoy that question too. He said that he thinks of them already as more of the Nick & Nora type of relationship and that he’s flattered by the constant references to the Moonlighting series. He still thinks that in order to get them together, there has to be something strong enough to continue the wonderful dynamic between them, once the romantic tension is no longer the same.
(I suggested a baby, and he was amused, but didn’t address it directly. I suspect we have to wait to be surprised…)
There were a ton of other entertainment journalists on the call and we were technically asked to keep it to only one question and possibly a follow-up, so that’s all I got the chance to ask. But I thank each of you who took the time to submit suggested questions to me. Now I’m dying to know about Sully, the “goodbye” message and all the other things you asked!!! Don’t worry, though. I’ll keep these ready for the next interview opportunity, whenever it arises.
Now, I’ve got to go start transcribing…. 
[Photo: ©2008 Fox Broadcasting Co.]
OMG. A booth/bones baby!!!! Woo-hoo. I’m dying to see this play out
One more week and we’ll get new episodes. Thank Heaven!!!
I didn’t submit a question in time, but next opportunity, could you ask if we are going to learn more about Cam? I love Cam!
Those are great answers. I’ll be looking forward to the whole interview and now I’m going to go figure out what “Thin Man” is… lol…
WOOOOO! People kept saying it wasn’t true, but I stuck to my opinion that it was right, and yay!!!!!!!!! WOOOOO! Brennan wants Booth to be the father of her child! WOOOOOO!!!! Can you tell I’m excited???? ;P
well i’m pleased as punch that you asked my question!!! thanks:D i am glad he thinks of them that way. i guess i should have known.
One more question for the backburner. I’d love to know if we’re going to ever see Kung Fu/Butt-Kicking Brennan ever again. We haven’t seen her since season 1!
MilkMama… The Thin Man is an old set of movies, i think there are 6 of them… Nick and Nora solve some mysteries, and they are sometimes fighting, and always just a funny couple to watch…. i love the Thin Man, i used to watch them all the time!! LOL!
as for the sully question i posted,,,,i really want to kno!! LOL!
Thank for the info.I’m happy that Brennan want Booth to be the father of her child
Yoda, you rock!
Thanks Searching Bones!
What?! Brennan doesn’t want to have kids. Why do they feel like they have to change her character into something else ‘Be more of a Girl’, be monogamous, get married, have babies, blah. That’s why we fell in love with Brennan is because she has a mind of her own and doesn’t conform to social ideas of what is ‘normal’. I’m bummed. I vote No on Prop Children.
I don’t want Booth to have kids with Brennan. Booth should have someone that likes him not ever guy that cames her way. It’s so nice to learn Mr. H. that the Booth story is a by product of the Brennan and Booths baby bother story. I think I’ll skip this episode how many time can you do the third party thing before it get old.
I’m with you on that one, jes. It might just be passing conversation or something but its a total personality change for Brennan if its true. But still…;)
I had the same exact reaction as jes. I love Brennan because she has a unique stong personality and being a mother just doesn’t go with her. I’d hate to see her giving in to the social stereotype that every woman has to have a child to feel accomplished. Till now she has done a great job on prooving that one can be respected and admired withour mindless following of social patterns.
Back up, folks, the reason that I put the quotes around the statement is that it says that she WOULD LIKE it. It doesn’t necessarily say that it will happen. We have to watch to see how it plays out. Hart Hanson is much more clever than to tip his hand so prematurely. I just have a feeling that the exact wording makes all the difference with some of his spoilers…
~~ Lynn
hm… I supose that it will be only some kind of opinion, not decision or request. Brennan is too serious to be mummy now (But when she looked after Andy, it was great.). And Booth is too… He is ‘free soul’ and so busy with job and Parker. Maybe they (crew) will make an episode ‘Big, bad daddy killed his little sweet baby’ and then Bones could say something like that. But probably in one moment at the end of episode, Bones will say: ‘If I had a baby, I would like you to be father of my child, Booth’. Booth will be confused and… THE END.
I don’t expect anything more from scriptwriters.
From PL with love
J.
@Joanna_Poland
My thought exactly.
First of all, I wanna say that I love Bones. But although I kind of like the idea of Bones a Booth having a baby, I can’t get rid of feeling I have already seen it. In X-Files – yeah, the show to which is Bones often compared to…So please, Hart, don’t do it…at least now and in very different situation than in XF.
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Joanna_Poland: Yay, I agree. That’s the way they should do it!
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I think if they actually DID have a kid Booth would (non purpously) make bones feel small because he already knows how to raise a child and she is used to being the best at everything she does. It would take a while but bones would definitely rise to the occasion eventually-she’s
TEMPERENCE BRENNAN for crying out loud!
Hi,
OMG SQUEEE at the prospect of a baby Brennan-Booth!!!
I really hope that no matter what happens Bones and Booth retain their undeniable chemistry. I trust that Hart Hansen and the crew of this amazing show will do what is best for the show and it’s characters.
as a side note, I wouldn’t say it is a complete personality change for Tempe as we have seen things happen that may change her opinion on having kids. Also, without actually knowing how the story line is going to play out, you shouldn’t judge the character or Hart Hansen.
also, this is to noone in particular I am just ranting but I am so sick of people saying that women just want to have children to “conform” to what society sees is normal. or simply because we are women and that is what we do.
I am a women and one day I would love to have a big family, a husband, children, dogs. I want that because I love children, they are my life. I work at a childcare centre and love every minute of it. Seeing the children laugh or smile reminds me that there is good in the world, good that is worth fighting for. I want children because being around children makes me who I am. A mother and child at heart.
While I know for certain this is the one thing I want in life I have sometimes doubted my self and my decision. At one point I decided having children was not for me and that I would be contend to just be an aunty and godmother when the time came. Ultimately though I realised that nothing can change what my heart wants. And what it wants is a family, is children.
What I am trying to say is that people can change. Not only that but what they display on the outside is often not what/who they are inside. This is displayed in upcoming episodes and was shown in the episode “baby in the bough”. I believe Tempe’s childhood pain made her close off any thoughts about what her heart really wanted and Booth entering her life and her heart is breaking down her barriers and she is very slowly beginning to realise what her heart knew all along. That is, however, just MY opinion. we shall have to keep watching Bones to find out and let me tell you I never miss an episode.
I would just like to thank Hart Hansen and the crew for dreaming up this amazing show. Kathy Reichs for writing the books it is based on. The cast; Emily (Deschanel, ‘Bones’), David (Boreanaz, ‘Booth’), Michaela (Conlin, ‘Angela’), TJ (Thyne, ‘Hodgins’), Eric (Millegan, ‘Zack’), Tamara (Taylor, ‘Cam’), John (Frances Daley, ‘Sweets’) and every other cast member or actor to appear on the show. Without all of you, this show wouldn’t be what it is. AMAZING just like the people associated with it.
Forever ‘Bones’
xx
I would just like to say that I LOOVEE Bones it is my favorite show in the entire world but I have a question. Does anyone know if this is the last season, or will there be more?
I absolutely agree with “Han”. Couldn’t say it better!
Yes, I also agree with Han. I think that Booth has changed Brennan because I remember that eisode in season one where a childs finger was cut off and sent to Booth, and when they found the child and it was a hapy ending, Booth asked Brennan if she still didn’t want children and she said she was never havign children. Apparently, this has changed and I think that Booth is the reason for this.
I would just like to say THANKYOU to “Lauren” and “Simonmad” for their support of my comment.
you guys made my day =D
love to all
I find it very frustrating that they are “domesticating” Brennan. I thought she was an interesting and unique character at the beginning of the show, but it seems that with every new episode, they’re pushing her further and further from that. By the time the series ends, she’s going to be a Roman Catholic Conservative SAHM.
Basically, a female clone of Booth.
While there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, in and of itself (I oppose the “feminist” version of what constitutes a “real” woman), it just feels like a real letdown, in terms of her character. I used to think she was independently-minded, with strongly held views on the world and her function/place within it.
Yes, people can, and do, change. But Brennan isn’t “changing”— she’s doing a 180 toward a more “standard” few of feminine that, to me, feels like the equivalent of: “I fell off my bike and scraped my knee and thought I hated bikes. But then some man came along and kissed my knee, and now I realize I love bikes!”
Yes, she’s had a lot of pain and disappointment in her life, but it really bothers me that certain traits about her are basically being written as “negative” traits. Aspects of her personality— atheism, decision not to have children, original views on monogamy, sexual fulfillment/fantasy as healthy, etc.— are no longer the product of an individual mind, but psychological luggage of which the writers can’t rid her quickly enough.
And, of course, Booth is making almost no “changes” of his own, outside of the shallow. He can understand some of the squints’ lingo, but outside of that, he remains deeply rooted in his views of the world and the people who inhabit it.
Which is fine. I just wish Bones had been given the same consideration.
I’m not overly surprised about the baby talk. The reason they gave for Brennan not wanting children (“the world is scary”) was so revoltingly shallow and stereotypical, they might as well have hung a sign on it that said “Exit”, because it was little more than a backdoor for the writer’s to later allow her to change her mind.
I agree, I think Brennan will say that because she thinks Booth is a an excellent father to Parker, and that if she were to be a mother she´ll love her baby to have a dad like Booth or something, I don´t think the writers would modify the story that much to make Brennan and Booth parents, at least not yet
I’m with almost everyone else in thinking that Booth and Brennan having a kid would totally mess with everything that the writers and Emily have done to the make Bones such a unique character from other female TV characters.
There’s no way Brennan’s emotionally ready for a child. I think it’ll just be a “in the future…” thought rather than a “… I’m having a baby now” thing.
Hi,
just wanted to say that I agree with what what most people are saying about Bones being a unique character with a unique and indivudual outlook on life, the world and evrything associated. I however disagree that she is doing a 180degree turn as the spoiler says that she tells Booth she WOULD LIKE him to be the father of her child. Implying that she isn’t pregnant but if she were to have a baby in the future Booth would make the perfect father for her child. I imagine when Brennan brings this up she will be very logical and scientifc about it, just as she is with most things.
This to me is just a step forward in her development as a character.
as I also said before this is my view and we will have to wait and see what transpires.
I actually think that they should have another case involving them having to take care of a young child or maybe young siblings and have them take them ice skating or to the park. Then have Brennan drop the bombshell on Booth that if later in life she wanted a child, she would want him to be the father. Picture perfect and everyone is happy.
Forever “Bones”
xx
I am excited about Booth and Brennan finally getting together! It will only enhance their relationship, both professionally and romantically. They have both been running away from each other now it is time to run to each other! It won’t destroy the show or anything, it will only make it better! That romance will still be there, only more so.
i think that bones and booth sould have a baby they make a great team and a great couple and are very siuted. adding a baby would give them both a reason to fight more and better secens…
i think that bones and booth would make g8 perents i mean booth already has a kid and it would really mess emily carractor up and make it more exciting i mean bones said that she neva wants to have kids so let her be a mum and speaking from experence i got a baby girl and she a dream and i wouldnt have it any other way let bones feel what ever mom out there feels…
Hi there … I’m from Australia … So we don’t get to see Bones when it comes out, I cannot wait for season 5 to air … I was a bit annoyed with the way season 4 ended but I see your point a view, I’m a fiction writer myself & most likely would have done the same … anywaz when are you going to hook Ang & Jack back up … love them as a couple … oh & brack zack back … we love him over here.
I also think you should give Tempe a baby, booth the father of course … just because they have a child together dosn’t mean that they have to be together, not at the moment anyway but it will be something to keep them together.