Marisa Roffman ha preguntado a Hart Hanson por algunas cosas que quedaron pendientes en la quinta temporada. Es un artículo bastante largo... en cuanto puedo lo intento traducir

- AQUI

When did you know that Booth, Brennan and the rest of the team would be parting ways at the end of season 5?
Hart Hanson: In my memory, it was around December of last year as we were coming up towards the end of the [season in the writers room]. Certainly by the time the 100th episode was fully conceived. I had that in mind for a long time though, that 100th episode, so it was around then — once I got the network and the studio to sign off on the 100th episode — that we knew that we would split them up. Because we needed a season ender that was at least as interesting as our 100th episode.

I don’t think it was a secret how much I loved episode 100. I thought it was fantastic–
HH: I loved it!

–and I know some people didn’t like the ending, but I thought it was really true to their characters.
HH: And you wrote something nice to that effect.

I did. I think based on what we have seen of them, it made sense why they both reacted the way they did.
HH: I thought it had integrity, too. I thought it held through. I liked it.

Though the case in episode 100′s flashback wasn’t the same one we heard Booth talk about in the pilot…
HH: We did that on purpose. So if you didn’t like it, it wasn’t an accident. It was, let’s shadow the first case. I have to say, most people didn’t notice, which surprised me.

Interesting. And while I personally liked the ending, I did hear from a lot of fans who felt Booth gave up on Brennan too fast after she turned him down. Booth did vow to love her for the next 30, 40, 50 years, but when Brennan turned him down, he immediately jumped to “I need to move on.” Do you think it’s fair to say he gave up too quickly?
HH: Obviously, I disagree. A guy tells a story of when he tried before [to make a relationship work]. Sweets says to him, you have to be the one. And he does. He’s the one. He says, no bullshit, nothing about jobs, I’ll do anything to make this work. And she says, “no” and he believes her that she means no. And I thought Brennan conveyed that she meant no. It hurt the hell out of her, [she was] heartbroken, but she did not waiver. And he’s a grown man. Whether he wants to or not, to keep his sense of himself as an adult and an adult man, for him to go, okay, I gotta [move on] — I think we’ve all been there. I think everyone’s been there: when do you become a stalker? When do you accept that is not going to work?

Not to mention, Booth has an addictive personality. There could be an argument that he replaced his gambling addiction with his addiction to Brennan.
HH: Yeah. And I like the fact that she said, “I’ve been protecting you.” I think he realizes, oh, that’s true. Because he can give, she can’t give, and he’s going, maybe I am never getting this. So for him to keep holding out hope starts to become a little creepy in my eyes. But not everyone agreed. Lots of people think he should have kept trying.

Though to be fair to Booth, he also was trying in his own way for almost five seasons.
HH: Yeah.

Okay, let’s talk the season finale. I have to say I agree with the fans who didn’t really understand Booth’s reasoning for leaving D.C. Brennan leaving for the dig makes complete and total sense, because it was completely true to her character. But Booth going back to the Army after we were told that he wanted to balance his cosmic balance sheet seems to go against everything we were told about his character.
HH: Here’s the thing, though — maybe I should have made this more clear [in the episode] — he did not go back to shoot people. He didn’t go back to be a sniper and shoot people. He went back to train people: how to catch insurgents, how to do police work.

Yeah, that wasn’t clear enough in the episode.
HH: I know, that’s a problem. He went back to show people how to be cops in a country where there were no cops. So yeah, I heard that, people saying, he never would have done that, go back and be a sniper. I agree. He would never go back and be a sniper. He would never do that again.

Okay, good to know. Did you feel there was too much was squeezed into the season finale? Between the case, Booth and Brennan debating if they should leave,  the Daisy-Sweets and the Angela-Hodgins-Billy Gibbons plot, that was four complete stories you were trying to tell in one episode. Did you try and squeeze too much into one episode?
HH: No. I mean, of course it’s a fair argument, but our decision is not to be MAD MEN and have everything unfold incredibly slow. If I had 2.9 million viewers, I’d be off the air in a week. So no matter how nomalistic or beautiful it is…we’re a network TV show, we have to bang, bang, bang along. We’re partially an ensemble show. It’s a totally fair [argument], we just decided to not do that.

You were on Twitter a lot the day after the finale aired, replying to some of the negativity, etc. Why was that?
HH: [pause] One thing I’ve found is, even the hated season enders, people have liked in retrospect after the season opener. Especially the alternate reality one. I got [insulted] by a huge number of people who then went back and liked it in retrospect. I’m not sure that’s good showrunning. I don’t know. But I always think of the season ender and the season opener as a two-parter.

Yes, we had this conversation last year, too.
HH: Certainly I have failed to leave people happy at the end of a season.

I don’t remember people being pissed off after the first season finale…
HH: I’d rather they weren’t pissed off.

But some people are pissed off. At what point is getting that angry reaction doing more damage than good?
HH: Here’s the other thing that’s really hard to remember: the internet people are not the voice of the 10 million fans of BONES. They are a very small, vocal, passionate, fanatics. So they have reactions that don’t match the reactions of just the “normal” TV viewer. And unfortunately, I can’t be swayed by the people who love — and hate — the show most. We get a lot of input that isn’t from the internet. We have market research and the marketing people, the promos people. So I have to not listen to the [internet] people, just because they shout the loudest.

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Así como titulares a modo de resumen:

- Qué más o menos desde que el 100 fue escrito y la cadena dió el OK, Hart ya tenía en mente que los iba a separar en el season finale... más o menos desde diciembre.

- Qué él cree que la reacción tanto de Booth como de Brennan en el episodio 100 es lógica.

- Qué el caso en el que trabajan en el flashback del 100 no es él mismo caso del que Booth habla en el piloto y que casi nadie se ha dado cuenta.

- Luego Marisa le dice que muchos fans piensan que Booth se rindió muy rápido con Brennan... que primero le dice que quiere estar con ella los próximos 30, 40 o 50 años pero desde que ella le dice que no... inmediatamente se rinde y dice que tiene que pasar página... y Hart intenta explicarlo, dice que no está de acuerdo con eso... que Sweets le dijo que tenía que ser él el que moviera ficha... y él lo hizo se olvidó de excusas como el trabajo y demás mierda y se lanzó... pero ella le dijo que no... y él realmente la creyó... que ella no quería...

- Marisa comenta que Booth tiene una personalidad altamente adictiva y que probablemente él reemplazó su adicción al juego por su adicción a Brennan... y Hart dice que sí y que le gusta el hecho de que ella le dijera "He estado protegiéndote", creo que él se da cuenta "oh, es cierto". Porque él puede dárselo, pero ella no y él se va porque quizás nunca va a conseguirlo y para Booth seguir manteniendo la esperanza comienza a convertirse en algo extraño bajo mi punto de vista. Pero no todo el mundo está de acuerdo, mucha gente cree que debería haber seguido intentándolo.

- Marisa añade que para ser justos... Booth lo ha estado intentando a su manera durante casi 5 años y Hart dice que sí.

- Después Marisa comenta que entiende las razones de Brennan para irse... que al fin y al cabo la antropología es su vida y siempre se ha ido a hacer este tipo de excavaciones pero que ni ella ni mucha gente entendió que Booth se fuera... ya que se supone que él dejo el ejército y ser sniper porque quería capturar tanta gente como había matado y que nunca volvería al ejército... y Hart aclara que él no se va para matar a nadie que él va para entrenar a gente para coger a insurgentes... para enseñarles el trabajo policial y que quizás no dejó este asunto lo suficientemente claro en el episodio.