‘Bones’ season 11 spoilers: How will Hodgins’ state change him?

At the end of the “Bones” midseason finale on Thursday night, the show delivered the latest devastating shocker in a sea of them over the past few years. The good news is that Hodgins is still alive. With that being said, the bad news is that he is now paralyzed from the waist down. It’s a little early to know whether or not this is going to be permanent, but we can say with some certainty that this entire process will impact not just him, but everyone close to him.

As executive producer Michael Peterson tells TV Guide in a new interview, Hodgins will revert back to the way he was in the early stages of the show, and to go along with that, his family life will be tested in ways that it has not been in some time:

“It’s a process. There’s all these different stages of dealing with a tragedy — you go through anger, you go through denial — and he’s really going to hit every single one of them. It affects his job, it affects his relationship with Angela and his kids. We’re going to see the Hodgins of the first couple of seasons, a guy who had to work with anger management, who used to snap his rubber band on his wrist to keep some of his anger in control. He’s going to be a little more Gregory House than Hodgins for a while. He’s just [angry] at the world. This is not where life was supposed to be take him.”

As nice as it may be to have some more news when it comes to Hodgins, it still doesn’t wash away the pain of not knowing for sure when the show will return. Right now, the easy guess is to say either March or April.

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