If the wedding on the season finale of Fox's "Bones" seemed just a little sudden, producers tell us that's because we missed the episode where Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) was working up to his proposal to Angela (Michaela Conlin), asking a number of people for advice, including David Boreanaz's Agent Seeley Booth.

That bit of romance got the ax when Fox yanked an episode dealing with a killing on a college campus in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre. (We'll apparently see a revamped version of that episode sometime next season.)

Fox continues to feel the repercussions of Virginia Tech, with changes planned to a piece of its "Terminator" spinoff for midseason, currently titled "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," that involves violence in a high school.

"Those scenes were shot before Virginia Tech," said Fox entertainment chairman Peter Liguori.

Thanks to a seemingly endless supply of school-based tragedies, this is a dance that networks engage in so often that I wondered aloud -- with a microphone in front of my face -- whether there might not come a time when writers simply stopped writing such scenes.

And before anyone at the Parents Television Council sends me a fan letter, let me add that I don't necessarily think they should stop -- but I do wonder why someone in what's first and foremost a business hasn't decided that scenes like the one in "Sarah Connor" might be more trouble than they're worth.

Liguori, who's the kind of guy who can use "dramatalurgical" in a sentence without sounding too terribly silly, made a pretty strong argument for the scene's importance in the original pilot, to the point where I now wonder why they're changing it, Virginia Tech or no.

And then he admitted that none of that really matters: "Frankly, I think creative questions are answered on an ad hoc basis, not on a broad one, and we need to respect our audience. And
fortunately, we're working with showrunners that are doing that in this instance."