# Apparently "Bones" is back. Do we care? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579 "2012-09-03T21:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/41 "2012-12-08T16:06:52Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Let’s get it over with … > > _Bones_, 12/3/12 “The Ghost in the Machine”. > > Ugh, ugh, ugh. > > Just when I was hoping that the show wasn’t going to suck so much anymore, it’s back to its worst form and then some. > > Spoilers, … but who cares anymore? > > The entire episode is from the perspective of the victim-of-the-week’s skull. I.e., the cast talks to the skull/camera. The skull is carried around. Nothing of note happens unless the skull is present and out of its box. > > Which leads to incredible absurdities. Excuses have to be made so that suspects and such are interviewed with the skull present. The skull is taken out of the lab to Bones/Booth’s home and then a crime scene. A car is brought into the middle of the lab so that the examination of the car is done in front of the skull. > > Yeah, it was as bad as it sounds. > > But wait, there’s less! Cyndi Lauper was dragged out again for some dippy psychic crap. > > And the usual unbelievable stuff was less believable. I.e., after the victim was killed, his body was moved to a pump house that was used as a homeless/teen hangout. But somehow no one noticed the putrid corpse there. And 3 spots on the skull magically lined up with 3 holes in the wall of the building. They were caused by Sun bleaching. Umm, the path of the sun beams changes each day plus the amount of time the sun would shine on a small area on a skull is very, very short. So much for Science. > > If you are a remaining fan of _Bones_, don’t watch this episode. Nothing happened that will affect future relationships and it will just make you angry. You need the space on your DVR anyway. You missed the best part(s) - Bone’s crying over a victim Said Spirit of the victim waving goodbye at the end of the episode The ‘ghost’ fades between scenes. A hidden Video recording in an MP3 collection. How deadly accurate the Angelatron has become in facial reconstruction. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/42 "2012-12-09T17:19:57Z")
The last two episodes were awards-show nomination episodes. They’re emotionally manipulative and are about stuff that no one can ever be against. Next week’s will probably feature a cancer victim or some such. And, yeah, the technology is veering toward Star Trek territory. It’s getting ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/43 "2013-01-22T02:15:49Z")
Got a new super-bad guy of the magnitude of the Gravedigger. He stole all Hodgins’ money, but he’s not dead. Cam put on a little weight, lookin’ good, not anorexic any more. I’m still watching. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/44 "2013-01-22T02:35:04Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Got a new super-bad guy of the magnitude of the Gravedigger. He stole all Hodgins’ money, but he’s not dead. Cam put on a little weight, lookin’ good, not anorexic any more. I’m still watching. Anyone else? Not new. He played the super-smart bad guy in [several eps](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498572/) last year. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/45 "2013-01-22T02:43:14Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > The last two episodes were awards-show nomination episodes. They’re emotionally manipulative and are about stuff that no one can ever be against. Next week’s will probably feature a cancer victim or some such. > > And, yeah, the technology is veering toward Star Trek territory. It’s getting ridiculous. Considering that they started with the magic 3D hologram projector in the first season, we never left ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/46 "2013-01-22T14:02:46Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Not new. He played the super-smart bad guy in [several eps](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498572/) last year. That must have been during the extended period when I wasn’t paying attention. > [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Considering that they started with the magic 3D hologram projector in the first season, we never left ridiculous. Okay, maybe I just like looking at Cam. That might be it. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/47 "2013-01-22T20:46:10Z")
What the heck? One week we’re goofing off doing stupid dance moves and acting silly and the next we’re back to “serious business”. This show is really starting to hack me off. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/48 "2013-01-23T21:59:18Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Agreed. She does it for me. And I’m all like - well, duh!😃 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/49 "2013-01-26T00:50:42Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Not new. He played the super-smart bad guy in [several eps](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498572/) last year. Any one else think he’d be a much better villain if he wasn’t SO frucking perfect? Everything he does always works out, even when it doesn’t work out (like when they caught him and suddenly he was some other guy, wha?) Oh well, at least he got shot in the face and that didn’t work out too well looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/50 "2013-01-26T21:05:35Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Everything he does always works out, even when it doesn’t work out (like when they caught him and suddenly he was some other guy, wha?) He was caught by the FBI and would have been prosecuted and probably imprisoned for a million years. However, he somehow made his US identity and background vanish. Simultaneously he created a phony identity as a foreign most wanted criminal so he could be transferred to their custody. From which he subsequently escaped. His plan worked perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/51 "2013-01-27T03:24:32Z")
I stopped caring at the end of the Gormogon arc. I know there was a writers’ strike, but that was just pathetic. “Oh, the real killer was some old man we’ve never seen and don’t know. His name - oh, who cares, let’s make it Killy McKillerson.” (Note: some of the previous may be exaggerated). If the showrunners let crap like this get on the air, they obviously don’t care so why should I? Also the show was becoming more about the sexual tension than about the cases. ---
**Author:** ![Boggette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/52 "2013-01-29T17:43:27Z")
Ok… One more gripe. This week they talked about what they wanted for arrangements when they die. Hogins said he wanted to be put on a ship and sent into the sun. Now… last week, he lost all his money. Yet there was no mention of “guess I can’t do that anymore since I’m broke”. It was like they forgot last week’s episode. Do they film them in random order then play them back any way they want or is there supposed to be a through-line? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/53 "2013-01-30T01:25:45Z")
> [@Fir\_na\_tine](#): > > He was caught by the FBI and would have been prosecuted and probably imprisoned for a million years. However, he somehow made his US identity and background vanish. Simultaneously he created a phony identity as a foreign most wanted criminal so he could be transferred to their custody. From which he subsequently escaped. > > His plan worked perfectly. I know that, the WAH was befuddlement at the writers of the show thinking such shenanigans would ever fly. > [@](#): > > Do they film them in random order then play them back any way they want or is there supposed to be a through-line? I don’t know if this is a case of it, but networks notoriously tend to muck with intended air orders. A perfect example was last year with Bones’ spinoff the Finder. That was shown completely out of order. ---
**Author:** ![FrankJBN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@FrankJBN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrankJBN)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/54 "2013-01-30T18:09:26Z")
This may be the best: " thought last season was pretty lame. I’ll watch this season, but it has to get way better for me to keep watching. " I didn’t like it last year, so I’ll watch another 13 hours, but then if I still don’t like it… ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/55 "2013-01-31T13:57:38Z")
I’m a week behind on the DVR. I’m really starting to lose interest even more. The return of the Pelant (?) guy just reminds me of how badly they screwed up the last time he was on. Made me POed the whole episode. Again, yet another episode full of fail. The body was placed in a “canopy” that was basically a hammock. Somehow the body stayed in perfect position for a perfect picture that Angela was able to perfectly line up using just slide projectors. Cerberus knew the who killed one of their guys. Presumably could get a bunch of pictures. Never bothered to send around a notice to employees asking “Have any of you seen this guy? Like sitting at the desk next to you?” Pleeeze. Why do I keep watching this??? As to episode order: They’ve been showing things out of order. One of the most notable recent examples was the one shown on Veterans Day which had been held back so it could be aired on that date. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/56 "2013-01-31T15:15:51Z")
Especailly since Pelant would be the guy that just started showing up a couple of days ago and that no one remembers hiring. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/57 "2013-02-01T00:13:03Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Why do I keep watching this??? If you figure it out, let me know. ☹ I might do it because I like looking at Cam. Lame, I know. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/58 "2013-03-19T01:30:41Z")
Recent episodes of _Bones_ are pretty good. Baby nonsense is over. Techie purists are still going to be annoyed, but at least they’re back to just investigating regular cases like they used to. Cam still has that rockin’ bod and great wardrobe-- seems to be past her anorexic phase. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/59 "2013-03-19T04:51:10Z")
In the mid 90’s I was attending The Ohio State University, and wanted to major in forensic pathology/osteology/anthropology. They had no such major, and not too many courses available. I got no reply after applying to be a morgue tech (the app was as thick as a phone book). I read many books from the field, and was captivated. I learned that it’s very infrequent that skeletal remains are found these days, and even when they are, there is a very small group that usually investigates these things. “Bones” is apparently about some of the things mentioned before, and then some shitty sit-com like goofy romance crap. The main character supposedly investigates things that I was going to base my life on, yet… I’d rather drag my dick across a cheese grater than watch five minutes of that contrived bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579/60 "2013-03-19T13:20:40Z")
Dnooman, so…you’ve never actually _watched_ the program? WTG, with that informed opinion. Very scientific of you. P.S. It’s not THAT bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-bones-is-back-do-we-care/633579.md?page=4)