Okay. Will this show just end and put me out of my misery?
Question: has there ever been a principal female character in a TV drama with a more obnoxious personality than Temperance Brennan? Candidates?
There was one good line in the episode:
“We’ve all dropped human remains before.”
I’m going to try to work that into a conversation very soon.
No there hasn’t.
Hey now, let’s not fall for recency fallacies. I’m still pretty sure that Jackee Harris and Jim J. Bullock both had TV shows on which they played characters.
Laura Roslyn?
I’d much rather deal with Bones than her. And she was supposed to be a teacher? Ugh, I’d do anything to get transferred to another class.
Laura Isles from “Rizzoli and Isles” - is almost moreso, but they’ve tempered (heh) some of it back and I think they have intentionally dialed Bones’ up.
This is a twofer: My take on the wedding and honeymoon episodes.
The wedding episode: Flunky-palooza! Geez, there are so many of these guys. One, I swear, was never on the show before. I never got why they have so many. (I really miss the original Zack.)
The wedding itself dragged on so long that they clearly cut out a bunch of stuff dealing with the crime-of-the-week. All that was hurried, jumpy, etc. Didn’t really work well. What a crappy episode for such a key event.
The honeymoon episode. I saw Buenos Aires at the opening and was puzzled at first. Then when I saw Bones and Booth by the pool: “Oh, honeymoon murder adventure.” So trite.
One thing that Is Just Not Done: The episode title gave away a very key late plot point. (Although you could sort of see it coming. C’mon, it’s Argentina.) I wonder how much longer they’ll do WWII Nazis in shows set in current times.
Would a gold bar really leave that much residue on a skull? Especially with skin, etc. in the way? And all along a crack vs. in one small locale.
Let me get this straight: The Local Bones kills her grandfather, hauls his body off to a site that she knows and the government knows contains the bodies of disappeared people. That the government is going around digging up. And all she does is burn it (?) and bury it.
She’s the Local Bones: Don’t put the body where it’s going to be found soon. Bash it up enough to destroy the face, teeth, whatever, to prevent later ID. Shoot, just scattering the parts would do it. A Local Bones could pull this off easily.
Overall, another pair of crappy episodes.
That thing with the insect hatching out of Hodgins’ neck-- is that an example of jumping the shark?
It WAS one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen on a show that makes an effort to show more disgusting things than before with every episode.
At first, I was afraid of that myself. And then I remembered–
Booth is a highly accomplished sniper. There’s absolutely no way whatsoever that he could miss at that distance. If Booth says that somebody that he shot is dead, then that person is well and truly dead.
Now that that’s out of the way, what in the world is wrong with a lot of you people? I can understand hating CSI and the other shows that are wildly unrealistic, but Bones goes out of its way to be far more realistic than most shows of any type.
Unlike all the “zoom and enhance” and instant DNA results that the CSI-type shows have, Bones has scene after scene where they’re waiting on test results, trial and error runs, failed attempts, etc.
You people like ThelmaLou need to either grow up, or else quit watching the show. You contribute nothing of value whatsoever.
More like pole vaulting.
This is insulting, and don’t try to order people out of the discussion.
I might think so but it is something that happened in real life. A Rabiolab story a few years ago told of a scientist who had a botfly egg laid in his scalp while in South America and when he discovered it decided to let it play out.
You can listen to the full story here.
Especially when I started the thread. :dubious:
The realism doesn’t make it less disgusting.
:dubious: Really ? When Bones has had several episodes promoting woo, while CSI has had several debunking woo.
Reading some of the recent recaps, I’m pretty glad with my decision to stop watching after about 3 episodes into last season. It’s been pretty bad for a while (Well, really ever since the whole Zack is the Gormagon killer garbage), but I finally got to the point where I turned to my wife and asked “Why are we still watching this show.”
Once you realize you don’t care about the characters any more, the show is done.
As to those thinking the science is more ‘real’ on Bones…well, um, no. That’s not one of the reasons I stopped watching, but Bones has never really had good science. Angela’s computer stuff is wildly unrealistic and my friend who is a clinical medical researcher has informed me that a huge amount of Brennan’s ‘science’ is faulty as well.
Oh, no comment on the disgustingness of it. Just on the nonsensicalness of it.
I don’t care about the “authenticity” of shows… woo-woo is fine, unrealistic computer searches, “enhancing” artwork in ways that are impossible… don’t care about any of that. Have at it. If I want factual realism, I’ll watch a documentary. (Or a show about the Kennedy assassination.) (J/K)
What I DO care about is good writing/dialogue, good strong plots, believable and consistent relationships among the characters, and mostly, as someone alluded to above: I have to care about the characters and what happens to them.
But sometimes I watch shows just so I can bitch about them. 
New night for Bones– Friday. Pretty good episode. Just a good, old-fashioned murder investigation. And Cam’s identity theft is going to get wrapped up. Hope they continue in this vein.
Monday’s episode product placement: The tablet that lets you read hundreds of newspapers and online news sites! Gagh.
Lately they’ve been on a binge of very rapid “naturally” defleshed bodies. This time, it was slugs that removed most of the soft tissue in 3 days. Not convinced of that.
The fake beaver dam hilarious. And they never mentioned how the PotW got the body down there.
Nora Dunn was her usual Nora Dunn character. People keep wasting her like this.
i found friday’s episode a bit too close to home. this summer i was juror #3 (no, i did not speak in the courtroom), and it was a murder case that all of us believed that he committed murder, there wasn’t any physical evidence and was “he said, he said”.