Hope springs eternal. I really hope this episode is better than anything they’ve done so far this season. It’s on tonight, the episode is called “Cinderella in Cardboard”, about a body found in a bale of compressed cardboard. Sweets girlfriend is cheating on him? I hope I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Is anyone else still watching?
I’m still watching. Heck I’m still re-watching reruns. This season has gone pretty camp and silly, but I still enjoy the cast. I’d like to see the show continue but they need better writers.
Wait… isn’t this supposed to be on Thursdays?
I think there’s also another new episode on tomorrow.
So tonight’s has got to be one of their grossest bodies yet. And they kept showing the head! Blurgh!
It was definitely better than anything they’ve done this season. Nothing too exciting, but they’ve set the bar low.
I liked how they avoided having Hodgins run back to Angela when the date thing came up. He went to the table of girls instead. Nice little tease.
My vote for grossest body is the basketball player that got smushed under the retractable stadium stairs - and of course, his brains got sieved through the heating grate!
This episode was okay, nothing spectacular. I actually find Booth and Brennan to be the least compelling aspect of the show right now. In real life, they would have done it or driven each other completely bananas by now.
Another so-so episode.
My usual complaints:
I still don’t understand what’s going on with the parade of Zack replacements. They come and go and come back with no explanations much of the time. I’m confused.
The BotW was crushed between two layers of cardboard but they only had to peel it off from one side. And most conveniently, it was the back that was stuck to the cardboard.
The 3D skeleton thing is back and is as stupid as ever. Why are the bones initially a mist that drift into place? Doesn’t make any sense at all.
At least the Bones-Booth interchanges got lively. Too bad she started drinking his good scotch.
Ah, yeah that was a good one. They really like to show bodies getting smushed, don’t they?
What about the one on top of the elevator that got smeared all the way up and down the shaft? That one was fun, too. Eew!
That’s better. It looks like all the goofy geek humor is on Sweets and the rest of the cast is doing more of the usual tongue in cheek stuff. I like when Booth explains his philosophy and Brennan comes back with her rationale for the way she sees things. I can’t believe she drank his good scotch right out of the bottle!!
I timed out on my last post to this thread, so I’m trying to do this quick.
Tonight is another new episode, something to do with punk rock and it looks like they’re going right back to stupid again.
This one wasn’t as bad as others have been.
It was completely out of character for Bones to jump the conclusion that Sweets’ girlfriend was cheating on him just because she saw her in a wedding dress.
Yeah, I don’t think they’ve ever done anything with those stupid holograms that wouldn’t have worked just as well (in-show) as a simulation on a screen. The producers must just think it looks “kewl” or something. Instead it makes me think how much money the Jeffersonian must’ve wasted on that thing that could have gone toward buying the squints more equipment to actually investigate with so they don’t have to steal from the Egyptology department.
Tonight’s episode (the death metal one) wasn’t too bad. At least Stephen Fry made a welcome return.
While Fry is back they really didn’t use him well in the first 3/4 of the show. It wasn’t until the end that they seemed to really let him do something.
There was Yet Another Unexplained Return of an Ersatz Zack.
The Bones-Booth storyline that was developing in the previous episode wasn’t followed up on. Nor anything else.
In short, the episodes are either being shown out of order or different sets of writers are doing their own things.
I was under the impression that they were all graduate students either taking classes in association with or doing research at the Smithstonian, somehow related to Bones (does she teach classes or supervise some kind of graduate outreach program?), and that they were taking turns in Zack’s position as some kind of intern thing.
Originally they were playing it off like each one got fired or quit do to some personal idiosyncracy (guy who says too much trivia, guy who can’t stand the unprofessional and sexualized work environment, girl who brownnoses too much (who is now Sweets girlfriend). I don’t remember what the problem with the blond guy is. But then most of them got a “second chance” and now they seem to just take turns except for brownnose girl who got “fired twice”.
I didn’t really get the point he was trying to convey about Sweets’ book. Sweets thought that Bones and Booth struggled with romantic tension because they valued their work relationship. Fry said no, at least one of them struggles with it everyday. How is that a contradiction? I didn’t understand what they were trying to say there about the two’s differing views on the B&B relationship.
Unless I heard wrong, or am misremembering (entirely possible) Sweets thought they were both oblivious to the sexual tension between them. Wyatt said one wasn’t oblivious.
Bones would happily jump Booth’s bones without a second thought. If Booth boned Bones, he’d be wracked with Catholic guilt. Simple.
Bones is oblivious. This is in character for her, and it fits something that Hot Blonde FBI Agent Payton Perotta said:
Bones: Booth gets needlessly protective sometimes. I have no idea why.
Agent Perotta: You really don’t, do you?
Bones: No.
This was from The Princess and the Pear.