What will it take to convince me that although I used to enjoy this show, fond memories are insufficient cause to waste any more time on this season’s dreck? Last night my DVR cut off the final few moments, and I found I really didn’t care.
My FAVORITE WTF moment was when, the day after the goth weapons chick sat in an interview room verbally sparring with Sweets, they sent him “undercover” to bid against her at an auction simply saying, “Let’s hope she doesn’t recognize him.” :rolleyes:
Yeah, Booth’s back hurts and he is on painkillers. Ha-ha-ha!
I guess I should be happy that I’ve got an hour of my Thursday nights back. But DAMN - I really used to like this show!
2nd episode in a row where Booth and Brennan were kept apart for most of the episode. Why? Their goofy interactions are practically the only reason I put up with all the rest of it.
I was dreading what they would do with a sci-fi convention, but it could have been worse. It wasn’t as bad as last week’s, anyway. I watch this show mostly to see David Boreanaz being gorgeous and goofy, and this episode was satisfying in that regard.
Yeah, dumb episode in so many ways. Sending Sweets in was bad. But the one thing that got me was Bones letting the Black Knight get away. She had taken the sword away, knocked him on the ground, etc. And then let him go back to his car. Didn’t she even think of at least getting a plate number? Let alone giving the guy another 10 whacks?
It’s the previous weeks episode that says this show is going downhill. The Major Enemy of The Series was disposed of with little ceremony and effort.
Said the same thing to my wife, as she watched him stumbling towards his SUV which was sitting there with it’s lights on and front plate clearly visible. But no worries, always had the lab to ID the make and model from a paint chip! :rolleyes:
Re: letting the Black Knight get away, it was only a flesh wound!
How about them finding the sword so readily with two people wielding a single metal detector and a rake! And at the crash scene, Bones didn’t even need the metal detector, just her eagle eyes.
And we are supposed to gather that the blacksmith just held the “booth-babe” down while she allowed him to insert that gadget into her mouth and expand it? No other signs of trauma while that was going on?
After seeing the promo for this episode, I watched out of curiousity. My God, is the writing always that bad? The acting is okay, but they have to deliver terrible dialogue.
The main character seems to be a ridiculous caricature. We’re really supposed to believe that she can’t master colloquial speech? She seems oblivious to social cues at a level that suggests Asberger’s, but nothing else fits. In fact, none of the characters ring true for me. Not surprising that the incidental characters were ridiculous too.
And in terms of plotting: Why was this homicide even an FBI case? Why didn’t they check out the victim’s abode as soon as they identified her? Just seems like sloppy writing.
I nailed the murder weapon as soon as they described the victim’s injuries. Pretty nasty.
The sword grip Bones was describing is called half-swording; useful in some specific attacks and defenses, not all the time.
On the other hand, I was astonished that they knew anything at all about chainmail.
The actor that plays Booth is directing the next episode, so this one was meant to give him time off to prep for it. That’s why Booth is noticeably absent.
I agree that the writing this week was off and seemed hurried, although there were a couple of great moments there, mostly between Sweets and Brennan and of course, The Phonecall. The oversights with Sweets at the convention and the “silky black hair” comment annoyed me, but I think it’s mostly because since the episodes are so far apart lately, I expect each one to be great and am disappointed.
I’ve stopped watching. The show pretty much jumped the shark with the final episode last year with the tacked on and nonsensical (from a character point of view) revelation of who the Big Bad’s apprentice was (and when it disposed of the evil in a flashback). Then when they tried to show this year that the apprentice wasn’t a bad guy after all, they not only jumped the shark, the pulled it out of the water and danced on it.
My wife watches occasionally, but she’s given up, too. And since it’s opposite My Name is Earl, I don’t have the slightest desire to watch again.
I read one of the books and wasn’t particularly impressed, either. The mystery didn’t play fair in the slightest, and the characters were far less interesting.
I just read one for the first time, after picking it up from my library’s “new fiction” shelves. Devil Bones IIRC. Definitely nothing to make me pick up another. Was mildly interested, however, at how different the character was from the TV “Bones.” (Older; divorced; ex-alkie; college-age daughter; N. Carolina setting; no FBI buddy; not at all as - um - Asberger-ian…)
Actually, that part doesn’t bother me. She knew that Dr. Sweets was injured, and she didn’t know how badly. In a situation like that, tending to the wounded takes priority.
Sweets even thanks her for saving his life. When they get back to the lab they are looking up the license plate number, so she must have gotten it off-camera. The Black Knight certainly strolled back to his car slowly enough to give her plenty of time to do so.
Not only that, but she is a highly successful novelist. How the hell can she write dialogue, or create characters that have to interact socially like normal folk do if do, if she is so clueless about it all?
Yep, me too. Also I’m a really big fan of the Deschanel sisters.
I’m working my way through the books, and they’re not very similar. I think the books are better mysteries. The tv shows are perfectly good tv entertainment.
The book Tempe is very different from tv Tempe. I enjoy them both but I don’t really think of them as the same character.
So you’re saying she’s *not *clueless? That seems to go against the evidence. If she’s so good at observing, why do simple social conventions and manners of speech confuse her?
Really? It’s not a documentary? I’m shocked.
Make believe stuff can still be believable. The two are not mutually exclusive.
So do I.
Which, frankly, isn’t saying much. I gave up on *Fringe *a while back.
The main problem is the writers. There is no consistency. Bones lack of social graces and knowledge will vary according to the needs of the plot.
One of their biggest mistake as far as I am concerned was to conclude the Gormogon (Gormorgon ?) story line last season. It shows the lack of quality of the writers.
For example, lets look at another procedural show, when William Petersen decided that it was time for him to leave CSI last season, they decide to leave it for this season so that they could develop the storyline adequately. On Bones, they decided to conclude the storyline last season without proper development, thus causing a bad taste for the reveal.