# Bones, 4/21/2011 - "The Finder" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439 "2011-04-23T05:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439/21 "2011-04-25T06:33:54Z")
I’ll add that I’ve never really been a Bones “fan.” I watch it when there’s nothing else on, and that’s about it. I find it annoyingly predictable, and most of the characters other than Booth and Brennan are just too special for life. . The celibacy storyline with the chick with all the teeth? There really aren’t enough :rolleyes: And the one with the guy they found in the animal preserve? He just happened to be the ex love of the other black lady? Things are just way too convenient. . Yeah, The Finder episode was a little ham handed, but it was nothing compared to the average Bones “plot.” It would be nice for someone attractive to get laid on the show sometime, maybe Brennan and Walt can make it happen. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439/22 "2011-04-25T06:36:13Z")
I liked it okay. It reminded me of a Carl Hiaasen novel. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439/23 "2011-04-25T13:37:45Z")
More like a [Richard Greener](http://www.thehdroom.com/news/Fox-Plotting-a-Bones-Spin-Off-Based-on-The-Locator-Book-Series/7647) novel, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439/24 "2011-04-25T14:24:07Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > I’ll add that I’ve never really been a Bones “fan.” I watch it when there’s nothing else on, and that’s about it. I find it annoyingly predictable, and most of the characters other than Booth and Brennan are just too special for life. > . > The celibacy storyline with the chick with all the teeth? There really aren’t enough :rolleyes: And the one with the guy they found in the animal preserve? He just happened to be the ex love of the other black lady? Things are just way too convenient. > . > Yeah, The Finder episode was a little ham handed, but it was nothing compared to the average Bones “plot.” It would be nice for someone attractive to get laid on the show sometime, maybe Brennan and Walt can make it happen. I actually \*am \*a fan - but I have to suspend disbelief in a huge way in order to be one. I love Angela, but wow, for a artist who is self-taught in technology, she would have to be a greater genius than any of the others in order to do all the things she is able to with tech. And I don’t think that there is a crime show out there where I feel like they could actually get a conviction based on their evidence (including this one.) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439/25 "2011-04-25T18:53:49Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > And \*Married With Children \*did it to spin off a show called \*Top of the Heap \*with Joe Bologna and Matt LeBlanc, in the early nineties. A curse on you for making me remember that! :mad::mad::mad: ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439/26 "2011-04-25T21:32:06Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > A curse on you for making me remember that! > > :mad::mad::mad: I wonder how much of a curse I’d earn if I linked you to a YouTube of the opening dance number? :D:D ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439/27 "2011-04-28T00:53:26Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > It’s the Gary Seven of Bones! I’m now smacking myself in the head :smack::smack::smack: for thinking of the Brady Bunch example instead of that one. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439/28 "2011-04-28T11:02:20Z")
I thought this was totally at odds the spirit of Bones, which is normally all about science and rationality. (OK, it is fake science and cartoonish rationality, and Booth and Angela are there to stand up for intuition, but any hint of the supernatural is usually very firmly debunked.) This show, by contrast, featured a central character who was, to all intents and purposes, a psychic, and not only were we Bones fans expected to buy it, hyper-rational Temperance herself bought it! The episode had very little of what normally makes Bones good, and far too much of what makes Bones silly. There was a strong hint that there might be a romance between Temperance and Walter. I hope to hell they think better of that, and keep the two shows strictly separate in future. It would be the ruination of Bones (the show), completely upsetting the distinctive tone that makes it interesting. (I kind of liked Walter’s “legal advisor,” but there seems to be no scope for introducing just him into the show without Walter, and Walter as a regular would be a disaster!) ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439/29 "2011-04-28T13:11:59Z")
I like Bones and went back and watched it from the beginning. (Hooray for Netflix and Hulu!) I liked this episode and see some potential for the Finder series. If there’s anything I don’t like about Bones, it’s that the characters are much too comfortable with each other, and the cases have become too predictable. It would be great, I think, if they changed some of the staff a little (for example, Angela leaves her job to take care of the kid and comes back as an occasional recurring character), settled on one intern, and maybe introduced a new character or two. I also think that Bones and Booth need to shit or get off the pot about their relationship. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-4-21-2011-the-finder/579439.md?page=1)