I’m going to give the show one more chance, but I think this might represent just about the fastest ever plunge from my personal “must see” to “what crap” lists. From last season’s finale to this season’s 1st 2(3?) eps.
The opening scene in the lab was painful. Is that an indication of how they are going to inflict Sweets on us? And there was no enjoyment whatever in the student-of-the-week. Meanwhile, Bones and Booth played temselves ever more broadly - and less appealingly. And apparently Angela and Hodgins forgot that they used to be in love and recently broke up…
Really a special kind of sadness when you stop liking a show you used to care about and look forward to - there are so few of them out there. Hope for better things from House when it returns next week…
Yes, I agree, Sweets in the Lab made no sense. I also was irritated by the senseless Angela and Hodgins break-up. But that’s part of the rules of Hollywood- no one can be in a happy monogamous relationship.
My favorite part of the episode was when Brennan and Booth were discussing her underwater welder fuckbuddy, and she said “He can hold his breath for 3 minutes down there,” and Booth replied, with a sly look on his face “Underwater?” Priceless! I also liked the discussion about whether her other friend was gay. “Coldplay?” “Mint tea?”
I admit, I watch it mainly for the banter between Booth and Brennan. The rest is background noise.
Yeah, this is not a good start for the new season.
I heard that the producers wanted Stephen Fry to stay on as the shrink, Gordon Gordon Wyatt (?), but he couldn’t commit to being a regular; hence, Sweets.
Still, a shrink does not need to be in a forensics lab.
The diner scene was hilarious but that intern girl annoyed me to no end. I was happy when Brennan showed up to put her in her place. The episode was very meh, but I can wait it out a few as long as they keep dropping the entertaining moments in there. The cases need to get more complicated though because they have dumbed it down too far.
On a side note, am I the only one who watched the season premiere and thought “Why the hell is Zack out of jail?” when Sweets started showing up everywhere?
He’s trying to get a better appreciation of another side of catching bad guys, which is an admirable goal. Not that he’d be allowed that much time away from his desk in real life.
C’mon, kids, it’s a TV show. The real FBI would never keep Mulder on its staff. I’m pretty sure real FBI profilers ride coach, not in their own bizjet, like on Criminal Minds. If TV were just like real life the lives and work of the characters would be just as boring as ours. That is what makes Sweets an unusual character for a show like this: he’s a smart, smug, but insecure dweeb who does what he can to get out of his regular work to do something more interesting. He’s a Doper.
Tho my daughter was a fan from the beginning, I (and others in my family) started watching it regularly only last season. During the strike, we caught up on the previous seasons via DVD. Really jazzed me for the season to resume post-strike.
IMO - the occasional clever scene aside, it would be tough to find 3 eps in the entirety of the first 3 seasons that were as bad as the last 3 back-to-back eps. Of course, I am undoubtedly an outlier, as someone upthread says ratings are at an all-time high. Makes me wish I had a lower IQ!
I like Sweets better this season. But, I agree he shouldn’t be in the lab (or every episode.)
Last week’s episode was ridiculous, but I gave it a pass because it’s common for the first episode of the season, to be over the top.
This episode made me wonder if they’re running out of ideas. Who in the hell still has a public outhouse? Especially one that’s well known to truckers AND the employees of a T.V. studio.
So are we going to be saying that Bones jumped the shark when Booth shot the clown?
I’ve only seen the London based episode(s). There was plenty of stupid stuff in that. Dumping a car in the Thames* WTF**? Driving on the wrong side of the road? Driving on the wrong side of the road in London? Getting Booth a gun? No Way. The on going coffee gags, London has coffee shops, lots of them, was this a sort of Life on Mars episode where we’re back in the 70s?
Irritating to a (ex) Londoner, why’d they keep having the English characters say the river Thames. To a Londoner it’s just the river otherwise just The Thames. And what accent did that woman copper have?
** Dump a car in the Thames and it would just stick there like a flake in an ice-cream. They obviously don’t know what river Terry Practhet based the Ankh on.
Zack was never in jail. Booth asked the prosecuter to cut a deal and send him to a psych ward. He pled guilty, was convicted and institutionalized, but not in a jail. Brennan thanks him for it.
Sweets shows up places to look at the bodies before the flesh gets stripped to look at the bodies and get info about the way they died to help him profile.
Also, I’ve mentioned this before, but the first 4 eps of this season (4) were really meant to be the ending of last season, but the episodes didn’t see the light of day until recently because of the writer’s strike. That’s the reason the DVD isn’t being released until November and includes the first four S4 episodes.
You’ve said that before, but it’s not making much sense to me. So last season was supposed to have the final episodes be:
Booth gets stalked and shot
Zack is revealed as Gormogan
Booth and Bones go to London (new grad student)
Average filler episode (another new grad student)
One more episode.
The first three could all be season-ending cliff hangers/finales. I don’t see the last one or the next one being season enders.
Which, I guess, explains the total lack of interaction between Angela and Hodgins. Filmed this way, it doesn’t contradict them being broken up, but it doesn’t contradict them still being together, either.
