Yes, that was my assumption. If eye contact was made he’s give up the game.
I think that she is jealous, but refusing to accept being jealous because ‘it is not logical’ and I was really hoping that it was her as well in the block of chocolate. I really don’t like Hannah at all. I just really think that Bones and Seely belong together.
Newman!
Yeah, it was great seeing Newman! I’ve always liked him… especially that time that he hid all the mail in his closet. 
Re wishing it was Hannah in the chocolate: when they first found the body (such as it was) and did the facial reconstruction, Bones and Seely both said the bridge of its nose looked a little like Hannah. I’ll bet most viewers wished it had been Hannah.
I thought the guy who played Newman had lost a bunch of weight at some point? Guess he got it back. 
dude runs a chocolate factory - helllloooooo…
ETA - this season is horrible - it has funny moments, and we’re still watching - but dear god the writers aren’t even trying. Bones’ description of the murder/accident ‘perhaps she had a grand mal seizure…’ - I do like the fact they kept the giant MRI machine around.
Even though I’d still like to see the end of Hannah, the previews of NEXT week’s show look kind of interesting. This weeks show ends with Hannah bonding with Parker, and the previews have Temperance saying something like, “I had my chance and I blew it,” and then CRYING! Soooo… maybe Hannah has just been a vehicle for getting Seely and Tempe together (which, if they DO get together, will spell the end of the sexual tension and probably the end of the show as it did Moonlighting, Northern Exposure, Fraiser, and others).
I’ve been watching reruns of 2006 and that was a good season. Tempe was more human and seemed to be growing. She showed feelings and a little empathy every now and then. Cam was gorgeous. A really good moment between Seely and Cam when Cam first joined the staff. They were reminiscing about their relationship and Seely asks her how she felt when they were together. She looks meltingly at him and says, “Satisfied. Very satisfied.”
I might be the only one, but I like Hannah. She’s smart, I think she’s portrayed as nice and fun. Most importantly, she can be on screen as much as possible because she is smokin’ hot. I’m not usually one for blondes, but she is a fine looking woman.
As I mentioned up-thread, I have been watching re-runs, so haven’t been focused on new eps. Caught the one last night - jeez, could they have phoned in the actual murder case any more? In the last 5 minutes they need to resolve it so it’s like “oh yeah, we locked it up off screen so we can cut to the reveal.”
Also - Bones’ first bad-jokes exchange with the cop on the scene? Okay, they really have dialed up her Aspergers, haven’t they?
As for the Seely/Tempe/Hannah triangle - well, they sure as heck are trying to milk it, given the previews…
Hannah is cute enough, but doesn’t add to the ensemble and frankly, I don’t see anything between her and Seely. It would be different if her journalistic adventures were worked into the plots. But she just seems like a dimensionless mannequin/place holder with no real function in the stories… except to precipitate an existential crisis in Tempe (which would be the thing that would justify her existence to me).
Yeah, I find her very annoying when they do this. It seems so forced too.
I only watch this in reruns, so i’ve seen many episodes, many times and some not at all, and all of the ones I’ve seen out of order.
Can someone tell me what the story is with Bones’s parents & brother?
I know her mom is dead. her dad may or may not have killed her and was in jail for a while, but I think got out. her brother may or may not be in jail for some crime, but I don’t know what
Can someone clue me in?
Amarinth, I don’t remember all the details, but Bones’ parents were good guys. I hope someone will clarify for you or that you can find the backstory on the web somewhere.
In other news, I’d LOVE to see the return of Dr. Gordon Gordon- Stephen Frye. He was a great character.
If Tempe has a crisis over Seely and Hannah, it would be fabulous if she could consult him.
Trust me. The story of Bones’ parents is way, WAY better left unknown. If I told you (which, humiliatingly, I could) it would just make you measurably stupider. It’s one of those “They couldn’t leave well enough alone, or once left alone could not stop poking it” things. I’m quite surprised we haven’t seen her dad in another stupid episode lately, but then again, it isn’t Christmas yet. The super-fast rundown:
She got into the bone lady thing because her parents disappeared mysteriously when she was a kid and never were seen nor heard of again. Which was a good thing, storywise. So eventually she’s working on a set of unidentified bones from the When You Get Around To It vault and voila, it’s her mom. Suffice it to say that her parents were bank robbers, but the Nice Kind of Bank Robbers, and the Bad Kind got after them and they ran to save the kids. So there’s a lot of back and forth with her dad in and out of jail and shit and having bonding moments with Booth and seriously, girl, you do not care. I believe their current relationship is cordial and that he is a free man. They’ll pull him out sometime again for a cheap emotional thrill soon, I’m sure. Her brother Russ was, like, a traveling carny or mechanic or something - he ran out on her because he couldn’t handle that shit which is why she grew up in foster care. He committed some sort of crime and there was some thing with his daughter but I think he’s out now. Booth arrests all these people on a regular basis and I’m supposed to give a rat’s ass.
If it’s not obvious, I think the stuff about Bones’ family has gone from a character point in early episodes to being some of the weakest sauce on the show, surpassed only by her character in and of itself.
By the way, that kid they have playing Parker really looks like David Boreanaz with puppyfat, doesn’t he?
Any comments on last night’s episode- Temperance & her doppelganger?
My main two questions:
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Was Micah a real person or an angel/ghost/figment of her imagination?
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Re Tempe and Booth: now what?
Not only that, but they are starting to portray her as some sort of android or something.
Here’s the wiki about the characters. Bone’s father is a very strange case, they seem to keep changing the story there.
ThelmaLou we thought Micah was some sort of guardian angel.
One of the better ep’s this season. We discussed the Micah=real vs. figment and decided it didn’t matter or could just be an example of sloppy writing where a living character that she has a long-standing relationship is just introduced, like characters on Star Trek. But Bones’ struggles and her discussion with Booth at the end was good - even though it makes it clear that Hannah is nothing more than a seasonal plot twist…
Hijack: we just saw the Halloween rerun where she was Wonder Woman - I had seen pics but never the actual ep. While the costumes were fun and sexy, man that episode sucked! The level of torture and disgust they try to suggest - on teenage girls - is just hung out there and never really put in perspective, while they run around in costumes - and the plot just wraps up with snake-scared girl just mopped up cleanly…oy. :rolleyes:
Yeah, but she was an awesome Wonder Woman. (Seriously, when has this show ever dealt realistically with violence? The only, ONLY thing that has ever happened to these people that has had consequences is that Gravedigger thing and Booth’s brain tumor. And both of them went away tout suite, the latter with a new pair of socks and a copy of Plumbing for Dummies.)
I’m leaning towards angel/figment. At one point she says to him: How is it that I can understand every word you say? I can’t do that with anyone else. Sometimes I just hear noise. That coupled with the fact that he said many things that she would normally have no time for, but she paid close attention, I believe he was either meant to be a part of her trying to tell her something, or an “angel”.
I hope Micah was real. This really isn’t the sort of show that works with “Santa was real” sorts of episodes. They made a huge mistake with the two episode like that they tried, and I was so grateful they came up with Booth’s tumor to write it off.
Anyway, Micah isn’t so fantastical. Bones doesn’t normally interact with him much since he’s nightshift. But she was in insomnia mode, so she had more than average quality time. And as a layperson taking in a lot of lectures, he’s a person used to bridging the gap between the language of academia and the language of the layperson. So it makes sense that he can “smart things up” so Bones can understand them.
For Tempe and Booth - hey maybe she missed her chance with him. But so what? He moved on, and so can she. She might even find someone more appropriate for her.