Right before House, there is Bones and it’s season 3 now. When we left off, Angela and Jack were attempting to marry, Booth and Bones were trying to deny their feelings for each other, and Zach had been promoted, while Cam was the tough new boss lady on the premises. Serial killer Howard Epps was dropped to his death, and Stephen Fry showed up three times as Booth’s psychiatrist after that incident–not to mention the time when Booth shot the clown off the front of an ice cream truck because the music was bothering him. (I sympathize, actually.)
I liked it. Especially the bits with Angela’s husband signing his name as a X and her not knowing his name. I loved how Hodgins loves her all the more for it.
I do not like the idea of the whole show turning into a soap, though. There was always a bit of a thread line with the characters themselves, but they usually wrapped the ‘cases’ up in one ep. Now it looks like we’re going to have the Perpetual Problem to track over many episodes. This can sometimes go Very Badly. Hope it doesn’t.
I’d never seen the show before and whoa… That guy doing teh evil I ate babies stuff was so… carppy. I mean I’ve seen cheap communitee theatre that had actors who could have pulled off that scene better. The writing didn’t help… is it always that bad?
I missed the edit window. I meant, I won’t mind the extended storyline, so long as it’s not a story arc, but is spread throughout the season and intermixed with stand-alone stories. Like the Minature-Killer storyline on CSI.
I’d clean forgotten that Zach had been in Iraq for a while. I’m sure there’ll be some sort of disorder inside him as a result. Already he can barely get to sleep as he ought to.
Well, it happened on some romantic South Seas isle with a lousy record system and THAT got washed away by a tsunami. Third world marriages are rarely as well-documented as Western ones but the Gummint still accepts them as valid, and all they had to go on was probably someone’s statement from when they were doing Angela’s background check.
Aw, hell! It’s a plot device, 'kay? It’s a cute li’l macguffin that gave a twist to the season finale, let those that like such things watch Hodgins make puppy-dog eyes at Angela, and gave us relief from Booth being all needy and such. THAT was not pretty, but it was not unrealistic.
I’m glad this show is back. I just started watching half-way through last season and it hooked me.
Kingpengvin it’s not always that bad, but then I didn’t think it was that bad to begin with. That was probably the kids first gig in a prime time show.
I wish they had more mystery and used logic to solve the puzzle. It always seems to revolve on magic and luck. They keep asking questions until someone tells them the answer. They make an impossibly exact computer model of the bones and then someone shouts, “My god, that’s Missing Helen!”
I was a little disappointed. It just didn’t have the same flow I fell in love with in the second season… it was all relationshippy and weird. I donno. It just felt different, in a way I didn’t like.
I think they’ll get back into it next episode, though, now that the dumb “why-are-you-mad-at-me” junk is overwith. Least I hope so.
