Ah, I don’t pay close attention so I can stand to go on watching it despite the technical problems. 
I liked the musical selections: “Sealion” by Sage Francis for the first murder, “Running Up That Hill” by Placebo for the second.
Agent Booth is a good catholic boy. He takes his religion fairly seriously for a mainstream tv show. Brennan, OTOH, is a devout atheist. The interplay between the two is what makes the show interesting, both in the context of their disparate belief systems as well as their chemistry.
Why would a vampire cross himself?
Also, that stupid-ass magical rendering machine is far and away the dumbest deus ex machina ever portrayed on television. Thankfully, the writers bought a clue and ditched it. It may have appeared once this season, tops. Of course, that’s still way too much.
As for the show in general, the entire “Bones’ family” storyline is annoying at any level beyond a passing reference. The self-contained weekly procedurals are a hundred times better. I wish they would just stick with that. I’ve never seen a single episode of any CSI, NCIS, Shark, or any crime procedural other than an occasional L&O variant. But I consider Bones to be appointment television, exclusively because of the leads.
Speaking of which, can we ditch the stupid romantic subplot between the bug guy and artist chick? Ugh.
I never watched “Angel,” having not been converted to the Church of Joss until “Firefly,” but if DB can deliver “Bones”'s fairly snappy dialogue as well as he does I’m fascinated by what he could do with The Master’s.
However, the interplay between him and ED is delicious. She has surprisingly good chops, at least with him. Watching them together I forget I’m watching imaginary characters saying imaginary things because their chemistry is so good. Were I his [del]golddigger[/del] lovely wife I wouldn’t let him anywhere near Emily to the point of making him leave the series.
I’m glad that my complaining about the cartoonishness of Hodgins’ (the bug guy) conspiracy theorist seems to have borne some fruit (most complaints get the reponse, "That was our highest-rated episode). A real nutcase would have some trouble holding a job but the updated Hodgins is just very aware. Perhaps too aware, making connections that don’t exist, but nobody can accuse conspiracy buffs of not being up on pretty much everything, except, perhaps, what disagrees with their theories.
Oh c’mon. Where short of Criminal Minds do you get to have a murder conducted by stabbing, burning, dismembering, and immolation?(did I get them all?) Gotta give them props for conveying ‘really ticked off’ very effectively And Mafia hits are soo HBO/Sopranos so you gotta go with ‘intelligence agency/conspiracy’. Which, actually, Criminal Minds just did as well.
I confess that I stuck with “Buffy” in large part because of DB. What can I say? He does it for me. Now he started chunking up and was noticeably overweight at the end of “Angel” which kind of blew the illusion that vampires didn’t eat or age…however, I’m glad to see that he’s definitely back in fighting form.
As far as the character of “Angel,” alas, he never had much of a personality as Angel. He was a tortured, stone cold sober vampire with a soul and duller than dirt most episodes. Midway S2 he was given more more to work with when the writers de-souled Angel and his “other” self, Angelus, emerged. (Who knew that lacking a soul could be so fun?) My favorite “Buffy” episode, hands down, in “I Only Have Eyes For You” where DB’s acting ability really shone. As Angelus, DB was glib and fun and cocky, but arrogant and oh, yeah, evil. On the show “Angel” they made him less of a starched shirt and paired him with the Cordy, who loosened him up a lot, but he still had to play it pretty straight.
To be honest, Spike was a much funner character all around. He was glib and emotional and woefully insecure.