Hey, Bones is probably in the top quartile of what’s on the network schedule right now (though that says more about said schedule than the show). At the very least, it has two absolutely smoking hot women
okay, so that may or may not be why YOU watch it…
Celestial Navigation is probably the best episode in Season One, IMO, but others are correct in saying that you should at least get glimpses of ‘stuff you like’ before then. It’s alright, though. We won’t do anything to you for not liking it, except revoke your membership in the Cool Kids Club, and ostracize you whenever you post about something you do like, and, and…
Not that much of a straw man. If memory serves, Stephen Colbert had a guest on one night who advocated the posting of the Ten Commandments in public places. When asked, the guest could only name about three of them.
I think it got good every time Rob Lowe’s character was asked to write a speech. I think every time Leo opened his mouth it was gold. Leo’s explanation for why he helped Brad Whitford’s character (There’s this guy, and he’s stuck down a hole…) moved me to tears. Chances are the show just doesn’t resonate with you.
My point is that he repeated both the names of the two episodes I mentioned plus the likelihood that people cry when they watch In Excelsis Deo.
But he didn’t acknowledge my original contribution.
Why should I have acknowledged your post? It wasn’t original. I’ve posted here and here that I cried when watching In Excelsis Deo, and I’m not the only one who said they cried. You might care to note the title of that second thread.
As for the other episode, Mr Willis of Ohio, I once started a thread about precisely that episode.
IMHO, it jumped the shark when the Prez decided to punish God (for allowing a beloved employee to die) by snubbing out his cig on the floor of the church. Yeah, that’ll teach Gawd! :rolleyes:
I have to say, I hear this complaint a lot and I don’t understand it at all. Nobody really talks like ANYONE on television. That’s because they have writers behind them. Real conversation is peppered with "uh"s and "ah"s, repetitive wording, and is generally uninteresting to listen to unless you’re actively involved in the conversation. I love that Aaron Sorkin and other screenwriters of the modern generation (your Joss Whedons, Tim Minears, Rob Thomases, etc.) are willing to write intelligent, often complex dialogue for their characters. Do I think real White House staffers (or high school students, sketch comedy writers, starship captains, or what have you) actually talk like their fictional counterparts? No. But then, I don’t really think the White House has giant windows in the Roosevelt Room, mood lighting in the Chief of Staff’s office, or that the Presidential motorcade would go by the front entrance of the National Cathedral on their way to the State Department, either. It’s a stylized universe, and I for one find as much enjoyment in the poetry and spitfire sparkle of Aaron Sorkin’s dialogue as I do in the grand special effects of shows like “Battlestar Galactica.”
Diff’rent strokes, I guess. I’m about as opposite an observant Catholic as you can get, and I still found that moment incredibly powerful, as the conclusion to an impassionated, almost Shakespearian speech against an unjust God within the halls of His greatest house.
