Bones is one of my new favorite shows. Here’s why.
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[li]I love the multi-dimensionalcharacterization on this show. Booth is the resident tough guy, and he’s often intimidated by the sheer brainpower around him; however, he has shown strong reasoning skills and an ability read people. Angela is the most well adjusted person in the group and the least scientifically inclined of the squints, but she’s much more than just the resident artist. Despite acting appalled at the geekiness of her colleagues, she develops her own software and is very much a squint herself. Her empathic nature also fleshes out the dynamic within the team. Hodgins and Zack are both caricatures, but even they have their moments. Hodgins has his way with women, for example, and despite his social ineptitude, even Zack has been known to score.[/li]
Nobody illustrates this multidimensionality more than Bones herself, though. To outsiders, she seems like a cold, emotionless robot. Far from being a mere Vulcan though, her emotionality often shines through, especially when innocents are threatened. Indeed, her coldness masks the deep and abiding hurt that comes from her troubled past.
[li]I love the humor. Each character manages to get some great lines, and each episode is good for a few laughs.[/li]
[li]Emily Deschanel has terrific bone structure and enchanting eyes.[/li]
[li]I love watching great minds at work. Even though I know that the forensics within the show are greatly exaggerated, I never fail to be inspired by this fictional show of amazing brainpower.[/li]
[li]Emily Deschanel is hot. Way hot. Smokingly hot.[/li][/ol]
One thing that bothers me about the show (which I enjoy a lot), is the producers need to give Booth such a strong theistic position. I don’t feel it adds to the dynamic between Booth and Bones and is there only to placate viewers who the producers think might be offended.
I disagree. It’s his beliefs that allow for Bones to present her atheistic point of view. I can’t think of a single instance where her atheism came up when it wasn’t in direct response to his belief system coming up first.
And Emily Deschanel is smokin’ hot; the other two women are nothing in comparison. I couldn’t have slogged through The Boogeyman if Deschanel’s role were played by either of them, that’s for sure.
Both Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz are fantastic on the show. The plots are sometimes a bit too goofy, that magic hologram thing is aggressively stupid, and the romantic sublplot between Hodgins and the artist chick is nauseating, but goddamn if the two leads don’t light up the screen whenever they share a scene, especially when it’s just the two of them. Their chemistry doesn’t just sizzle; it crackles.
On giving this a little more thought I think it’s the humour that makes it for me. There was a little scene where the forensic team decide to think like Booth and Hogkins does a spot on impression of him – the running gag about them getting to carry guns “what is it with you people and guns?” – Bones and Booth bickering over who get to turn on the blue light.
I have seen a few episodes of Criminal Minds which in lots of ways is just as good, but haven’t kept up with it because it is unremittingly grim. No laughs at all (also Emily Deschanel isn’t in it). Even the CSIs manage the odd chuckle (if you include laughing at David Carouso). To bend something Frank Zappa said - Humour exists in real life, so it should belong in grim forensic cop shows.
The stupid hologram thing I blank out, just because there’s imaginary dumb stuff in CSI you don’t have to have it in everything else. There was an episode of Monk when they took the piss out of this, remember the spectroscope?
I agree with pretty much everything said - it’s a slightly guilty pleasure, due to stuff like the 3-D hologram thingy, but generally they do a good job.
Also, David Boreanaz may be unclothed to some degree at times. That definitely puts it over the top.
