Wednesday September 3, 2008
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With the case of the murdered heiress solved, Booth and Brennan prepare to head back home, but are shocked to learn of another murder - and this time it's someone they know. Meanwhile, with Birimbau unexpectedly coming back into Angela's life, things get complicated between her and Hodgins.
Write a Recap »Great conclusion to the double-episode. hide show
Still enjoying the English backdrop and an interesting murder case.
This is an example of how little people actually know each other. It's one thing to know them socially but it's truly ugly to see what dirt comes out during a murder investigation. It actually ends up trivializing who the person was, obscured by the secrets the person had because nothing good about Wexler could have led to his murder so all you will remember is the bad.
Cam unwittingly engineered a disaster though it wasn't her fault at all. Angela wouldn't have gotten so upset with Cam if she felt nothing for her husband. Divorce or no divorce, feelings can't disappear overnight. Hodgins got upset that her husband was still in town because he was obviously picking up on Angela's mixed feelings. Guess the romance is over, at least for now. This is just something they need to work through, get counseling, don't break up!
I was just warming to Clark and he bails!
A great double episode.
The characters were weird in this one. hide show
Booth and Bones go to England. Which I was very excited for. But it was not really that good of an episode. Bones was ok. Booth was still hilarious. Cam was kinda inconciderate of Angela's feelings by sleeping with her ex-husband. And Angela and Hodgins broke up. The reasoning given in the show was very weak and did not make much sense. Clark I found to be very funny. And Sweets was good in the episode. The case was better in the second half but it was still not the best. I guess I just expected more from the season premiere.
Ah, Britain...
Casually walking past a prominently placed "Big Ben" on our way to work every morning, then meeting our friends Darcy and Bingley in Trafalgar Square for a lunch of tea and crumpets (or scones, I forget which one it's meant to be). We fluster and search awkwardly for words in our flawless cut-glass accents à la Hugh Grant. And it's all jolly spiffing, if I do say so myself.
The opening episodes of Bones season 4 are painful to watch as they painstakingly recreate all of those grating little stereotypes about Britain that Americans apparently know and love. This is not a case of 'taking a joke', I am watching one of my favourite trashy drama series through the gaps in my fingers as I groan and cringe. Brennan and Booth look on as the parade of cliché marches on and really… you've got to wonder how the actors managed to keep their straight faces.
Also, what is this thing that Americans have with tea? Yes! Yes! We drank a quarter of the world's supply but that was 200 years ago. Why keep bringing it up? What was America dominating 200 years ago? I can't think of one… hold on… ah yes, that's right: slavery. But do we mention that every time a British drama ventures across the pond? No.
I'm sorry for utterly failing to comment on the mystery. The storyline itself was fairly basic and so utterly uninteresting that beyond the plot holes and minor annoyances there is actually very little to talk about. It was all a little average (at best).
.. I liked it. Great story, and it's Bones and Booth. Can't get better than that, can it?
Season 3 was great, less episodes due to the writers' strike but nonetheless a very well written season.
Now, we can see Bones in London! London baby!! lol
The story of this episode includes a british partnership like Bones and Booth but they took it much far than our american fellows.
Zack is gone, Booth is not feeling trigger happy anymore and so far we just had "monster of the week" kind of episodes. But it's still early to say if there will be a progressive plot or a major enemy to be challenged in this season.
So far so good! Tune your tv and watch Bones!!
The curtain rises on season four with our familiar characters in an unfamiliar place. hide show
The curtain rises on season four with our familiar characters in an unfamiliar place. The usual problems of cultures clashing (language, customs, driving) are a source of bonding or buffoonery. Booth is painted into the picture as the court jester, while Brennen tries on the queen of sensitivity mask for a new look. Compare the portrait of these characters to any episode from season one or two – sad.
Booth has transformed into all of the things that Brennen dislikes; stupid, shallow, humor in place of insight and judgmental without supporting reason. As sad as this transformation makes the viewer, consider how far Brennen has fallen in comparison. Gone is the confident, independent and focused to the exclusion of all else scientist. In her place we are left with a fiction writing, lecture giving, FBI groupie/wanna be, (place your objection here), woman of the world who is no longer a vital part of the lab that she created.
Based on what was established in the first season: Booth is Catholic and religious, while Brennen is an atheist with her own concept of morality. Booth and Brennen should never get together because of this fundamental difference in life view. One would need to "convert" the other to achieve what some viewers want to see take place. However, with the odd things the writers have the characters doing – who knows what is next?
The laborers in the lab, once concerned with empirical evidence, adding their depth to the rich tapestry of events surrounding them and the search for truth above all else, now wallow in the gutter of tabloid life and living vicariously through the trivial life of others as they become truly one-dimensional characters waiting to offer up their lines on queue.
A new character was added, Dr. Sweets, that most views thought would be the killer of the season, which would have fit very nicely because he would be obtaining information about those pursuing him from the counseling sessions he was leading. But no instead this over educated but under social character has needs to be fulfilled by the main characters that are larger than what he brings to the episode and simply siphons off energy that could have been focused on the main story line.
With character development in the hands of monkeys on typewriters, what o' reader do we make of story lines offered up for our entertainment? Season three left us several open lines of thought; Booth gets shot and passes out, but fear not viewer, he is fine by the next week. Final episode of the season: Zack gets thrown from the train, rolls under the bus and . . . we'll never know because the story was just dropped. In closing, lets talk about closings, it seems that creators of shows like Bones know what they want in launching a new series, but not in how to close them. I would prefer that we have forty-four (two seasons) excellent episodes with a good series ending that leaves me wanting more, than watching as the concept vehicle carries on without any maintenance until the wheels fall off and everyone involved just walks away saying what some viewers are saying now, "What a shame, could have been so much better." The curtain falls.
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