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I've said it before and I'll say it again, these days there are way too many squinterns! I liked Zack and definitely thought the whole "he's Gomagon's apprentice" thing was completely nonsensical, but I quickly got over it when they very effectively put in a few interns with varying well developed personalities and rotated them in from episode to episode consistently. Then they started adding in more and more interns despite the originals being just fine as it was that they throw in at complete random to the point I frequently can't remember who most of them are and especially can't get attached to them, and that's if they aren't just a one off character. Most of the newer interns are annoying in some way or another as well.
Hi everyone! My husband and I are on the last season on Netflix and, after watching the episode where Hodgins has that bug growing in his neck, we're about at the end of our rope. The show started off great and was strong for a while, but the last two seasons or so, it seems to have dropped so far in quality it's not even funny. We were hanging in there because in the midst the silly stuff, we'd get some string episodes--especially in regards to their serial killers like Gormagon, The Grave Digger, Poulant, that guy who was after Booth, but got Vincent instead...--but it's getting harder. Zach working with Gormagon was tough to take, but the reveal was still a good episode, however, the Poulant ending, to us, was disappointing considering that the storyline was somewhat intense. In fact, I'm almost hoping that there's more to it somehow. Sweet's story about working with inner city youth seemed promising (he's become my favorite character), but I haven't seen any of that in the last few episodes. Can anyone tell me if they get another serial killer to focus on or is the rest of the last season and this one more of what we've been getting lately?
Watching the first season on TNT. OMG this show used to be so good. The one with her mom's remains is on now...she and Booth used to have more chemistry just looking at each other than they do now. Of course, she wasn't roboBrennan then so that helps, I'm sure. I miss my show.
Now it's dramedy with much more (too much, IMO) on the "-edy" part of the equation. Not to mention the savvy Booth in the pilot, whom I believed could be a capable FBI agent, is now a doofus to Brennan's more sterile self. And I realize this is unpopular, but it's part of the reason I never really took to Sweets. Once he was on the scene, Booth lost IQ points so Sweets could give Booth pearls of knowledge. But now that most, if not all of the original writers are gone from the show, Booth as sort of dim has stuck. :-(
I will never get over the fact that Kathy Reichs herself wrote that infernal bug in Hodgins's neck storyline. I'll never forgive her for that, even while I add to her fortune by buying every book she writes.
The flashback episode where they pretend that Bones and Booth hated each other on their first case was on TNT today and I actually like that episode...except that there is no earthly reason they needed to shoehorn Caroline or Cam into it.
I can fanwank most of the other stuff, but it is very clear when Bones is drugged in New Orleans that is the first time she and Caroline ever met. And when Cam takes over for Dr. Goodman (which also still makes me sad, I really liked him) there is no intimation that she and Bones had ever crossed paths before. So Cam and Caroline should have been given the day off from acting, because that always bothers me every time I watch the episode.
Of course, the show has had gross corpses since early on, but the bug thing was just...ugh. But as the show got older, it seems like there were gross scenarios just for the sake of gore and to see how the props department could top itself than it did early on, when it usually seemed to be a more natural part of a case and not just an excuse to show an eyeball or what have you.
I caught a few episodes on rerun this past week, and ended up wondering what ever happened to Parker and Booth's brother. I guess I can write off the fact both Booth's and Bones's brothers have taken for the hills, but you'd think Parker would have turned up here and there to hang with his half sister.
As soon as Heather Taffett gets her head blown off I get sad because I know my second favorite intern is about ready to bite it. Those eps are on this week and it bums me out, even more than the retcon of Zach's character.
Oh, so I was RIGHT to stop at season 8 huh? I only recently discovered the wonderfulness that is Bones, but I just don't "care for" it past season 7. When Mr. Nigel-Vincent died, the show kinda took a downturn. Well, if I'm honest, the show kinda took a downturn when Zack was the Gormagon's assistant, giving credence to the long-held belief that all super-smart people really are insane. Sad. I loved that weird kid. When Hodgins and Angela broke up and she started schtupping the newest Squintern, I kinda skip those episodes all together. That was just disgusting and wrong to me, and to flaunt it in front of Hodgins that way and expect him to be okay with it is beyond disgusting. What Hodgins even sees in that woman...
I'm really not feeling season 8, (I always skip the first episode) it's just not really doing it for me. There's enough good stuff in there to keep me watching, but I have yet to convince myself that it's time to give season 9 a try, and I am so not looking forward to Season 10, and my sweet little Sweets...no...if I don't see it, it doesn't happen.
So MyNetwork is showing "The Priest in The Churchyard", and it occurred to me that Brennan used to speak normally. She still had the same voice inflection, but that's...her voice. But the pattern was a lot looser and freer. I wonder why ED started to speak in such an affected manner as the show progressed, unlike the early seasons?
I cannot even articulate how much I hate "The Ghost in the Machine," the one where the case is viewed through the skull of the dead kid. Bones is generally a pretty fact-based show (Pelant's shenanigans aside) and I just cannot handle how fanciful that ep is.
Wendy I notice that in a lot of shows I watch for many years. I complained about the same thing on "The Big Bang Theory" that Sheldon and Amy sound nothing like they did when they first started in the show. Temperance is one of the worst, with that stilted monotone. She makes every line sound like she's never heard those words in her life.
As soon as I hear "Sleigh Bells ring, are you listening..." I get SO excited because I know it's time for "The Man in the Fallout Shelter". I don't care how many times I've seen it or that it's ten years old I just love it so much.
Although, the stupid writers should have watched this one six or seven times because the Zach who loved his family so much wouldn't have become Loner Zach who wanted to watch the world burn (perhaps some hyperbole, but you know what I mean).
And while her voice certainly has become more affected and shrieky, DB has gone the other way. He used to have expression to his voice, and now he talks like he's literally at a table read all the time. I miss the spark in his eye and his michevious grin. If they are so bored, why don't they leave??
Tell me about it ... Brennan has always been a know it all, but now she's a smug, mechanical, joyless know it all. Booth, on the other hand, acts as if all the life has been sucked from him. Heck, he doesn't even have the energy to shave, anymore.
I have been doing a marathon of sort (summer!), starting with the pilot and I'm up to season 7 (I skipped over most of season 6, haha.....GO TO HELL HANNAH). Before you think I'm a slob I've only been skimming and watching the good parts--ie, Booth and Brennan. I've learned that season 5 was my favorite, that Cam has always been annoying, that Sweets was too important to kill, and that I'm still bitter that they did that time jump at the beginning of season 7 and we never saw the group find out about the baby and their hooking up. I guess we know how HH views relationships, because I didn't realize you had to stop smiling and touching and sharing longing looks once you got together.....
I have been rewatching Buffy recently. It was weird seeing how young he looked compared to today. I don't believe that Agent Booth would go for the pasty look with eyeliner. I never noticed it with the first Buffy watch, but Angel's look was a little bit too much.
That's the one where a teen/young adult in interrogation alleges that the dead priest was a pedophile and Booth cuts him off and is like, "watch yourself," right? I have come to hate many aspects of Booth's character and that moment is a perfect example of why he is terrible. I wish someone in the room had said, "and thank you for demonstrating exactly how the Church covered up decades of abuse worldwide, you insufferable ass." Later in the episode Booth repeats the allegations to another priest, which I've always found even more annoying -- you shut down a young man who many have been a victim but when you want to come off as the righteous defender of justice you can make the exact same allegation?? In the end, the priest had not been molesting the kid (because this is Bones not SVU) but it still grates.
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