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Thursday, March 17, 2011: Bones

by F. John Rickert March 17, 2011 6:00 AM
Thursday, March 17, 2011: Bones

Bones is getting closer and closer to giving up being about murder mysteries every week, while spending most of each episode dealing with the characters' own issues. A season or two ago I might have been annoyed by an episode like the one tonight, in which everyone is stuck dealing with their own little issues (including Booth and Brennan's feeling for each other) because it represented a heavy-handed turn toward a show I hadn't tuned in for. Strangely though, since that sea change the cast seems comfortable and charming all over again, making me not even care if there are any crimes or not.

If you haven't watched in a while, that's okay. Despite all of these attempts toward a serial narrative and character development, none of the characters on the show are all that different than before. If you thought you saw or read otherwise, it was just an extended dream sequence. And Sweets... just think of him as the guy they decided to keep around so David Boreanaz wouldn't have to be in so many scenes.

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March 17, 2011 9:10 PM
Nemesis
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If I want to watch Boreanaz in a serial narrative that is character-driven, I have the Angel box set.

March 17, 2011 10:52 PM
TapDiva
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While the supporting characters may have stayed the same, Booth and Brennan have changed since the first few seasons, and not for the better. Booth has regressed to a dumb jock. Brennan, who used to be so nuanced and intuitive, despite her rigidity, has become strangely robotic and literal. I want to send Hart Hanson the first season of Bones to remind him that these characters could be so much more complex and interesting.

March 17, 2011 11:01 PM
DripPan
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Booth has been shown as a loser and a quitter. Not only doesn't he fight for the women he has loved but he quits on them on the first rejection.

Brennan has been wrote so inconsistant and is seen now as a wounded woman who is pining after her man.

March 17, 2011 11:10 PM
Natalia
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I always watched bones, from the beginning and always loved seeing the interface between Brennan and Booth. Since the hundredth episode, the show's quality has been lost to me. Brennan and Booth have lost what was most cool, chemistry. Not only that. The episodes have been kind of warm, cases, and their romance, which was supposed to go, he walked back. The series became a big runaround, and frankly, today I lost the will to see through. Before he counted the hours for the new episodes, not even today I want to see. It's a runaround as many series. It was common, repetitive. Definitely I will not follow more.

March 18, 2011 1:27 AM
jessnz
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David Boreanaz wouldn't have to be in so many scenes.And that's why i don't like sweets All Booth does now is run around after Sweets Asking him to solve the case for him because Sweet knows who's lying,Motive,what a suspect will do gets into there head even doing interviews in the interrogation room with out Booth some times. So what's next for Booth now that Sweets is doing his job for him ? they could use him as a doorstop

March 18, 2011 2:59 AM
beth
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EW season4"My only problem with the investigation was the idea that Booth wouldn't want to be in the room when Sweets told Bob that the hunky gardener (What is Booth doing when sweets is playing FBI Agent playing with his bobblehead bobby) had been sleeping with his wife and daughter. I hate it when the show pretends that as an FBI agent, Booth wouldn't have training in telling when people are lying(In season one this was established that this was a skill that Booth had in spades it was what made him so good at his job), or that he wouldn't want to be present anytime a suspect or person of interest in one of his cases was being questioned. it makes me momentarily question how good Seeley is at his job, which I never want to do" they don't need Booth just show sweets how to uses a gun Hart could save money on the wage bill,

March 18, 2011 5:13 AM
eyeswideshut
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replied to comment from TapDiva

So true. I hate how she hangssssss on words and says really stupid stuff. The ending of ep 15 was so forced. She used to be kick arse who could take care of herself. It also seems weird they've not mentioned her writing anymore. I also miss seeing her brother and father and booth jr.

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