I am weak
Note: I'm not cutting this, because it doesn't have any significant spoilers in it. That said, if you've yet to watch the season finale of Bones and don't want to risk coloring your opinions, you should maybe not read on. That said, on to the post.
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Bones. *sigh* What am I going to do with you, Show? You break my heart, let me down, frustrate me, thwart me, bore me, and exasperate me. And what do I do? I come back for more, of course.
Pelant (one l, not two. Why is that so hard for reviewers to remember?) is hands-down the worst (and not in a good way) big bad that HH and company have ever concocted. He's more suited to a Batman movie, or even Iron Man, than to Bones. The man's positively invincible. He can go anywhere, do anything, see and hear everything ... He's so over the top it'd be laughable if it weren't so infuriating. It's as if with every villain HH and company create they have to one-up themselves in the lack-of-credibility department. The Gravedigger was awesome. Until "he" turned out to be a "she" and we were all left scratching our heads and trying to figure out how the heck she managed to get an unconscious Booth out of his apartment and onto a doomed military vessel without anybody being the wiser. Gormogon was creepy as hell ... until he somehow managed to recruit Zach to the dark side. So see, I've known, almost from the beginning, that HH/SN et al are simply incapable of writing believable bad guys. They just can't do it.
So why do I keep coming back? Because every time I deem myself ready to turn my back and walk away they throw me a tiny little sliver of perfect that reels me back in. I'm so hungry for those moments, which were scattered liberally throughout the early seasons, that seeing one, just one, in this entire season is enough to make me plan on tuning in for the start of season 9.
I am, as I said, weak.
It seems I will tolerate all manner of deeply flawed writing and horrific characterization for a single hug. But at least there's a catch. I have that much to my credit. It can't be just any old hug. It has to mean something. It has to have heart. We got one of those in the finale, and I think it may be the only one we got all season, though granted there are probably half a dozen episodes I've not gotten around to watching.
That one hug, and the way Booth says, "I'm okay," will have me tuning in to see what happens in at least the first episode or two of season 9.
But Pelant?
He has to go.
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Bones. *sigh* What am I going to do with you, Show? You break my heart, let me down, frustrate me, thwart me, bore me, and exasperate me. And what do I do? I come back for more, of course.
Pelant (one l, not two. Why is that so hard for reviewers to remember?) is hands-down the worst (and not in a good way) big bad that HH and company have ever concocted. He's more suited to a Batman movie, or even Iron Man, than to Bones. The man's positively invincible. He can go anywhere, do anything, see and hear everything ... He's so over the top it'd be laughable if it weren't so infuriating. It's as if with every villain HH and company create they have to one-up themselves in the lack-of-credibility department. The Gravedigger was awesome. Until "he" turned out to be a "she" and we were all left scratching our heads and trying to figure out how the heck she managed to get an unconscious Booth out of his apartment and onto a doomed military vessel without anybody being the wiser. Gormogon was creepy as hell ... until he somehow managed to recruit Zach to the dark side. So see, I've known, almost from the beginning, that HH/SN et al are simply incapable of writing believable bad guys. They just can't do it.
So why do I keep coming back? Because every time I deem myself ready to turn my back and walk away they throw me a tiny little sliver of perfect that reels me back in. I'm so hungry for those moments, which were scattered liberally throughout the early seasons, that seeing one, just one, in this entire season is enough to make me plan on tuning in for the start of season 9.
I am, as I said, weak.
It seems I will tolerate all manner of deeply flawed writing and horrific characterization for a single hug. But at least there's a catch. I have that much to my credit. It can't be just any old hug. It has to mean something. It has to have heart. We got one of those in the finale, and I think it may be the only one we got all season, though granted there are probably half a dozen episodes I've not gotten around to watching.
That one hug, and the way Booth says, "I'm okay," will have me tuning in to see what happens in at least the first episode or two of season 9.
But Pelant?
He has to go.