The Plain in the Prodigy (5x03)
Spoilers, dude!
This was a good episode even though there wasn't as much Booth & Bones banter and cuteness as I would like-well, if I had my way, maybe we would just have B & B together most of the time and then cut over to some scientific detective work talk once in a while, good thing I don't run the show. Of course, Booth being called Boothy was sweet, sexy-got that, right?-, funny... together with the car scene probably enough B & B for one episode.
The Amish were portrayed very fully, not yielding to the easy stereotypes, both good and bad ones. The victim's "fiancee"'s brother was truly impressive in his interrogation: so dignified, righteous but human, loving at the same time. Booth as well as Brennan were bowled over. Brennan's attitude toward the Amish people they dealt with was very interesting too. She's changed, grown so much. She may still not understand how one could possibly want to live such a self-limited, spare life but she can't help but ending up respecting them. Of course, one could say that in a way she looks at this micro-culture through cultural-anthropological lenses... It turned out that the murder was an accident, committed by a person unknown to the victim: rare in Bones but of course not totally uncommon in real life. Certainly, Bones is not an exhaustive chronicle of B & B's cases, just an anthology so to speak of the most interesting ones. By the way, for murders in the US where the victim-offender relationship can be found out, statistically only 23% are perpetrated by strangers (see Crime in the United States, Bernan Press, 2nd ed., 2008).
This was a good episode even though there wasn't as much Booth & Bones banter and cuteness as I would like-well, if I had my way, maybe we would just have B & B together most of the time and then cut over to some scientific detective work talk once in a while, good thing I don't run the show. Of course, Booth being called Boothy was sweet, sexy-got that, right?-, funny... together with the car scene probably enough B & B for one episode.
The Amish were portrayed very fully, not yielding to the easy stereotypes, both good and bad ones. The victim's "fiancee"'s brother was truly impressive in his interrogation: so dignified, righteous but human, loving at the same time. Booth as well as Brennan were bowled over. Brennan's attitude toward the Amish people they dealt with was very interesting too. She's changed, grown so much. She may still not understand how one could possibly want to live such a self-limited, spare life but she can't help but ending up respecting them. Of course, one could say that in a way she looks at this micro-culture through cultural-anthropological lenses... It turned out that the murder was an accident, committed by a person unknown to the victim: rare in Bones but of course not totally uncommon in real life. Certainly, Bones is not an exhaustive chronicle of B & B's cases, just an anthology so to speak of the most interesting ones. By the way, for murders in the US where the victim-offender relationship can be found out, statistically only 23% are perpetrated by strangers (see Crime in the United States, Bernan Press, 2nd ed., 2008).