Guys, I have this HUGE grin on my face, you have no idea
I should not eat before episodes of Bones. I had just finished ice cream five minutes before the show came on, and I nearly threw up, I was so excited. :P
This is kind of desultory, as I pretty much wrote it while watching the episode.
See, Sweets, Booth and Brennan don’t have personal lives. They devote their lives to work, which means talking about work IS sharing their personal lives and emotions. Booth’s son and Brennan’s father are pretty much the only things outside work that are really important to them (since neither of them is dating), and the fact that they both connect to work is just incidental. What else would they talk about? They’ve shared music (in one of the most adorable/favorite scenes ever on the show, and there’s some stiff competition in that department), books (ok, hers)…honestly, it all seems trivial after the deep emotional stuff they’ve shared. Putting them into a “normal social setting” is actually a bad idea, because they aren’t normal. Though I do commend Sweets: he certainly knows how to manipulate Booth!
She’s done the “murder suspect” thing before. Heh. Not gonna do that again. It’s a little traumatizing (and embarrassing) to watch your partner arrest your date over dinner. :P
Ok, Booth can tell if people are lying, and that’s a really big point for his character - he’s good at reading people, including if they’re lying, and Brennan is good at reading bones. This is a stupid point of inquiry, not to mention undermining one of the biggest balances in their relationship.
Poor Sweets. It must be awkward to watch the two people whom you think can’t interact normally completely show up you and your normal girlfriend in the fun department. Heh. That was a fun, cute, awkward scene. :P And, oh God, that bandana. Booth, you cannot pull that off! :P
Angela, LOVE YOU. “Then, I kicked ass.” Hee.
Ok, that ending? Adorable. Sweets, you’re such a dork (in the best possible way). And Booth, sweetness suits you. As does heroism. Brennan? Not so good at the “acting natural” thing, but cute all the same. I like how parental and protective they got - for all that Booth makes fun of Sweets for being so young (and a psychologist), he still likes him, and when he gets hurt, Booth gets protective. As usual. It’s fun to see the way the age dynamics play out, though: when Sweets isn’t in an authority position, Booth likes him much better. He just can’t stand having someone younger than him higher up in the hierarchy - the alpha male rearing its head again. He doesn’t actually hate Sweets, as much as we’ve seen to counteract that.
This show is odd about age, though: Booth’s 35, which is about believable (you’ve got to be 25 to be a special agent, and Booth had been in the FBI for at least 8 years in season 1, so now 10 - ok, I can just about believe it, though you’re pushing it, show). We already know Sweets is 23, which I find absurd, since most people graduate college at 21 or older. I can buy that he’d graduate younger, say, 19, even though that’s mildly ridiculous in itself, now (it used to be far more common for people to graduate at even 16, but we’re more concerned with emotional development now than we were in the 1800s, so we’re likely to say someone that young is too young), but that still has him getting a doctorate and going to work for the FBI in 3 years. Not a chance. And now, Brennan is 30, and since she must’ve started at least 3 years ago (since their first case in season 1 wasn’t actually their first case), that means she was working at the Jeffersonian at 26-27. So even if she was hired fresh off her doctorate, that means her Ph.D. took 5 years at most. Which, ok, about makes sense, considering she’s brilliant and all - for most people, 5 years is about the minimum (and these aren’t stupid people). But seriously, why are they all so young that we have to resort to this kind of explanation for it to make sense? Give them one more year, two, and I’d accept it without problem.
Overall, decent episode. Not one I'll remember very well, probably, apart from "that episode where they made pots (and Booth demonstrated his surprising artistic talents) and Sweets got dumped". But that's ok. Perhaps not the strongest way to come back after the strike (FOUR MONTHS, guys, and this was the best you've got? I know you weren't working then, but still), but good enough. I'm just so happy it's back that I'm not a very objective judge. :P
Also, House previews: House already got shot, in an episode that easily makes the top five ever on the show, arguably the top two (I still think Three Stories is better, but No Reason comes in close after that). What are you going to do that’s going to top that?
Hey, Judy Greer in Apple ads! Heh. While Macs piss me off (the whole clicking-on-X-doesn’t-close-the-program drives me crazy), I do love their ads. Especially the iPod ads.
This is kind of desultory, as I pretty much wrote it while watching the episode.
See, Sweets, Booth and Brennan don’t have personal lives. They devote their lives to work, which means talking about work IS sharing their personal lives and emotions. Booth’s son and Brennan’s father are pretty much the only things outside work that are really important to them (since neither of them is dating), and the fact that they both connect to work is just incidental. What else would they talk about? They’ve shared music (in one of the most adorable/favorite scenes ever on the show, and there’s some stiff competition in that department), books (ok, hers)…honestly, it all seems trivial after the deep emotional stuff they’ve shared. Putting them into a “normal social setting” is actually a bad idea, because they aren’t normal. Though I do commend Sweets: he certainly knows how to manipulate Booth!
She’s done the “murder suspect” thing before. Heh. Not gonna do that again. It’s a little traumatizing (and embarrassing) to watch your partner arrest your date over dinner. :P
Ok, Booth can tell if people are lying, and that’s a really big point for his character - he’s good at reading people, including if they’re lying, and Brennan is good at reading bones. This is a stupid point of inquiry, not to mention undermining one of the biggest balances in their relationship.
Poor Sweets. It must be awkward to watch the two people whom you think can’t interact normally completely show up you and your normal girlfriend in the fun department. Heh. That was a fun, cute, awkward scene. :P And, oh God, that bandana. Booth, you cannot pull that off! :P
Angela, LOVE YOU. “Then, I kicked ass.” Hee.
Ok, that ending? Adorable. Sweets, you’re such a dork (in the best possible way). And Booth, sweetness suits you. As does heroism. Brennan? Not so good at the “acting natural” thing, but cute all the same. I like how parental and protective they got - for all that Booth makes fun of Sweets for being so young (and a psychologist), he still likes him, and when he gets hurt, Booth gets protective. As usual. It’s fun to see the way the age dynamics play out, though: when Sweets isn’t in an authority position, Booth likes him much better. He just can’t stand having someone younger than him higher up in the hierarchy - the alpha male rearing its head again. He doesn’t actually hate Sweets, as much as we’ve seen to counteract that.
This show is odd about age, though: Booth’s 35, which is about believable (you’ve got to be 25 to be a special agent, and Booth had been in the FBI for at least 8 years in season 1, so now 10 - ok, I can just about believe it, though you’re pushing it, show). We already know Sweets is 23, which I find absurd, since most people graduate college at 21 or older. I can buy that he’d graduate younger, say, 19, even though that’s mildly ridiculous in itself, now (it used to be far more common for people to graduate at even 16, but we’re more concerned with emotional development now than we were in the 1800s, so we’re likely to say someone that young is too young), but that still has him getting a doctorate and going to work for the FBI in 3 years. Not a chance. And now, Brennan is 30, and since she must’ve started at least 3 years ago (since their first case in season 1 wasn’t actually their first case), that means she was working at the Jeffersonian at 26-27. So even if she was hired fresh off her doctorate, that means her Ph.D. took 5 years at most. Which, ok, about makes sense, considering she’s brilliant and all - for most people, 5 years is about the minimum (and these aren’t stupid people). But seriously, why are they all so young that we have to resort to this kind of explanation for it to make sense? Give them one more year, two, and I’d accept it without problem.
Overall, decent episode. Not one I'll remember very well, probably, apart from "that episode where they made pots (and Booth demonstrated his surprising artistic talents) and Sweets got dumped". But that's ok. Perhaps not the strongest way to come back after the strike (FOUR MONTHS, guys, and this was the best you've got? I know you weren't working then, but still), but good enough. I'm just so happy it's back that I'm not a very objective judge. :P
Also, House previews: House already got shot, in an episode that easily makes the top five ever on the show, arguably the top two (I still think Three Stories is better, but No Reason comes in close after that). What are you going to do that’s going to top that?
Hey, Judy Greer in Apple ads! Heh. While Macs piss me off (the whole clicking-on-X-doesn’t-close-the-program drives me crazy), I do love their ads. Especially the iPod ads.