Finales. Sad. :(
FINALLY watched the last three episodes of Bones, plus the finale of How I Met Your Mother. Thoughts:
Eh. It was Bones. It was cute, and it was smart, and it was Bones. Thought I adored the "dine & dash" at the end, particularly since Brennan was basically me in that scene, and especially since Booth is now (having made his mistakes) too righteous and honest to actually not pay. Love him. :D
I love how Bones leads up to things throughout the season without telling you. Like last season: I know that a lot of people were upset at the finale, but it addressed a LOT of issues I had with Zach throughout the season. And then this: the ghosts and hallucinations are actually dealt with and fitted neatly into the finale so that everything makes sense. Still a little iffy on the baby thing, but this show does everything so much better than I expect them to that I might be brought around. And I loved the last few scenes between Booth and Brennan - Emily Deschanel has grown so much as an actor over the course of this show.
LOVE. Seriously. Lots and lots of love. This is partly because I didn't like the spoilers and was worried about what would happen, but I cannot express how much I adored this episode. From the inclusion of all these people we love so much, to the tweaking of lives with only a little personality adjustment so that we could see how things could have been had everything been different, to every single carefully-arranged detail: it was fantastic. I loved seeing the alternate possibilities, and I LOVED seeing Booth and Brennan reacting to a case from the position of inside rather than as investigators. Oh, the meta comments that were made! One of my favorite episodes ever. And this show remains the only show on TV that can use fanfiction as plot and make it work, make me love it.
Loved Wendell, and how despite the fact that he's now the strong-and-silent bouncer, I still looked at him and went, "You're such a dork. I love you." Loved Vincent Nigel-Murray's witty one-liners and general existence (from "I'm British. We don't use guns, we use our foreheads," to "You're the kind of guy who goes to jail for a murder he didn't commit" - awwwwww, details!). Loved Angela's clothes, as usual, and Hodgins as AWESOME AWESOME murder mystery writer. Loved Cam's casual mention (one that the show throws in quite often, actually) that crime fiction never gets anything right. Even loved Booth's horrid suits and cap that didn't suit him! There was, quite honestly, nothing about this episode I didn't like. Except perhaps the amnesia. But we'll see how that plays out.
Also, despite the horrible name, The Lab would be my favorite club ever. Gorgeous and interesting, and I'd spend all my time flirting with the bartender. :P I hope they make drinks in neon colors that smoke!
I didn't love this episode as much as I ought to have. I liked it, certainly, but it felt...empty, somehow? I don't know. I think it needed to be an hour finale, to be honest. Half an hour wasn't enough time. I thought it was just getting started when it was more than halfway done. I liked the Barney/Robin interactions, especially the frantic confused full-of-lies-and-unexpected-truths confrontation in the hospital. Very them. I like how no one involved or watching could tell when Robin was lying, and Barney's rapid flip-flops as he tried to sort himself out. I think that's the only way they can get on the same page: through unexpected confrontations that lead directly from "You're smothering me!" to "Let's make out!" Anything else would be sappy and unrealistic for them, but this was good. And fun!
The goat was...a bit of a let-down. It just wasn't interesting enough for something that's been built up for a year. Though I loved the hoofprint on Ted's forehead. :P
Also, over all those years, did they ever come up with a plan for getting OFF the neighbors' roof? :P Fire-escape down to the ground?
I hate this time of year. :( Great epic episodes of TV, but now what do I do until September? (Or, well, July when Psych comes back, but still.) Watch shows that I haven't had a chance to, of course, but I'll miss them.
PS: Watching the Colbert Report, and oh my God, I LOVE Meghan McCain. First minute or so, I was kind of skeptical at how she was coming off, but man, she's a reasonable, thoughtful, articulate person who understands what she stands for and why she stands for it, and she approaches it from an immensely practical and very enthusiastic perspective in a very modern way (and, in fact, in the way that I've always been surprised more Republicans didn't agree with. Direct quote: "If you want the government out of your lives, why shouldn't that include marriage?" AWESOME. And SENSIBLE).
Also, fantastic Bacardi commercial: passing through time as he walks through parties. Cool. Guinness has also had some wonderful advertisements in the past, as I saw while waiting in line at the brewery in Dublin. :P
Eh. It was Bones. It was cute, and it was smart, and it was Bones. Thought I adored the "dine & dash" at the end, particularly since Brennan was basically me in that scene, and especially since Booth is now (having made his mistakes) too righteous and honest to actually not pay. Love him. :D
I love how Bones leads up to things throughout the season without telling you. Like last season: I know that a lot of people were upset at the finale, but it addressed a LOT of issues I had with Zach throughout the season. And then this: the ghosts and hallucinations are actually dealt with and fitted neatly into the finale so that everything makes sense. Still a little iffy on the baby thing, but this show does everything so much better than I expect them to that I might be brought around. And I loved the last few scenes between Booth and Brennan - Emily Deschanel has grown so much as an actor over the course of this show.
LOVE. Seriously. Lots and lots of love. This is partly because I didn't like the spoilers and was worried about what would happen, but I cannot express how much I adored this episode. From the inclusion of all these people we love so much, to the tweaking of lives with only a little personality adjustment so that we could see how things could have been had everything been different, to every single carefully-arranged detail: it was fantastic. I loved seeing the alternate possibilities, and I LOVED seeing Booth and Brennan reacting to a case from the position of inside rather than as investigators. Oh, the meta comments that were made! One of my favorite episodes ever. And this show remains the only show on TV that can use fanfiction as plot and make it work, make me love it.
Loved Wendell, and how despite the fact that he's now the strong-and-silent bouncer, I still looked at him and went, "You're such a dork. I love you." Loved Vincent Nigel-Murray's witty one-liners and general existence (from "I'm British. We don't use guns, we use our foreheads," to "You're the kind of guy who goes to jail for a murder he didn't commit" - awwwwww, details!). Loved Angela's clothes, as usual, and Hodgins as AWESOME AWESOME murder mystery writer. Loved Cam's casual mention (one that the show throws in quite often, actually) that crime fiction never gets anything right. Even loved Booth's horrid suits and cap that didn't suit him! There was, quite honestly, nothing about this episode I didn't like. Except perhaps the amnesia. But we'll see how that plays out.
Also, despite the horrible name, The Lab would be my favorite club ever. Gorgeous and interesting, and I'd spend all my time flirting with the bartender. :P I hope they make drinks in neon colors that smoke!
I didn't love this episode as much as I ought to have. I liked it, certainly, but it felt...empty, somehow? I don't know. I think it needed to be an hour finale, to be honest. Half an hour wasn't enough time. I thought it was just getting started when it was more than halfway done. I liked the Barney/Robin interactions, especially the frantic confused full-of-lies-and-unexpected-truths confrontation in the hospital. Very them. I like how no one involved or watching could tell when Robin was lying, and Barney's rapid flip-flops as he tried to sort himself out. I think that's the only way they can get on the same page: through unexpected confrontations that lead directly from "You're smothering me!" to "Let's make out!" Anything else would be sappy and unrealistic for them, but this was good. And fun!
The goat was...a bit of a let-down. It just wasn't interesting enough for something that's been built up for a year. Though I loved the hoofprint on Ted's forehead. :P
Also, over all those years, did they ever come up with a plan for getting OFF the neighbors' roof? :P Fire-escape down to the ground?
I hate this time of year. :( Great epic episodes of TV, but now what do I do until September? (Or, well, July when Psych comes back, but still.) Watch shows that I haven't had a chance to, of course, but I'll miss them.
PS: Watching the Colbert Report, and oh my God, I LOVE Meghan McCain. First minute or so, I was kind of skeptical at how she was coming off, but man, she's a reasonable, thoughtful, articulate person who understands what she stands for and why she stands for it, and she approaches it from an immensely practical and very enthusiastic perspective in a very modern way (and, in fact, in the way that I've always been surprised more Republicans didn't agree with. Direct quote: "If you want the government out of your lives, why shouldn't that include marriage?" AWESOME. And SENSIBLE).
Also, fantastic Bacardi commercial: passing through time as he walks through parties. Cool. Guinness has also had some wonderful advertisements in the past, as I saw while waiting in line at the brewery in Dublin. :P