Bones, House, Bionic Woman, and Dirty Sexy Money
So, I didn't actually post anything on Monday or Tuesday. I watched way more television than this, because I have no life, but these were the only shows I cared enough about to write about. We actually managed to record Criminal Minds and CSI: NY tonight, so I should get to watch those tomorrow. I watched CSI: Miami, but I don't know why. Half the people annoy the hell out of me, and the pretty that is Delko is really just not enough anymore. I should try to do something productive with that hour of my life, but I probably won't. I'll probably continue to watch and hope that they do something interesting or worthwhile that doesn't involve killing off one of the two people I still enjoy.
People who know me, know that I've been kind of obsessed with the idea of forensic anthropology for a long time. That all started when I picked up a wonderful book by Aaron Elkins and got hooked on the Gideon Oliver mystery series. I still haven't read any of the books that Bones is based on. I'd like to, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. That said, I don't find the show nearly as satisfying as I did the Gideon Oliver books. I don't feel like I learn anywhere near as much, for one thing.
This week's case was nothing terribly special to me. Too little of it revolved around actual work. Their work seems less real, and more miraculous every week. I'd like to see more thought and intent, or at least more practical explanation. The personal storylines are somewhat more satisfying. Booth and Brennan are great. They're sweet in that kind of way that makes me really really hope they never actually make it that last step to a relationship. I like them as friends with a little UST. I think as a couple they don't work nearly as well. Brennan's evolving relationship with her father is realistic, even if it is a bit surreal. I'm in love with Zach, as socially awkward as he is. I hope he never changes. Hodgins and Angela are a wonderful and fabulous couple. They're perfect, and I just hope that their relationship doesn't stay quite so saccharine. It will get annoying in time. So, not much to say about Bones this week.
The whole episode made me giggle hysterically, starting with the fact that Carmen Argenziano (Jacob Carter from SG-1) was in it. I loved that House was seeing his people, and I especially love that one of them had no real reason to be there (so far as we know). So maybe Cameron and Chase really were, but was Foreman? I'm enjoying the whole reality show quality to how House is picking a new team.
The case of the week was a little odd. I found their attempts to render Synaesthesia interesting, and I have no idea if I spelled that right. I did know what it was before they talked about it though. I don't particularly like any of the pool of candidates yet (aside from Carmen, but he's not a candidate any more, so I guess I can say that), but I don't hate them either. The wicked blonde is a little too much like House, only she's not as good. She's not going to make it, I can feel it.
House and Wilson were fabulously perfect, as always. I swear they act more like an old married couple with each passing episode. Cuddy was okay, but that's what I generally think about her despite my love for the actress. I adored Chase when he showed up. I'm really really pleased that he had the answer, and there was something about their little interchange that just grabbed me. I can't quite say what it was, but there was fire in that conversation that House doesn't have with anyone else. I can't stand Cameron, but she didn't do or say anything to annoy me tonight, but I hate her hair.
That Carmen Argenziano's character doesn't have a medical degree, but had the pure guts to show up to audition for a place on the diagnostic team was my favorite part of the episode. I'm glad that House is going to keep him around, even if he can't be a "doctor." What did he say? "That's not my dream job." "It is; it's just not your dream title." I really really love that, and hope it means we'll be keeping him around for awhile, because I also really really love him.
I'm still not sure if I like this show enough to keep watching it. The actress doesn't do a thing for me, and they killed off the kind of pretty fiance already. The guy who trains her, the one in love with Sarah, is also kind of pretty, and I still feel like I should recognize him from something. But I doubt his prettiness is enough to keep me watching.
The story kept me marginally more engaged this week, but still not enough to make me a fan. It's probably horrible of me, but I really just don't care about the personal part of her story. I don't care how violated she feels about her boyfriend having research on her, or her struggles with the evil that goes on in the world, or especially her relationship with her kid sister. I just don't care. Which probably means, that I won't keep watching this much longer.
This is quickly becoming my favorite show on television. The incredible cast does not hurt. Donald Sutherland is one of the best actors ever, period. The characters are really starting to work for me. It really would have been easy to make all of them nothing more than the cardboard cut-out from a dysfunctional billionaire family. They resisted the urge and instead made them transcend those types.
Tripp and Letitia are simply incredible. They fight about everything, and clearly all was not perfect in their marriage (given Letitia's long affair with Dutch), and yet they clearly love each other. Letitia isn't happy that Tripp doesn't know about the affair because of what it would mean for her, but because she doesn't want him hurt. And Tripp, loved them both so much he never said a word. I bet he knew pretty much from the beginning. I have to wonder if Dutch ever spoke to him about it.
I just want to hug Patrick. He's got his parents pulling him in opposite directions, and I doubt that he really wants either thing. I know Letitia thinks that he wants to be free of the responsibility of carrying on the family legacy. I know she thinks that he wants the freedom to love whomever he pleases without having to worry about who finds out. And Dutch, is pushing, and prodding, to acchieve things that his generation didn't manage with the family name. The pressure is perhaps a little much, but I think some part of Patrick really does want those things. I think he's been trying to meet other people's expectations so long he doesn't know what he wants. I hope he manages to win his Senatorial campaign in a landslide before news of his extra-marital affairs with Transvestites leak.
It would be very easy to hate Brian. He's easily the biggest hypocrite of the bunch, and he's just not a likable guy. I suspect he got just as much pressure as Patrick did, though. I don't think he chose his path any more than the rest of the kids, and I think he's bitter about that. His treatment of the kid is awful, but not entirely unexpected given his family life. I like that in the end, he's trying to do the right thing. I like that as much as he despises Nick and more importantly, Nick's father, he still listened to what he had to say.
The twins are interesting. Juliet seems the little Paris Hilton clone on first glance, but she's more than that. She clearly doesn't have the first idea what it means to strike out on her own, but she is trying. I hope she makes it, but it won't be in acting. Her brother is less interesting to me, as evidenced by the fact that I can't remember her name.
Oh, and I almost forgot Karen. She is probably the flattest of the characters for me so far. At this point, I can't really understand how Nick ever liked her well enough to date her. She doesn't seem all that bright. I did enjoy her little conversation with her mother about Patrick. That was fun.
Nick and family are okay. As much as I worship and adore Peter Krause, Nick is probably the second least interesting character. Part of it is just that he has to play straight man to all the wackiness that is the Darling family, but part of it is just that Nick's not that interesting.
A couple of unrelated things that I really loved in this episode. The lions. It's just such an over the top thing, and were there even lions in the shots they took? Were the lions supposed to come later, but then everyone was upset over the journal? And second, I love the way Tripp talks to Letitia on the balcony. Partly because he does such a wonderful job of convincing her that he has no idea of her relationship with Dutch, and that's just unbearably sweet, and partly because he talks about Nick as if he is family. He says that they'll get through it, the two of them and Nick. I suspect in some ways, Tripp thinks of Nick more like family than he does his own kids, also it was a nice counterpoint to the way Letitia implied that Dutch was family in their earlier argument. I'm hoping thee is eventually some fandom for this series. What I'd really like to find is some pre-series fanfiction about Dutch, Tripp and Letitia. I don't care if it's Gen, Letitia/Dutch, Tripp/Letitia, Tripp/Dutch, or Tripp/Dutch/Letitia (if they can make it fall into the canon of Dutch's supposed ignorance of Letitia's affair). My feel for them is that both of them loved Dutch, and without any actual knowledge of him, that he probably loved them as well. Whether that love was anything more than friendly between Dutch and Tripp is up for grabs, and I don't really care either way.
Oh, and the contents of the briefcase were an interesting clue in the ongoing mystery.
People who know me, know that I've been kind of obsessed with the idea of forensic anthropology for a long time. That all started when I picked up a wonderful book by Aaron Elkins and got hooked on the Gideon Oliver mystery series. I still haven't read any of the books that Bones is based on. I'd like to, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. That said, I don't find the show nearly as satisfying as I did the Gideon Oliver books. I don't feel like I learn anywhere near as much, for one thing.
This week's case was nothing terribly special to me. Too little of it revolved around actual work. Their work seems less real, and more miraculous every week. I'd like to see more thought and intent, or at least more practical explanation. The personal storylines are somewhat more satisfying. Booth and Brennan are great. They're sweet in that kind of way that makes me really really hope they never actually make it that last step to a relationship. I like them as friends with a little UST. I think as a couple they don't work nearly as well. Brennan's evolving relationship with her father is realistic, even if it is a bit surreal. I'm in love with Zach, as socially awkward as he is. I hope he never changes. Hodgins and Angela are a wonderful and fabulous couple. They're perfect, and I just hope that their relationship doesn't stay quite so saccharine. It will get annoying in time. So, not much to say about Bones this week.
The whole episode made me giggle hysterically, starting with the fact that Carmen Argenziano (Jacob Carter from SG-1) was in it. I loved that House was seeing his people, and I especially love that one of them had no real reason to be there (so far as we know). So maybe Cameron and Chase really were, but was Foreman? I'm enjoying the whole reality show quality to how House is picking a new team.
The case of the week was a little odd. I found their attempts to render Synaesthesia interesting, and I have no idea if I spelled that right. I did know what it was before they talked about it though. I don't particularly like any of the pool of candidates yet (aside from Carmen, but he's not a candidate any more, so I guess I can say that), but I don't hate them either. The wicked blonde is a little too much like House, only she's not as good. She's not going to make it, I can feel it.
House and Wilson were fabulously perfect, as always. I swear they act more like an old married couple with each passing episode. Cuddy was okay, but that's what I generally think about her despite my love for the actress. I adored Chase when he showed up. I'm really really pleased that he had the answer, and there was something about their little interchange that just grabbed me. I can't quite say what it was, but there was fire in that conversation that House doesn't have with anyone else. I can't stand Cameron, but she didn't do or say anything to annoy me tonight, but I hate her hair.
That Carmen Argenziano's character doesn't have a medical degree, but had the pure guts to show up to audition for a place on the diagnostic team was my favorite part of the episode. I'm glad that House is going to keep him around, even if he can't be a "doctor." What did he say? "That's not my dream job." "It is; it's just not your dream title." I really really love that, and hope it means we'll be keeping him around for awhile, because I also really really love him.
I'm still not sure if I like this show enough to keep watching it. The actress doesn't do a thing for me, and they killed off the kind of pretty fiance already. The guy who trains her, the one in love with Sarah, is also kind of pretty, and I still feel like I should recognize him from something. But I doubt his prettiness is enough to keep me watching.
The story kept me marginally more engaged this week, but still not enough to make me a fan. It's probably horrible of me, but I really just don't care about the personal part of her story. I don't care how violated she feels about her boyfriend having research on her, or her struggles with the evil that goes on in the world, or especially her relationship with her kid sister. I just don't care. Which probably means, that I won't keep watching this much longer.
This is quickly becoming my favorite show on television. The incredible cast does not hurt. Donald Sutherland is one of the best actors ever, period. The characters are really starting to work for me. It really would have been easy to make all of them nothing more than the cardboard cut-out from a dysfunctional billionaire family. They resisted the urge and instead made them transcend those types.
Tripp and Letitia are simply incredible. They fight about everything, and clearly all was not perfect in their marriage (given Letitia's long affair with Dutch), and yet they clearly love each other. Letitia isn't happy that Tripp doesn't know about the affair because of what it would mean for her, but because she doesn't want him hurt. And Tripp, loved them both so much he never said a word. I bet he knew pretty much from the beginning. I have to wonder if Dutch ever spoke to him about it.
I just want to hug Patrick. He's got his parents pulling him in opposite directions, and I doubt that he really wants either thing. I know Letitia thinks that he wants to be free of the responsibility of carrying on the family legacy. I know she thinks that he wants the freedom to love whomever he pleases without having to worry about who finds out. And Dutch, is pushing, and prodding, to acchieve things that his generation didn't manage with the family name. The pressure is perhaps a little much, but I think some part of Patrick really does want those things. I think he's been trying to meet other people's expectations so long he doesn't know what he wants. I hope he manages to win his Senatorial campaign in a landslide before news of his extra-marital affairs with Transvestites leak.
It would be very easy to hate Brian. He's easily the biggest hypocrite of the bunch, and he's just not a likable guy. I suspect he got just as much pressure as Patrick did, though. I don't think he chose his path any more than the rest of the kids, and I think he's bitter about that. His treatment of the kid is awful, but not entirely unexpected given his family life. I like that in the end, he's trying to do the right thing. I like that as much as he despises Nick and more importantly, Nick's father, he still listened to what he had to say.
The twins are interesting. Juliet seems the little Paris Hilton clone on first glance, but she's more than that. She clearly doesn't have the first idea what it means to strike out on her own, but she is trying. I hope she makes it, but it won't be in acting. Her brother is less interesting to me, as evidenced by the fact that I can't remember her name.
Oh, and I almost forgot Karen. She is probably the flattest of the characters for me so far. At this point, I can't really understand how Nick ever liked her well enough to date her. She doesn't seem all that bright. I did enjoy her little conversation with her mother about Patrick. That was fun.
Nick and family are okay. As much as I worship and adore Peter Krause, Nick is probably the second least interesting character. Part of it is just that he has to play straight man to all the wackiness that is the Darling family, but part of it is just that Nick's not that interesting.
A couple of unrelated things that I really loved in this episode. The lions. It's just such an over the top thing, and were there even lions in the shots they took? Were the lions supposed to come later, but then everyone was upset over the journal? And second, I love the way Tripp talks to Letitia on the balcony. Partly because he does such a wonderful job of convincing her that he has no idea of her relationship with Dutch, and that's just unbearably sweet, and partly because he talks about Nick as if he is family. He says that they'll get through it, the two of them and Nick. I suspect in some ways, Tripp thinks of Nick more like family than he does his own kids, also it was a nice counterpoint to the way Letitia implied that Dutch was family in their earlier argument. I'm hoping thee is eventually some fandom for this series. What I'd really like to find is some pre-series fanfiction about Dutch, Tripp and Letitia. I don't care if it's Gen, Letitia/Dutch, Tripp/Letitia, Tripp/Dutch, or Tripp/Dutch/Letitia (if they can make it fall into the canon of Dutch's supposed ignorance of Letitia's affair). My feel for them is that both of them loved Dutch, and without any actual knowledge of him, that he probably loved them as well. Whether that love was anything more than friendly between Dutch and Tripp is up for grabs, and I don't really care either way.
Oh, and the contents of the briefcase were an interesting clue in the ongoing mystery.