ooh, twist.

[hyacinthian]

happy labor day, everyone!

i am enjoying the time off. whooooo. bones marathon and they're playing s1 and s2, catching up on tv. but really, i am just here to put this here:

apparently, Morrissey shows his commitment to animal rights by calling the Chinese a subspecies. i'm just gonna leave that there

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[hyacinthian]

I agree with everything you've said. The problems with Brennan is that they seemingly forget their own canon - Brennan had an arguably normal childhood until she was 15, which is when her parents split. So the fact that they make her unaware of cultural references like Clue? Bitch, please. And the dynamic between Booth and Brennan has changed a lot too. I feel like whereas they used to try to portray that both of them were equal, now it feels like Brennan is constantly being lectured. Things like how she doesn't believe in things like faith or how she doesn't want to have children have suddenly become things that Booth has to change in her. It's ridiculous.

I don't know that much about science, but I buy it.

The more I revisit the early episodes too, there are just moments where Booth is all like, "I knew you couldn't handle the bigger gun" that just doesn't sit well with me at all.

But I love Hodgins and I love Cam.

[hyacinthian]

Any time you get into intrinsic differences between sexes/races, SHIT IS GOING TO GO DOWN.

Yeah. Cam is, like 99% of the time, the most consistently characterized person on that show and she remains fierce. But she gets so little of the storylines (just like Goodman, in a way) because I think that her narrative is very much not completely centralized around romantic love. And I think sometimes this show gets bogged down by the sheer amount of characters it has. I love some of the interns, except Daisy, and I very often question why Sweets is there at all. AT ALL.

The show really seems to valorize Booth's more conservative opinions.

YES.

That episode where Brennan was ~shown the light about her childfree ways? UGH. UGH.

[hyacinthian]

I feel like Daisy is just such a problematic portrayal, IDK. Maybe she just rubs me the wrong way. I am all about feeling enthusiastic for your field of study, okay, see: my life, but at the same time, her excitement and enthusiasm is portrayed as reminiscent of 12-year-old girls and one of her character traits is that she talks a lot and quickly and it just is all too stereotypical for me to stand behind. IDK.

I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE OF SWEETS. What the hell is he doing working with them all the time now? Why is he a member of the team? He's a psychologist amidst a field of forensic anthropologists, etc. and FBI agents. And he really belongs in neither category. So how is it that he is sanctioned to help them out?

That whole storyline he had with writing a book on Booth and Brennan's relationship? ARE YOU KIDDING ME.

[hyacinthian]

I see that he would be necessary in the Gravedigger stuff but he seems to have his hand in every case they do and he's always in the Jeffersonian lab around the dead bodies and on a logical level, I am just like HOW DO YOU HAVE CLEARANCE TO SEE THE DEAD BODY? NOT YOUR AREA OF EXPERTISE.

[hyacinthian]

I love your icon.

And no offense taken, I never really would have thought that it would have that high of a success rate anyway. The idea behind it seems kind of, well, ~hokey. I mean, I can sort of understand making an educated guess from a personality profile but aren't personality profiles known to be notoriously unreliable?