"Why are you so nice to me?"
Am most annoyed with my VCR. It ate this week's tape so I have no Prison Break, no 24, and most importantly, no The Unit. And really, what are the odds of The Unit lasting long enough to get re-runs?
Watched Bones last night. It's a good thing I don't watch this show for the plots. This episode didn't so much have plot holes as it had plot lace. I have no idea how about three-fourths of the case was supposed to fit together, but that's completely beside the point, because the point was apparently all about the bond between Brennan and Booth. Which is peachy, because that's pretty much the reason I tune in anyway.
Considering the incredibly brief time-frame for Brennan to have called Booth, called the cops, gone to get herself checked out, and then to have Booth and the NOPD showing up at more or less the same time - with Booth actually getting there first - the man must have been a holy terror at the airport ticket desk and heaven help the poor passenger who got stuck sitting beside him on that flight out. Booth is generally twitchy to begin with and given the state he was in by the time he got to New Orleans, his seatmate probably spent the entire flight in mortal fear of spontaneous human combustion.
And this is the second time in less than a month of episodes that he's done this - bound off at the drop of a hat for what initially amounts to personal issues - simply because Brennan calls him. I don't think that either time she ever asked him to come, but given Booth's nature and the fact that he takes protecting his Squints so freaking seriously, it's inevitable that he would be there as quickly as humanly possible. So yes, much love for his explosive entrance into this week's episode. The cop's snort that he was definitely "more than 'sort of' a partner" could be taken all kinds of ways.
Then of course, I enjoyed how much of the episode Booth spends trying to protect Brennan from herself and her uncontrollable need to blither every last bit of information that crosses her mind in the most inopportune of situations. I loved how aggravated he would get with her every time she started obliviously incriminating herself. His body language is a riot. He obviously wants to yell at her- or possibly strangle her - but knows how counterproductive that would be so he just sort of flails all over the place. And he paces like a speed-walker.
The conversation they have at the diner spells out in far more words than they probably needed just why their relationship (professionally speaking, at this point) works. But the goofy grins both of them sport in this scene are cute too. They've come a long way from him having her held up by airline security because she wouldn't take his phone calls. (And because it amused him.)
Loved that Brennan kept dropping vague references to what was going on to Angela but failing to fill in the whole story. Loved that when Booth gets fed up with this he snatches the phone, tells the truth, and of course Angela thinks he's making it all up. Loved all the silliness of the voodoo discussions from Booth's defensive "Jesus was NOT a zombie!" to Brennan snitting "Would you stop saying voodoo?" at him as she was trying to make a serious case. Loved the consistently random inappropriateness of Brennan's tactics with the Bad Guys: "Very few people are scary once they've been poked in the eye." Loved the Hodgins/Angela discussion about how Brennan wants a "big life", even if it was somewhat out of the blue. Loved the little Squints-and-Booth wind-down session back at the Jeffersonian. Totally and completely failed to see how all those murders were supposed to be tied together and summed up. But really don't care. So not the point.
This is definitely one of those episodes that gets a pass on plausibility because of the charm of the characters. I can buy into Booth's character far more consistently than Brennan's, but episodes like this one do help make me warm up to her too.
Watched Bones last night. It's a good thing I don't watch this show for the plots. This episode didn't so much have plot holes as it had plot lace. I have no idea how about three-fourths of the case was supposed to fit together, but that's completely beside the point, because the point was apparently all about the bond between Brennan and Booth. Which is peachy, because that's pretty much the reason I tune in anyway.
Considering the incredibly brief time-frame for Brennan to have called Booth, called the cops, gone to get herself checked out, and then to have Booth and the NOPD showing up at more or less the same time - with Booth actually getting there first - the man must have been a holy terror at the airport ticket desk and heaven help the poor passenger who got stuck sitting beside him on that flight out. Booth is generally twitchy to begin with and given the state he was in by the time he got to New Orleans, his seatmate probably spent the entire flight in mortal fear of spontaneous human combustion.
And this is the second time in less than a month of episodes that he's done this - bound off at the drop of a hat for what initially amounts to personal issues - simply because Brennan calls him. I don't think that either time she ever asked him to come, but given Booth's nature and the fact that he takes protecting his Squints so freaking seriously, it's inevitable that he would be there as quickly as humanly possible. So yes, much love for his explosive entrance into this week's episode. The cop's snort that he was definitely "more than 'sort of' a partner" could be taken all kinds of ways.
Then of course, I enjoyed how much of the episode Booth spends trying to protect Brennan from herself and her uncontrollable need to blither every last bit of information that crosses her mind in the most inopportune of situations. I loved how aggravated he would get with her every time she started obliviously incriminating herself. His body language is a riot. He obviously wants to yell at her- or possibly strangle her - but knows how counterproductive that would be so he just sort of flails all over the place. And he paces like a speed-walker.
The conversation they have at the diner spells out in far more words than they probably needed just why their relationship (professionally speaking, at this point) works. But the goofy grins both of them sport in this scene are cute too. They've come a long way from him having her held up by airline security because she wouldn't take his phone calls. (And because it amused him.)
Loved that Brennan kept dropping vague references to what was going on to Angela but failing to fill in the whole story. Loved that when Booth gets fed up with this he snatches the phone, tells the truth, and of course Angela thinks he's making it all up. Loved all the silliness of the voodoo discussions from Booth's defensive "Jesus was NOT a zombie!" to Brennan snitting "Would you stop saying voodoo?" at him as she was trying to make a serious case. Loved the consistently random inappropriateness of Brennan's tactics with the Bad Guys: "Very few people are scary once they've been poked in the eye." Loved the Hodgins/Angela discussion about how Brennan wants a "big life", even if it was somewhat out of the blue. Loved the little Squints-and-Booth wind-down session back at the Jeffersonian. Totally and completely failed to see how all those murders were supposed to be tied together and summed up. But really don't care. So not the point.
This is definitely one of those episodes that gets a pass on plausibility because of the charm of the characters. I can buy into Booth's character far more consistently than Brennan's, but episodes like this one do help make me warm up to her too.