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

Comments

[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.

[plazmah]

DON'T GET ME STARTED ON BONES, I HAVE SEVERE FEMINIST FAN-RAGE WHEN IT COMES TO THAT SHOW.

Seriously, I was completely intensely into the fandom for seasons 1-3 (bordering on BNF status when it came to smutty fanfic) and then I was SO OVER IT because I wanted to BUNCH BOOTH IN THE FACE. >:(

[hyacinthian]

Yeah, that show is a mess.

Booth just became this moralizing figure and I could not handle it.

[plazmah]

Word. The combination of "Booth is a patronizing asshole" and "Brennan can only be healed by the magic of Booth's penis values" plus the ruining of Jack and Angela's relationship totally had me disgruntled, then they wrote Zack out and it was the final straw.

[hyacinthian]

Oh man, it's even worse now. Granted, they've at least fixed the Hodgins/Angela thing, which I'm thankful for, but it was the most contrived plot device in the history of plot devices.

Camille Saroyan is the only reason why I am still around. Her and Hodgins.

[eleusis_walks]

lol morrissey

stay classy

[hyacinthian]

iawtc.