Comments | pellucid: so maybe I will say something about Bones

pellucid

so maybe I will say something about Bones

Sep 19, 2009 10:12

But first, have a Farscape fic rec! Two years ago, kernezelda indulged my out-of-all-reasonable-proportion love for Xhalax Sun by writing me awesome Xhalax birthday fic: Butterfly Effect. It's AU season 3, and now she's written more in that 'verse: Chrysalis. Once again with the achey, perfect Xhalax voice--Kerne really captures exactly what it is that makes ( Read more... )

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kernezelda September 19 2009, 15:23:06 UTC

Despite the lack of Zack and the presence of Sweets, I have regained the Bones love - for all the reasons you state. It's fun, and I can just sit back and enjoy the team and the will they/won't they dance, and all the fun, fun, fun quirks of these characters.

The parade of interns last season was entertaining as heck, and hope whatever side-arc they have this year is, too.

Xhalax fic, ftw! I thought of you while writing. :) Thank you for the rec. :D

pellucid September 20 2009, 14:38:00 UTC

I think the key to the Bones love is just not to take it very seriously. I find that attitude makes even the craziest episodes and plot twists work, and it also means that when there's a really good episode, I love it all the more. All I want from this show is to be entertained, and it usually delivers just fine on that front!

surreallis September 19 2009, 15:45:48 UTC

I think for me, the problem with Bones and this discussion on UST is that... I almost don't feel like it fits the mold. Like you said, there is no 'will they or won't they?' question. They absolutely will. It's just a matter of when. And I almost feel like the relationship between Brennan and Booth is NOT UST. It's actually already RST, just not in a physically sexual form yet. They are so very married already that it's kind of hard to classify them as having UST. There's like... no barriers between them preventing it.

pellucid September 20 2009, 14:41:29 UTC

Indeed! The show only goes wrong when it tries to pretend there's some question about it--and consequently, the part of this past week's episode that didn't work for me was the part where everyone somehow thought that Booth only loved her as a result of his dream and then might stop. Because, uh, no. One would have to be pretty willfully blind to pretend that Booth hasn't been head-over-heels in love with her since at least the end of season 1. I could maybe accept that level of self-delusion from post-brain surgery Booth, but not from Cam or Sweets. But then Cyndi Lauper brought me back around to believing the show more or less knew what it was doing in the end, so it's all good.

gabolange September 19 2009, 17:01:12 UTC

You know, I think I figured out what bugged me about this episode (which is also the thing that has bugged me about all the other season premieres, come to think of it): they didn't follow their formula. The formula, the trope, that works is so predictable--you can almost time it. You start a certain way, you end a certain way. And it didn't. They do this at the beginning of each season--they always have to return to the status quo after the big drama of the previous season, and I have yet to like the way they try to accomplish that. But once they settle back into their patterns (episode two!), I'm a happy clam.

Really, it seems I get annoyed when the 'shippy moments are in the middle, but not at the end. Who knew? :)

And now, I go clean my apartment for the party. Now there are seven people! You've seen my apartment. I'm thinking I need some kind of matter converter to make this possible . . . :)

pellucid September 20 2009, 14:43:17 UTC

Hmm. It wasn't so very much off of their formula, though--yes, the shippiest moment happened in the middle, but the whole "it will work out in the end" or whatever it was that Cyndi Lauper said at the end wasn't not a shippy moment. But yes, I think I'll be happy enough when they get fully back into a groove.

gabolange September 20 2009, 16:18:48 UTC

I'm hoping to watch it again today. I woke up with a bit of a cold, so instead of devoting 45 minutes to exercise, I can spend that time with Bones (silver lining?). But yes, I will be happy when they get back to the usual manner of doing things!

beccatoria September 19 2009, 18:15:18 UTC

I think the fact that this show offers no potential for real growth is why it'll never be my show of shows, but I also...continue to enjoy it as happy background entertainment for the reasons you also give ( ... )

pellucid September 20 2009, 14:47:16 UTC

Oh, it'll certainly never be my show of shows, but neither do I want it to be. I don't have time for a show of shows just now, but I totally need a little bit of brainless procedural candy, complete with cop partner UST.

It will be interesting to see what kind of development, if any, we get with them this season. Last spring they were picked up for a two season renewal, which is no guarantee of anything, but presumably they've got both this season and another (and possibly more after that, depending on how these things go) to work with. I do think that despite the general lack of development, there is a discernible pattern of two steps forward, one step back, so that even if it's slow and uneven, there is some minimal moving forward. But they play faster and looser with continuity than any other show I can think of, so it's hard to know. But I'd be all about a return to the same formula, but with a bit of a twist, so it will be interesting to see how it goes.