Bones, season 4

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Tonight's episode:

Did I really see Booth take that $20? How low can he go?

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The guy owed him. And he was dead. I guess I don't see any problem with it I would have done it.

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This ep by far was one of the funniest in a long time. I loved the way each member of the team got sucked into the deception of covering up the fact that the deceased had been removed from the casket. And kudos to the guy who played the undertaker. He was absolutely hysterical as the dude who was in WAY over his head. Zombie trauma- ha!

The story was a great whodunit, with red herrings all the way - I thought it was the Caribbean scientist, for sure!

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When the mortician admitted to the zombie-freakout stabbing, I about lost it Because, to be honest, I've always wondered if - even knowing better - you don't get people who DO freakout in that position every so often. I have to figure it does happen, at least somewhere.

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I couldn't stop laughing during Hodgins' toast. He started out so eloquently, the kind of toast we all wish we could deliver in that situation and then it ended so badly.

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this ep reminds me of the one on the plane. an enclosed space, need quick answers, etc. it's like a murder mystery on a train or somn.

how many eps left for this season?

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I'll tell you what this episode reminded me of...





Hilarious episode this weel lol.

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"Boy or Girl" ?

I have to say, I disagreed with the final answer.

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Can anyone summarize the last couple of minutes of the most recent episode, DVR cut out with Bones eating the banana split.

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Pretty much Booth pulled out a couple of beers from the fridge. Bones prefers the alcohol to the ice cream.

I, too, wasn't convinced by Angela's conclusion. But, I doubt she would have been fooled by that.

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It was a little more than just the pulling out of some beers.

Bones: Will he recover? Your friend Ken?

Booth: From losing his sister? Um...well you don't recover from something like that. You just survive.

Bones: People die. There is a fault in the design if we can't recover from it.

Booth: Fault in the design? What are we coffee pots?

Bones: I just mean that we should be designed so that we can handle the worst.

Booth: We are designed that way. We aren't sent anything that we can't handle.

Bones: I'm not convinced that loving someone is worth it.

Booth: I got a son, and it's worth it.

Bones: Even if he died?

Booth: Whoa. Bones don’t even say anything like that. Don't put that out there. It is worth it and everything around it is worth it. Every moment, everything ... is worth it.... So eat the ice cream before it melts.

Bones: I wish it was beer.

Booth: Right. (Goes and gets two beers) You're right.

Bones: Now this is what I'm talking about.

Booth: Good, agree to understand that this is worth it.

That’s a fairly significant dialog which will lead to more development in their relationship.

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May I present the androgynous doctor, and there's no confusion to be had:





Ally Maki

Quite the handsome doctor...

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Hot.

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Hey, I have a question before tonight's episode- could someone with military experience comment on whether what happened to Jared (sp) - dishonorable discharge - was accurate or not? It just seems to me that if he had an exemplary record and his lone offense was due to trying to save his brother (a federal agent, no less) that his punishment would be a lot less severe.

But then again, perhaps I've been influenced too much by pop culture and that would exactly be how the miliary would judge such a case......

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They've covered before that his record wasn't so exemplary. But in this case, he did the unforgivable, he disobeyed a direct order, and commandeered (stole) government property. Yes, he'd be discharged. No matter what happened before that.

Cute episode tonight with Bones seeking a baby.


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I also saw it yesterday (airs earlier in Canada) and while I have no love whatsoever for "Family Guy", that character's appearance was actually very important to an arc I didn't realize was a serious issue for
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Nicholas-

I agree.


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Thanks; while I figured his record wasn't exemplary I missed where they stated that, and given that he stated to Bones that while Seely was a guy to go out on a limb for someone, he wasn't like that, I wasn't sure- thought it was possible he was a by-the-book kind of officer.

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He was trying to be a by-the-book since he was recovering from a drinking problem. They've brought thatu p a few times.

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Great episode last night.

I really hope they don't go with Bones getting pregnant/having a child. It is so completely out of character and It would ruin the show for me. She would not make a good mother in my opinion. It would be selfish for her to have a child only to leave it with a nanny every single day.

It looks like next week is:

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imho it's kind of a cheat. it's very obvious that bones and booth love each other and have been dancing around this issue for FOUR DAMN SEASONS! it's about time to give it up. it might ruin the series... but hey it's like the X-Files. even they did it.

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I agree, it's getting tired, the whole we're-partners-so-we'll-deny-our-love thing. I'm watching another series right now called Castle and it looks to be doing the same thing so far.

Last night I was just saying that as long as Bones is willing to have Booth's baby why not go all the way and begin a relationship with him?

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It was tired in S1 or S2. But whatever, that's the hook of the show, so that's not changing any time soon. Not that I care. But yeah, when I they started the baby thing, I figured the writers were getting desperate for new aspects to explore in this relationship. Talk about heavy-handed. Still I immensely enjoyed the episode.

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Sometimes Bones being an emotional midget is tough to watch.

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When this show first started, I watched a couple and hated it. For some reason, I decided to try it out again this season, I don't think I even started at the beginning of this season.

I'm finding now that I like this show a lot. I find Bones total social cluelessness kinda endearing and Booth does too.

Having missed much of this show, I'm not burned out on the will they or won't they issue. I think it was a mistake for for Fox and Scully to get to gether because I always saw them as partners and friends. On Bones, I think they will get together, but it's too soon. It would change the nature of the show.

I know this is a forensic show, but I wish the blood and gore wasn't so in your face. Yeah, I know that's the way it is these days. I find myself squinting my eyes during much of the show.

I know the show doesn't make a big deal of it, but isn't she supposed to be a novelist who has written best-selling stories about a fictional forensic anthropologist named Kathy Reichs? (yeah, I know that's little joke). How would a person who is so socially deficient be able create characters that people would pay money to read about? I don't see that as something her character could pull off.

Actually this reminds me of one reason I initially disliked the show. I had just read a Reichs novel and this series was touted as being based on the Temperance character. It's really not and I couldn't get past that. The novels are a world apart from this show.

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A lot of very successful classical mystery writers were not very good at characterization, mood or description, and some of them were even fairly bad when it came to plot elements not related directly to the central mystery. This is doubtless also true of certain contemporary crime writers. In all genre fiction there is a certain subset of fans who only come for one element (the technology and "sense of wonder" of SF, the chills and thrills of horror, the puzzle of a mystery story) and really don't care about other literary qualities. And these people are enough to keep writers who are weak in other areas in print.

So I don't find it wholly implausible that Temperance could write police procedurals with a forensic focus that manage to entertain lots of readers even though her characters are stilted and wooden (or exaggerated and implausible.) There are plenty of big names on the best seller list who suffer from similar problems. (There is one perennially best-selling mystery writer who has had a number of novels turned into major studio releases who I find totally unreadable. I've started at least four or five of his books when pressed to by friends and have never made it past the second chapter of any of them. Now I don't even bother trying when someone - inevitably- recommends his latest. Different strokes and all that.)

Regards,

Joe

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You make your points well. I can't argue.

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Thank you. I wish everyone were as willing to recognize the obvious and just bow to my superior wisdom when I make a point. You have no idea how annoying it is when people persist in disagreeing with me after I've clearly written the last word on a given topic.

Regards,

Joe

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I don't recall many disagreements, at least not here or in the CSI thread. You are correct about the whole bowing down thing, though.

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Season finale: It was craptastic!

Nice to see Zach, though.