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Bones goes back to business as usual

So how do you feel about 'Bones?' Happy? Frustrated? Well if you like more of the same, you'll be a happy camper this season.

- Season 6, Episode 1 - "The Mastadon in the Room"

If you’re reading this post, you probably just watched Bones, and if you just watched Bones, you’re probably feeling one of two ways:

a) Elated

b) Pissed off

And you’re feeling this way because, as always, Bones has managed, despite all the developments last season, to press the reset button on Booth and Brennan’s relationship. Oh, there’s been progress and character growth and everything else is moving along but Booth and Brennan. They are, for the next season, staying not together as far as we can tell. Which is why I’m reviewing Bones for the foreseeable future instead of Ivey.

Before we get to the mastodon in the room (see what I did there? I’m so clever), let’s go through what’s great about this show. Like Caroline, the linchpin of the group! How wonderful is she? I really hope she becomes a regular, because every episode she’s in is ten times more fantastic than it would have been without her. And Cam! I never would have guessed when she first showed up in season two I’d love her so much, but good lord, I do. I love her attempts to hold everything together, her righteous anger, her willingness to both be the team’s mother and kick their asses when they deserve it, basically everything about her.  I love the stories they thought up for each of the squinterns (Vincent Nigel-Murray winning Jeopardy is pretty much the greatest ever), I loved the shot of Wendell’s arms (yum), and I’ve learned to at least live with Sweets’ (hopefully temporary) facial hair and Brennan’s new bangs. (I have a personal vendetta against heavy bangs like that.) I loved Angela and Hodgins having a baby. And I loved that the Jeffersonian itself has become such a character that every second spent not there felt deeply wrong to me.

But enough about that, you’re here to discuss Booth and Brennan. Okay, first of all, are you surprised? Are you really surprised? This show’s bread and butter is keeping those two crazy kids apart. Now, if that’s a wise idea or not is up to you. I think after six seasons maybe they should start considering getting them together, just because that’s a long time to ask fans to loyally wait, but I’m not on the writing board. For whatever reason, they want to hold off. And honestly, I’ve thought Hart Hanson & Co. were wrong before, and they’ve always proven to me that they know way better than I do about everything, so I’m willing to put my trust in.

If they wanted to keep Booth and Brennan apart, they made the perfect choice. I said it before, Brennan went away to test Booth. He said he loved her then, but if he left, would he come back still loving her? It is, as Cam mentioned when she balled Brennan out, selfish and immature. But Brennan needed Booth to prove to her that he didn’t love her because she was just there and the best choice, but because he loved her, and that he would love her no matter where her intellect took her.

Booth failed that test, and how. Not only did he leave her, but he left her for someone too close to her, someone who hit too close to home. Now, I’m sure she’s nice, and Booth generally has great taste in women. But I already hate her. What kind of picture was that Booth had on his phone, a modeling shoot? What sort of idiot models in a war zone? Camille Saroyan or Temperance Brennan would know better than to model in a war zone, Booth. Choose better. He’s going to have to do something serious to get Brennan’s trust back enough to get her to realize what Daisy realized, that sometimes you have to let go of your brain and go with your heart. She was so close, Booth, and because you were just as selfish as her, you screwed the pooch.

So how is this season of Bones going to fix these star-crossed lovers? How will Brennan ever place that same emotional trust in Booth instead of just re-iterating over and over again that it’s totally only professional? Honestly, I have no idea. But that’s why smarter people than me write this show, and I just sit here and talk about it.

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11 Responses to “Bones goes back to business as usual”

September 23, 2010 at 11:44 PM

I’m not in the Booth/Brennan camp. I think they would make each other absolutely miserable and it’s their dance that they enjoy.

I fear boredom for this season. Needs a shakeup, because the same old same old is not going to work for much longer. Although, I guess it does on CSI, Law & Order and the like. Maybe formula sans changes is what works. Just not for me.

September 24, 2010 at 8:57 AM

let me rephrase that

I agree 100%.

September 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM

You da man, Sebastian!

September 24, 2010 at 1:12 AM

I was neither elated or pissed off. I was just kinda bored.

It is actually separate from the relationship issue (And at this point, I’m just numb to it … Count me in the 6 season was too damn long to string it along … I’m well past caring if it makes sense for how the characters were written. As Julia says, these guys are smart writers, and I posit that smart writers could have found a way to get them together two seasons ago if they wanted).

There was just something off. During a night of great returns (Fringe, Grey’s, Priva…. Oh, well, 2 out of 3 aren’t bad), Bones just felt … lackluster?

September 24, 2010 at 9:07 AM

Hey! Cool! See? That’s what I meant with that I don’t care anymore.

I didn’t watch the show at all for three years (because I couldn’t accept the show’s forensic science in the pilot episode, which I thougth was just bogus hokey pokey), then watched season four (and accepted it for the popcorn forensics that it is), got annoyed to no end by the relationship, dropped the show again for about a year and a bit and it seems the second long pause was enough for me to just don’t care anymore after returning for a second time. Which you, Ivey, made me if I remember correctly. You wrote something nice about Bones and I started watching again :-)

I guess my stance is that the lead actors are both a bunch of idiots. It’s like the opening credits that now last for about five minutes because every second cousin of anyone of the show now has an executive producer credit on the show to be able to get more money.

The show is, all in all, like those thowaway romance novels you can buy at the airport. You know… trash. I still like it :-)

September 24, 2010 at 1:07 PM

Ivey I used the exact same word to describe the episode, lackluster. It sums it up for me.

September 24, 2010 at 11:43 AM

I took felt nothing for this episode, I was just bored. I would have loved to be happy, or mad or feel anything at all, but all I felt was “When is Fringe coming on”. The show is just filler. Sebastian is right, it’s romance trash with some touching moments but usually just lame garage that everyone still reads, or in this case watches.

September 24, 2010 at 12:22 PM

I am on the bored bandwagon. There were so many things wrong with the episode and characters. I’ve come to accept that things that happen on the show would never happen in real life, but last night’s show was too unreal for me.

September 24, 2010 at 1:57 PM

The whole thing just feels contrived to me. They way the gang lined up at the end was just strange.

Not many comments from fans on the review boards indicates that Hart and gang need to be worried.

This epsisode will not gain interest from the new viewers. I am a die hard fan and I was extremely disappointed in the awkwardness.

September 25, 2010 at 2:06 AM

As sad as it is to me, I was bored during Bones too. This kills me since I’ve been a big fan since the beginning. I’m hoping it gets better, but I’m afraid that I’m just over it.

October 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM

I agree. I did not even watch the last episode last season and now I am totally POed because of Hannah. Come on Hansen. If you can’t give some B/B soon, I quit.

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