As someone who appreciates any show that relies on intelligent dialog, factual information, and intriguing characters, Bones has all of the above.
I was hoping this past season they'd retire the rotating intern's theme and just pick one, so perhaps next fall they will. Hopefully not like they did on House.
Because you can watch repeats on TNT almost every night of the week for hours at a time, I've seen each episode multiple times and have come to a surprising conclusion: the guilty party is, 99.9% of the time, a minor character introduced in the first 10 minutes of the show. By the time the guilty party is revealed in the last 10 minutes you've completely forgotten about that minor character as Booth and Bones have been busy interrogating all the 'wrong' people for 50 minutes.
That is my only real complaint with the show. Unlike Law & Order (in all its myriad iterations), you usually get a lot of false arrests but rarely is the guilty party a minor character in the first 5-10 minutes. Sometimes I'm amazed how L&O keeps the story straight as it leads to the eventual person.
When I watch new episodes of Bones I can usually pick out the guilty party just by the lack of attention they give to some person in the first 10 minutes of the show. It's too bad it's so formulaic so hopefully in Fall 2011 they'll shake things up and actually try a different way of exposing the 'perp.' I'm also looking forward to the Brennan pregnancy plot with Booth (which I hope doesn't end in her having a miscarriage or the two of them getting into a fight over a woman's right to choose). Booth + Catholic + Brennan + atheism = here we go again.
It'd be great to see the two of them finally get married in secret so they can continue to work on cases together, but I doubt that will happen. I don't see Brennan getting an abortion as they really don't actually do that kind of stuff on TV and it would alienate too many viewers. I also can't see her doing what she does while caring for a child (isn't that another character's story arc now?). But who knows as the writers are pretty clever.
I also enjoy the thematic seasons like the gravedigger or the Gorgomon plot-lines. I'm still not sure why they got rid of Zack, but he used to make me laugh out loud by his naivety. Maybe he'll get cured and they can bring him back since he didn't actually "kill" anyone as everyone thinks and become Brennan's 'manny.' :)
I was hoping this past season they'd retire the rotating intern's theme and just pick one, so perhaps next fall they will. Hopefully not like they did on House.
Because you can watch repeats on TNT almost every night of the week for hours at a time, I've seen each episode multiple times and have come to a surprising conclusion: the guilty party is, 99.9% of the time, a minor character introduced in the first 10 minutes of the show. By the time the guilty party is revealed in the last 10 minutes you've completely forgotten about that minor character as Booth and Bones have been busy interrogating all the 'wrong' people for 50 minutes.
That is my only real complaint with the show. Unlike Law & Order (in all its myriad iterations), you usually get a lot of false arrests but rarely is the guilty party a minor character in the first 5-10 minutes. Sometimes I'm amazed how L&O keeps the story straight as it leads to the eventual person.
When I watch new episodes of Bones I can usually pick out the guilty party just by the lack of attention they give to some person in the first 10 minutes of the show. It's too bad it's so formulaic so hopefully in Fall 2011 they'll shake things up and actually try a different way of exposing the 'perp.' I'm also looking forward to the Brennan pregnancy plot with Booth (which I hope doesn't end in her having a miscarriage or the two of them getting into a fight over a woman's right to choose). Booth + Catholic + Brennan + atheism = here we go again.
It'd be great to see the two of them finally get married in secret so they can continue to work on cases together, but I doubt that will happen. I don't see Brennan getting an abortion as they really don't actually do that kind of stuff on TV and it would alienate too many viewers. I also can't see her doing what she does while caring for a child (isn't that another character's story arc now?). But who knows as the writers are pretty clever.
I also enjoy the thematic seasons like the gravedigger or the Gorgomon plot-lines. I'm still not sure why they got rid of Zack, but he used to make me laugh out loud by his naivety. Maybe he'll get cured and they can bring him back since he didn't actually "kill" anyone as everyone thinks and become Brennan's 'manny.' :)