This show really isn’t afraid of doing what it wants.
Sometimes, shows become complacent and formulaic the point where it becomes a detriment. And, whether it works or not, you have to give credit to those shows that try and change things up once in a while.
Hart Hanson and the Bones crew definitely shook it up to finish up the shortened third season of Bones.
I must confess I’m a recent convert to Bones. I’m not usually into the crime scene shows, although I have been caught watching the original Law & Order.
But, with repeats on CBS, I switched over to FOX and caught the second-last episode of Bones (S03E14) and got hooked.
Initially, I was mostly intrigued by the shooting of Booth, one of the main characters. I actually thought the bastards were going to make me wait until next year to see what had happened. So I decided to do some catching up. I obtained the first 2 seasons of Bones and starting watching. I found out that Bones has repeatedly put Brennan and Booth in harm’s way and the pair have always lived to tell the tale. We’re not talking minor brushes with death, but Jack Bauer type survivals (being buried alive, captured by a serial killer, fighting a pipe-yielding bad guy with no weapon, being blown up, etc).
I’ll forgve them their tendency to almost-kill too frequently on Bones–I would do it too. That’s because they lead to these tender moments between Brennnan and Booth that make the show great. Their chemistry is what separates this show from every other crime drama on TV. I think those 2-3 minutes every few episodes are the reason I haven’t got tired of show.
But those almost-kills create another problem and here comes my biggest gripe with Bones so far…it has no impact on their relationship in the following episodes. Booth will save Brennan’s life in dramatic fashion one week and the next she’s very removed from him. It’s like each episode they press a reset button and the characters have to build their relationship back up from scratch. And they did exactly that this episode.
In the last episode, we were left wondering if Booth would even survive after heroicly taking a bullet in the chest for Brennan. Instead of continuing where it left off, we skipped ahead 2 weeks to a supposed funeral for Booth. This might have worked on other shows that left the possibility of killing their lead characters open, but on Bones it fell flat. I knew it was fake and it took away any emotion from the that scene. It’s a minor grip for the show in general, but every time the overlook the emotions of dramatic events, I feel it’s a wasted opportunity.
I know a lot of Bones fans detested this episode. Some hated this episode enough to write off the show for good. I think those people are liars. They’ll be back watching next season. Another group of fans suggest that with all the inconsistencies in this episode that it will be revealed as a hallucination or dream sequence. I’m not like Hodgins, and so I take what was presented at face value. Zack’s the apprentice and he won’t be back in the Jeffersonian in the near future. Not to mention his motor skills will take considerable recovery.
Sure, there were inconsistencies, but I think that was an effort on the part of Hart Hanson et al to try and throw suspicision on as many false suspects as possible in order to keep the suspence going. Everyone became a suspect in the episode with the frontrunners always a toss-up between Hodgins and Dr Sweets. The writers certainly played those two characters odd behaviour to another level to paint them as possible suspects, but that’s always a good sign that it’s not true on TV.
I have to admit, I only figured out who it was when Hodgins made his discovery that lead levels concluded the killer lived in his neighbourhood. It couldn’t be Angela, so it had to be Zack. It’s unfortunate this decision wasn’t made in time to have Zack actually killing the person he supposedly killed.
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