When I Started Watching: During the freshman season in 2005 until the show was moved (for the first of a thousand times) and it conflicted with required activities. I rediscovered the show in the fall of 2008 almost by accident.
Why I Started Watching: The show started off with a lead in from House, it was only too easy to leave the TV on after House was over. Once the show began to be punted around the network line up I wanted to follow but was conflicted out.
What Worried Me When I First Started Following the Show: Nothing much, I was a little concerned about how the writers and producers were going to deal with the chemistry between Booth and Brennan (David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel).
Why I Kept Watching: The show is smart. In a market cuckholded by CSI, Bones brings real intelligence to forensic crime solving. The chemistry in the show is both literal and physical. I enjoy the intelligent use of science behind the crime solving duo as well as the chemistry between the two leads. What can I say, I’m a sucker for a will they/wont they relationship.
What is Great about the Show: The producers of this show Hart Hanson and Stephen Nathan show adept handling of complex science and a willingness to tackle interpersonal relationships. The science in the show is real and supervised by real-life forensic anthropologist/novelist Kathy Reichs. But on top of tossing around 10 dollar anthropological concepts like its nothing, the writers have done a good job of giving the viewers just enough to keep them hooked on the Booth and Brennan relationship. Furthermore, the show runners have shown a remarkable willingness to shift the cast around. When the show was growing heavy on empirical sciences, the runners brought in psychologists—first a recurring role for Stephen Fry and then a cast membership for John Francis Daily. The addition of the psychologists on the show has rounded out the cast nicely. Then the support workers in the lab are fantastic, but again to keep the show fresh Zach Addy (Eric Millegan), assistant to Dr. Brennan, joins forces with a cult-based serial killer. The result was a refreshing breath of air in the form of a rotating troop of interns. The show has done a nice job of keeping things fresh and, as a result, has been able to keep a steady number of viewers as the show travels around the network—a journey that would have killed a lesser show.
What Worries Me about the Show Now: Originally the season 4 finale was a bit worrisome. All of a sudden Booth has a brain tumor, and he wakes up apparently not knowing who Brennan is—what?!? However, the season finale viewed through the lens of the first six episodes of season 5 is less worrisome. Apparently Booth’s “who are you?” did not mean that literally didn’t know who Brennan was but rather that he wasn’t sure if she was his wife or not, a much more palatable idea. However, I have a feeling that his may be the season that Booth and Brennan final push beyond the oft repeated “we’re just partners”. This prospect is simultaneously exciting and terrifying. By pushing the joining of forces between the pair into the late 5th season, I fear that the writers may have written themselves into a hole. I worry the union may so disrupt the shows dynamic as to be detrimental.
Why I’ll Keep Watching: The best part of a will they/wont they relationship is the final “they will” moment. Additionally, the producers and writers of show have earned my faith. I think the show runners care about the characters as much as the viewers do and as such will hand the “they will” moment with care and an eye to the future.
Favorite Episodes: “The Man in the Fallout Shelter”, “The Man in the Morgue”, “The Boy in the Shroud”, “The Woman in the Sand”, “Aliens in the Spaceship”, “Death in the Saddle”, “The Santa in the Slush”, “The Wannabe in the Weeds”, “The Pain in the Heart”, “The Bone that Blew”, “Critic in the Cabernet”, “The End in the Beginning”, “Harbingers in the Fountain”, “Night at the Bones Museum”, “Tough Man in the Tender Chicken”
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