Image Credit: Greg Gayne/FoxBones returns tonight (Fox, 8 p.m. EST) with the first of eight straight new episodes. After seeing a young man die in a freak subway accident, Sweets thinks about what he wants out of life and makes a decision about his relationship with Daisy. Meanwhile, a writer from a Japanese magazine doing a piece on Brennan’s latest novel tails Tempe and Seeley (pictured), convinced that Agent Andy and Kathy are Booth and Brennan. The big reveal of that plotline: Brennan’s process for writing sex scenes. (Sadly, however, not a full description of that sex act on p. 187.) Watch two clips after the jump, then tell me: Is anyone else annoyed when they see a writer on TV conducting an interview without a tape recorder? It infuriates me. I can buy it when this writer is shadowing them in the field — it’s observational reporting. But when she finally sits down with Brennan in the episode, she still just takes notes. I get that it’s so Brennan could comment on what angle the writer is clearly interested in — which you can tell by when she starts scribbling — but I doubt that a journalist, who has presumably come all the way from Japan for a story, would not tape the interview. Especially when her subject is such a stickler for accuracy.
Pop Culture Pet Peeve rant over.
P.S. While you’re programming your DVR, make sure it’s set to record next week’s David Boreanaz-directed 100th episode. With Sweets ready to publish his book on Booth and Brennan’s partnership — which theorizes that they’re in love and that the “sublimating energies of that connection” are what fuel their homicide investigations — they have to tell him the “first case” he based it on was incorrect. Flashback! We see their flirtatious beginnings, and build to a final few present-day moments that will blow your mind, even on rewind. At least that’s what I say when I review the episode in the new issue of EW and give it an A.
Can’t wait to see it!
Unfortunately, Booth gets butt cancer
A new Bones AND a new Supernatural all in one night!
Life is good…
Amen, sister (or brother)!
Ha ha, it’s sister, unless you’re Desmond from Lost, in which case “brothah” is acceptable.
Got to see it last night on Global. One of the best episodes all season. Cannot wait for episode 100!
I started watching halfway through thinking it was a repeat! I’m sad that I caught some of the major plot points without seeing the whole episode.
FINALLY!!!! It’s been much too long since the last new episode. I’ve been going through withdrawals!
CAN. NOT. WAIT!!!
Aw, poor Sweets. But YAAAAY for new Bones episodes, including the Big 100! (And YAAAAY for another new SPN ep, too!)
Our site does recaps for Bones and Supernatural if anybody wants to stop by and say hello at Mile High Horrors. YAY THURSDAYS!
The DVR will be working overtime tonight with Bones, Fringe, and CSI (the Mentalist changed time slots). Thursdays are wonderful, with a mysterious Project Runway and don’t forget Survivor, yaayy!!
Mandi, I appreciate your pet peeve rant. I used to be a social worker and I can’t watch Life Unexpected because the whole premise is preposterous. I won’t get into it, because it could become a page long diatribe… so I’ll just say grr! and move on.
Oh, and YAY! Bones is back!
I AM SO EXCITED FOR BONES!
Sorry I find your rant ridiculous. There are many writers who choose to take notes instead of using a recorder. I used to do that all the time. When you do an interview, what do you do? Turn on the tape recorder and don’t write any notes? When you take notes instead of recording everything, you decide as you go along what is important. You get the freshness of the moment when you write. So just because you only want to use a tape recorder doesn’t mean that everybody else does.