Mini TV Watch: 'Bones'
Sep 26, 2007, 12:54 PM | by Abby West
Categories: Mini TV Watch
Hi. My name is Abby and I am hopelessly devoted to David Boreanaz the show Bones. Ah, forget that. I've got nothing to be ashamed of. This show has given me two seasons of gruesome deaths, witty repartee, and stunningly well-played sexual tension. What more can you ask of a weekly TV indulgence? So you can see that I came to this third season with a closetful of expectations — and boy have they been met.
A skull slamming into the windshield of a speeding car was a nice "Hey, how ya doin'?'" kind of opener. It was quite the windy road from that overpass-tossed body part to a creepy government official and his bed-hopping wife to a cannibalistic freak with a diamond in his tooth to a secret society bent on…well, we're not sure what yet. But along the way, we got reacquainted with Boreanaz's FBI agent Seeley Booth and his merry band of squints, led by Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel, pictured, with Boreanaz). And at the end, we were left with a bigger, possibly dangerous, mystery to unravel for episodes to come.
I really wasn't sure how they'd handle Hodgins and Angela's whole thwarted-wedding thing from last season's final, but it just played right into the couple's sweet but wacky relationship. Of course Hodgins isn't put off by the fact that Angela forgot that years ago she married a giant black sailor, who she'd just met, while drunk, on the island of Vatulolo during the feast of the shark god Dakuwaka. Of course he would spend an obscene amount of his rather vast wealth to find that person and finalize their divorce By the way, how cute is T.J. Thyne with his hair cut short? Not that I didn't love his great mane of curly hair but when it's short you really get to see what a handsome man he is — possible future leading man kind of handsome.
The writers did a great job confusing the source of the tension between Booth and Brennan. Was it because the "iconic image" of the two of them standing at the altar last year disturbed Brennan? Was it because Booth arrested her father last year, even though Temperance said she understood? Booth's dogged attempts to ferret out what was really wrong and get Brennan to go back out into the field with him showed just how intertwined they'd gotten. Some might say they had a symbiotic relationship. (Loved Brennan's line: "You said that already. What is it, the word of the day?" when Booth pointed out their "symbiotic" relationship again.) It's just as they say in the end. The two of them are the center and as long as they hold it together, keeping their relationship somehow playful yet intense, the show will continue to succeed.
The fact that Booth knew things still weren't right between them even when she did go back into the field with him was a testament to their connection. He cares for her personally and was afraid he'd hurt her. And he knew Zack's absence alone wasn't the reason for her distance, it was the fact that he hadn't stopped Zack from accepting the military's request to join a mission.
Speaking of Zack, there was a total old-home-week sort of vibe to his surprise return to the lab from Iraq. Naturally Zack's inability to interact on such a warm fuzzy level for long had him immediately jumping into the case and kicking the more than qualified but sadly out of luck trial assistant Clark (Eugene Byrd) to the curb. It was so sad when Clark said he was nobody and just exited. Ouch. I'm looking forward to finding out more about Zack's time with the military and exactly why he was found to be "detrimental to a military team approach."
So, what do you think of the overarching storyline that looks like it'll be played out over the season? Anyone else wondering how Camille can remain just good friends with Booth after their steamy past? Or why the entire world isn't watching this show?
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