'Bones': Dressed to kill
Oct 31, 2007, 11:57 AM | by Abby West
Categories: Mini TV Watch
I love Halloween episodes, if only for the opportunity to see my favorite characters dressed up in wacky costumes. And last night's episode of Bones did not disappoint. Not only were we treated to a nerdy version of Booth doing his best squint impersonation and Brennan looking pretty damn hot in her Wonder Woman outfit, but also the plot was a logical holiday tie-in. The spooky maze where the first mummified body was found, as well as the haunted house where the second one was discovered, didn’t feel like forced contrivances (unlike the unseen patron party which was the excuse for the Jeffersonian staff to put on costumes. More on that later.). Sure, we never really got to understand the particular pathology of the snarky EMT-serial killer but, hey, he was dressed as a clown when Booth killed him. What more can you ask for?
Speaking of clowns, Booth showed his truly manly side when he copped to having coulrophobia, an abnormal fear of clowns. His little shriek and jump in front of the scary clown in the haunted house was priceless and in no way emasculating (ahem). I loved that Brennan referenced his shooting-the-clown-on-the-ice-cream-truck incident from last season but wouldn't this fear have been a pertinent disclosure during that whole arc?
Booth and Brennan exhibited little shifts in their personalities this week. Was anyone else surprised by Brennan's acceptance of that minister's argument against abortion? I know she wasn't swayed by it, but for someone who is normally so intolerant of fundamentalists and religious zeal in general (usually when talking to Booth) she sure did seem pretty zen about the whole thing. And devout Christian Booth was the one to take issue with the minister's "kind of horrific" Hell House pitch, feeling like they're on the wrong side of the issue.
Brennan continued her leap-of-faith kick when she got Hodgins and
Zach to essentially guess as they were narrowing down the places to
look for the latest missing girl, Megan Shaw. That was after the great
Squints versus Norms Jeffersonian War of 2007, when Booth, Angela, and
Camille were banished because the squints couldn't work at full
capacity with people like Booth and company "constantly interrupting
them with irrelevancies."
Of course, it was hard to take any of them seriously in their
costumes: Camile trying to look authoritative in her sexy Catwoman
getup; Angela as Las-Vegas-showgirl Cher; Hodgins in a ridiculously
oversized naval officer's uniform (??) that made him look like a toy
cop; Zach as the bottom half of a cow; nerdy Booth, complete with taped
spectacles, highwaters, and pocket protector; and a leggy, boobalicious
Wonder Woman Brennan with her bracelets and lasso. It was kind of
delicious to see Booth's slack-jawed initial reaction to Brennan's
outfit. Yowzer.
Thankfully we had some progress in the Angela/Hodgins story with the appearance the quirky new private investigator, Amber Kipler, who found Angela's husband on a remote island in the Florida Keys pining away for his lost bride. (She first proved her worth by revealing that Angela changed her name on her 18th birthday because it came to her in a dream — a fact she learned from a girl named Roxy whose heart Angela broke in second year art school. Obviously, that just titillated Hodgins.) No matter how appealingly Kipler painted the mystery husband (smells like a summer breeze, the most beautiful man she'd ever seen, etc.), Angela remained adamant that Hodgins is her man. That's just a lovely setup for true love triangle, isn't it?
So, is there a well-known actor you’d like to see cast as Angela’s husband? What was up with that killer smack Brennan gave the kid in interrogation? Are you ready for the return to the Illuminati storyline next week? What kind of name is Goremagan? What does it mean, people??
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