We can do this one more 'gain

[rachg82]

Don't mind me as I spam your flists.

-Does anyone know if there was a new ep of Community tonight? My DVR decided to be wonky & skip out on Parks & Rec, which I know was on, so I'm wondering if it frakked up & missed both.

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I'm glad I had a heads-up that this was going to be extremely Bones-lite, because it allowed me to go into it not expecting anything.

Overall? Let's take it in sections.

First up--the Finder and his Finder Power Friends:

By himself, I liked the guy that played the Finder, so at least there's *some* potential there. Like, I wouldn't mind if he came back on the show by himself, but I can't imagine tuning into a show solely about him & his sidekicks based on the kind of writing we saw between them, which brings me to…

OMG THE TROPES. The dialogue, characterization, EVERYTHING was so stupid, I was actually laughing (you know how sometimes something is so bad, it's good? Like that. I actually enjoyed it on that level). The scene at the cafe? If you were to type it out, you'd have to capitalize the first letter of every word. It was a Very Important Monologue, basically. Hence the ~music~ that came on in the background. Hahaha. Ohhh, forced drama.

I mean, come on. There's the plucky British sprite who can't pronounce words, but gee wiz is handy with some tools, so y'know she comes through in a pinch! (which is good because the lead always gets in pinches! Boy howdy). Then there's the mysterious Philosophical Black Man (again--capital letters intentional) who, A. ~you don't want to mess with~, and B. can tell you a thing or two (especially if it's spiritual), because if there's anything Hollywood teaches, it's that African American friends are there simply for sage advice & catchphrases. Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Finder!

But the best part was how they *tried* to create depth & just couldn't pull it off. WE OWE HIM OUR LIIIIVES. Dun dun DUN. Hahaha. Of course you do, two-dimensional sidekick with apparently nothing to do other than follow this appropriately well-muscled yet haunted (once more with feeling: dun dun DUN) man around. Why am I not surprised? It's a good thing that bar of his had such booming business, eh? Otherwise who knows how The Finder could've paid his wily team to tag along constantly, sitting around with him all day fighting about fat girls & kittens (that part? Not so funny, really. Killed a bit of my schadenfreude-buzz. A girl smoking? Nah, not depressing enough. Let's add that she's fat. HILARIOUS. Er, not so much).

Actually, no, wait. The best part was the ~LOL!Lesbians. They have low self-esteem, chips on their shoulders, & tattoos! Wouldn't it be funny to ask the straight girl to go kiss the notreallylesbian!chick, just so she can have a moment of gay!panic & be all, "HEY, I'M STRAIGHT! I'M JUST CONFIDENT!" Ahahaha, gay people!~ It never gets old, Hollywood! Keep it up, douchebags!

Thankfully though, nothing in the episode actually got my ire up enough to be all fist-shakey. Bear in mind I use the word "douchebag" very liberally though. Heh. Like I said, I didn't expect anything from the ep, and I enjoyed it like a bad movie (I used to watch crap like "Atomic Train" with Jen & Kevin for fun, so yeah. I know all about enjoying bad movies). So it's all good, particularly since this technically was just an "extra" ep for the season. It doesn't even really count/matter, and at least no one said anything to Brennan to bring out my stabby side this week, so woo for that.

Before I move on though, two more things:

1. "Pigs got people teeth!" Quick! Someone pull out the banjo from Deliverance!

I swear, if I didn't know better, I'd say they packed this episode full of cliches on purpose. I wish they'd gone a little further though & just had the sheriff break out some spoons to play. Yee haw! ("'Round these parts, we solve killins with a good ole fashioned SHIN-DIG. HIT IT, BOYS!")

2. Regarding the so-called "Finder Power"? I won't lie, my first thought was of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. After having seen the ep, I think it would've been even better if he & his sidekicks had dressed up. Like so:



FINDER POWERS! ACTIVATE!

All right, all right. I'm done making fun of the ep now. Ha. Let's talk about the part we all care about now, a.k.a. the actual characters of the show:

-Baby bump! You can totes see it now, especially in that scene in Booth's office where Emily's wearing the dress with the empire hemline. Aw. Bebes. (WTF, estrogen, cut it out)

-Booth didn't get as jealous as he usually does (he called him a "son of a bitch" even before he hit on Brennan, so him saying it afterward isn't clearly indicative of anything), but--despite my guilty pleasure love of fictional jealousy--I'm gonna say that's a good thing. He did do the Alpha Male routine at first, at least, laying claim by jumping in when the dude told Brennan to call him by his first name, so that sort of filled the quota. But I do actually think it's better he was able to react in a non-OH NOES-esque fashion to the "Would you sleep with me?"; it shows he's more secure now. Overly jealous men tend to be easily angry men, and he's trying to NOT be an angerball anymore (props if you get that reference), so it works for me. It also shows he's less possessive (without being less in love), which if extending to his feelings about Brennan overall, is much healthier. Of course I think it helped that he didn't see the guy as a real threat, but still.

I'm not ready to give up my Jealous!Booth from fanfic yet though. You can pry that from my cold dead hands. Heh.

-I'm gonna assume when The Finder called around asking for Brennan's foster parents that we're to surmise she lost the medal once in foster care, not that the show forgot she didn't go into state's care until 15 (rather than the 7th grade), especially because:

-Whoa, Tempe was 11 in the 7th grade? That had to be intentional. Most people in the states are 12/13 at that point. She either skipped a grade or entered Kindergarten young. Either way, that could've created even more of a barrier between her & peers, growing up.

-That picture looked nothing like the ones we've seen of Brennan & her mom up to now. Heh. Oh, television.

-Regardless, Brennan getting the medal & the pic of her with her mom was muy lovely. I cannot deal with a teary-eyed Brennan, y'all. Like, I have to hug my TV, & it's a whole big thing.

Okay, so that's not at all true (hee), but you get the idea. IT SQUISHES MY HEART. Especially when they're happy tears. SHE JUST DESERVES TO BE HAPPY, YO. AND SHE MISSES HER MOTHER. I like when the show does something to sort of ~give back~ to her a bit of what she's lost. I get the same feelings whenever Max shows up & dotes on her.

-Hodgins being a 7. I laughed at this only because I remembered the private detective from season 3 giving him a 7.5. It would've been better if he said the exact same thing though.

-The final scene: Brennan's dress was SO GORGEOUS. Hotttt. Booth looked very nice as well (I enjoyed the matching-ness that was them. I like guys in black. Then again, I also like girls in black. Probably says something about me. Heh). I liked his description of her abilities, and I also thought him putting the medal around her neck was cute. (I'm such a shipper, my thoughts watching it were all, "Aww, he's totally touching her hair right now by doing that." Like, it's just hair, you eternal pre-teen. Calm down.)

Anyway, that's it. I just want to get to the last 4 eps of the season now. Chop chop.


I've already done a Vid of the Day today, but when has that ever stopped me?

This clip makes me laugh. Jill can be a bit biphobic in some of her vids, but I still love her. "A dyke? WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE…and then buy you a beer." Hahaha.

Comments

[fourth_rose]

I see that we're pretty much agreed about the episode - I really liked the Bones bits, but they were way too few and far between, and the rest made me roll my eyes a lot. Plus, something about Walter rubs me the wrong way, and I found Ike's way of talking extremely difficult to understand (non-native speaker here... but on the other hand, I could have told Walter what "foster parent" is in German ;-))

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

and I found Ike's way of talking extremely difficult to understand

You live in the UK, right? I know she's English, but even to me her accent sounded a bit forced/fake, like she was trying to pull off a different type of British accent than her real one. It was very The Chimney Sweeper courtesy of Mary Poppins to me.

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what it is - she sounds quite middle class in RL and clearly the working class Londoner was a stretch for her. God it was awful.

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was about as bad as me doing a Cockney accent, which would probably make your ears bleed. "It's tea time, innit? Chim chimney!"

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

LOL! Lookit you, Mary Pwoppins!

[fourth_rose]

No, I live in Central Europe, and English is not my native language, but I usually don't have a problem with British accents (I'm in Britain quite often, and have never had trouble understanding anyone there so far). Like you said, her accent sounded totally fake to me, although I was quite relieved when I read statements from several native speakers who said they had trouble understanding her too - at least I know that my language skills aren't the issue here ;-)

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Ah. I'd seen your email address on your profile, which said UK in it, & that led me astray. Do you live in Germany?

[fourth_rose]

Nope, Austria :)

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

You should look & see if there are any tourist vids on YouTube for your city/town & then share it. I did that with a friend from Belgium a while back.

[fourth_rose]

I'm sure it's fun, but I'm a bit paranoid about keeping my fannish actitivities and RL apart, so I usually keep info like that to a minimum here on LJ ;)

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people feel that way, but it still makes me scratch my head. Heh. I've been on LJ since its main function *was* for people to talk about their real lives (a lot of my old friends on here still use it pretty much exclusively for that. My BFF recently was like, "I don't know what to post about," and I suggested TV, & she was all ~whaaaaa~? As if it'd be a new paradigm for her or something, haha). Of course back then it was also invite-only, but it's still a trip to me that it's turned into such a fangirl-centric place where so many don't talk about personal stuff at all (or actually apologize when they do). It's so weeeeird.

[fourth_rose]

*g* Well, I only discovered LJ via fandom, so I use it for fannish stuff, and I'm keeping that apart from my RL mostly for professional reasons - I honestly don't need my colleagues to know about my fanfic, for example. However, I've generally never felt much inclination to share personal information with the whole net - it's also the reason why facebook creeps me out. Booth would probably say I'm private ;)

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

But friends-locking is your friend! Ha, okay, seriously though--I get it. :)

You know what's funny though? I'm more private in RL. I've had friends/coworkers (as in people I socialized with outside of work) who knew me for years without even knowing I was bi, or knowing pretty much anything about my family, etc. With one, I dated another mutual friend of ours, and she didn't even know until wayyyy later. My history with online friendships is different than yours though--like that's how I met Jen, for instance, before she moved her Pennsylvanian ass across the country & we became roommates. Hee. And I think for me it makes more sense too because written communication has always been the most effective/comfortable method, even though I still like face-to-face interactions, but yeah. It probably largely depends on your personality.

Dude, facebook is the worst. Even once you delete your account, they still own all your info! It's fascinating to observe people's behavior on there in a digital ethnography sorta way though, heh (I wish M. Wesch would do a study of it like he did with his anthro class on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU)). But I got rid of mine months ago. It just kept bugging me all the time. Soooo many stupid opinions & misplaced apostrophes! Heh. FOR REAL. Some friends are only meant for face-to-face interactions! Like, "Please don't ever attempt writing again. Also, never discuss politics with me. YOU ARE DUMB. P.S. Wanna go to a movie?" Haha.

[fourth_rose]

*g* Yes, I sometimes share bits and pieces under f-lock, but it's hardly ever more than "have a pic of my cat" or "wanna hear a funny thing that happened on my way to work today?"

I think I've always taken the escapist approach as far as LJ was concerned: my journal is my "happy place", the place where I can get a break from my real life for a while and just do things I enjoy doing - not necessarily only when RL is going badly, but during difficult times, I always found it comforting that this was the place where my RL difficulties couldn't reach me and I could forget about them for a while.

The other thing is that I don't think I'm very good with expressing emotions when it comes to myself - perhaps one of the reasons why I write fiction, because I find it much easier to express the feelings of a fictional character. (In that vein, I always read your personal posts, and I often feel that I want to say something and end up not doing it because I don't know what and am afraid of saying the wrong thing. But I want you to know I'm reading them, and thinking of you, okay? *hugs*)

Facebook makes my skin crawl. So far, I've valiantly resisted all attempts from friends so lure me into getting an account, and at the moment, I'm in a huge fight with a colleague who wants to set up a professional facebook platform that would force all his colleagues to get accounts too in order to participate. But I shall dig my heels in and resist once again ;)

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

I find it much easier to express the feelings of a fictional character

I've found that it can be cathartic as well. If you relate to the character in any way, it can sometimes allow you to deal with certain things through them.

In that vein, I always read your personal posts, and I often feel that I want to say something and end up not doing it because I don't know what and am afraid of saying the wrong thing

Unless it's "You suck. Why don't you stop sucking?", I'm sure whatever you want to say can't be that bad. :) I totally get it though.

Hee, I'm fully in support of heel-digging. That's how I am with cell phones. Again, it's the paradox of "But you talk so much on here!", I know. But for real, I'm such a curmudgeon about people's access to me & my time in real life, and I can't imagine wanting to text people ALLLL DAYYYY. Like, what are you talking about?! Heh.

[fourth_rose]

Unless it's "You suck. Why don't you stop sucking?"

No danger of that ;-)

I can't imagine wanting to text people ALLLL DAYYYY

*g* Yes, me neither - I have a cell because I need people to be able to reach me, but I don't think I send more than a dozen text messages per month...

[maryng.livejournal.com]

This is all true. But I think Geoff Stults is ridiculously attractive, and so I didn't mind.

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Heh. He had a nice body, this is true.

[dabhug.livejournal.com]

Look, when Booth put that medal around her neck I was all "Pull her hair out and FLUFF IT!" God, yes, pre-teen over here, too.

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

Ha! I TOTALLY thought the same re: her hair!

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Hee. This is where we all start writing "Booth + Brennan = 4eva!" with hearts all around it on our trapper keeper notebooks.

[torigates.livejournal.com]

That scene with the medal was so lovely. I really liked it!

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

I wanna squish it!

[gina227.livejournal.com]

I do actually think it's better he was able to react in a non-OH NOES-esque fashion to the "Would you sleep with me?"; it shows he's more secure now.

That was exactly my thought too. Booth knows she's waiting for him to be ready and, judging by her reaction, she knows he knows it. Totally new vibe between the two of them. I like it, though God knows I also loves me some jealous!Booth.

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

I liked the non-jealous Booth thing too.

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Yep, yep. I think jealous!Booth is still in there though, just less easily freaked out. It's more healthy.

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

LOL you and me/hubby had exactly same reaction to "Bones". We finally watched it last night - well I say we, but hubby left room in protest when Geoff took his shirt off mumbling about clunky writing and being told what to think about caricatured characters and how this was all an insult to our intelligence LOL.

Haveta say I agree, and I approached this on purpose with the idea that I was watching a completely different show - just turned out to be one I didn't like ;)

ETA: Should add I did like the medal thing and Brennan looked SO gorgeous in end scene!!! Date night much?!

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Geoff taking his shirt off literally brought out a laughing groan on my part. "Ready? Aaaaand Pointless Pec Time! Sex sells, right? Did you notice he's in his underwear?" I'm just surprised they didn't put him in namebrand boxers--hello, product placement opportunity!

They were TOTALLY wearing date clothes, especially Brennan. She looked amazing, and it was obviously for him. The thought of them picking out their outfits all "Which would [the other] like?" is so effing cute.

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

Yessss soooo effing cute!

Including (pls tell me I am not only one sad enough to notice) Brennan wearing the necklace she knows Booth likes because he told her so at end of Foot in the Foreclosure ;)

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

Alas, I have to crush your dreams--this (http://bones-daily.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=554&pid=115798#top_display_media) was the necklace he complimented in "The Foot in the Foreclosure" & this (http://bones-daily.com/photos/displayimage.php?pid=151637&fullsize=1) was the one she wore for Date Night.

*edited to add: P.S. check out the cleavage. She so did that on purpose.

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

Well dammit.. I shall claim cleavage-distraction ;)

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

I shall claim cleavage-distraction

Story of my life, yo. (Not really, heh.)

[nomnivore.livejournal.com]

*Big big huge hugs*

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

*hugs you back*

[vash26.livejournal.com]

I just saw the ep. And I think he's coming back. They inversted in his character already, and he did end with finding the bone lady etc.

[rachg82.livejournal.com]

You know this was a backdoor pilot, right? So that was a huge part of why there was so much investing--this was HH's idea for a spinoff, but it hasn't been picked up yet.

But you could definitely be right! They could always bring him back regardless.

[vash26.livejournal.com]

Nope, of course I didn't know that, lols. That explains a lot though.