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spn_summergen 2008 fic, one so lovely that I'm tempted to print it out, rub it all over my naked body, and impregnate my skin with its delicate ambrosia. Either that, or I'd just nail it to the wall like the Ninety-Five Theses.
Bones, you disappoint me. As I mentioned last week, I don't mind that you intersperse cases with character development. As far as I know, you never claimed to be case-driven, and on the main, the character interactions serve to complement the cases rather than overshadow them.
Which is why your last two episodes have been so maddening. Where has all the balance gone(said Captain Jack Sparrow mournfully)? Once again, you rushed through and glossed over the case's resolution in order to shoehorn in more useless, anvil-hammered "development". While the dialogue between Booth and Brennan was very sweet(and overwhelmingly ham-fisted. Y halo thar, big honking shipping HINT), it was included at the expense of what could've been a very fraught resolution. For a man who was pissed that his ex was boffing his boss, that confession was lame.
"I'm a nice guy. I just lost it." That's it? Really? No crying, no anger, no blubbering self-justification? Weak. Utterly weak and unsatisfying, and matters were not helped by the dreadful actor playing the "angry" boyfriend. The producers might've been better served by using his audition footage instead. Angry boyfriends don't sound like whiny nerds getting sent to the principal for playing with their PSP during advanced trigonometry.
Let us hope that we never see Daisy Wick again. Ever. I understand hero worship because I've contracted more than one case in my lifetime, but Daisy was so besotted that I began to wonder if she wasn't indulging in more than a few vibe-aided fantasies about Brennan.
Well, maybe Sweets can help her with that now.
There was less anthropological work here than in previous seasons, and that needs to be brought back into balance. Occasional science-light episodes are needed to drive story arcs, but I don't want to see the show become As the Squints Shag and Nag.
B-
P.S. Way to totally ignore both Brennan and Bill's gross hypocrisy regarding monogamy and fidelity. But I guess that treacly Booth pep talk in Sweets' office was too vital to drop. Bleah.
spn_summergen 2008 fic, one so lovely that I'm tempted to print it out, rub it all over my naked body, and impregnate my skin with its delicate ambrosia. Either that, or I'd just nail it to the wall like the Ninety-Five Theses.Bones, you disappoint me. As I mentioned last week, I don't mind that you intersperse cases with character development. As far as I know, you never claimed to be case-driven, and on the main, the character interactions serve to complement the cases rather than overshadow them.
Which is why your last two episodes have been so maddening. Where has all the balance gone(said Captain Jack Sparrow mournfully)? Once again, you rushed through and glossed over the case's resolution in order to shoehorn in more useless, anvil-hammered "development". While the dialogue between Booth and Brennan was very sweet(and overwhelmingly ham-fisted. Y halo thar, big honking shipping HINT), it was included at the expense of what could've been a very fraught resolution. For a man who was pissed that his ex was boffing his boss, that confession was lame.
"I'm a nice guy. I just lost it." That's it? Really? No crying, no anger, no blubbering self-justification? Weak. Utterly weak and unsatisfying, and matters were not helped by the dreadful actor playing the "angry" boyfriend. The producers might've been better served by using his audition footage instead. Angry boyfriends don't sound like whiny nerds getting sent to the principal for playing with their PSP during advanced trigonometry.
Let us hope that we never see Daisy Wick again. Ever. I understand hero worship because I've contracted more than one case in my lifetime, but Daisy was so besotted that I began to wonder if she wasn't indulging in more than a few vibe-aided fantasies about Brennan.
There was less anthropological work here than in previous seasons, and that needs to be brought back into balance. Occasional science-light episodes are needed to drive story arcs, but I don't want to see the show become As the Squints Shag and Nag.
B-
P.S. Way to totally ignore both Brennan and Bill's gross hypocrisy regarding monogamy and fidelity. But I guess that treacly Booth pep talk in Sweets' office was too vital to drop. Bleah.