last night's 'Bones' -- have I been "punked"? : comments [Confessions of a Liberal Puritan]

If yours were off base, you weren't alone. I felt like I just got done reading a novel that switched [unsuccessfully] from horror to comedy and back again. At the end it become a mystery where the butler did without leaving clues.

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Amen. The ZK and I spent the whole episode saying to one another, "Oh, man, this is annoying. This is SUCH a transparent 'Owl Creek Bridge' thing."

The Rev. is right on about the dialogue. It was so egregiously technobabbly and stilted that it seemed it HAD to be "What Boot Hears When Squints Talk." And the emotional whiplash? Don't get me started.

I don't know what it says about my mind or about my perception of Booth's character that I would suspect him of somehow dreaming up a sequence in which (with almost no visible trace of the bullet wound he supposedly suffered only two weeks previously) he's naked in the bathtub, wearing a beer-hat and reading a 'graphic novel' when Dr. Brennan walks in on him.

Ha! This reminds me of the Angel episode that IS all a dream. I hated that episode with the white-hot passion of 1000 suns, precisely because of what it DID tell us about how little Angel thinks of the people in his life. Ugh! (But I totally bought that Booth sees HIMSELF as wearing a metaphorical beer hat and carrying around a metaphorical comic book in comparison to the lab folks.)

Anyway, I'm pissed. I understand that they lost a lot of time to the writers' strike, but in that case, they should not have tried to do something like this in such a limited time frame. It not only squandered a lot of critical character stuff from last week (after all, in addition to Booth's magical, disappearing bullet wound, we saw BONES shoot and presumably kill a woman), but also did damage to all the characterizations that I think will stretch far into the future. I mean, seriously, Angela finds out that Zach is a killer and her question is, "Did he eat anyone?" Really? It's all good with Angela so long as there was no freaking cannibalism?

OY! Very very annoyed, am I.

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I'm so glad I wasn't the only one P.O.'d by the bait-and-switch of last night's ep, and the CHEAPNESS (in the negative sense, having nothing to do with lack of funds or frugality, but only with unwillingness to expend any resources for anyone's sake but your own)that seemed to ooze out of every pore of the storytelling in this episode.

Your analysis of the bath-tub scene made more sense than anything in last night's episode: (But I totally bought that Booth sees HIMSELF as wearing a metaphorical beer hat and carrying around a metaphorical comic book in comparison to the lab folks.)

I haven't been so disgusted with an episode of television since the so-called last episode of Enterprise (which crapped all over everyone and everything in the show, and all the growth the characters had gone through in their time together over the previous 4 years).

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I think "Restless" is the only good dream episode to ever air on TV but yeah, this should be all dream it's so OOC.

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Thanks for reassuring me that I wasn't the only one feeling massively cheated.

Everything and everybody seemed to be treated as expendable, something to be simply thrown away like used tissues, including the whole Gormogon story arc (which I never cared for much, anyway), with 'The Master' turning out to be "Nobody" -- but somehow, this nonentity was a stronger personality than Zach Addy, with his heretofore unshakeable ethics and professional scruples (not to mention his large, loving family in Minnesota, where his mother still thinks he's a Lutheran for holiday purposes)?

Aaarggghhh!

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Yes. And I find it upsetting that the writers seem to be pushing this idea that rational intelligent people are more apt to commit murder. Zach would've seen the consequences of his actions. He's not a narcissist killing that guy would have to be worth getting caught for [from his pov] They needed to SHOW THAT! If they had taken their time given it the weight and back-story needed, maybe it could've been good.

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That's another thing. Aside from feeling very very cheated from a content perspective, from a mechanical perspective, this episode was so poorly done that I literally did not know what I was supposed to be taking away from certain scenes. The most glaring example of that being Zach's immediate giving up of "The Master" when Bones points out the flaw in his logic. It's not like I'm a stranger to philosophy and rhetorical examinations of ethics and morality, but the dialogue was so badly done, and the scene was so rushed through that I really almost thought that I was supposed to believe that Zach had somehow been doing the lone-gun superhero thing and infiltrating Gormogon's . . . whatever . . . to bring him down.

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I really almost thought that I was supposed to believe that Zach had somehow been doing the lone-gun superhero thing and infiltrating Gormogon's . . . whatever . . . to bring him down

Now THAT would've been interesting, and in keeping with Zach's hidden talents and resolve, given that we had NO groundwork laid for him being such an easy mark for a psycho mentor.

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