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Spotlight on Fandoms: Bones
She's a world-renowned forensic anthropologist and best-selling crime author, he's an FBI Agent with a sock fetish and sniper skills.
Together, they fight crime!
Welcome to the fandom spotlight for the show Bones.
Spoilers for both seasons follow.
The Show
Bones is a procedural drama that airs on the FOX network, or at least it does when it's not vitally important that they have yet more American Idol on, not that I'm bitter or anything, nope. Based very loosely on Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan novels, the show follows forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan and and her intrepid team of forensic specialists based at the Jeffersonian (think the Smithsonian with the serial numbers filed off), as they help long-suffering FBI Special Agent Booth to identify murder victims and catch their murderers.
The Squints
Dr Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel)
Based loosely on the character originally created by forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs, Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who also moonlights as a best selling author whose novels focus on a fictional forensic anthropologist...named Kathy Reichs. The meta, it burns us.
Insanely smart and pretty much completely socially inept, Brennan can figure out an immense amount of information just from looking at person's bones, but cannot figure out the pop culture references and idioms that most of us take for granted. Much to the frustration of those who are very fond of using them, like, say, Booth. At the start of the series, she's almost completely lacking in tact, but after prolonged time in Booth's company is getting better at it.
Slowly. She still does things like refer to God as Booth's "invisible friend" in his presence though.
Brennan's parents disappeared without a trace during her teen years, this disappearance was the stimulus for Brennan's choice of career, leaving her with a desire not to let others feel the same uncertainty she did. In addition, this, plus her exposure to the nastier side of human nature, has left her with a somewhat cynical (or pragmatic depending on your point of view) view of relationships. Her incredibly cruddy luck with the menfolk doesn't really help either.
Due to a couple of nasty incidents while doing mass grave victim identification work, Brennan has a very strong desire to neither feel or be defenceless, which has lead to an almost unhealthy interest in martial arts and guns. She also shot an unarmed man once, but he was trying to set her on fire so it didn't really count. Much.
Special Agent Seeley Booth* (David Boreanaz)
A former-Army-Ranger-sniper-turned-FBI-Agent, Booth is on something of a quest to redeem himself for all the people he killed in his big bad army/possible Black Ops days.
However despite certain surface similarities he's not at all like certain souled vampires we could speak ofand the hackneyed fanfic trope of Booth being a shansu-ed Angel can go die in a fire now, thank you.
He's capable of human expression for one thing. Plus he's far more fond of colour, with his almost garish socks, ties, and large and very noticeable belt-buckles. He does gunporn, really, really, well. Plus if he was planning on killing you he wouldn't monologue about it so long that you'd have a chance to run away while he was talking first.
They do however, possess a similar level of dorkitude, Booth just owns to his a lot easier.
He also once stuck a gun in a Mexican gangleader's mouth because they put a hit out on Brennan and it was his very polite way of asking to take it off. It was disturbingly hot.
He has a son, Parker, who's all kinds of adorable.
Plus he's really, really cute while stoned.
Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin)
Angela is one of the few "normal" people in the group. An artist, she does facial reconstructions, and also has this rather cool virtual reality machine we don't see as much during the second season.
Brennan's best friend, she trys to ensure Brennan has something vaguely resembling a social life on a fairly regular basis. Personally wise, she's something of aflake free spirit, she once married a guy by jumping over a broom in Fiji, which turned out to be a bit more legally binding than she thought...whoops.
And her dad is Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top.
Seriously.
She started dating Hodgins during season two, and they were cute, which lead up to a wedding in the season finale.
Dr Zack Addy (Eric Milligan)
Zack started out as Brennan's graduate assistant, which basically meant he did all her gofer work while being an adorable, little, snarky geeky with even less people skills than her. Clearly a match made in heaven. We're never told exactly how smart Zack is, only that it's far higher than 163.
Zack lives in Hodgins garage, and the two have a habit of doing odd, yet kind of awesome experiments together. One of these once nearly lead to them blowing themselves up, despite the fact that Zack "did the math very carefully". Zack did actually get blown up once, it hurt less than he thought it would. And that was mostly from being landed on by Booth.
As of the start of the show, he's halfway through two PhDs, one in forensic anthropology and the other in engineering. In the season two episode "Judas On A Pole", he succesfully defended his dissertation on the forensic anthropology degree, and became a full-fledged Doctor. In order to keep his job at the Jeffersonian, he had Angela give him a makeover to look more mature.
The upshot of this is he went from looking like a sixteen-year-old to a twelve-year-old.
The season two season finale had a subplot about Zack considering accepting an offer to go to Iraq to identify mass grave victims. THIS IS CLEARLY WRONG AND BAD, AND DON'T THEY KNOW THAT ZACK SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD WHICH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT ADORABLE LITTLE GEEKS?
...anyway, moving on, according to Zack his closet non-work acquaintance is a performance artist who does things with bunnies, which... yeah, I want to know the story there too.
Dr Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne)
Hodgins is the bug and slime guy. He's the proud possessor of several PhDs in entomology, a conspiracy theorist, and richer than god. According to him, his family helps to run the world from the shadows, but he just wants to be the bug and slime guy, so he conceals the richer than god part from his workmates for as long as he is able to. Longer in Brennan's case than in the others.
And really purty without a shirt on.
Towards the end of season two, he decided that Angela, who he was dating, was the one, and attempted to propose.
Twice.
She turned him down.
Twice.
Then he didn't ask her to marry him, and she proposed.
It makes a bit more sense when you watch the episodes.
Dr Daniel Goodman (Jonathan Adams)
An archaeologist-turned-administrator, Goodman was the head brass at the Jeffersonian throughout season one. He went on a three month sabbatical at the start of season two...and never came back.
I miss him.
Which brings us too...
Dr Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor)
Cam is vicious, grating hosebeast who needs to be dead from smush ASAP.
*closes browser tab with TWoP in it*
Whoops, sorry folks.
Cam is a medical examiner from the Bronx, who was brought in at the start of season two to head the newly formed Forensics Division at the Jeffersonian. She's nominally Brennan's boss, was clearly brought in to cause "friction", at least to begin with, and there's a certain air of "the writers have no idea what they're doing with this character" about her, but I kinda like her. Plus she reads trashy romance novels to get away from the dead people.
She also sleeps with Booth for a while there, until there's this whole thing with neurotoxins and his guilt complex, so he breaks things off.
There are also a couple of rather nifty recurring characters.
Asst. U.S. Attorney Caroline Julian (Patricia Belcher) - She first appears when she comes to help Brennan out of a potential murder rap as a favour to Booth. She treats Booth like a little kid, and at one point scolds the entire squint squad. She's made of awesome, and I need to find a way to have her show up and torment FH!Booth.
Dr Gordon Gordon Wyatt (Stephen Fry) - A FBI psychologist who Booth is forced to see during season two after he shoots a clown. Booth angsts prettily at him and builds him a barbecue.
Seriously.
Max Keenan (Ryan O'Neal) - So, that whole thing about Brennan's vanished without a trace parents? Turns out that Mom and Dad Brennan...weren't. They were actually the Keenans, safecracking bankrobbers who came into some rather hot information about an FBI conspiracy or two, and well, it eventually leads to Booth arresting dear old Papa Keenan for the murder of an assistant director of the FBI...so, yeah, that's gonna make things awkward at the Jeffersonian for a while.
*Yes, I know I spell it Seely, this can be boiled down to the simple fact that whoever's in charge of the Fox website sucks goats.
Why you should watch Bones.
Because I like it an I am the supreme arbiter of good taste on the internets.
Well, for starters, there's the eyecandy factor. David Boreanaz has lost all that season five Angel bloat and it shows. Oh, yes, it shows.
And for those of who aren't completely and utterly shallow like me, there's the cast. While the show is touted as a procedural, it's more of a character drama in a prodecural's clothing, because really if you're watching this show for its amazingly accurate science and grasp of the inner workings of the legal justice system, boy are you in the wrong place. But if you're looking for a nice, fun drama (because for a show about grisly murders created in loving detail by the props department, it's actually fairly light going most of the time) with tons of geeky character interactions and good dose of humour, then Bones is for you.
And how can you not like a show where the main ship can be fairly accurate summed up by the song Skullcrusher Mountain? But even if the Booth/Brennan UST isn't really your thing, David and Emily are pretty much the cutest costars ever (last link kinda spoilery for season three).
Where to get Bones.
Season one has a dvd release (with double sided discs wtf?), with season two scheduled to come out on the eleventh of September, there is also an official companion slated to be released later in the year.
Those in the United States can also download episodes of Bones from iTunes and Amazon.
Questions? Comments? Pie?
Together, they fight crime!
Welcome to the fandom spotlight for the show Bones.
Spoilers for both seasons follow.
The Show
Bones is a procedural drama that airs on the FOX network, or at least it does when it's not vitally important that they have yet more American Idol on, not that I'm bitter or anything, nope. Based very loosely on Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan novels, the show follows forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan and and her intrepid team of forensic specialists based at the Jeffersonian (think the Smithsonian with the serial numbers filed off), as they help long-suffering FBI Special Agent Booth to identify murder victims and catch their murderers.
The Squints
Dr Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel)
Based loosely on the character originally created by forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs, Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who also moonlights as a best selling author whose novels focus on a fictional forensic anthropologist...named Kathy Reichs. The meta, it burns us.
Insanely smart and pretty much completely socially inept, Brennan can figure out an immense amount of information just from looking at person's bones, but cannot figure out the pop culture references and idioms that most of us take for granted. Much to the frustration of those who are very fond of using them, like, say, Booth. At the start of the series, she's almost completely lacking in tact, but after prolonged time in Booth's company is getting better at it.
Slowly. She still does things like refer to God as Booth's "invisible friend" in his presence though.
Brennan's parents disappeared without a trace during her teen years, this disappearance was the stimulus for Brennan's choice of career, leaving her with a desire not to let others feel the same uncertainty she did. In addition, this, plus her exposure to the nastier side of human nature, has left her with a somewhat cynical (or pragmatic depending on your point of view) view of relationships. Her incredibly cruddy luck with the menfolk doesn't really help either.
Due to a couple of nasty incidents while doing mass grave victim identification work, Brennan has a very strong desire to neither feel or be defenceless, which has lead to an almost unhealthy interest in martial arts and guns. She also shot an unarmed man once, but he was trying to set her on fire so it didn't really count. Much.
Special Agent Seeley Booth* (David Boreanaz)
A former-Army-Ranger-sniper-turned-FBI-Agent, Booth is on something of a quest to redeem himself for all the people he killed in his big bad army/possible Black Ops days.
However despite certain surface similarities he's not at all like certain souled vampires we could speak of
He's capable of human expression for one thing. Plus he's far more fond of colour, with his almost garish socks, ties, and large and very noticeable belt-buckles. He does gunporn, really, really, well. Plus if he was planning on killing you he wouldn't monologue about it so long that you'd have a chance to run away while he was talking first.
They do however, possess a similar level of dorkitude, Booth just owns to his a lot easier.
He also once stuck a gun in a Mexican gangleader's mouth because they put a hit out on Brennan and it was his very polite way of asking to take it off. It was disturbingly hot.
He has a son, Parker, who's all kinds of adorable.
Plus he's really, really cute while stoned.
Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin)
Angela is one of the few "normal" people in the group. An artist, she does facial reconstructions, and also has this rather cool virtual reality machine we don't see as much during the second season.
Brennan's best friend, she trys to ensure Brennan has something vaguely resembling a social life on a fairly regular basis. Personally wise, she's something of a
And her dad is Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top.
Seriously.
She started dating Hodgins during season two, and they were cute, which lead up to a wedding in the season finale.
Dr Zack Addy (Eric Milligan)
Zack started out as Brennan's graduate assistant, which basically meant he did all her gofer work while being an adorable, little, snarky geeky with even less people skills than her. Clearly a match made in heaven. We're never told exactly how smart Zack is, only that it's far higher than 163.
Zack lives in Hodgins garage, and the two have a habit of doing odd, yet kind of awesome experiments together. One of these once nearly lead to them blowing themselves up, despite the fact that Zack "did the math very carefully". Zack did actually get blown up once, it hurt less than he thought it would. And that was mostly from being landed on by Booth.
As of the start of the show, he's halfway through two PhDs, one in forensic anthropology and the other in engineering. In the season two episode "Judas On A Pole", he succesfully defended his dissertation on the forensic anthropology degree, and became a full-fledged Doctor. In order to keep his job at the Jeffersonian, he had Angela give him a makeover to look more mature.
The upshot of this is he went from looking like a sixteen-year-old to a twelve-year-old.
The season two season finale had a subplot about Zack considering accepting an offer to go to Iraq to identify mass grave victims. THIS IS CLEARLY WRONG AND BAD, AND DON'T THEY KNOW THAT ZACK SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD WHICH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT ADORABLE LITTLE GEEKS?
...anyway, moving on, according to Zack his closet non-work acquaintance is a performance artist who does things with bunnies, which... yeah, I want to know the story there too.
Dr Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne)
Hodgins is the bug and slime guy. He's the proud possessor of several PhDs in entomology, a conspiracy theorist, and richer than god. According to him, his family helps to run the world from the shadows, but he just wants to be the bug and slime guy, so he conceals the richer than god part from his workmates for as long as he is able to. Longer in Brennan's case than in the others.
And really purty without a shirt on.
Towards the end of season two, he decided that Angela, who he was dating, was the one, and attempted to propose.
Twice.
She turned him down.
Twice.
Then he didn't ask her to marry him, and she proposed.
It makes a bit more sense when you watch the episodes.
Dr Daniel Goodman (Jonathan Adams)
An archaeologist-turned-administrator, Goodman was the head brass at the Jeffersonian throughout season one. He went on a three month sabbatical at the start of season two...and never came back.
I miss him.
Which brings us too...
Dr Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor)
Cam is vicious, grating hosebeast who needs to be dead from smush ASAP.
*closes browser tab with TWoP in it*
Whoops, sorry folks.
Cam is a medical examiner from the Bronx, who was brought in at the start of season two to head the newly formed Forensics Division at the Jeffersonian. She's nominally Brennan's boss, was clearly brought in to cause "friction", at least to begin with, and there's a certain air of "the writers have no idea what they're doing with this character" about her, but I kinda like her. Plus she reads trashy romance novels to get away from the dead people.
She also sleeps with Booth for a while there, until there's this whole thing with neurotoxins and his guilt complex, so he breaks things off.
There are also a couple of rather nifty recurring characters.
Asst. U.S. Attorney Caroline Julian (Patricia Belcher) - She first appears when she comes to help Brennan out of a potential murder rap as a favour to Booth. She treats Booth like a little kid, and at one point scolds the entire squint squad. She's made of awesome, and I need to find a way to have her show up and torment FH!Booth.
Dr Gordon Gordon Wyatt (Stephen Fry) - A FBI psychologist who Booth is forced to see during season two after he shoots a clown. Booth angsts prettily at him and builds him a barbecue.
Seriously.
Max Keenan (Ryan O'Neal) - So, that whole thing about Brennan's vanished without a trace parents? Turns out that Mom and Dad Brennan...weren't. They were actually the Keenans, safecracking bankrobbers who came into some rather hot information about an FBI conspiracy or two, and well, it eventually leads to Booth arresting dear old Papa Keenan for the murder of an assistant director of the FBI...so, yeah, that's gonna make things awkward at the Jeffersonian for a while.
*Yes, I know I spell it Seely, this can be boiled down to the simple fact that whoever's in charge of the Fox website sucks goats.
Why you should watch Bones.
Well, for starters, there's the eyecandy factor. David Boreanaz has lost all that season five Angel bloat and it shows. Oh, yes, it shows.
And for those of who aren't completely and utterly shallow like me, there's the cast. While the show is touted as a procedural, it's more of a character drama in a prodecural's clothing, because really if you're watching this show for its amazingly accurate science and grasp of the inner workings of the legal justice system, boy are you in the wrong place. But if you're looking for a nice, fun drama (because for a show about grisly murders created in loving detail by the props department, it's actually fairly light going most of the time) with tons of geeky character interactions and good dose of humour, then Bones is for you.
And how can you not like a show where the main ship can be fairly accurate summed up by the song Skullcrusher Mountain? But even if the Booth/Brennan UST isn't really your thing, David and Emily are pretty much the cutest costars ever (last link kinda spoilery for season three).
Where to get Bones.
Season one has a dvd release (with double sided discs wtf?), with season two scheduled to come out on the eleventh of September, there is also an official companion slated to be released later in the year.
Those in the United States can also download episodes of Bones from iTunes and Amazon.
Questions? Comments? Pie?
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*must not forget when it's on, omg!*
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And Gordon Gordon Wyatt is by far the awesomest thing that ever awesomed on Bones.
Okay, maybe Booth actually shooting the clown was the awesomest thing that ever awesomed, but Stephen Frye is the man.
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Also, I always say I shouldn't eat when I'm watching? Yet somehow I always do.