Julia: I feel like I need opinions besides my own on this episode — was it just me or was Booth and Brennan’s chemistry back, but at the cost of the rest of the entire cast’s? Everyone else seemed to be acting weird except maybe Hodgins. Plus, their instant clicking back together struck me as … awkward. I mean I know it’s what I asked for but does anyone else feel like they got a present that somehow went horribly wrong?
Ivey: I’ve gotten to the point where I try not to dedicate more of my time to Bones on a weekly basis than the 44 minutes it takes to watch it each week. I’m sure, sooner rather than later, I won’t even put in those 44 minutes.
An: Considering that Sweets/Angela/Hodgins all initiated parts of the building, I believe Cam and her man’s non-kiss proved the cutest, most professional kiss possible.
On Bones, Booth and Hannah, I started thinking about Sports Night and realized why the H-ster never really felt real. Like Bones, the lead characters of Sports Night, Dana and Casey, had an epic romantic tension. Like Bones, Dana feared the repercussions and insisted on a year’s separation. However, unlike Bones, where Booth suddenly appeared with the blonde of the week, Sports Night showed the slow dissipation of the relationship on screen. We slowly see Casey’s attraction to another woman, Dana’s attempt to deal with it, and the heart-breaking accompanying tension. However, on Bones, we don’t see Booth struggle between his feelings for either which made Hannah portable.
Carla: Finally watched it. To me there wasn’t anything new in the episode. Everyone acted like themselves, but no huge movement. Seemed like a filler episode for me. I was happy to see Cam finally get on a date and love that her and the doctor are working out.
Who knew that Brennan had that many male friends, though?!?!
But overall, it was just okay. The case wasn’t even all that interesting.
Julia: I don’t know what’s going on with the show, but reviews get harder and harder for me to write every week. It’s not an outright bad show, and I would happily tune in, since I have nothing else in that time slot anyway, it’s just one big ball of ‘meh’ for me. I can’t even muster up ire re: Booth and Brennan. It’s all just meh.
Clacked by Julia Hass 
on Feb 20, 2011 @ 21:11 EST5EDT
I agree with both of you, this episode was hard to watch and not for the OH MY GOD THEY BROKE UP WILL THEY FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE TENSION.
It was painful, and Bones isthisclose to joining House being removed from my TiVo season pass.
Rose scented slime? a bad Jay-z impression? The actor playing Cam’s boyfriend looked uncomfortable, was that intentional?
Booth at a firing range without eye protection and ear cans? Really? Mr. FBI professional?
The running joke (if it was a joke) of Bones and her dates calling to ask her out (conveniently when Booth was around) was painful to watch.
The show has become very uneven and I don’t know if it is because Hanson is so enamored and busy with the spin off and he has dropped the ball, the net is interfering or if the show has just run its course.
It used to be fun, where IS Booth’s son? It would have been sweet and fun had he chosen to spend the day with his child, and maybe even sweet had Bones gotten a call from her Dad or Brother (or his children.)
I just don’t care anymore, and yes I never was a shipper but accept in a show running this long it is inevitable.
God I miss Sports Night, great show. Yeah, Bones has become more of a yeah when I get to it than the use to be Must Watch Now.
Grace, I agree with most of what you say, except for a couple of things:
The show has been going off the rails slowly for a while now, so you can’t point to the spinoff as what has distracted HH. I think he just got too busy reading his own pub. His attitude on twitter really backs that up, and is why i don’t follow him anymore.
I actually thought the rose slime was cute, and an extension of the glow in the dark shrimp from season two, post Gravediggger. Hodgins is unconventional, but thats why his character works.
Oh, and Sports Night rules! Easily my favorite sitcom of all time.
@DW
I loved the glow in the dark shrimp, maybe because Angela is pregnant and I know from other pregnant women that anything slimey/gross etc with or without a scent would make a pregnant woman heave. The scent alone for some of my friends who have been pregnant would have made them heave…but alas I expect reality in television.
HH does seem arrogant in his twitter, but if you want overblown hyperbole follow the Exec of Chicago Code,he thinks he is a comedic genius as well as the Best Thing Since Slice Bread.
The other thing that got me, the ONE semi normal relationship in the show and Sweets/Daisy got blown off? The throw away line I got her Daisies was sweet and said alot about his character development. The whole getting drunk with Booth seems to have been just a clever (snort) plot device to break up Booth/Hannah rather than a male bonding between two characters that have danced at being cordial.
Sigh, maybe it is time for Bones and I to break up for awhile though the whole tease of the pregnancy facing something they werent expecting makes me want to see how badly they eff that up.
I dont get why they got her pregnant, though is she pregnant in real life? She seems to be gaining weight, especially in the face (and finally has eyebrows.)
Oh, I disagree. I’m a big fan of Shawn Ryan (on and off Twitter). I can also say that I thought Terriers was an incredibly overrated show, and I have no clue why people worshipped it so.
When it comes to the slime stuff, I mean, I have no relevant experience with what would make a pregnant woman gag, but I always thought it was about the smell? And, I’m sure where she’s working, Angela has had to come to terms with gagging both before, and during the pregnancy.
My only guess on Daisy is that she’s working elsewhere. I thought I heard she was cast in a Pilot, but I could be making that up.
I used to really really love this show. I’m with a lot of fans that are finally fed up with being jerked around. Also annoying is the arrogant vibe I get from creator that he gets off on messing with fans. I used to root for Booth and Bones to get together. Now I don’t even care. Every once in a while I watch reruns of older episodes and that just magnifies how good it used to be. It does make me sad, since it used to be one of my favorites. I hope it’s used as an example for other shows (Castle- I’m looking at you…) of what NOT to do.
That’s pretty much how I feel. Bones is like the What Not to Do of tv romance. And by the way, I know she’s long dead, but I miss the kickass independent woman form earlier seasons and I’m still pissed the show thought they had to get rid of her to make the romance happen.
The writers hate the characters now, or maybe just the actors. Or they want the show to end, because all their characters now exhibit annoying stupidity. They don’t give us anything we want. At some point in Who’s the Boss, Tony and Angela HAD to get together or else no one would watch. That’s where this show was in the fifth season, and now we don’t care.