The Morning After "Bones"

Season 4, Episode 10: The Passenger in the Oven

Booth and Bones are on a 13 hour flight to China, because Bones is scheduled to identify pre-historic remains. However, knowing a murder must be lurking around the corner, there flight is interrupted when a fully cooked human body is discovered in the plane's industrial-sized microwave. Can we all say ewwwwww!!!!

Booth and Bones are able to send evidence (high resolution pictures) to the Jeffersonian for processing. They discover the victim was a travel writer who had recently written a controversial piece about airline pilots. We also learn from her jealous employer that the victim had been dating a married man.

In true Bones fashion, there are several suspects on the plane and Booth and Bones must race to solve the case before the plane lands and they lose jurisdiction.

In other storylines, this infatuation Angela has with her ex-lover Roxie is getting annoying. Why can't she just get back together with Hodgins? They are perfect for each other. We also got to see more of Caroline Julian - I have missed her sarcastic wit this season!

Bones' Intern-O-Meter stands at 1 for 6 - there was no intern this week.

And on another note, I received Bones Season 3 Disc 5 DVD from Netflix today. Disc 5 is supposed to contain the special features from Season 3. I was TOTALLY disappointed when I found out that the only thing on this disc is the first 4 episodes of Season 4 - the current season! I know the writer's strike missed up the number of episodes, but why have a bonus disc if there is not going to be any bonus material on it???!!!

The Morning After "Bones"

Episode 8 - The Skull in the Sculpture

When a decomposing human is found inside a crushed car in a junk yard, Booth and Bones are called to investigate. Turns out the murder victim is an impressionist artist and list of suspects grows: his kabuki faced agent, a revival artist and his assistant - one Roxie Lyons, whom Angela had a gay relationship in college. (She was mentioned in Season 3 when the PI was trying to track down Angela's husband.)

This was an interesting episode, but after re-runs for the past month, I was really expecting more of Bones and Booth. This episode revolved more around Angela, and although I love Angela, I wanted to see more of Bones and Booth.

Daisy Wick makes a return appearance as a rotating intern (she was also in Episode #2 of this season, The Man in the Outhouse) She is getting on everyone's nerves - even easy going Cam. When Cam confides in Dr. Sweets, he tells her he will talk to the newest intern. Turns out Dr. Sweets has secretly been dating Ms. Wick - way to go Sweets!

My favorite quote of the night was when Booth and Bones were in the car and Booth was talking to Caroline:

Booth: "She's da bomb."
Bones: "Why is she a bomb?"
Booth: "Not a bomb, da bomb - da bomb!"

My second favorite quote of the night was after Bones dumped a jar of dermestid beetles into the crushed car (the car was under federal protection and the team weren't allowed to cut it open to retrieve the body):

"I was gonna say it spilled by accident.."

Bones Inter-O-Meter: Technically this should be 0 for 7, but since this is the second coming of Daisy Wick, I guess it's still
0 for 6. So ...
Bones' Intern-O-Meter is 0 for 6.

The Morning After "Bones"

Episode #7 - The He in the She

Booth and Bones are call to the Chesapeake Bay to investigate a body found by a couple of stoners. They problem is, they find only the upper torso, giving the team little to work. The one obvious clue is the remnants of the victim's breast implants.

Because of the breast implants, Bones and Booth are led to a small church in Maryland, where they find that the victim was a pastor. When the team finds the lower half of the body, they learn the victim was a transgender who had undergone a sex change operation.

This episode had many religious elements, which caused a conflict between Booth and Bones. Of course, Bones does not belive in a higher being, but Booth is a devote Catholic. These differences lead to some hilarious verbal exchanges.

We got to see more of Angela's fiesty personalty, which has been missing for most of this season. I also think Hodgins is starting to get over some of his depression. Dr. Sweets had minimal face time this episode, and what we saw of him looked like it was forced, just to get him some screen time; I'm ready for him to play a bigger role with the team. The new intern was hilarious, and for a minute, I thought he was going to end of in bed with Cam; maybe Cam is growing up!

This is the technically the 7th episode (the 2-part first episdoe counted as 2 episodes). So far we haven't seen Caroline Julian or Max Keenan - I know they are scheduled for guest appearances, but don't know when. I continue to love the fast past of the show and how the mystery is not solved until the very end.

Bones' Intern-O-Meter: 0 to 6

Thursday Thirteen #11 - Bones

Bones is back on the FOX network for a 4th season! Check out my "Morning After Bones" post just before this one to read about last night's premiere episode, "Yanks in the U.K." Seeley Booth, Temperance Brennan and the rest of the gang for another thrilling season of crimes, forensics and friends.

In honor of the new season premiere, I give you 13 reasons to love Bones:

1.) Special Agent Seeley Booth, played by David Boreanaz - need I say more? In case you missed it, click here to see my TT dedicated just for David! This photo is from season 3 of Bones.


2.)Dr. Temperance Brennan, played by Emily Deschanel. How is she going to react now that Zack is no longer at the Jeffersonian? Will she be able to find another assistant? Will she and Booth finally get together?


3.) Angela Montenegro, played by Michaela Conlin. Will Angela be able to find you estranged husband? Will she and Hodgins finally get married? Will we see more of her daddy, ZZ Top front man Billy Gibbons?




4.) Dr. Jack Hodgins, played by T.J. Thyne. How is Hodgins going to react now that his partner in crime - Zack - is no longer around? Will he and Angela finally tie the knot?





5.) Dr. Camille Saroyan, played by Tamara Taylor. Will we finally learn more about Dr. Saroyan's past? Will we see more of her family? Will she continue to have ocassional "special relations" with Booth?



6.) Dr. Lance Sweets, played by John Francis Daley - he's also a cutie. Will he continue to counsel Bones and Booth, or will he be reduced to just a profiler? I love his corny dialogue mixed in with his intelligent speech.


7.) DA Prosecutor Caroline Julian, played by Patricia Belcher. How can you not love Caroline? She is a smart prosecutor with a smart-ass mouth - you can't ask for more!




8.) The bones and the bodies! It never ceases to amaze me how the FX department comes up with all the "unusual" bodies and bones for the show. Ickie-poo!



9.) The sexual tension between Booth and Bones! I love the sexual tension and I hope the show draws it out as long as possible. Every time a show pulls the two main characters together in a sexual relationship, the ratings go down and then the show is doomed. I want Bones to be around for a long time to come!


10.) The love affair between Angela and Hodgins! They are so hot together! I love their spontanaity and their sexual appetite. Remember the Egyptian bed and the storage room? Hubba hubba!




11.) Guest appearances by Ryan O'Neal as Max Keenan. Although I'm not crazy about the character of Max, I love the way O'Neal portrays him. What's going to happen now that's he's out of jail?




12.) Watching the entire cast work together as a team - they are funny, smart, engaging and just plain interesting to watch.




13.) And finally, guest appearances by Eric Millegan as Zack Addy. Last season, we learned he was the Gormogon apprentice, so Zack is now in a psychiatric facility.