Yummeh. Just in time for Turkey Day!

...Apparently I am using the "Wales as a digested dinner and heartburn" metaphor as my thesis for this paper. Hmmm.

(In my defense, at least three of my critical sources have used the "digestion" motif in their work. So I'm not entirely out in left field here.)

Bones and the Renaissance collide in my head

So I was thinking about how this show is apparently into symbolic names--"Joy" becoming "Temperance," and the joyful baby exuberance becoming the cool calmness of our favorite anthropologist; Dr. Good Man--and suddenly wondered if they're attempting to imply something with "Sully." 'Cause that would be kind of sad. He didn't sully anyone!

(Of course, I could be barking up the wrong tree. If we applied this same kind of interpretation to Seeley Booth's name, all we'd get is mattresses and diners, or possibly telephones, only one of which might in any way reflect on his character. And the others don't really lend themselves to that kind of analysis either, unless one were to make a math connection with Zack Addy.)

(Oh, and this reminds me of another question: how did Brennan's parents get around the whole the-extended-family-would-NOT-be-named-Brennan thing? Insist that both parents were only children and all the grandparents were dead? Were other Keenan folks criminals as well? Argh, show, your logic holes could have trucks driven through them.)

Also, I keep trying to make some kind of connection between Brennan and Book Two of The Faerie Queene, which is the book about Guyon, Knight of Temperance. Buuut I have a feeling Hart Hanson & Co. would not have a clue what I'm talking about, so never mind. (Although if someone wanted to do a reinterpretation of the Bower of Blisse, that would be both awesome and hilarious. There's a lot of violent crime in that book they could draw from for plots, actually...)

...Okay, I have obviously been working on my paper for way. too. long. (Three pages, though!) I'm going to bed.