Math time!

[icepixie]

Hulu + rowdycamels being a TV addiction crack fairy = I think I might possibly be hooked on Bones.

Crap.

Aren't they on, like, season four or five now? Oh, dear. (Since it's on Fox, and it doesn't suck, that's rather amazing.)

3 papers + 4 weeks left in the semester + 2 exams + 4 seasons of Bones = MY HEAD ASPLODE.

Maybe it'll go downhill from the pilot and I can stop watching? Or maybe I'll just catch up over Christmas break. Or work out some method whereby I really truly limit myself to one every week. (I really, really don't have time for more than that. Oh dear god.)

(Re: impressions of the pilot: fairly heavy-handed exposition and point-making, but not terrible for a pilot; Brennan/Bones/Temperance/whatever she actually goes by is even more socially awkward than I am, which is comforting and horrifying at the same time; I'm kind of shocked that David Borwhatshisname isn't imitating a plank of wood; I'm glad they got the Mulder/Scully ref out of the way in the first five minutes, because...yeah; their FBI boss is bald, just like Skin-man!; the music is annoying; they gots cool electronic goodies at the Jeffersonian Institute of Whatever It Is (can you tell how much I was paying attention to detail?); I thought the bone lackeys were funny, but they seemed a bit scripted (maybe it's the pilotness of it); ZOMG BLATANT UST LIEK WHOA.)

P.S. Ellen, I hate you.

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I think this is S4 of Bones. It will go uphill as S1 progresses and you get into S2, and then it will go downhill, but not until the last episode of S3, which is the reason I no longer watch. And that is all I shall say about it so as not to ruin anything for you. ;)

[icepixie]

the last episode of S3, which is the reason I no longer watch. And that is all I shall say about it so as not to ruin anything for you. ;)

Hmm. Given current TVland tropes, that sounds like one of four things:

1.) Someone dies
2.) The two leads get in a relationship and it ends badly
3.) Someone gets a girl/boyfriend (possibly pursuant to item two)
4.) A baby is somehow involved

Am I close? Or is it something entirely different I should just wait to see because otherwise it would ruin the rest of the show?

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Nope, nope, nope, and nope. Not even close. And I am really not going to tell you anything more than that! If you knew, it would really color the way you watch the show.

I suppose I should give them credit for doing something slightly original, but that would require forgiving them, which I'm not prepared to do yet...

[icepixie]

Nope, nope, nope, and nope. Not even close. And I am really not going to tell you anything more than that! If you knew, it would really color the way you watch the show.

I think someone below mentioned it just after you posted. (I probably would've stumbled across it sooner or later on Wikipedia or whatever, seeing as I won't be getting through the backlog very quickly at this rate...) If it's what I'm interpreting her comment as, I can dig the idea. And there's always fanfic for when I can't.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I think someone below mentioned it just after you posted.

::looks:: Nope.

[icepixie]

::looks:: Nope.

Oooh.

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Yes. In fact, pretty much anything one might worry about isn't a worry. It's rather odd. Fun though!