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.

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[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

HEEEEEEE!

Yep, episode 8 of season 4 airs this week.

Brennan/Bones/Temperance/whatever she actually goes by is even more socially awkward than I am

Oh, man, totally. Half the characters are much more socially awkward than you are in some way or another. I find it very endearing.

There's a lot of ridiculousness -- sometimes there is a need for a "nothing works that way!" sign -- but it's a very fun show. I truly have a fondness for all of the characters.

[icepixie]

Yep, episode 8 of season 4 airs this week.

Well, I was thinking it was in the fifth season, so there's that, at least.

Oh, man, totally. Half the characters are much more socially awkward than you are in some way or another. I find it very endearing.

And perhaps disturbing, in a "you might think about counseling for that" sort of way.

There's a lot of ridiculousness -- sometimes there is a need for a "nothing works that way!" sign -- but it's a very fun show. I truly have a fondness for all of the characters.

I knew from the first shot of their shiny, shiny lab with all the shiny, shiny equipment that all the shiny was obviously there to make up for seriously shoddy science. :D

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

And perhaps disturbing, in a "you might think about counseling for that" sort of way.

Hee. Wait, counseling for me, you, or them? ;) Bones was a bizarre child. I do find the forthrightness of the squints oddly comforting.

I knew from the first shot of their shiny, shiny lab with all the shiny, shiny equipment that all the shiny was obviously there to make up for seriously shoddy science. :D

Some of it's good, actually. Other things are more "dude, that would never happen, but since it is, let's go with it."

[icepixie]

Hee. Wait, counseling for me, you, or them? ;)

Oh, definitely them. Although I could probably benefit as well.

I do find the forthrightness of the squints oddly comforting.

Honestly is a good quality.

Some of it's good, actually. Other things are more "dude, that would never happen, but since it is, let's go with it."

So it's not quite as reality-bending as, say, Alias?