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[icepixie]

Got my final disc of S2 Bones today, which only includes one episode before hitting the special features.

Wow. So, um, pretty much everything about this episode fell completely flat. I was rather amazed at how poorly everything worked out.

First of all, they are not going to make me have any appreciable amount of sympathy for the murderer of the week, so trying to relate her back to that ultra-cheesy video Brennan's mom made her? Insulting. Second, Angela and Hodgins can't get married because Angela's already married? Seriously? I'm sorry, did Netflix send me a DVD of Guiding Light or something? Bones, you tried way to hard to be funny there, and it was an epic fail. The randomness with Angela's old rock star father (whoever he was) was also annoying.

Finally, whoa; all the girls' clothes at the wedding were terrible. Brennan and Cam looked like boho refugees from the eighties. Angela's hood/veil thing was...well, first of all, it was a hood. With sequins. Ow.

However, Zack in Iraq does have some interesting possibilities...aside from the alliteration, of course. Heh. And if there aren't a million and one B&B fanfics out there with the reception as a setting, I will eat my hat.

Is Hart Hanson Canadian? There was definitely an "oot" in the special features. It would go far toward explaining the suspicious Fraseriness and RayVness of B&B....

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So, um, pretty much everything about this episode fell completely flat. I was rather amazed at how poorly everything worked out.

I, um, liked it? A lot? I liked that they tried to explore Brennan's character in a new way (tried, at least), and I loved the cracked-out wedding. It was just not even pretending to be the standard schmooze, and I appreciated that.

First of all, they are not going to make me have any appreciable amount of sympathy for the murderer of the week

I had a little sympathy. She was seriously, seriously messed up, but... there was a little sympathy. Enough to not burn her kid's artwork in front of her, at least.

that ultra-cheesy video Brennan's mom made her

I like how in the commentary they tried to pretend that Brennan and that actor playing her mother looked anything at all alike? I mean... they were white? And of a similar build and hair color? But facially, nopers.

Second, Angela and Hodgins can't get married because Angela's already married? Seriously?

But they'd mentioned that marriage before! In S1 somewhere! I remember it! Continuity, people! Appreciate it now, because it'll whisk away again before you know it!

The randomness with Angela's old rock star father (whoever he was) was also annoying.

But it was just SO random that it was hilarious! Her dad is, for no good reason, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top! And Hodgins is in love with him! Cute!

whoa; all the girls' clothes at the wedding were terrible.

Okay, I'm with you there. And they should stop putting Brennan in teeter-tottery heels, because she looks SO awkward and uncomfortable and unattractive. They do nothing for her at all. Cam almost managed it, but... no.

it was a hood. With sequins.

Um, have you met Angela? If anybody's gonna be all, "I know! Arwen with sequins!1!", it'd be her. *facepalm*

The ending seemed to have abandoned dignity for camp, but... hey, it was pretty amusing. And a nice break from "I murdered my sick kid with my AIDS meds."