Sad-making TV

[icepixie]

I watched the latest Bones after hearing good things, and...wow. I didn't think anything would make me actually want to write my pedagogy paper. Huh.

Castle has officially out-Bonesed Bones. Please don't cancel it, ABC!

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[alto2.livejournal.com]

Castle has officially out-Bonesed Bones

I am honestly unsure if you're saying this is a good thing or a bad thing...I really need to find time to watch some Castle. I also saw a few days ago that you can vote on the future of a pile of shows at USA Today's survey (http://daytimeconfidential.com/2009/04/usa-todays-12th-annual-save-our-shows-survey), if you're so inclined.

[icepixie]

I am honestly unsure if you're saying this is a good thing or a bad thing...

Good for Castle, bad for Bones. They're both starting from similar concepts, but Castle is already doing better with it than Bones ever did.

I really need to find time to watch some Castle.

You should! It's not amazing or anything, but it's been consistently funny and has some good characters. The Castle/Beckett interaction comes from the same comic noir roots that Maddie and David's on Moonlighting did.

I also saw a few days ago that you can vote on the future of a pile of shows at USA Today's survey, if you're so inclined.

*votes*

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Here's another poll, for whatever it's worth: http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/2008-09-cancelled-shows-abc-renews-12-tv-series/

[icepixie]

Heh, I see that Castle has 56% of the vote on that one. Excellent.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

I was happy with the latest Bones. Stephen Fry + Bones not being a self-congratulating idiot about religion or monogamy + random meaningful character development all around = not a bad day.

Then again, Sweets is my favorite character right now, which tells you something about how low my expectations are for the show this season.

[icepixie]

Stephen Fry was the only good part of the episode. And then...the rest of it was Sweets. Whom I hate. (Are B&B still supposed to be his patients? Wouldn't his whole "my new family! *squish*" shtick be...in some way frowned upon?)

Then again, Sweets is my favorite character right now, which tells you something about how low my expectations are for the show this season.

OUCH.

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Oh, Stephen Fry! Even you can't make Bones good again! Although he came close. He's SO MUCH BETTER at psychology than Sweets! So much! And his shameless shipper cheerleading is so much more subdued and classy than Sweets', too. (You KNOW Sweets goes home and writes B/B fanfic. Creepy.)

Um, why did they wait this long to give us any Sweets character development at all? And can't anyone on this show just have boring parents? I mean, Sweets has been flailing after acceptance for ages, we get it, nobody needs to throw in dead adopted parents to cheapen it make it mean more.

But yeah, Brennan felt much less like a pod person in this one, at least. Her "Oh! Boo hoo! I wish I could be a romantic and believe in Twu Wuv!" thing in "The Cinderella in the Cardboard" just made me gag.

[icepixie]

(You KNOW Sweets goes home and writes B/B fanfic. Creepy.)

Yes. Yes, he does. And it is very creepy.

And can't anyone on this show just have boring parents?

FOR REAL, OMG. I think Zack and Cam are the only ones who came from anything resembling a normal family life.

I'm very glad I stopped watching with "Princess and the Pear" so that I didn't have to see Brennan wanting to believe in Twu Wuv.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

I think Sweets would be much more annoying to me if he hadn't appeared right around the time I started hating every other character. If he'd appeared during the first season then yes, face-stabbing early and often. However, if you accept the fourth season as a completely different show that just happens to be homonymous with the original....


I mean, Sweets has been flailing after acceptance for ages, we get it

The end was creepy. The Stephen Fry interrogation-room intervention was awesome, though, and so was the, "You mean he's imprinted on us? Like a baby duck?" line.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Also:

Her "Oh! Boo hoo! I wish I could be a romantic and believe in Twu Wuv!" thing in "The Cinderella in the Cardboard" just made me gag.

True, but there were some awesome moments at the beginning -- the "Brennan, please say what I am thinking. Brennan, please say what -- YES THANK YOU" stuff that used to happen in the first few seasons.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

Are B&B still supposed to be his patients? Wouldn't his whole "my new family! *squish*" shtick be...in some way frowned upon?

I suppose no more so than Stephen Fry having Booth build him a barbeque pit.

[icepixie]

But that was theraputic for Booth. Sweets getting B&B as his new family is theraputic for Sweets. Not the same thing at all, IMO.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

....no, I think the barbeque pit was just straight-up questionable and not really therapeutic for anybody.

[icepixie]

But if Booth hadn't been engaged in manual labor, he never would've opened up to Gordon Gordon. Distracting him with bricks circumvented his defenses.

[sleepingcbw.livejournal.com]

I dunno. They could've played soccer. I see your point, but it seems like the more personal-gain-oriented of various paths Gordon could've taken.

My point is, clearly "frowned upon" isn't an issue in this universe.

[icepixie]

My point is, clearly "frowned upon" isn't an issue in this universe.

Well, that's certainly true.