Body of Proof: "Buried Secrets"
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icepixieOh, wow. We didn't even make to the end of the season without Megan's father's death getting suspicious overtones! Show, you really are trying to go for every cliche in the book.
(Speaking of which: NEXT WEEK. OH GOD. THIS IS GOING TO BE AWFUL, ISN'T IT? And damn it, ABC, you are seriously going to roll the last four episodes of this season in to S2 and make THAT the season finale? REALLY?! Do you realize that no one is going to come back for the next season after that, possibly including me depending on how horribly that plotline goes?)
(Also, dammit, I know the whole thing has aired in dubbed versions in Europe, and I know that by sometime in July I will be at a breaking point and will have downloaded said dubs, and be trying to understand them with, I dunno, Google Translate. ARGH.)
Anyway, this week. It's been a long week and it's only Tuesday, so I'm going to just do bullet points:
- We got a Sam episode! But somehow I finished watching and still knew basically nothing about her. Siiiiiigh.
- Wait, Peter got all ragey at drug dealer dude? Really? Since when does he lose his cool? (And since when does Ethan call him Pete?)
- And since when does Megan have the ability to read nuance enough to excuse herself from a personal conversation without having to be prodded?
- "I dropped my knife. Unfortunately, it didn't land in her jugular. It's a complicated relationship." Awwwwwww.
- I can't decide if it's a good thing that the cops are also playing merry hell with procedure (practically beating up Drug Dealer Dude, Sam intimidating Ethan into giving her the blood test results) or not. On the one hand, it makes the entire show look even more unprofessional; on the other hand, it makes Megan's gross violations of what MEs actually do stand out less, and I'm more able to believe that this takes place in an alternate universe which has very different approaches to investigating crime than our own.
- I loled at Megan passing the buck on informing the girl's family to Peter, who promptly passed it to Ethan. That was probably the most realistic part of the episode.
- "That's not that, is it?" / "Is it ever?" Aw, she has him trained.
- Aaaand Megan calls in a favor from Mommy. Of course she does. Handy to have your mom as a judge!
- So if Megan was 12 in 1977 (David Hunt's death year on the grave stone), that makes her 46 this year. About what I expected. I like being right. :)
- I'm kind of in love with Bud making a comparison to freaking Tosca. Bwahahahaha! Non-stereotypical interests FTW!
- Er, Curtis? Aren't you an ME? Why did Megan have to explain elements of decomposition to you? (I know, I know, drink more, think less.)
- "...which quite frankly I've been coming to expect!" Oh, Kate. Bwahahaha. At least she realizes she's fighting a losing battle with trying to get Megan to follow any kind of rules at all? (I so want the episode where Megan actually gets suspended or something.)
- I have no idea why Ethan told that story about having no friends and crying for weeks when his guinea pig died, but awwwwwwww. Dear Ethan: You really need to find a role model besides Megan, because she's probably got a story like that too. It'll be like the blind leading the blind.
- "You didn't tell me!" / "Hmmm, how's that feel?" Heh. Kate getting sarcastic = always a win. I also very much approve of them getting all gloved up and working on the body together. (That...didn't sound that dirty in my head, but whatever, I'm going with it.)
- "We're more alike than you think. I just follow the rules." Awww. I'm slashing them hard in this episode. :D
- "Not everything is a mystery, Megan. Get over it. I did." OUCH. Yeah, no wonder Megan is a terrible mother if she had that example to work from. Also, if episode 13 (which I guess will now be EPISODE FREAKING FOUR of the next season, assuming the show gets one?) doesn't involve Megan exhuming the body and/or evidence coming to light that her father was murdered, I will eat SO MUCH HEADGEAR.
(Speaking of which: NEXT WEEK. OH GOD. THIS IS GOING TO BE AWFUL, ISN'T IT? And damn it, ABC, you are seriously going to roll the last four episodes of this season in to S2 and make THAT the season finale? REALLY?! Do you realize that no one is going to come back for the next season after that, possibly including me depending on how horribly that plotline goes?)
(Also, dammit, I know the whole thing has aired in dubbed versions in Europe, and I know that by sometime in July I will be at a breaking point and will have downloaded said dubs, and be trying to understand them with, I dunno, Google Translate. ARGH.)
Anyway, this week. It's been a long week and it's only Tuesday, so I'm going to just do bullet points:
- We got a Sam episode! But somehow I finished watching and still knew basically nothing about her. Siiiiiigh.
- Wait, Peter got all ragey at drug dealer dude? Really? Since when does he lose his cool? (And since when does Ethan call him Pete?)
- And since when does Megan have the ability to read nuance enough to excuse herself from a personal conversation without having to be prodded?
- "I dropped my knife. Unfortunately, it didn't land in her jugular. It's a complicated relationship." Awwwwwww.
- I can't decide if it's a good thing that the cops are also playing merry hell with procedure (practically beating up Drug Dealer Dude, Sam intimidating Ethan into giving her the blood test results) or not. On the one hand, it makes the entire show look even more unprofessional; on the other hand, it makes Megan's gross violations of what MEs actually do stand out less, and I'm more able to believe that this takes place in an alternate universe which has very different approaches to investigating crime than our own.
- I loled at Megan passing the buck on informing the girl's family to Peter, who promptly passed it to Ethan. That was probably the most realistic part of the episode.
- "That's not that, is it?" / "Is it ever?" Aw, she has him trained.
- Aaaand Megan calls in a favor from Mommy. Of course she does. Handy to have your mom as a judge!
- So if Megan was 12 in 1977 (David Hunt's death year on the grave stone), that makes her 46 this year. About what I expected. I like being right. :)
- I'm kind of in love with Bud making a comparison to freaking Tosca. Bwahahahaha! Non-stereotypical interests FTW!
- Er, Curtis? Aren't you an ME? Why did Megan have to explain elements of decomposition to you? (I know, I know, drink more, think less.)
- "...which quite frankly I've been coming to expect!" Oh, Kate. Bwahahaha. At least she realizes she's fighting a losing battle with trying to get Megan to follow any kind of rules at all? (I so want the episode where Megan actually gets suspended or something.)
- I have no idea why Ethan told that story about having no friends and crying for weeks when his guinea pig died, but awwwwwwww. Dear Ethan: You really need to find a role model besides Megan, because she's probably got a story like that too. It'll be like the blind leading the blind.
- "You didn't tell me!" / "Hmmm, how's that feel?" Heh. Kate getting sarcastic = always a win. I also very much approve of them getting all gloved up and working on the body together. (That...didn't sound that dirty in my head, but whatever, I'm going with it.)
- "We're more alike than you think. I just follow the rules." Awww. I'm slashing them hard in this episode. :D
- "Not everything is a mystery, Megan. Get over it. I did." OUCH. Yeah, no wonder Megan is a terrible mother if she had that example to work from. Also, if episode 13 (which I guess will now be EPISODE FREAKING FOUR of the next season, assuming the show gets one?) doesn't involve Megan exhuming the body and/or evidence coming to light that her father was murdered, I will eat SO MUCH HEADGEAR.
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Date: 2011-05-11 03:37 am (UTC)- Wait, Peter got all ragey at drug dealer dude? Really? Since when does he lose his cool?
I'm assuming that he was mad on Sam's behalf.
- I have no idea why Ethan told that story about having no friends and crying for weeks when his guinea pig died, but awwwwwwww. Dear Ethan: You really need to find a role model besides Megan, because she's probably got a story like that too. It'll be like the blind leading the blind.
WORD. But he seems to have imprinted on her like a baby duckling. He'd do better to try to learn people skills from Peter.
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Date: 2011-05-11 03:55 am (UTC)I'm assuming that he was mad on Sam's behalf.
I guess so, but I was still surprised when he lunged at the guy. That seemed...somehow un-Petery, although I guess we really don't know enough about him to say what is or isn't in character yet.
He'd do better to try to learn people skills from Peter.
For real.
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Date: 2011-05-11 01:18 pm (UTC)ARG. I was thinking, "PLEASE let it be JUST a suicide! You don't see that often in crime-show parents! Let her just deal with that angst!" But no. Now it's Huntington's/murder. Ugh. (And by now House has trained me to go "HUNTINGTON'S ARG STABSTABSTAB" so that didn't help much either.)
(Also, dammit, I know the whole thing has aired in dubbed versions in Europe, and I know that by sometime in July I will be at a breaking point and will have downloaded said dubs, and be trying to understand them with, I dunno, Google Translate. ARGH.)
Lol at the depths of your desperation! coughcoughsendmethefileswhenyou'redonecough
Wait, Peter got all ragey at drug dealer dude? Really? Since when does he lose his cool?
Geez, you let the boys go off on their own tangent for FIVE MINUTES, and they go all testosterone-crazed! They need a woman to chaperon them at all times!
(And since when does Ethan call him Pete?)
Since Ethan has incorrect personal boundaries, stemming from guinea pig trauma? (Awww.)
On the one hand, it makes the entire show look even more unprofessional; on the other hand, it makes Megan's gross violations of what MEs actually do stand out less, and I'm more able to believe that this takes place in an alternate universe which has very different approaches to investigating crime than our own.
*facepalm*
I loled at Megan passing the buck on informing the girl's family to Peter, who promptly passed it to Ethan.
And... somehow Peter completely escaped any blame for this? Suave.
I'm kind of in love with Bud making a comparison to freaking Tosca. Bwahahahaha! Non-stereotypical interests FTW!
\o/
Er, Curtis? Aren't you an ME? Why did Megan have to explain elements of decomposition to you?
He's not an ME, he's a HAMMER! Lol!
It'll be like the blind leading the blind.
...now I want to see her give him acting-human advice, and them both acting on it, and the spectacular failures that result.
I also very much approve of them getting all gloved up and working on the body together. (That...didn't sound that dirty in my head, but whatever, I'm going with it.)
facepalms aside, I like how Kate wore armpit-length gloves, and yet still didn't bother with a hairnet. Sigh.
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Date: 2011-05-11 10:17 pm (UTC)Uuuuuggggghhhh. I was really hoping for, like, heart attack or something. I could've lived with suicide if it really was a suicide. But nope, I'm sure it was murder now. And if the show lasts that long, I bet Megan will stealth!exhume him, find out it was murder, and then spend the next few years chasing down the killer, a la Beckett.
coughcoughsendmethefileswhenyou'redonecough
*coughcoughokaycough*
Geez, you let the boys go off on their own tangent for FIVE MINUTES, and they go all testosterone-crazed! They need a woman to chaperon them at all times!
So apparently that's the reason Megan keeps poking her nose into the actual investigative part of things...
Since Ethan has incorrect personal boundaries, stemming from guinea pig trauma?
Perhaps?
(Awww.)
Oh, the poor boy. He would fit right in on Bones.
And... somehow Peter completely escaped any blame for this? Suave.
I think possibly Kate was so angry that she completely glossed over the middleman there.
He's not an ME, he's a HAMMER! Lol!
He and Captain Hammer should hang out.
...now I want to see her give him acting-human advice, and them both acting on it, and the spectacular failures that result.
HA! Yes, that would be entertaining.
facepalms aside, I like how Kate wore armpit-length gloves, and yet still didn't bother with a hairnet. Sigh.
Perhaps in the alternate universe this takes place in, everyone has some kind of invisible hair forcefield that keeps it out of bodies?
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Date: 2011-05-15 05:19 pm (UTC)Suicide has perfectly sufficient levels of angst! And the benefit of not being terribly cliche like parent!murder! They could've gone interesting directions with that! But no.
I bet Megan will stealth!exhume him, find out it was murder, and then spend the next few years chasing down the killer, a la Beckett.
BAH. Although a tiny light at the end of the tunnel: the parallels with Plot O' The Week suggest a medical angle for Megan's dad's death, so maaaaybe we'll be spared the murderer-hunt. Let's hope.
So apparently that's the reason Megan keeps poking her nose into the actual investigative part of things...
Lol, she is the one-woman Jack Bauer Prevention Unit!
Oh, the poor boy. He would fit right in on Bones.
Aww, HodgePodge and Zackeroni would've loved him!
Perhaps in the alternate universe this takes place in, everyone has some kind of invisible hair forcefield that keeps it out of bodies?
And they wonder why they have a hard time sticking to the budget!
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Date: 2011-05-15 08:59 pm (UTC)So much angst is possible, yes!
Although a tiny light at the end of the tunnel: the parallels with Plot O' The Week suggest a medical angle for Megan's dad's death, so maaaaybe we'll be spared the murderer-hunt. Let's hope.
Perhaps! Although if her dad had Huntington's, it's a good bet that Megan and Lacey inherited it, which I don't think they'll go for. Maybe something else?
And they wonder why they have a hard time sticking to the budget!
"Sorry, we can't hire someone to deal with understaffing because we spent all our money on these hair forcefields. Maybe you should think about hair nets?"