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Warning: Spoilers follow for the current and
past seasons of Bones. Like for real,
don’t read this if you’re honestly concerned about the fate of certain
characters.
Hey guys,
remember when Bones was a plucky,
forensics-based weekly procedural that mostly served as a convenient excuse to
see attractive people like Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin and
Carla Gallo, make cute and flirt with one another?
Well,
surprise! Much like the death spiral of Psych,
Bones seems content to smash all of
the characters you love to bits while its burns off its final episodes, much
like a toddler destroying its toys in a fit of rage. I thought the previous
seasons’ focus on ridiculously implausible computer hacker Pelant was veering
too much into Very Special Episode territory, but someone in charge of the show
apparently decided that was the way to go for the final two seasons as well.
Bones has already been renewed for a
final season, which will probably be 13, 18 or 23 episodes of misery. But in
this season and the previous season, we’ve seen Sweets killed after we learned
he got his lady pregnant, Bones and Booth almost breaking up because of his
gambling addiction, Hodgins becomes paralyzed, and then, he starts emotionally
abusing Angela. Ye gads.
On a better
show, this subject material could be handled well. However, Bones has always been more about breezy
fun, or at least, it used to be. I’m tuning into Bones because I want to see them solve some murder mysteries while
Temperance “Bones” Brennan hilariously misinterprets everyday social actions. I’m
not watching because I want to see the characters’ lives destroyed.
This seems
to be a common problem for shows as they age – I wrote earlier
this year about how Suits has
turned into a serious-but-lighthearted legal show into an over-the-top weekly
melodrama. The worst example though is the show I mentioned in the opening
paragraph, Psych, which got really
heavy-handed as it neared the finish line. The last season of that show is just
all sorts of ugh and meh.
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