Pilot

Dr. Temperance Brennan is seen for the first time in this episode. She's a bit different from the one later in the show. She seems more emotional and personable. I think I like her better this way, but understand why they developed the character the other way.

In this episode, Seeley Booth announces that he had worked with Bones before - we'll see that in a later episode (Season 5) as they tell the story of how they met. (I LOVED that episode!!!)

You can tell the characters are loosely developed. This episode got me interested in watching the rest, and it's become one of my favorite shows. Booth and Bones have chemistry from this beginning episode, and it only grows over the years.

Excellent!

I really like Silent Witness so I was looking forward to seeing Bones after it was recommended to me.

The pilot episode establishes the heroine as a no-nonsense kick-as girl who is a martial arts expert who is also a crack shot with a gun. Taking an FBI agent down is no problem for her. Does that want to make you puke?

Hold the gag reflex. Every character is good looking and in the age range of 25 to 40. The market research team created the cast with no thought of realism.

Okay, it is a pilot so the producers need to be blunt to get the green light, but I'm hoping for better to come.

Overall, this is far too stereotypically an American cop show.

Now you can puke.

I've already seen the whole series while it was active and now I'm just revisiting.

It was pretty good but I've always found it odd that she's the opposite of the usual brain person that we always see in shows.. usually the person is smart but completely useless when it comes to physical contact.. that's why Castle was a hit.. the detective girl was the brawn and castle was the "brain" but here brennan if pretty much both asides from being a big inept socially speaking but overall great story.

My baseline vote for the overall show is 7. Given when I used to watch it as it aired on tv.

6 is given because and to record particularly bad moments. Like in the pilot. When bones is speaking to the senator.

Usually the camera will focus on the person that is doing the talking. So in a conversation, the camera will switch from one person to the other depending on who's talking. This is What usually happens in the show as well. Except in this scene.

Maybe they had to dub in Some dialogue or something... But in the senate scene the camera does the opposite. The results is so jarring it's impossible not to notice.

Once again, a pilot. And I will say the same thing I usually do. We are introduced to a relatively large cast of characters. Each has an area of expertise in the forensics department at the Jeffersonian. We meet Temperance Brennan (Bones) and Seely Booth (FBI) who have some sort of history. We are told that Brennan is the foremost forensic anthropologist around. Her focus is scientific, while Booth handles the deduction. He is more sympathetic to victims than he lets on. She is quite formidable in every respect. The case is the body of a young woman found at the bottom of a pond who worked for a senator. He is suspected of impregnating her and then murdering her. It's good there is more to the plot than that. As I see more of these, I will speak more of the individuals. I am seeing these for the second time, having watched them when they first appeared. I may not make it through all of them, but they will be fun, nevertheless..