The Sense in the Sacrifice

The whole Pelant thing is more than stupid, lazy writing at it's maximum. When you have no idea how to make something happen - Pelant did it! Hodgins accounts emptied and no living soul can do a thing about that? Pelant kills and kills with his 60kg and no muscles? Pelant hacks into anything, he even gets camera feeds where no living soul would put any cameras! Ridiculous! Bones was one of my favourite shows till all this Pelant stupidity, after that I stopped watching.

My wife and I are hugs fans of the show, and have watched every episode from the beginning. With that said tonight was a huge disappointment (ep.9.4). The writing, directing, and plot were cheesy and quite honestly way below the standards for this show. I don't know if they are trying to write themselves out of a show or what, but this was pitiful. On top of that the show has been increasing the level of gratuitous violence that it portrays.

I have never been a proponent of violence being bad on TV, but I also have no urge to see someone get their face peeled off live in the middle of dinner. That was a few episodes back however, tonight it was just an autopsy complete with rib spreading and Quad splitting... Please stop with the gratuitous violence, it does not help the plot, and is simply in poor taste.

So for all who are huge Bones fans, you have to watch this episode because it deals with Polant, but don't expect to enjoy it. The beginning makes no sense and seems to come out of nowhere, the middle is lacking in anything resembling a puzzle, and the end is well... bad... like Monty Python bad. I loved Monty Python, but they were supposed to be funny... Bones is not a comedy.

One last thing. I don't want to give away too much, but from what I saw in tonight's episode they seem to be attempting to get an HBO level of realistic violence into the show, and yet tried to spin a fairy tale ending into a bad plot aimed at 7 year olds. Absolutely horrible.

I guess the end of Palant is a little anti-climatic, but in a way that at least makes sense. He is, after all, just a man.

I find it pretty easy to suspend disbelief for a lot of things in this show, as one does for a TV show like this. But even so, the show should at least be internally consistent. Angela, though, is a bizarre character. She started as a street artist happy to get a job that paid well. For a while there was no indication that she had any more training or education than her artistic ability. Over the years she has gradually had magical new skills ranging from complex sound editing to computer hacking. And by this point in the series she's basically a top-of-the-line computer expert and is rarely even doing artistic work at all anymore. It's weird and an unfortunate turn for her quirky character (who has also lost a lot of the endearing quirk).