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elapsesSo. There is a distinct possibility I am more invested in Cam and Michelle's relationship than... any other relationship on this show! Even though Michelle is no longer played by Dana Davis, and new girl almost looks too much like Cam, if that makes sense-- idk I can see them playing actual biological mother and daughter and that... feels like a weird casting choice? Somehow. Anyway! God, Michelle is such a teenager in the exact way Julie Taylor is such a teenager. I mean, who wouldn't want to go hang in Hawaii with her friend? Par-tay. Youuuuu know, it's one of those things you can do if you are a sixteen-year-old with an established family, but not... in this case. I DON'T KNOW WHY I AM TALKING WHEN ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT STORYLINE WAS "CAM'S FAAAAAACE ;_____;" and "THANK YOU BONES", since in some way it feels like a personal gift to me, but. There you go! Joy!
I love that Zooey was mostly there so that people could make "you two totally look like sisters" jokes. Repeatedly! Twice! I love you, Bones show.
UHHHH, I was more than usually affected* by the case this week? Although I'm pretty sure that is entirely due to the fact that ANNE METCALF was the mother, and I was predisposed to care about her pain. Aw, radio guy's voiceover. And then the funeral! And the way everyone awkwardly walked up. Aw.
I wish I had not seen the preview, because I feel like the Brennan-undresses-Booth-for-work thing would have been more hilarious/strangely hot if I had not known it was coming. AND THEN THERE WAS CHRISTMAS WITH THEIR "MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FAMILY", and Brennan's teeeeeeerrible toast which was intercepted by Booth, the unnamed co-host. AND THEN THE ADORABLE AND WEIRD WINKY EYE CONTACT AT THE END. ♥______♥
Although hm! Why do I feel like we are being set up for the Hodgins/Angela reunion when Wendell/Angela has barely even begun? I... just... MIXED SIGNALS EVERYWHERE. I don't know what to think about Angela/Hodgins in the first place, and they are deliberately making it worse. Flarb.
ALSO! Here is the thing. I am kind of irritated at Sweets right now, because he was kiiiiiiiind of a douche last week, but then I feel uncomfortable because... it is Sweets. I should never feel less than pure love for him! But then Hodgins TOTALLY CONDONED his stupidity (or... not really, but he acted like they were normal dude feelings! NO!), and... I don't know. I guess I already knew that on Bones, kissing isn't exactly cheating (witness: Angela's makeout session with the exish-husband when she was engaged to Hodgins, EXCEPT SHE ENDED THAT BY SAYING "NEVER EVER GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN, K?" at least), but it is! And god, you know he didn't tell Daisy because Daisy would have committed homicide! (WHICH REMINDS ME: I am so glad Daisy is back in the lab! I love her. And although it was kind of working for me that when she showed up in season 4, she didn't have to be the intern of the week, I... always felt like she got the short end of the stick. I don't really understand why she got fired for being irritating, wheeeen depressed intern didn't. And Vincent Nigel-Murray, whom I adore, but Cam clearly does not share my feelings.)
WHATEVER, IT WAS PERFECT, THANK YOU, BONES SHOW, IT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED FOR CHRISTMAS.
*Only in that... I am usually not at all affected by the case, and this week I was. Whatever, it's Bones! The people who claim to watch the show for "science" or "crime" are actual freaks of nature.
I love the grand television tradition of bringing old faces back for funerals-- so I loved seeing Lyla last week, even if only for a split second. There is so much truth to the idea that funerals are for the living, but not for the dead, but it was especially true in this case-- the people who were there were not there to offer the family their favorite stories of Henry Saracen, their old comrade, as some kind of cold comfort, they were there because they loved Matt. Or Lorraine. Which works out because they are main characters, and Henry was not! (okay no, it's easy to be flippant about it now, a week later, but last week I was, you know, sobbing all over myself. So.)
ANYWAY! What I was saying was that it was sweet of Lyla to be there. And nice to see her. Even though she and Matt have barely ever been in a scene together (even though Zach and Minka have done interviews pointing that out-- obviously I do not believe in Matt/Lyla romantically-- but it's funny that they never shared anything at all. MISSED OPPORTUNITY! I feel like we have a lot of those with Lyla specifically though). I don't think I would have felt cheated if that's all we had seen of her.
But. I am glad it wasn't. Because what they did with Tim/Lyla this week was kind of lovely? This week was very thematic: here you have Matt and Julie and also Tim and Lyla, and both pairs are inundated with this kind of love that is very high school but also more than that. And in both cases... it is time to let go, but of course that's horrible and awful, and of course some part of Julie wants Matt to stay forever and some part of Lyla wants to take Tim up on his offer, but it is just that: part. They are grown up girls and boys and you can't always listen to your heart. It just... rung very true to me. On both counts. As much as I love other examples of television about teens, the relationships always feel like they're controlled by a revolving door or an egg-timer, and there's no emotional rationale behind the end of them. These endings were the opposite. They were powerful to watch. And it kind of illuminated how as much as I am head over heels in love with season 4 so far, the one new thing they haven't really hit yet is the relationship aspect. They're trying-- there's Jess/Vince and Jess/Landry and Luke/Becky-- but... I kind of don't care! I care about them all as characters, and I care more and more about their non-romantic relationships*, but as for their mushy entanglements... I have zero interest! That is not to say I will never care -- seriously, where the fuck did actively liking Tim/Lyla come from this week**? -- but as for now, not so much at all. Weird.
For awhile "You are my favorite daughter" was the only thing in this post in semagic, because it was such a great line and I wanted to acknowledge it.
In any case, although I thought I broke my tear ducts last week, they turned out fine-- Matthew LEAVING. I knew he only had six episodes this season but I... forgot? Because for some reason I didn't expect that yet. Even when they were talking at the Austin Indie Music Festival (that scene was so masterful! Friday Night Lights, we should think about having some babies, I love you that much) (although lol @ "Austin Indie Music Festival", that name isn't awkward at all! I guess they couldn't just come out and say SXSW or ACL though. STILL, CREATIVE WORK THERE, WRITERS. I do love with they get to unabashedly be in Austin though! Emooooo's!), it seemed like something they'd have another episode to iron out. Not so. I... god I get so bad at articulating my FEELINGS but I love the way they just... took the rug out from under Matt. If that makes sense. He stayed not because it was best for him, but because it felt like what he had to do-- because of Julie and because of Lorraine. And then Julie said the thing about keeping him there and the way he sat outside the house in the car, I just um. Wow. I am so glad you get to be selfish now, Matt Saracen. It is truly your time.
*VINCE AND HIS MOTHER IN THIS EPISODE. Um. Omg. I know people keep saying Luke Cafferty is Matt Saracen 2.0, but... no, I think it is Vince! Actually it's not really either, you cannot repeat Matt Saracen, but I'M JUST SAYING, I see more shades of Matty in Vince than in Luke. LUUUUUKE. I also love Jess' family and TIM AND BECKY purely platonically, although of course she would have a crush. It's okay as long as he keeps pushing her away. Riggins is just a man, and she is so clearly a girl, and it would be... the most uncomfortabe thing in the world if they hooked up. SO GROSS.
**Actually I'm pretty sure it came from making this picspam, which... okay brain! I'm so glad you do things the normal way. Because you definitely weren't at all into them the first time you saw season 3, and I am pretty sure capping does not constitute a rewatch.
Argh I was totally seeing the Princess & the Frog at midnight tonight but now... I am not. I don't think.
I love that Zooey was mostly there so that people could make "you two totally look like sisters" jokes. Repeatedly! Twice! I love you, Bones show.
UHHHH, I was more than usually affected* by the case this week? Although I'm pretty sure that is entirely due to the fact that ANNE METCALF was the mother, and I was predisposed to care about her pain. Aw, radio guy's voiceover. And then the funeral! And the way everyone awkwardly walked up. Aw.
I wish I had not seen the preview, because I feel like the Brennan-undresses-Booth-for-work thing would have been more hilarious/strangely hot if I had not known it was coming. AND THEN THERE WAS CHRISTMAS WITH THEIR "MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FAMILY", and Brennan's teeeeeeerrible toast which was intercepted by Booth, the unnamed co-host. AND THEN THE ADORABLE AND WEIRD WINKY EYE CONTACT AT THE END. ♥______♥
Although hm! Why do I feel like we are being set up for the Hodgins/Angela reunion when Wendell/Angela has barely even begun? I... just... MIXED SIGNALS EVERYWHERE. I don't know what to think about Angela/Hodgins in the first place, and they are deliberately making it worse. Flarb.
ALSO! Here is the thing. I am kind of irritated at Sweets right now, because he was kiiiiiiiind of a douche last week, but then I feel uncomfortable because... it is Sweets. I should never feel less than pure love for him! But then Hodgins TOTALLY CONDONED his stupidity (or... not really, but he acted like they were normal dude feelings! NO!), and... I don't know. I guess I already knew that on Bones, kissing isn't exactly cheating (witness: Angela's makeout session with the exish-husband when she was engaged to Hodgins, EXCEPT SHE ENDED THAT BY SAYING "NEVER EVER GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN, K?" at least), but it is! And god, you know he didn't tell Daisy because Daisy would have committed homicide! (WHICH REMINDS ME: I am so glad Daisy is back in the lab! I love her. And although it was kind of working for me that when she showed up in season 4, she didn't have to be the intern of the week, I... always felt like she got the short end of the stick. I don't really understand why she got fired for being irritating, wheeeen depressed intern didn't. And Vincent Nigel-Murray, whom I adore, but Cam clearly does not share my feelings.)
WHATEVER, IT WAS PERFECT, THANK YOU, BONES SHOW, IT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED FOR CHRISTMAS.
*Only in that... I am usually not at all affected by the case, and this week I was. Whatever, it's Bones! The people who claim to watch the show for "science" or "crime" are actual freaks of nature.
I love the grand television tradition of bringing old faces back for funerals-- so I loved seeing Lyla last week, even if only for a split second. There is so much truth to the idea that funerals are for the living, but not for the dead, but it was especially true in this case-- the people who were there were not there to offer the family their favorite stories of Henry Saracen, their old comrade, as some kind of cold comfort, they were there because they loved Matt. Or Lorraine. Which works out because they are main characters, and Henry was not! (okay no, it's easy to be flippant about it now, a week later, but last week I was, you know, sobbing all over myself. So.)
ANYWAY! What I was saying was that it was sweet of Lyla to be there. And nice to see her. Even though she and Matt have barely ever been in a scene together (even though Zach and Minka have done interviews pointing that out-- obviously I do not believe in Matt/Lyla romantically-- but it's funny that they never shared anything at all. MISSED OPPORTUNITY! I feel like we have a lot of those with Lyla specifically though). I don't think I would have felt cheated if that's all we had seen of her.
But. I am glad it wasn't. Because what they did with Tim/Lyla this week was kind of lovely? This week was very thematic: here you have Matt and Julie and also Tim and Lyla, and both pairs are inundated with this kind of love that is very high school but also more than that. And in both cases... it is time to let go, but of course that's horrible and awful, and of course some part of Julie wants Matt to stay forever and some part of Lyla wants to take Tim up on his offer, but it is just that: part. They are grown up girls and boys and you can't always listen to your heart. It just... rung very true to me. On both counts. As much as I love other examples of television about teens, the relationships always feel like they're controlled by a revolving door or an egg-timer, and there's no emotional rationale behind the end of them. These endings were the opposite. They were powerful to watch. And it kind of illuminated how as much as I am head over heels in love with season 4 so far, the one new thing they haven't really hit yet is the relationship aspect. They're trying-- there's Jess/Vince and Jess/Landry and Luke/Becky-- but... I kind of don't care! I care about them all as characters, and I care more and more about their non-romantic relationships*, but as for their mushy entanglements... I have zero interest! That is not to say I will never care -- seriously, where the fuck did actively liking Tim/Lyla come from this week**? -- but as for now, not so much at all. Weird.
For awhile "You are my favorite daughter" was the only thing in this post in semagic, because it was such a great line and I wanted to acknowledge it.
In any case, although I thought I broke my tear ducts last week, they turned out fine-- Matthew LEAVING. I knew he only had six episodes this season but I... forgot? Because for some reason I didn't expect that yet. Even when they were talking at the Austin Indie Music Festival (that scene was so masterful! Friday Night Lights, we should think about having some babies, I love you that much) (although lol @ "Austin Indie Music Festival", that name isn't awkward at all! I guess they couldn't just come out and say SXSW or ACL though. STILL, CREATIVE WORK THERE, WRITERS. I do love with they get to unabashedly be in Austin though! Emooooo's!), it seemed like something they'd have another episode to iron out. Not so. I... god I get so bad at articulating my FEELINGS but I love the way they just... took the rug out from under Matt. If that makes sense. He stayed not because it was best for him, but because it felt like what he had to do-- because of Julie and because of Lorraine. And then Julie said the thing about keeping him there and the way he sat outside the house in the car, I just um. Wow. I am so glad you get to be selfish now, Matt Saracen. It is truly your time.
*VINCE AND HIS MOTHER IN THIS EPISODE. Um. Omg. I know people keep saying Luke Cafferty is Matt Saracen 2.0, but... no, I think it is Vince! Actually it's not really either, you cannot repeat Matt Saracen, but I'M JUST SAYING, I see more shades of Matty in Vince than in Luke. LUUUUUKE. I also love Jess' family and TIM AND BECKY purely platonically, although of course she would have a crush. It's okay as long as he keeps pushing her away. Riggins is just a man, and she is so clearly a girl, and it would be... the most uncomfortabe thing in the world if they hooked up. SO GROSS.
**Actually I'm pretty sure it came from making this picspam, which... okay brain! I'm so glad you do things the normal way. Because you definitely weren't at all into them the first time you saw season 3, and I am pretty sure capping does not constitute a rewatch.
Argh I was totally seeing the Princess & the Frog at midnight tonight but now... I am not. I don't think.
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Date: 2009-12-11 12:50 pm (UTC)I THINK THAT WAS ACTUALLY MY EXACT REACTION. God, I love Cam so much and I'm glad that she had more of a storyline this episode! Especially with Michelle, I love them so much.
I don't even understand what it was about this case! Usually I am not affected by them much, but wow, I was so emotional when they told that lady her son died. I think it had something to do with the way they did it.
Toooooooootally agree about the stripping scene, because I was looking forward to that but I was expecting another scene between them as well and I was sad I didn't get one. Stupid promo spoiling the best parts. HOWEVER, the scene was amaaaazing. Her on her knees pulling off his belt and pants while he has to recite saints to calm down! That happened!
Other thoughts: I really loved the car scene, Brennan how you've grown! Although I really wanted him to pull over and give her a big hug, but y'know, it was still perfect. Also Zooey wasn't in the episode as much as I was expecting but her and Emily were charming together and the sister jokes were so great. I love how obvious this shows is! I just love this show!
GUESS WHAT ALEX, Nina just unsubtly asked me if I'd bought Friday Night Lights for myself yet and I said no, but I guess I know what I'm getting for my birthday! Aaaah I'm so excited.
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Date: 2009-12-12 02:07 am (UTC)You are too right though, the car scene was so sweet.
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SO, this is really late but I just watched these shows this morning.
Date: 2009-12-16 06:46 pm (UTC)Cam! And Michelle! She was even used for more than just comic relief, and I am a huge fan of that. I want more though. That's the conundrum when they give me these little glimpses. I ALWAYS WANT MOOOORE.
The case was probably my favorite of the season thus far, and I'm not sure how much of that was just the Anne Metcalf Factor. But it just seemed somehow more important, maybe even better and more like Classic Bones. Not that the actual cases are ever the reason to watch the show, but some of the cases this season have been so OUT THERE. I don't even know.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. Oh, be still my heart ♥ I don't even know what to say other than this show continues to warm my heart EVERY WEEK. I LOVE YOU, SHOW.
PS: I totally need your email. I need to send you Homefront thoughts.
Re: SO, this is really late but I just watched these shows this morning.
Date: 2009-12-17 05:05 am (UTC)AND YES, CAAAAAAAAAAM! I... want this much for her every week. Seeeeeeriously.
It warms my heart with tears. Which is one of those things you cannot understand unless you watch it.
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