I am weak

[ayiana]

Note: I'm not cutting this, because it doesn't have any significant spoilers in it. That said, if you've yet to watch the season finale of Bones and don't want to risk coloring your opinions, you should maybe not read on. That said, on to the post

Comments

[tempertemper]

*raises hand* Another sucker, checking in ;)

ITA with everything you say. Pelant = preposterous and stupid. Hug = perfection and even though I've always been on the fence about them going there with the marriage thing, I loved Brennan's beef jerky proposal too.

This is the first season where I feel as though I missed a couple of episodes - as even though I watched them I did it while preoccupied with something else and may as well not have done *sad face*

And yet, like you, I shall return.

What are we to do with ourselves, indeed?

PS. Don't tar Iron Man with that brush, their bad guys are way less ridiculous (and that's saying something) ;)

[ayiana]

Suckers of the world unite, yes

[tempertemper]

Besides, I'd love to see Tony Stark take him down a peg or two. :D

I'm picturing it a little like that delightful moment with Indiana Jones and the knife twirling bad guy... except with Pelant being all look at me I'm so omniscient and amaaaazing and Tony being all, 'Meh, talk to the hand.'

And you'll love it! We saw it last weekend!

[fourth_rose]

100% agreed on Pelant, and on most of what you said about the other bad guys, although Epps is an exception for me - IMO, Epps was a great villain because they didn't overdo his abilities and made his motivation clear.

I finally gave up on watching live halfway through this season because the weekly dose of annoyance I got from it was beginning to affect my love for the characters themselves, and I didn't want that to happen. I decided to cherry pick instead - now that the season is over, I'm going to go back and watch only those moments which people whose judgement I trust told me are worth watching. *puts finale hug on the list*

[ayiana]

Epps was a great villain because they didn't overdo his abilities and made his motivation clear.

Epps was probably their best bad guy, I'd agree, though even some of his stuff tipped the scales toward the improbable side.

I finally gave up on watching live halfway through this season because the weekly dose of annoyance I got from it was beginning to affect my love for the characters themselves, and I didn't want that to happen. I didn't watch any of this season live, and like you, there are several episodes that I still haven't seen. For the episodes I did watch, it was usually with a vague sense of dread. I went in wanting and hoping to see certain things but sensing that I probably wouldn't get to see them and that what I might see instead would likely disappoint. My family started asking me why I even bothered, and I didn't have a good answer. How do you explain that you're searching for some sign, some hint, that the characters you fell in love with are still in there somewhere

[vakhdar]

Oh show...sniff. I miss Bones. I miss seeing Brennan have a brilliant breakthrough and actually solving a case. I miss Booth and Brennan together in the field- actually working together. I miss really interesting cases that I care about

[ayiana]

I miss early Bones, too, but I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that it's gone. I'm so desperate enough for crumbs of hope, though, that I keep hanging on, and since we got a crumb or two during this episode, I guess I'm in for the start of season 9. Who knows what'll happen from there, but I'll say this much. HH and company need to find a way to get rid of Pelant. Fast.

[anonymous]

But Pelant?

He has to go.

Amen, Sister, Amen!

I'm late in responding, in part because I was late in viewing the episode. I dreaded yet another Pelant episode.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the characters are still in there somewhere. They don't get let out often, but whether by accident or design, just enough to keep some of us on the line, still hoping for more. Very frustrating, but I can't go cold turkey on the possibility of what I might miss. More's the pity.

Glad you came up for air. Hope your chaos will dial back to a dull roar soon.

Cheers,
TK

[ayiana]

And I'm late in responding to your response because ... well, you know what I've been doing instead.

The characters are still in there. Every time I start to think they aren't, we get a glimpse of them, and there I am, begging for table scraps.

Apparently I can't go cold turkey, either. Oh well. Guess we'll just have to suffer through what's left of this thing together, huh?