6x05 The Bones That Weren't
Guess what: I watched last week's episode tonight, online-yes, I know, I'm odd...
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I was prepared to not like it, after my wife's opinion on it. I didn't bother to watch it live, my wife did last week. She said that it wasn't a great ep. She felt that Emily D's focus was off in her acting or something like that. I had also read some other people's comments. Many hated, didn't understand or were just plain puzzled by the Hannah-taking-Brennan's-sunglasses scene at the end. I actually think it worked: Hannah is smart, she finds out what makes a person (e.g., a source for what she's reporting on) tick and then approaches said perso nin an appropriate way. In case of Brennan, that means with anthropology. So she brushed up on her anthro 101 and because Brennan did save her life and is her boyfriend's closest friend, she used the occasion to get closer to her. I think it worked just fine. Not forced to me. Geeky and off-beat, just like Brennan often is. I do agree with some viewers who felt that were an awful lot of stock scenes of Washington, DC, in this ep. Did they in the editing figure out they didn't have enough of their own footage that worked? I think they showed the black SUV just driving at least three times, also kind of superfluous. Oh well. Stuff happens.
The whole Booth & Hannah thing is still not exactly my favorite but I guess I'm resigned to that plot line now. You know, it struck me that David B in a way seemed to not be really acting with Kathryn Winnick: it was like he was just playing himself, the suave, smooth guy with his blonde girlfriend/wife. I could see him being like that in real life, a real charmer. With Brennan though, he falls into his role again, assumes the Booth persona. I don't mean that the latter is forced or doesn't feel right, not at all. Just a thought. Anyway, I actually enjoyed this ep, esp. the ingenious techniques used to glean information from the "negative" evidence (an impression of a skeleton, no actual skeleton). This type of evidence is not uncommon in archaeology of course, e.g., wooden building postholes from prehistoric sites may only be discernible due to the discoloration and different composition of the soil. Here's a figure showing what I mean (from the Wikipedia article):
Hodgins' gold-dust-and-zinc-mist method to "see" the handprint of the plastic was wonderful but even better was Angela's 3D printing of a replica of the skeleton using laser beams: super cool indeed! It was made to look quite a lot more spectacular than it normally would be but still, 3D printing has come a long way and can now be done with a machine that only costs about $5,000. There's a good article in the New York Times recently with a video:
Guess what: I can't make the embedded video work... Please go to the article to see it. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks.
SpOiLeRs
I was prepared to not like it, after my wife's opinion on it. I didn't bother to watch it live, my wife did last week. She said that it wasn't a great ep. She felt that Emily D's focus was off in her acting or something like that. I had also read some other people's comments. Many hated, didn't understand or were just plain puzzled by the Hannah-taking-Brennan's-sunglasses scene at the end. I actually think it worked: Hannah is smart, she finds out what makes a person (e.g., a source for what she's reporting on) tick and then approaches said perso nin an appropriate way. In case of Brennan, that means with anthropology. So she brushed up on her anthro 101 and because Brennan did save her life and is her boyfriend's closest friend, she used the occasion to get closer to her. I think it worked just fine. Not forced to me. Geeky and off-beat, just like Brennan often is. I do agree with some viewers who felt that were an awful lot of stock scenes of Washington, DC, in this ep. Did they in the editing figure out they didn't have enough of their own footage that worked? I think they showed the black SUV just driving at least three times, also kind of superfluous. Oh well. Stuff happens.
The whole Booth & Hannah thing is still not exactly my favorite but I guess I'm resigned to that plot line now. You know, it struck me that David B in a way seemed to not be really acting with Kathryn Winnick: it was like he was just playing himself, the suave, smooth guy with his blonde girlfriend/wife. I could see him being like that in real life, a real charmer. With Brennan though, he falls into his role again, assumes the Booth persona. I don't mean that the latter is forced or doesn't feel right, not at all. Just a thought. Anyway, I actually enjoyed this ep, esp. the ingenious techniques used to glean information from the "negative" evidence (an impression of a skeleton, no actual skeleton). This type of evidence is not uncommon in archaeology of course, e.g., wooden building postholes from prehistoric sites may only be discernible due to the discoloration and different composition of the soil. Here's a figure showing what I mean (from the Wikipedia article):
Hodgins' gold-dust-and-zinc-mist method to "see" the handprint of the plastic was wonderful but even better was Angela's 3D printing of a replica of the skeleton using laser beams: super cool indeed! It was made to look quite a lot more spectacular than it normally would be but still, 3D printing has come a long way and can now be done with a machine that only costs about $5,000. There's a good article in the New York Times recently with a video:
Guess what: I can't make the embedded video work... Please go to the article to see it. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks.