canonically we will never have those heart attacksUgh, if I hadn't woken up already well into the depression phase of my Five Stages of Grief for All the Things I Will Never See, then this would have done it! Sorry, Bargaining, but it turns out it WON'T be mostly okay if they do a bunch of flashbacks or whatever else, because no matter what happens, that moment I was waiting for, where they're looking at each other and I'm exploding with anticipation and it's just like a million other times only FINALLY, FINALLY, someone makes a move and they're on the same page and I run around screaming my head off before collapsing and watching it over and over and over and then downloading whatever song was playing and listening to it on repeat-one for an unhealthy amount of time and walking around with a ridiculous grin on my face for days - it's not happening! No matter what they do, it's not happening
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OH MY GOD DIDN'T REALIZE IT UNTIL I READ THIS POST, but lol Emma this is literally exactly how it happened on the X-Files except for Booth didn't get abducted by aliens so he actually got to hear it from Brennan. Wasn't there even ambiguously romantic bed-sharing (I don't know anything about anything, I haven't been watching since fall)?!
SERIOUSLY I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING AT THIS REVELATION
Except yeah, Bones was supposed to do that. (This is one of those things that highlights how different the tones are, except everything highlights how different the tones are, and I cannot believe people still constantly compare the two.) Ugh for some reason earlier I was thinking about um, the week after Bones 100th, do you remember that? When everything was great and perfect and you and me and Sam went back and watched the pilot and it was INCREDIBLE how perfectly everything fit and we were all like "THESE WRITERS!!!!" aaaaaaaaand then it was all downhill from there, pretty much. And now this! THESE WRITERS >:(
OH BB, CAN I WRITE A LOVE LETTER TO YOU ABOUT HOW WELL YOU SUMMED UP MY THOUGHTS ON WHAT HAPPENED WITH THIS SHOW? (It would go something like "dear Emma, I love you because you are so smart and beautiful and you are good at saying all of the things that I want to say except I never want to watch Bones again just to spite Hart Hanson so we differ slightly on that sentiment, love Sam", JSYK.)
I hate that he doesn't seem to realise that he got them together in the most cowardly way he could have. The problem is he probably does realise but he's just a soulless asshole who thinks he is better than everyone at all the things and gets off on withholding I don't know, crucial storylines and apparently also killing Vincent Nigel-Murray. Do you know how fucking adorable that dude was? After Wendell, THE MOST ADORABLE. Only someone without a soul could order the murder of a character as adorable as that.
I LIKED THAT BRENNAN DIDN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS. Every single female on tv wants those thingsI hate to turn this into a "this
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Also, for the record, I kind of hate when any decision is made to compare shows to what happened in The X-Files. IDK if you saw my useless argument with myself on Tumblr yesterday (I say myself because if you are stupid enough to think that Scully's quote from The Rain King relates to Castle and Beckett you are obviously not going to have the brain capacity to a) check notes on Tumblr or b) comprehend that you are wrong about something even if it as incredibly dim-witted as thinking Castle and Beckett don't know they want to have a lot of sex with each other until the end of time) but it just illustrates how pointless it is to try and say "well this happened in the X-Files so it can happen here!" because it doesn't work. The X-Files worked until season eight because of who the characters were and how their relationship was set up (this is where Scully's quote applies!!!! HERE!!! IN THE X-FILES!!!!) and that's why those things, ie. making Mulder and Scully bone off-screen and having their relationship come out of friendship, were done
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I vowed to reply to this as soon as I could express myself in complete sentences and not bricks through the computer screen, so here we are, A WEEK LATER. I am not motivated by rage and despair anymore so much as....what? Who? Six years in and someone thought it was a good idea to have the payoff be (a) not a payoff but a cliffhanger and (b) ambiguous to the point not even the most artfully arranged fanvid could answer Did They Sleep Together? WHAT WAS THE POINT OF HANNAH? DID ANYONE LEARN ANYTHING FROM THEIR MISTAKES THIS SEASON? WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THIS SADNESS??? At least XF had the decency to hint at the morning after, though when I am citing late-seasons XF as a model of storytelling and exposition, something is deeply wrong. Not to mention totally incongruous because the whole point of Bones is to lose your hearing getting blasted with the 'shipping vuvuzela (or what veils said, I LOVE HER ENTIRE COMMENT). I am SO GLAD you are on the same page, though - every word of this post is gold (like the best comfort food! laced with cyanide
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SERIOUSLY I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING AT THIS REVELATION
Except yeah, Bones was supposed to do that. (This is one of those things that highlights how different the tones are, except everything highlights how different the tones are, and I cannot believe people still constantly compare the two.) Ugh for some reason earlier I was thinking about um, the week after Bones 100th, do you remember that? When everything was great and perfect and you and me and Sam went back and watched the pilot and it was INCREDIBLE how perfectly everything fit and we were all like "THESE WRITERS!!!!" aaaaaaaaand then it was all downhill from there, pretty much. And now this! THESE WRITERS >:(
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I hate that he doesn't seem to realise that he got them together in the most cowardly way he could have.
The problem is he probably does realise but he's just a soulless asshole who thinks he is better than everyone at all the things and gets off on withholding I don't know, crucial storylines and apparently also killing Vincent Nigel-Murray. Do you know how fucking adorable that dude was? After Wendell, THE MOST ADORABLE. Only someone without a soul could order the murder of a character as adorable as that.
I LIKED THAT BRENNAN DIDN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE KIDS. Every single female on tv wants those thingsI hate to turn this into a "this ( ... )
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Also, for the record, I kind of hate when any decision is made to compare shows to what happened in The X-Files. IDK if you saw my useless argument with myself on Tumblr yesterday (I say myself because if you are stupid enough to think that Scully's quote from The Rain King relates to Castle and Beckett you are obviously not going to have the brain capacity to a) check notes on Tumblr or b) comprehend that you are wrong about something even if it as incredibly dim-witted as thinking Castle and Beckett don't know they want to have a lot of sex with each other until the end of time) but it just illustrates how pointless it is to try and say "well this happened in the X-Files so it can happen here!" because it doesn't work. The X-Files worked until season eight because of who the characters were and how their relationship was set up (this is where Scully's quote applies!!!! HERE!!! IN THE X-FILES!!!!) and that's why those things, ie. making Mulder and Scully bone off-screen and having their relationship come out of friendship, were done ( ... )
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