Cliche appology for not updating

I am trying to get this  off the ground and have a good number of posts in the work, but work and school starting up has distracted me. moore will come soon.  But for now.


WTF was with the season premier of Bones?

For those of you (all two of my readers) who don't know.  Bones is a series an American drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network, I really wish Fox would stop making shows I like so I don't have to tangentially support Glen Beck.

 Apparently the Browncoat rebellion was over health care.

The series, created by Hart Hanson, is very loosely based on the life of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.  Reichs herself has written some really cool books, you should check them out.

Hey wait...that's not Buffy!

Anyway The show is about a forensic anthroplogist and a team of other forensic scientits doing evidence digging and analysis for the FBI.  It's a crime series with  a LOT of techno babble, but has strong character development and interaction.  So, why do I like this show?

Some of the reasons


1) Skepticism: Temperence Brennan aka Bones is a skeptic.  She believes in evidence and the natural.  This has solved several cases as her inflappability in the face of seemingly supernatural mojo has uncovered key evidence.

2) Atheism: Bones is one of the few atheists on TV who is not a jerkass or horrible horrible broken person.  She's rational and curious and has an open mind.  The occasional religious interplay between her and her partner Booth, a catholic is well done and even.  Bones dismisses and explains away the superstitious nature of some of Booth's beliefs while being polite  and curious about it from an anthroplogical POV

3) Rationality: Bones is a logician.  She is emotionally stunted in some areas and asocial, but she is not a cold unfeeling strawvulcan.  She has interests and likes like everyone else.

So yeah, people who like all that should have a good role model/spokes character here right?

So what went wrong with this episode?



Cyndi Lauper.

Seriously, fuck you Cyndi Lauper.  Fuck you, fuck your guest character, and fuck your goddamn annoying speaking voice.

Lauper plays a Psychic, a tarot card reader, who with her cards brings up this weeks case.  She divines of 6 bodies burried under a fountain.  one of them her sister.  Turns out the people were killed by a cult leader, which Lauper's character was a member of that cult

ok so here's the piss-ed-off-ing-list


1) StrawVulcan: Oh no, as Lauper informs us, Bones isn't all rational because she thinks its a reliable way to descern reality.  Nope she's just scared and uses it as a shell and is crazy as everyone else deep down.  Yeah fuck you too.

2) a real psychic:  Really?  One that finds a hidden tomb, locates lost watches, reads people's emotions, and saves Bones by sending help when she's in danger by reading the tarot.  Yes, Booth is with the pyschic she reads a card and sends him to go save her cause she can know from miles away that she's about to be attacked.  BULLSHIT.  I like fantasy elements, but come on people.  This is as jarring as having a Law and Order end by Henry Dresden showing up and blasting Jack McCoy's head off with a eldrich blast.

OBJECTION!!!

3) Science is wrong: "Let the neuroscientists worry about the brain, it's there thing, but they don't know diddly about the heart' Lauper says.  Yeah...fuck you.  Cause, love and emotions are caused by supernatural forces...not the most amazing and complex processing system ever.

4) Fake action girl bones!: A fake action girl is one who is supposed to be a bad ass who winds up having none of the abilities we're told she has when it becomes important.  This gives the illusion of a 'modern progressive strong female' while still leaving it up to the big strong man to save her and solve everythign with his mighty penis of justice.  The show has been good about avoiding this usually.  Bones saves Booth, Booth sometimes saves Bones...it happens.  Bones is a big martial artist and marksman (woman?).  She has beaten up serial killers, psychos, murderers, and body guards twice her size.

 DIGNITY!

This episode she has her ass handed to her by a obese dumpy evil doctor working for the cult leader.  He has a knife!  Booth has to show up at the last minute, sent by Lauper of course, to shot the guy and save the day.  HUZZAH!

5) Worst Shrink EVER: weets a trained psychologist is convinced that Lauper is psychic: because she finds his pocket watch.  Again this goes into real psychic but...come on.  Sweets is not supposed to be the worst shrink ever

Well she's not actually a shrink but 

she still holds the title.

6) No twist: nope none.  No revelation that Lauper had some knowledge of the bodies (say she helped bury them when in the cult or the like) or how she knew impossible things.  She is just psychic and thus has solved the murders.  Haha take that realism!

Bones is/was one of the shows I love, but I'm really starting to think this may be a jump the shark moment.  Even beyond all that the writing was just bad.  Things happened with little justification, Clowns appear out of no where (seriously), people are where they need to be with no explanation, characters are swayed so easily by Super Lauper.  My god it reads, like bad fan fiction. 

restoring dignity to the show!

Of course most people in comments seem to love Lauper's character and are hopeing she'll return.  Oh yay.  More dues ex machina! New character enters with powers none of the main cast does, saves the main character using them, is instantly loved by everyone, and solves the main problem.  Wow, not since Twilight have I seen a Marry Sue this bad in a published work.

So yeah...Fuck you Premier of Bones...