Bones

[shipperx]

DB has lost weight which is good. He isn't shaving well, leading to a totally weird shadow on his upper lip and chin. The hair... we need Angel hair jokes.

Cast doesn't seem to have gelled yet. And the bicker/banter doesn't seem to be working (though DB gives it a good college try).

Mulder and Scully they're not.

And at some point I've developed a problem with overly loud musical backgrounds. (It's actually one of the problems I run into on my attempts to watch Veronica Mars. Sorry) If I want a music video, I'll watch music video. These things should be used SPARINGLY not constantly as scene transitions. It's a pet peeve of mine. That kind of use of music is just a bit too twee and 90210ish.

Okay, so FBI boss is a Skinner rip-off? Come on, I wants me some real Skinner, not a Skinner sorta-kinda-lookalike!

So Prudence is emotionally distant (gee, think the name would have given that away?) My problem is that the actress seems a bit... flat. (And the "I don't know what that means" is a tad annoying).

Thus far DB has been one of the better things about the show.

Still a chemistry deficit between DB and Prudence (though I did just snort an unintended laugh at DB's line of "I'm a dead duck." Funny only in a fandom context but still - Bwha!)

Mulder/Scully/Skinner scene. But you're not SKINNER! Skinner was way better looking. And need I say that Prudence is not Scully? I heart Scully and her being badly ripped off is something which always annoys me. (I'll forego a DB/DD comparison because apples/oranges).

Ugh! More with the overbearing musical background! Stop it.

So did Prudence become a cop and I missed it somewhere?

Sorta surreal shot of the funeral (but AGAIN with the music!)

How freaking STUPID is Prudence supposed to be that she doesn't know what a best selling novel is? Is she supposed to be autistic or something?

Too bad there isn't much chemistry between DB and the girl.

Overall... Bones isn't bad, and if chemistry can be developed and the rough edges knocked off so that the cast gels, it might prove a reasonably watchable police procedural... as long as they refrain from the X-Files parallels so that I'm not stuck comparing it to a better product.

Comments

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Gee -- my impression is that it was too much like all the other forensic procedural shows on now. Other than that, I liked it -- I have a soft spot for the Deschanel girls (they're like throwbacks -- v. sardonic in an old-fashioned Rosalind Russell/Eve Arden sort of way), and I liked Prudence sticking it to DB's character. Still, you're right -- it has yet to coalesce into something that isn't massively derivative of every other show on now or that came before it, and you're also right about the supporting cast (v. weak).

At any rate, it's nice to see DB in the sunlight -- and so thin! Don't like the facial hair, though.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess I wasn't paying that much attention after all -- that would be Temperance, not Prudence.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Or is it that I didn't pay attention. For all I know her name might be Charity. :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, I knew it was something like that. Then again I wasn't paying enough attention, she could have been named Charity for all I knew.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well as I don't WATCH any of the other forensic procedurals, that's not a similarity I'd notice. :)