Bones...I try again, this time with 1.15
Dec. 19th, 2007 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieThe geography is screwed up again but I don't care because Booth is being all manly and looming and protective. And jealous. The scene with the wannabe bf was hilarious. Oh, and he is all guilt-stricken about serial killer striking again as they didn't get him last time. Yes.
Actually, joking aside, this is actually not bad.
*shock*
Actually, joking aside, this is actually not bad.
*shock*
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Date: 2007-12-19 05:54 am (UTC)And if it helps, they also spend a lot of eps somewhere besides DC. Granted, the geography probably isn't much better, but at least it's not pretty much your backyard.
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Date: 2007-12-19 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-19 06:02 am (UTC)Secret to hooking meganbmoore: indicate willingness to tear through multiple opponents/tear apart half the world when someone indicates they MIGHT hurt your girly.
I am easily lured by such things.
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Date: 2007-12-19 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-12-19 06:20 am (UTC)Is there anyway I can convince you to give
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Date: 2007-12-19 10:02 pm (UTC)I am easy. Tell me there is angst, OTP and a hot man and I am in.
What is Life about?
It's all about Life, part I
Date: 2007-12-20 02:29 am (UTC)What is Life about?
Oh, my friend I am so, so glad you asked. *suppresses evil laugh*
Some people will tell you that Life is a procedural like House and Monk. All I can say there are some similarities but I think Life is more in the vein of Bones, X-files and Veronica Mars. It has a season long arc with *fantastic* characters although some people see the procedural aspect as the clunky part of the series (I seriously don't care because the character work is fantastic).
Life stars Charlie Crews (played by the awesome and hot Damian Lewis) a cop who was falsely accused of murdering his friend's family and lost everything (job, family, friends, marriage) and spent 12 years in prison before he was acquitted when his case was re-opened and discovered that *none* of the DNA matched his. How's that for angst?
Strangely enough, he isn't bitter at all, he managed to pick-up a book on Zen while in solitary confinement and now regularly spouts Zen to all and sundry and has developed an obsession with fruit. And after winning a settlement from the LAPD and the city of Los Angeles was rewarded an undisclosed amount of money and was reinstated to the LAPD as a homicide detective.
For all intents and purposes Charlie looks like he's adjusted very well and living a charmed life... or that's what he wants you to think until you see his crazy, detailed wall of conspiracy where he's determined to find the people responsible for locking him up for 12 years.
Under all that quirky, fruit loving Zen Charlie is not all that Zen (yet). He was locked-up in prison for 12 years, fighting for his life and no amount of Zen can fully erase the anger he feels and the instances he let's his Zen facade slip he is a very scary man.
But one of the best aspects of this show is that it's not just about Charlie because then we go to Charlie's awesome partner, Dani Reese. Like I keep telling everyone I came into the show for Damian Lewis and I stayed for Sarah Shahi's Dani Reese.
Reese is Charlie's gruff, long suffering, competent but more than slightly damaged partner. She has her own agency and story outside of Charlie and her own set of problems, hell she has issues the size of Mt. Everest and that's only things we know about her.
Reese was an undercover narcotics cop who went in too deep and brought back to the LAPD under probation, she's built a huge wall around herself. Initially she was partnered to Charlie so she could rat on him and get him off active duty (similar to how Scully was brought in to debunk all of Mulder's crazy assed theories) but this plan backfired as Reese saw that Charlie despite all his crazy, annoying and quirky ticks is really a good man and a good cop and decided to make their partnership work.
Seriously, their partnership is what makes this whole show for me. I love how they went from tolerating each other, to actively protecting each other. I love the way they turned the cop/partner dynamic on its head with the girl as the cynical, gruff tough cop and the guy as the cheery, naive (sort of) cop. I love how in the later episodes they became so in synch that its scarily like they both share a brain. I love that, unlike Cuddy in House, Reese can tell Charlie off when he's being reckless and crazy and how Charlie *listens*. I love the way they defer to each other and I love how they banter and bicker, I love their determination to do the right thing.
It's all about Life, part II
Date: 2007-12-20 02:30 am (UTC)And of course, it doesn't hurt that they're both hot people with guns (see i con).
Since the show is still starting out they can't have both leads together if that is their endgame... I'm a little more ambivalent to seeing them together canonically but my God, there are scenes where it's so hard not to ship them because it's just so... shippy! And I've been trained by the Mulder/Scully school of UST and I think Reese and Charlie are more the successors to that school of UST than Bones and Booth, which I think are more Moonlighting than X-files.
Uh, sorry I had a point. Yes, my point is that Charlie also has another love interest in the form of his Defense Attorney Constance Griffiths, she was the one who stuck for him for four years and instrumental in setting Charlie free. I do have to admit that for a show that has written two phenomenal female characters (Reese and her superior, Lt. Karen Davis) the writers has yet to do justice to her character and the complexity of her relationship with Charlie although Constance does get better but she has a ways to go before she'll be in the same league as Reese.
Basically, Life is about broken and damaged people trying to make the best of everything and occasionally fighting crime with Kevlars of hotness and guns.
Oh, and there are picspams! First let me lead you to the queen of Life pimping herself,
Oh, wow. This *is* awful long. *sheepish* Sorry.
Re: It's all about Life, part II
Date: 2007-12-20 05:27 pm (UTC)I am going to try this when I get back!
Re: It's all about Life, part II
Date: 2007-12-21 05:58 am (UTC)The rest was just very yummy gravy :)
And what yummy gravy it is! I do hope you'll like it! The continuity and character work of the show and how it gets resolved in the mid-season finale while making you crave for more is nothing short of awesome.
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Date: 2007-12-19 07:24 am (UTC)It's not a bad show, but I already watch too many shows to REALLY get into it.
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Date: 2007-12-19 08:39 am (UTC)Hmm. I need to actually watch Season 1 at some point. *makes note to put it in Netflix queue*
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Date: 2007-12-19 10:19 am (UTC)1.15 is one of my fave Bones eps and it gets really fab with some of the eps on S1, though 1.20 is the cheesiest ep ever but then 1.21 is all abouth Booth and 1.22 is the episode that made me decide I absolutely love Bones.
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Date: 2007-12-19 10:03 pm (UTC)Also, Italian Mob in Washington?????? No way. The mob we have is Salvadorean, and weapon of choice is machete. None of those refined gangsters for us :)
But seriously, so fun where it counts.
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