Crime Revisited

The most recent episode of Bones was different than all the ones prior to it.  Well, the episodes are becoming more unique to the show, so rather than sticking with all arc episodes or stand-alones, there’s a good mixture of both.  There’s new and different cases to solve and obstacles to overcome and relationships to build rather than the same “bones come into the lab, discover who they belong to and why the are here” scenario.

Booth and Brennan are plauged with the knowledge that a criminal they kept off death row has recently escaped and plans to come after Brennan.  Zack gets to be the hero and pretend he’s dead after Cam gets dosed with poison from a severed head.  Hodgins and Angela seem to be getting closer because Angela is stressed and Hodgins needs her to be okay.

Booth, Brennan and the gang have to solve puzzle after puzzle in order to find the escaped murderer and take him down.  Everyone is affected, even Booth’s son Parker.

I don’t know about you, but I was hoping that was the end of Cam.  I don’t like her, much less with Booth.  The way he was swoony at her side when she was dying just made me angry.  But Booth made an excellent point at the end, while talking to Brennan.  He said Cam is the reason he and Brennan are not together.  He and Cam were only together because of high-pressure situations, and Booth tells Brennan he doesn’t want it to be that way, leaving little or no hope of Booth and Brennan ever getting together…That is, until the writers decide the show needs a little something from left field.

…and the plot thickens

What’s the deal with Prison Break being so suspenseful?  I love it and all, but I don’t know how much more of this my little heart can take.

So, C-note is still running after having saved a diner full of innocent people from a criminal.  His daughter has been getting sicker, and he really had a genuine moment where people felt for him and let him escape.  Powerful and sad. 

T-Bag is really starting to scare me.  He’s a disgusting criminal, rapist and murderer, and Susan, Zack and Gracie don’t have much of a chance after next weeks previews.  I was a little surprised that Patty (the welcome wagon woman) didn’t sense that something was wrong.

Haywire committed suicide as per Mahone’s evil conversation that made him “escape.”  I’ve got to admit, I never really liked Haywire.  He gave me a severe wiggins, and I wasn’t shocked that he killed himself.  I am sad about it though. 

My favorite part about the whole thing was Sara and Michael.  Sara’s been through so much because of him, and the fact that she strangled Kellerman was AWESOME!  What made it better was that they both admitted to each other that they were in love with the other.  And that makeout scene in the train bathroom?  Not gonna lie, it gave me chills.  I hadn’t realized that the fangirl in me really wants to see them together and happy.  (*Stupid Fangirl!  I told you to be quiet!*) I see more obstacles in the future, but it’s going to get interesting.

I haven’t seen Sucre in a few episodes, and the former warden of Fox River is set to appear next episode.  Can’t wait.

752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About TV

I went to the bookstore yesterday before my class, and I stumbled across this book: The BEST book EVER!!! 

I’ve read about it on TWoP, the creators of which wrote the book (Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting).  From Willie Aames to Zoboomafoo, it goes into detail about the little guilty pleasures of the shows we love (and hate so much).  It’s like a little encyclopedia/dictionary of my favorite thing ever!

But of course, my favorites include  Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and  Dawson’s Creek among others, and I feel that this was a must-have.  I’ve both flipped through searching for my favorites and read the book cover to cover, and no matter which way I looked at it, it was pure genius.

Television Without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About TV

Monday Night Football

In all my blondeness, I now realize why I got confused with the How I Met Your Mother episodes.  Last night’s episode “Monday Night Football” explained it all.

Every year Ted has a Super Bowl party, except for this year, when a close friend he can’t remember from the bar passed away, and he was REQUIRED to attend the wake/funeral on SUPER BOWL SUNDAY.  So in order to do both, Ted records the super bowl and his friends make a pact not to find out the score until they watch it together the next day.  Hilarious!  Barney handcuffs himself to Ted’s radiator.  Ted uses a sensory minimizer in order to get his hot wings from a sports bar.  Marshall and Lily spend the day together in Lily’s class, where Marshall is blackmailed by a kind.  All is great until everything simultaneously starts to go wrong: Barney gets out of his handcuffs and finds a newstand.  During a newscast, Robin hears the winner.  And somehow Marshall and Lily overhear the same news report.  Oddly, Ted is the only one who doesn’t know, everyone blames Barney because he bet money on the game, but they still watch, if for nothing else than to see how much money Barney lost.

“I’m only doing this because you forgot to think through a bathroom plan.  And I think that’s funny,” Ted says to Barney after he hides the key.  Brilliant!