After my non-adventures of Saturday night and my continued attempts at saving what little money I have it stands to reason that getting 4 days off in a row has left me somewhat bored. Despite a huge backlog of games & films (which I still need to put pages up for!) I have no real desire to play or watch any of them.
Instead I returned to a TV show which I abandoned watching partway through it’s current season as I had found it to become stale, repetitive and and being horribly predictable. The show in question is ‘Bones’ which is centred around the fictional institute of The Jeffersonian and the world famous Anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan.
I was first introduced to the show by my boss at work and I rapidly caught on to it being interesting and gruesome all rolled up into one package and then some comedy being forced in before it was sent out. At first the show was very good with plenty of potential and lots of twists and turns to each story but as it aged (and hit the writers strike) things started to go wrong.
Plots were left dangling never to be revisited, major enemies of any of the lead characters would be introduced in one episode, dead by the next and then brushed aside with barely an afterthought. Heck some of the characters in the show no of another’s innocence in a crime yet have said and done exactly nothing about it. Yes there were reasons why they shouldn’t but equally it needs to be explored and to see it ignored time and time again makes me sad.
Then there’s the previously mentioned comedy element – some comedy is fine but in a lot of cases within the show they just completely over do it either to the point of it not being funny or worse yet it simply becoming cringe worthy.
This largely applies to some recurring characters as well with 4 assistants to Dr Brennan being rotated on a seemingly weekly basis who are very skilled in their own right but have issues in most cases that turn them into bumbling fools ho clearly shouldn’t hold a job let alone one where they are attempting to prosecute people for murder.
Last night and through parts of today I got myself caught up on the series and I’m sad to say that little has changed. A pretty badass character who was introduced in season 2 (although we never saw them) and returned in single episodes in seasons 4, 5 and 6 was dead within minutes of me starting watching – such a waste of a good character as good villains are hard to come by.
In much the same way I have succesfully predicted the outcome of the cases in the majority of episodes (over 100 of them) based on one simple criteria – I’ll not say what it is (although I would have thought it obvious) but I’d place it’s accuracy somewhere around 90 – 95%. For a murder mystery show that’s pretty much unacceptable but I’m no writer so can’t offer any realistic alternative.
There’s more but once again it would be more nit-picking and would take some time to explain properly but I do know one thing about all of this – despite my unwillingness to do so I know I will finish watching the rest of this season at the very least as something has my interest.
I predict a disappointing pay off and ending in it though 
