Watching Pelant Episodes For The Character Plots While Rolling My Eyes And Not Paying Attention During

its actually so crazy being a bones fan like wdym i cry when i hear lime in the coconut?

shout out to heather taffet’s actress for filling me with genuine rage every time her character appears on screen. that’s serious talent, genuinely.

When i was 13-14 i spent a whole year watching all 12 seasons of Bones over and over again (i think i managed four rewatches in total) spent my whole winter and summer holidays in bed watching this show day and night not talking to anyone thinking noone gets me the way bones gets me shes everything i want to be, i should probably become an anthropologist and NO ONE thought hey maybe we should take this kid to a doctor and get her diagnosed :/

The Woman In The Garden BONES ✧ S01 E13

detective: [kneels down looking over a dead body] hm. gross

Bones » 2016 rewatch - 2x13 “The Girl in the Gator”

Your file shows your a military sniper. How many people have you killed? Lost count. Oh, you can remember a hundred and eighty bricks, but not how many lives you’ve taken? Epps makes fifty. Fifty what? Fifty kills. But Agent Booth you didn’t kill Epps. You tried to save him, remember? Or perhaps I better put it as a question, did Howard Epps slip from your grasp or did you release him?

I am enamored with the way that the writers of the brain tumor arc in Bones managed to have it be a twist while giving you multiple very strong signs that something was wrong by taking advantage of the fact that as the viewer you know you're watching a TV show. The first two times Booth hallucinates Bones points out that these are moments of unreality but the show couches them in the context of the episodes in which they occur so that the audience can easily and unconsciously dismiss them with their preexisting knowledge of tropes.

"Oh, well Booth was briefly unconscious in the process of getting a concussion. In television, situations like this are rife with characters experiencing dreams where their subconscious solves the case for them. Plus it's a clever way to include their cameo from Luc Robitaille."

"The show really wants me to believe that that really was a ghost that helped Booth and this is another instance of Booth being right about magic in the world while Bones is wrong, but even if I prefer that small space they leave for a little ambiguity, characters in life or death emergency survival situations on TV see visions of a person who's death they blame themselves for as a way to explore a characters relationship with guilt all the time."

And it's not really until both Bones and the show essentially say "screw the case of the week, something is Wrong" that you're, rather abruptly and forcefully, prompted to consider what these incidences might mean when put together, and it's not a very happy list of possibilities.

And while this post is about how well I think they preserve the twist by meeting people's expectations when they added the foreshadowing to avoid suspicion, it should be noted that I also think this is a great example of my belief that a good plot twist is telegraphed loudly beforehand, just in a code most people won't easily decipher.

In chem lab and my professor started talking abt Bones to his TA and I started stimming

"His weirdness- whatever you wanna call it"

"I'd call it genius"

Well I would call it autism, actually

When my boyfriend watches Bones with me and lets me yap about the lore and my opinions >>>