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 I'M STEALING THE OP OF THE LAST THREAD UNTIL I CAN WRITE A BETTER ONE. GIVE IT A DAY. Also, I'll add pictures soon. Bones returns Thursday September 25th! What is Bones? From executive producers Barry Josephson and Hart Hanson comes the darkly amusing drama Bones, inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones. Consequently, law enforcement calls her in to assist with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned, or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless. Brennan has been teamed with Special Agent Seeley Booth, a former Army sniper who mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes. Brennan and Booth clash both professionally and personally, but the chemistry between them has grown since they first met and has made them a strong and trusting team. Brennan's equally brilliant colleagues (or "squints" as they're often called) at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab include earthy and bawdy Angela Montenegro, who's created a unique way to render an original crime scene in a three-dimensional computer image (you'll probably hate her); Dr. Jack Hodgins, who's an expert on insects, spores and minerals, but conspiracy is his hobby (also, he used to be filthy Rich, until the big bad last season somehow stole his money); and Brennan's boss Dr. Camille "Cam" Saroyan, who replaced Dr. Daniel Goodman after the first season. Zack Addy, a young prodigy whose genius IQ sometimes distances him from reality, was Brennan's former assistant, but at the end of season three he left the Jeffersonian. Because he was helping a serial killer kill and eat people. Because apparently that was the "logical" thing to do. To aid Booth and Brennan in their persisting struggles, psychologist Dr. Lance Sweets signed on in season three as their therapist, and more recently has been hired to work in the lab to provide his unique input on cases. Hang on a minute, that sounds disturbingly like a police procedural... It's true, Bones is a crime-of-the-week show. So if you have zero interest in those, you probably won't find much to like here. That being said, it's more NCIS than CSI, if that helps any. It's genuinely funny, has a solid cast of characters that it uses well (more on this below), knows to usually not take itself too seriously, and has a sense of heart that other crime shows seem to lack. It has more plot arcs than crime procedurals usually do, and they are almost always well done. So, where did we leave off? It's a bit complicated. As a result of digging too deep into the still-unresolved McNamara-FBI conspiracy, Booth was framed in the Season 9 finale for killing three FBI officers after being attacked. Booth starts Season 10 of Bones behind bars, and he’s not having an easy go of it. He is locked inside with quite a few people that he has helped put away, and they are none too pleased to have the FBI officer among their ranks. Even the guards don’t seem to be taking any pity on poor Booth The conspirators are hoping that he dies in prison before he has a chance to exonerate himself. John Boyd, best known for his role as Arlo Glass in “24,” will guest star in a recurring role for much of Season 10. Boyd will play James Aubrey, a junior FBI agent who works with Booth and Brennan to solve the conspiracy but must first gain Booth’s trust. Alright, so who are these great characters you mentioned?  Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan A forensic anthropologist working at the renowned Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, D.C., as well as a best-selling crime novelist. She is a logical empiricist, and is very rational. Her intellectual brilliance enables her to do groundbreaking work, but her lack of social skills—due to her parents disappearing and her brother Russ deserting her when she was fifteen leaving her emotionally under-developed—leads you to sometimes believe she may have a mild case of Asperger's. I'm sure she makes a wonderful mother.  David Boreanaz as Special Agent Seeley Booth Brennan aids FBI Special Agent Booth in his investigations involving human remains that cannot be identified without Brennan's skills in forensic anthropology. In contrast to the other main characters, Booth has limited knowledge of science and is often used to provide a layman's translation of the scientific jargon-filled dialog. He also provides the dichotomy between science and emotion, as in one episode when Bones comments to Cam, "He can read people like you read pathology reports and I read bones." Booth is the intuitive humanist, known for his ability to guess people's motives or "posit a scenario", something that is a constant frustration and struggle to Brennan. He is a former U.S. Army Ranger and Special Forces sniper with at least 52 confirmed kills—he comments in the pilot that, having taken lives as a sniper, what he would like to do before he dies is catch at least that many murderers to make up for his past—and has an intense dislike of clowns. It is revealed in the Season Five episode "The Proof in the Pudding" that he is a descendant of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of 16th U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Hopefully will take Pelant "to Ford's theater" this season, if you know what I am saying.  T. J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins An entomologist who is also an expert on spores and minerals, but whose hobby is conspiracy theories. His family was extremely wealthy and were major sponsors of the Jeffersonian Institution, and Hodgins was simply working at the Jeffersonian because he enjoyed slumming it with bugs, slimes, and spores. Now, after Pelant made him not so rich, he presumably works there for a good paycheck. He's a genius in the lab, and loves coming up with experiments to test theories. Occasionally they result in turkey guts spread all over the parking lot or a frozen watermelon flying into his wife's face. But hey, that's science for you. Also, he is married to Angela.  Michaela Conlin as Angela Montenegro A forensic artist (which is apparently a thing) at the Jeffersonian Institute and is Dr. Brennan's best friend. Angela is Dr. Brennan's team specialist in craniofacial reconstruction—helping to determine what their victims looked like before death to help determine their identity—and in previous seasons could generate holograms using her 3-dimensional graphics program (The Angelator) to simulate various virtual scenarios of a crime to help determine cause of death. But everyone agreed that this was stupid, and no one has spoken of it in years. She is open, friendly and caring, and constantly tries to draw Dr. Brennan out of the lab. She is also the focus of the absolute worst sub-plots on the show, and her use of technology is just shy of wizardry. Goons generally hate her, but I find her more of a mild annoyance. Plus her father is played by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, playing himself! How can you not at least love that aspect of her character?  Tamara Taylor as Dr. Camille Saroyan Is the Head of the Forensic Division at Jeffersonian Institute and a pathologist. She was introduced in the first episode of the second season after being hired by Dr. Goodman while Dr. Brennan was on vacation. She was born in The Bronx and was a coroner in New York before taking up the position at the Jeffersonian. At the beginning of the second season, she and Dr. Brennan had an uneasy working relationship because of her being Dr. Brennan's superior and their different work styles, Brennan focusing more on the bones of their victims while Saroyan focused on the flesh. Dr. Saroyan had a romantic relationship with Booth prior to her joining the Jeffersonian, as well as a short relationship with him during the show which he broke off after she was nearly killed because of the machinations of serial killer Howard Epps (oh how much better Epps was than Pelant). Following Season Four she has a teenage adopted daughter, Michelle, whom she adopted after Michelle's father was murdered because of her prior relationship with the man in question. Subplots involving this daughter give Angela's subplots a run for their money for worst of the show.  John Francis Daley as Dr. Lance Sweets RIP Lancelot A psychologist assigned to Booth and Brennan after Booth arrests her father because the FBI felt the potential conflict between them may affect their working relationship (although both insisted that it did not matter). He habitually tries to study the complex relationship between Booth and Brennan, which neither of them much enjoys, and even his interaction with other characters can be questionable (he was indirectly responsible for Hodgins and Angela breaking up prior to their wedding and once neglected to inform Brennan that Booth was undercover simply to study her reaction to the idea of Booth being dead). The character made his first appearance in the fourth episode of third season and his portrayer, John Francis Daley, became a main cast member from the ninth episode, "The Santa in the Slush", to the season 10 opener, where he is murdered by the conspiracy that put Booth in prison. Intern Roll Call! Ever since Zack left because he decided working for a serial killer was the logical thing to do, Bones has had a revolving door of interns, some showing up for one episode, most for multiple. Any of these could come back at any time (with one obvious exception), so I'll keep this list updated as more are added. Also, as a warning, most of these will be what I wrote last year, because I don't remember if there was any character development for them at all.  Michael Grant Terry as Wendell Bray Wendell Bray is probably the most normal of all the interns. He's from a small town who all pooled their money together to send him to college, which provides Wendell with his driving force, because he feels he owes them. He's on Booth's hockey team (which, granted, has only been brought up once). For a short time he was dating Angela, until she thought she was pregnant, and decided Wendell wanting to "do the right thing" wasn't enough reason to stay together, because Hodgins was much more enthusiastic.  Ryan Cartwright as Vincent Nigel-Murray Mr. Nigel-Murray, as he is always referred to on the show, is a firm believer that facts are the reliable building blocks of everything. As a consequence when he's put under pressure he will often mention trivial facts as it relaxes him. Evidently it also relaxes him whenever someone else speaks trivial facts as in "The Bones that Foam", Hodgins was able to calm him down by telling him an obscure fact. Also, yes, he is now dead, having been shot by a sniper 2 seasons ago. But I like him too much to leave him out. Deal with it.  Eugene Byrd as Clark Edison Clark was the first new intern after Zack first left, and continues to come back, despite the fact that he does not enjoy working in the lab. His no-nonsense approach to his work clashes often with the Studio 54 that is the Jeffersonian Lab. He has quit at least once that I can remember, but hey, work is work. While Bones was on the run in between seasons 7 & 8, Clark took over as lead forensics anthropologist at the Jeffersonian, instituting a new binder system. So that was probably a real fun summer. Clark is no longer an intern because he has now been hired as the second Forensic Anthropologist at the Jeffersonian, but to work on historical skeletons, which Bones apparently doesn't have time for anymore.  Joel Moore as Colin Fisher Mr. Fisher has a dark personality and often makes pessimistic remarks, a contrast to the other interns. He had once been on a Suicide Hotline and volunteers at a sperm bank. However, he is very successful with women, as he boasted about hitting close to 100. He also really loves James Cameron's Avatar. I beg of you, don't ask.  Pej Vahdat as Arastoo Vaziri Mr. Vaziri is...um...the Muslim one. (He's the one on the left) Yeah, there's more to his character than that, but the show really beats us over the head with that fact. He faked a thick accent for a several episodes in an attempt to justify his religious beliefs, and he tried to act as an immigrant to stop people questioning his Muslim beliefs. In Season 5, he confides with Dr. Camille Saroyan about his past in Iran as a translator and the fact that he shot a gunman to protect his zone. He confesses that this one act has haunted him since and states it as the cause for his strict observation of religious practices. Also, last I remember he and Cam were romantically involved, but I also can't remember where they left that. (I'm sorry, we don't get much development for these guys!)  Carla Gallo as Daisy Wick Daisy is extremely chipper and excited about being able to work in the lab. Brennan has fired her three times due to being painfully annoying, but she somehow keeps finding ways to come back. Also, she was engaged to be married to Sweets at one point, but I honestly can't remember how that was left, because they have broken up and gotten together so many times it's hard to keep track. She is now very, very pregnant, and left to raise the boy alone after the death of Lance Sweets.  Luke Kleintank as Finn Abernathy Introduced 2 years ago, Finn is a former juvenile delinquent, and is "a good ole boy from the hills". People constantly underestimate him because he looks and sounds like a hillbilly, but in fact he's one of the smartest and most capable of the squinterns. Also, he killed his father, but he was really bad so that's okay. Also he has a really bad, non-specific, Southern accent.  Brian Klugman as Oliver Wells Oliver was introduced last season. He shows substantial knowledge of psychology, anatomy, law, history, and forensic anthropology. He is one of the few interns to have a doctorate, he also has a range of Masters degrees in a wide range of subjects.  Michael Badalucco as Scott Starret Admit it, you forgot this guy existed. Mr Starret was the oldest grad student Brennan had. He had worked a number of jobs over his life, including used car salesman. He has left the lab and the show after his one episode, and we are unlikely to see him again, but I included him anyway because I liked him so drat much. Just coming in to the show? Here's what you missed since 2005! Season 1: FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) is paired with Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), a forensic anthropologist who uses bones to determine how people died. Brennan works at the Jeffersonian Institution—think Smithsonian—with her team of “squints,” including Hodgins (TJ Thyne), bug guy and secret billionaire; Angela (Michaela Conlin), an artist whose dad just happens to be a member of ZZ Top; and Zack (Eric Millegan), the intern. When they find Brennan’s mother’s body, she discovers that her parents were actually bank robbers on the run, and her dad is still out there. Season 2: Brennan gets a new boss at the Jeffersonian: Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor). Cam and Booth have a history together, but when she’s almost killed, he decides that it’s too dangerous for people in high-risk situations to get involved with each other. Hodgins doesn’t share that concern; after he and Brennan are buried alive by a killer known as the Gravedigger, he admits that he loves Angela. Their wedding is derailed by the news that Angela is already married, thanks to a drunken night in Fiji. Meanwhile, Brennan’s father Max Keenan returns and takes out a corrupt deputy director at the FBI. Booth respects Max for protecting his family, but arrests him anyway. Season 3: Booth and Brennan are assigned to an FBI psychologist, Dr. Lance Sweets (John Francis Daley), to deal with the fact that Booth arrested Brennan’s dad. Max stands trial for murder, but Brennan gives the jury reasonable doubt by implicating herself, so her father goes free. The team closes in on a cannibalistic serial killer known as Gormogon, but they’re left reeling when Gormogon’s apprentice turns out to be… Zack! They manage to work out an insanity plea to keep him out of prison, and Zack is sent to a mental hospital. Season 4: Angela finds her husband and gets him to sign the divorce papers, but she gets jealous when he sleeps with Cam. Hodgins feels insecure about their relationship, and they break up. Angela briefly reunites with an old girlfriend from college. Cam investigates the murder of a doctor she used to live with and adopts his now teenage daughter, and Brennan meets Booth’s brother Jared. Their father was a drunk, and Booth protects his brother by taking the hit for all of his mistakes. Brennan decides that she wants a baby and asks Booth to be the donor, but plans change when they learn that Booth has a brain tumor. While in a coma, he dreams that he and Brennan are married and wakes up unable to separate the dream from reality. Season 5: Booth tries to get back to normal and process the realization that he’s in love with Brennan. After telling Sweets the story of their first case together—they kissed, but it all fell apart with a huge fight—Booth kisses Brennan and asks her to give their relationship a chance, but she thinks that she’ll only hurt him. They both try dating other people. Brennan joins an archaeological dig in Indonesia because she thinks that the distance will help her sort out her life, so Booth accepts an offer to train soldiers in Afghanistan. Hodgins and Angela get back together, marry, and decide to spend the year in Paris. Season 6: Booth comes back from Afghanistan with a girlfriend, a reporter named Hannah, and Brennan realizes that she made a mistake turning him down. She tells Booth how she feels, but he’s committed to his relationship with Hannah. He proposes; Hannah tells him that she’s not the marrying kind, so they break up. Booth and Brennan eventually decide that they're almost ready to be together. Hodgins and Angela have a son and name him Michael Vincent, after the intern who was killed by a bullet meant for Booth. Brennan tells Booth that she’s pregnant, and he’s the father. Season 7: Booth and Brennan move in together and have a daughter, named after Brennan’s mom, Christine, but serial killer Christopher Pelant targets the team and frames Brennan for murder. As the FBI prepares to arrest her, Brennan and her dad conspire to go on the run. To avoid implicating Booth, she doesn’t tell him what she’s planning; she just takes their daughter and drives off, leaving Booth and the squints to exonerate her. Season 8: The team proves Brennan’s innocence, but Pelant tricks the system and escapes custody. Booth and Brennan readjust to their life under one roof, which grows to include Sweets after he breaks up with his girlfriend Daisy. Booth reconciles with his mom, who left Booth and Jared to be raised by their grandfather. Cam begins dating intern Arastoo. Brennan proposes to Booth and he accepts, but Pelant orders him to call off the wedding. If he marries Brennan, or even explains why they can’t marry, five people will die. Booth is forced to telld Brennan that he thinks a wedding is a bad idea. Season 9: Booth and Brennan find Pelant, who says that there’s a Ghost Killer only he knows how to catch. Booth shoots him anyway. Booth and Brennan are married. For their vows, Brennan reads the letter that she wrote to him when she and Hodgins were buried alive. Hodgins discovers that he has a brother while looking into a case involving an old friend named Trent McNamara; evidence points to McNamara as a murderer, but Brennan suspects that he was framed by the Ghost Killer, who turns out to be McNamara’s own sister. The McNamaras are part of a conspiracy that our team is too close to, so a congressman publicly discredits Booth by revealing classified information about his time as a sniper. Booth lures three operatives to his home, all of whom are probably responsible for murdering other people who got too close to the truth about the McNamaras. He fights back, but the FBI takes him into custody and charges him with killing unarmed agents. Kilo147 fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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First post, let me just say that goddamn that first episode this season.
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Sep 26, 2014 11:30
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Sweets! 
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Sep 26, 2014 19:19
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hollylolly posted:Sweets! It's okay, he'll be back. In the directors chair. For the National Lampoon's Vacation series. Featuring Ed Helms as an adult Rusty Griswold. Plus, the conspiracy plotline will be wrapped up very soon. Very soon.
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Sep 26, 2014 20:52
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I'll miss Sweets. I have to hand it to the writers, though. It's not often you see a character's love interest and baby (albeit unborn in this case) right before said character is tragically killed. That's a very original move on their part, and in no way was done just to pump a little more emotion into the loss of a character whose loss would have been felt just fine without it. No way was that cheap and unnecessary.
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Sep 26, 2014 23:38
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tarlibone posted:I'll miss Sweets. Cheap and unnecessary would be having Sweets missing the birth of his child due to being murdered. Or how the ended Castle last season. I mean really, of all the lovely cliffhangers, Castle takes the cake.
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Sep 26, 2014 23:45
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Pointing out for the actual season 10 thread: Daisy was pregnant for real so at least it wasn't TOO contrived 
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Sep 26, 2014 23:51
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7thBatallion posted:It's okay, he'll be back. In the directors chair. For the National Lampoon's Vacation series. Featuring Ed Helms as an adult Rusty Griswold. Is that the reason he left? I'm assuming a big season premiere death like that was because he needed out of his contract.
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Holy hell I can't believe this show is still going. As the dude who ran the Bones thread from like seasons 2-5, it brings a tear to my ocular orbit. Is it still as wonderful and dumb as when everyone got all loopy on euphoria spores? Does everyone still hate Angela?
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Sep 27, 2014 01:51
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SteveVizsla posted:Is that the reason he left? I'm assuming a big season premiere death like that was because he needed out of his contract.
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So the new guy got introduced, he's kinda sweets-esque... so i thought perhaps sweets could get killed, but i didn't reeeeeeally think it would happen. Perhaps one of the others but not him! It made me extremely sad  Even if the actor wanted out so they had to write in his death, it was a drat good way to kick off the season.
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Akbar posted:Holy hell I can't believe this show is still going. As the dude who ran the Bones thread from like seasons 2-5, it brings a tear to my ocular orbit. Is it still as wonderful and dumb as when everyone got all loopy on euphoria spores? Does everyone still hate Angela? It might be around a good while longer. When Bones began, Emily and David signed ten-year contracts so people have been assuming this will be the last season... but a FOX exec recently said that they're going to try to talk Emily and David into signing extended contracts. I guess it must get decent ratings.
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Sep 29, 2014 23:37
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Another 10 year contract 
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I wouldn't mind some more seasons of Bones. I will miss Sweets, though. Hopefully they'll bring back Gordon Gordon. Mr. Fry needs to do something that isn't writing books, doing coke in Buckingham Palace and talking about somehwat (quite) interesting things.
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So I fell asleep about an hour before this episode started. New job is draining me. How was it?
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They did the wrapping up of the long standing plot in a rushed manner. But hey, it wouldn't be Bones if they didn't shoot for that sort of story telling.
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Jack Skeleton posted:They did the wrapping up of the long standing plot in a rushed manner. I'm actually glad they wrapped it up even though the resolution was all kinds of stupid. I think this show works better in the MOTW format; nobody wants another Pelant. Would you really keep all your top secret blackmail files in a museum? I think the nipple ring guy had a better idea. Also how was Booth punching that guy "the only way" to get his DNA? How about swiping that disposable coffee cup he was drinking from in the very same scene? I actually thought that was the idea, that they would piss him off and get him to storm off and then just take it. But no, just punch him in the nose. I'm not sure that way of obtaining evidence would hold up in court. And how come no other interns were at the funeral? I know the answer is because they didn't want to get all the actors, but I thought it was a little unrealistic. Since I nitpicked so much, I should say that I actually liked the episode. It was a nice goodbye for Sweets, and I thought the scene where Bones is yelling at Booth about not murdering a guy was well done. Especially since it turned out to be the wrong guy after all. And I like the new guy. He was an obvious Sweets replacement from the moment he came on screen, but he's not just the same character with a new face and I think they integrated him well. Interested to see him in the more silly episodes going forward.
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I liked the episode, and as has been stated, Bones works better with shorter arcs. I'd rather not have this show chasing after the ringleader of a conspiracy all season long. Get it over with and move on, I say. That doesn't work for every show, but for this one, it is just fine. The only thing I didn't care for was Bones' super-long eulogy at the end. It seemed to go on for way too long, and after all these years, I get it: she doesn't do emotions in a normal, human way. Got it. Move on.
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I feel bad for asking this but this is Bones, after all, and they've had some issues with this: Is this week's intern's accent real or are they still in the mode of thinking that people can't handle ethnic actors with American accents?Fru Fru posted:He was an obvious Sweets replacement from the moment he came on screen, but he's not just the same character with a new face and I think they integrated him well. Interested to see him in the more silly episodes going forward. I always saw Sweets as the Zack replacement (and I always liked Sweets a lot better, continuity errors and all).
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I like Sweets better too, but they hosed up with Zach. Let's throw him in a nut house and never mention him again.
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My favorite part of this show is how Cam randomly goes from being a poo poo manager to sometimes kind of trying to do her job well.
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Nov 6, 2014 20:42
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Got rather emotional at that pregnancy scene, ooh sweets
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Nov 21, 2014 14:38
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200th episode and they couldn't even bring back Sweets? For shame.
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Even though no Sweets, it was still a good episode.
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You know, not a fan of the 200th episode. And now that Deschanel is pregnant, who knows what direction the show will go...
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7thBatallion posted:You know, not a fan of the 200th episode. And now that Deschanel is pregnant, who knows what direction the show will go... She's pregnant again? Sheesh.
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GreenNight posted:She's pregnant again? Sheesh. Yeah, and they've already said they're going to work it into the show. I like the 200th episode. It was kind of corny, and I would have liked it better if they had truly filmed it like a movie from that era (camera angles and lighting were still too modern, would have liked it better if they had truly committed) but little touches like the projection screens whenever they were driving the car were fun, as was seeing everyone play a different role. I don't know, I usually hate their alternate reality episodes, but this one worked for me.
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