Bones 2x09: Aliens in a Space Ship
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kerravonsenI'm taking a bit of a break from everything else, and watching some Bones.
Awesome awesome episode!
Dramatic opening, tight plot, so many good character moments, not just between the major characters, but also with guest characters.
Pitch dark opening, that was so effective. I'm not sure I could keep my head if I knew I was buried alive, even if I was buried alive in something as roomy as a car.
Brennan and Hodgins using improv science (multiple times) to save themselves. Yes! Yes!
Of course, I don't actually know enough in those particular fields to know if the improv science was correct science, but it seemed plausible, especially since they kept on coming up with caveats like "you'll burn out the cell phone" rather than just handwaving.
Hodgins confessing his love for Angela! Yes!
Guest-character interaction goodie: the whole question of the twin boys' death, that they only had 12 hours of air. And even more awesome later, that one of the boys sacrificed himself to give his brother more air. And Cam having to point out to Zack why that was important. (eyeroll)
Brennan comparing God to the Gravedigger. Ha! And then Booth coming back with "God doesn't make mistakes".
Sometimes I want to pat Booth on the head, because he's so sincere yet also unsophisticated about his faith.
And, speaking of faith, Hodgins totally called Brennan on the "You have faith in Booth", "No I do not", "Yes you do" thing.
So now everyone knows that Hodgins is rich.
Interesting in that scene where they dig up Brennan and Hodgins, you have Booth first, digging up Brennan, then the lab folks all digging up Hodgins, and the kidnapping specialist digging with them... and the reporter-woman is just standing there.
"I thanked him for saving all of us." Yes. This.
Oh, that last scene with Hodgins and Angela, him confessing that he can't sleep, and that solitary tear that he couldn't keep contained, and Angela being caring, yes!
Thinking, thinking...
Who is the Gravedigger? I think we will find out, considering that in that last scene between Hodgins and Angela, they declare that they will work on tracking down the Gravedigger.
If the Gravedigger is someone we have seen, rather than someone faceless that we haven't seen yet, then I suspect the reporter-woman.
1. It had to be someone who had access to information about the case, or Brennan wouldn't have been taken in the first place. Hodgins might have been a victim of opportunity, but Brennan isn't that rich. I think it was more important to the Gravedigger that she and they be prevented from solving the case. Which was foolish panic, really, since all the Gravedigger ended up doing was giving them more evidence to pursue, in the end.
2. The reporter-woman is the odd person out; while we are given explanations for her presence, the narrative could have worked just as well if the kidnapping specialist had not had her along with him. Therefore I deduce that she's a "gun on the mantelpiece", yet to be fired.
3. She appears colder in reaction to the kidnappings; and note she didn't help with the digging at the end, while the kidnapping specialist did.
4. She knows things that the kidnapping specialist doesn't; she knows about the Cantilever group.
5. She keeps on emphasising how clever the Gravedigger is. I can't remember if she was surprised when it was revealed that the Gravedigger made a mistake about the air with the twins, but I do remember someone pointing out that the Gravedigger had learned from that mistake by giving them a 12-hour deadline with Brennan and Hodgins.
I think that the Gravedigger gets just as much of a kick out of the feeling of power, making people do what e wants, as e does from getting the money; the same kind of thrill that someone would get out of planning the "perfect crime". All of the Gravedigger's actions are designed to insulate them from the crime: stun-gun, so they aren't seen; burial, so that the death-threat is passive and the kidnappees don't have to be guarded; one demand, to minimize chances of tracking; numbered account, so no need for a pick-up where e could be captured. All very well planned.
Awesome awesome episode!
Dramatic opening, tight plot, so many good character moments, not just between the major characters, but also with guest characters.
Pitch dark opening, that was so effective. I'm not sure I could keep my head if I knew I was buried alive, even if I was buried alive in something as roomy as a car.
Brennan and Hodgins using improv science (multiple times) to save themselves. Yes! Yes!
Of course, I don't actually know enough in those particular fields to know if the improv science was correct science, but it seemed plausible, especially since they kept on coming up with caveats like "you'll burn out the cell phone" rather than just handwaving.
Hodgins confessing his love for Angela! Yes!
Guest-character interaction goodie: the whole question of the twin boys' death, that they only had 12 hours of air. And even more awesome later, that one of the boys sacrificed himself to give his brother more air. And Cam having to point out to Zack why that was important. (eyeroll)
Brennan comparing God to the Gravedigger. Ha! And then Booth coming back with "God doesn't make mistakes".
Sometimes I want to pat Booth on the head, because he's so sincere yet also unsophisticated about his faith.
And, speaking of faith, Hodgins totally called Brennan on the "You have faith in Booth", "No I do not", "Yes you do" thing.
So now everyone knows that Hodgins is rich.
Interesting in that scene where they dig up Brennan and Hodgins, you have Booth first, digging up Brennan, then the lab folks all digging up Hodgins, and the kidnapping specialist digging with them... and the reporter-woman is just standing there.
"I thanked him for saving all of us." Yes. This.
Oh, that last scene with Hodgins and Angela, him confessing that he can't sleep, and that solitary tear that he couldn't keep contained, and Angela being caring, yes!
Thinking, thinking...
Who is the Gravedigger? I think we will find out, considering that in that last scene between Hodgins and Angela, they declare that they will work on tracking down the Gravedigger.
If the Gravedigger is someone we have seen, rather than someone faceless that we haven't seen yet, then I suspect the reporter-woman.
1. It had to be someone who had access to information about the case, or Brennan wouldn't have been taken in the first place. Hodgins might have been a victim of opportunity, but Brennan isn't that rich. I think it was more important to the Gravedigger that she and they be prevented from solving the case. Which was foolish panic, really, since all the Gravedigger ended up doing was giving them more evidence to pursue, in the end.
2. The reporter-woman is the odd person out; while we are given explanations for her presence, the narrative could have worked just as well if the kidnapping specialist had not had her along with him. Therefore I deduce that she's a "gun on the mantelpiece", yet to be fired.
3. She appears colder in reaction to the kidnappings; and note she didn't help with the digging at the end, while the kidnapping specialist did.
4. She knows things that the kidnapping specialist doesn't; she knows about the Cantilever group.
5. She keeps on emphasising how clever the Gravedigger is. I can't remember if she was surprised when it was revealed that the Gravedigger made a mistake about the air with the twins, but I do remember someone pointing out that the Gravedigger had learned from that mistake by giving them a 12-hour deadline with Brennan and Hodgins.
I think that the Gravedigger gets just as much of a kick out of the feeling of power, making people do what e wants, as e does from getting the money; the same kind of thrill that someone would get out of planning the "perfect crime". All of the Gravedigger's actions are designed to insulate them from the crime: stun-gun, so they aren't seen; burial, so that the death-threat is passive and the kidnappees don't have to be guarded; one demand, to minimize chances of tracking; numbered account, so no need for a pick-up where e could be captured. All very well planned.
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Date: 2009-11-21 05:27 pm (UTC)(And re: your response to the next episode: I'm pretty sure this is *not* the last time we see/hear about the Gravedigger. Wait for it.)