I intend to go back and get the first couple of seasons eventually. Looks clever and interesting. And I like David Boreanaz from his days as Angel so I'm interested to see him in a different role.
I'd suggest sticking with just the first 3 seasons maybe 3 and a half. The show seems to be very popular with women and it really vears off into the sappy relationship thing and looses a lot of of it's charm.
I'd suggest sticking with just the first 3 seasons maybe 3 and a half. The show seems to be very popular with women and it really vears off into the sappy relationship thing and looses a lot of of it's charm.
I think of it as character developement actually....
Sometimes the characters have something to do with the case.
I liked the first 2 or 3 seasons okay, as silly as they sometimes got. But as soon as they came back with that season 4 opener in London, the entire series went into the crapper. The relationship drama stuff became ham-fisted, overused and unbelievable -- Melrose fucking Place-style -- and as already pointed out, it killed the mood and the flow of the series.
The series had its ups and downs in quality right from the beginning, but that season 4 premier was absolutely idiotic to the point of being insulting, and the show continued to deteriorate over the next few episodes to the point you couldn't pay me to watch it now. Shame.
Not your cup of tea but sure is a lot of other peoples. Season 4 had the most viewers than all the other seasons so far. 5 had almost as much.
Yeah, we call that 'lowest common denominator'. No one ever went broke by catering to stupid people.
That's your opinion right there....and I'll try not to look into it this time.
Whatever. Obviously, the individual's mileage may vary. For instance, if someone happens to be a 12 year-old girl, Bones season 4 may seem a lot more poignant. A lot of the things which might annoy or seem hackneyed to someone ages 13 and up might not be troublesome to the 12 year-old. And that's fine for them.
Just that the demographic thing said people mostly from 18 to 49 watch it.
Do you prefer more mature audience based things like Dexter or True Blood instead? Or tv just sucks?
I was just having a conversation about this type of thing at, of all places, the local comic store yesterday.
We were talking about the evolution of characters that exist in a static medium, where the story arcs are plot driven and the characters are required to navigate through them to move that plot along. We were talking about comic books, but the logic of the discussion could be applied to TV shows as well.
The concensus: Things like relationships fundamentally alter the characters from what attracted audiences to them to begin with. This is fine if you're dealing with a storyline that is finite and based on character growth, evolution and an ultimate resolution/climax/conclusion. But in a medium where the characters exist as ciphers fo fight crime/solve mysteries on a scheduled basis without any planned endgame to the narrative, it feels like the writers not understanding the precepts of the concept.
That's not to say they can't be good stories, but having, say, Spider-Man make a deal with the devil to save his aunt May is a serious evolution of the character, taking him into dark territory that fundamentally alters the concept of the character.
Likewise, in a show like Bones or Moonlighting (or what have you), when the characters exist to push the narrative of the weekly adventure, it's probably not a good idea to fundamentally alter them until such time as the tv show is approaching its series finale. I understand that there is a strong desire on the part of the writers to see the characters evolve, but it seems like a trap that should be avoided, or rather like a reward to all the people that have followed the show for so long, to wait until the end to give them that particular payoff. It seems to protect the IP more when you do that.
I know there are differing thoughts on this, but that was what I came away with. The stories can still be good and thought provoking without changing static characters too much.
Yeah, we call that 'lowest common denominator'. No one ever went broke by catering to stupid people.
J
Do you prefer more mature audience... True Blood instead?
Tell me that's not what I just read.
The final episode about Gormogon was such a lame episode that I never bothered to watch bones again,
The final episode about Gormogon was such a lame episode that I never bothered to watch bones again, talking about an anticlimax, man did they fuck up on that one. I am almost certain that I could've done a better job.