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Player Under Pressure-REVIEWS by willgirl
by wee little puppet man on Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:14 am
Posted 21/04/2008 00:39:27 AM
Will post reviews here when they come!
--Last edited by willgirl on 2008-04-21 00:58:0
Will post reviews here when they come!
--Last edited by willgirl on 2008-04-21 00:58:0
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marymageli
by wee little puppet man on Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:14 am
Posted 22/04/2008 02:01:49 AM
Can I butt in here willi? Anyway, here is the first done by TV Squad.
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Brennan: "I don't know what that means."
Angela: "Are you serious?"
- When Cam reveals that both seminal fluid and saliva were found in the basketball player's shorts...
Rich Keller asked me to cover Bones tonight. Rich and I have also co-reviewed House. I am a bit late to the Bones parade: I started watching it this winter during the writers' strike. I bought the first two seasons on iTunes, and I was completely hooked. It's now one of my favorite shows. Now that the show comes on at 7pm Central Time, I was happy to have TiVoed the show tonight and that my kids were in bed when I watched it. It was one of the grosser episodes-- or maybe it just seemed that way because of the earlier time slot.
This week Booth and Brennan teamed up (get it?) to find out how a college basketball player, who was found squashed into an accordion under the bleachers, was killed. First things first: Find out whether his skull experienced "powdering" as Zack called it from strikes to the head or from being mashed through a grate. See? A little gross. So, in classic Squint Squad format, Hodgins and Zack set up a little experiment. They stuff a turkey carcass with a skull mockup and some ambrosia salad and push it through a grate. Of course, they and Cam, who has come to see what experiments they are doing now, end up covered in the salad.
It seemed that this week the lab served mostly as comic relief in more extreme ways than it has in the past. First, we have the ambrosia salad. Then, we have a deliberately obtuse Hodgins mashing up maggots in Cam's personal blender. Cam exacted her revenge not on Hodgins but on Angela: First, she treated Angela like a secretary; then, she made her point about Angela and Hodgins being too demonstrative in the workplace by giving Angela a DVD of sex in the storage area. Naturally, as much as Angela is horrified, she also thinks it's pretty cool to have her own Hodgins sex tape.
For some reason, though, the squint squad action seemed a little uneven this week. The show has been on an involuntary hiatus for awhile, and perhaps it is taking Stella awhile to get her Groove back. As Rich pointed out last week, there is usually a scene between Cam and Zack in which he is explaining something to her. That was missing this week, and we had a lot less Zack in general. Maybe that is what felt a little unbalanced: Too little squint squad, and not enough smart stuff happening when we did get them.
The major tension between Booth and Brennan was about the inside glimpse they get into collegiate athletics. Brennan has been boning up on her Chomsky: She finds sports to be, anthropologically, a way that boys pretend to be warriors; it is a way that stunts their development. Booth, who is a consummate athlete and sports fan, takes offence. Where was Sweets to mediate this disaster this week? I bet Sweets would have agreed with Brennan about sports, but Zack and Hodgins were front and center with the basketball stats when it turned out that the victim was one of the season's highest rising stars.
Of course, the case unfolded much like an accordion itself. The show seems to be moving away from what the actual bones in the lab report about the body, though, in favor of the investigation in the field and the relationship between Booth and Brennan. Naturally, this relationship is a central focus of the show, but I am just geeky enough to really like what the bones can say about the crime, so I hope this isn't a continuing trend. What we learned from the bones this week was that R.J. was struck and killed by a 25-pound weight. However, the crime was essentially solved with the discovery of seminal fluid, a "loogie," saliva, blue lipstick, and a case of the clap. Steroids and an over-involved alumnus were red herrings.
Booth is usually absolutely stellar about reading people: This week, though, he actually had the murderer aiding in the investigation and playing good cop/bad cop with him in investigating *other* people for the murder. The murderer was a cop, and he was obstructing the investigation and trying to pin the murder on someone else. The fact that he was a stellar college athlete before he turned cop was the only thing Booth seemed to care about, even after Cutler confessed. Granted, I will cut Booth some slack because he was trying to keep Cutler from killing himself, and you pretty much have to say what you need to say in those situations.
I was surprised that Brennan didn't nail Booth for that pretty serious lapse in judegment; instead, she stroked his ego by telling him he really is a warrior. That might be true, but she doesn't usually bolster him like that.
It must be love.
Yeah, I agree.
Can I butt in here willi? Anyway, here is the first done by TV Squad.
[Only admins are allowed to see this link]
Brennan: "I don't know what that means."
Angela: "Are you serious?"
- When Cam reveals that both seminal fluid and saliva were found in the basketball player's shorts...
Rich Keller asked me to cover Bones tonight. Rich and I have also co-reviewed House. I am a bit late to the Bones parade: I started watching it this winter during the writers' strike. I bought the first two seasons on iTunes, and I was completely hooked. It's now one of my favorite shows. Now that the show comes on at 7pm Central Time, I was happy to have TiVoed the show tonight and that my kids were in bed when I watched it. It was one of the grosser episodes-- or maybe it just seemed that way because of the earlier time slot.
This week Booth and Brennan teamed up (get it?) to find out how a college basketball player, who was found squashed into an accordion under the bleachers, was killed. First things first: Find out whether his skull experienced "powdering" as Zack called it from strikes to the head or from being mashed through a grate. See? A little gross. So, in classic Squint Squad format, Hodgins and Zack set up a little experiment. They stuff a turkey carcass with a skull mockup and some ambrosia salad and push it through a grate. Of course, they and Cam, who has come to see what experiments they are doing now, end up covered in the salad.
It seemed that this week the lab served mostly as comic relief in more extreme ways than it has in the past. First, we have the ambrosia salad. Then, we have a deliberately obtuse Hodgins mashing up maggots in Cam's personal blender. Cam exacted her revenge not on Hodgins but on Angela: First, she treated Angela like a secretary; then, she made her point about Angela and Hodgins being too demonstrative in the workplace by giving Angela a DVD of sex in the storage area. Naturally, as much as Angela is horrified, she also thinks it's pretty cool to have her own Hodgins sex tape.
For some reason, though, the squint squad action seemed a little uneven this week. The show has been on an involuntary hiatus for awhile, and perhaps it is taking Stella awhile to get her Groove back. As Rich pointed out last week, there is usually a scene between Cam and Zack in which he is explaining something to her. That was missing this week, and we had a lot less Zack in general. Maybe that is what felt a little unbalanced: Too little squint squad, and not enough smart stuff happening when we did get them.
The major tension between Booth and Brennan was about the inside glimpse they get into collegiate athletics. Brennan has been boning up on her Chomsky: She finds sports to be, anthropologically, a way that boys pretend to be warriors; it is a way that stunts their development. Booth, who is a consummate athlete and sports fan, takes offence. Where was Sweets to mediate this disaster this week? I bet Sweets would have agreed with Brennan about sports, but Zack and Hodgins were front and center with the basketball stats when it turned out that the victim was one of the season's highest rising stars.
Of course, the case unfolded much like an accordion itself. The show seems to be moving away from what the actual bones in the lab report about the body, though, in favor of the investigation in the field and the relationship between Booth and Brennan. Naturally, this relationship is a central focus of the show, but I am just geeky enough to really like what the bones can say about the crime, so I hope this isn't a continuing trend. What we learned from the bones this week was that R.J. was struck and killed by a 25-pound weight. However, the crime was essentially solved with the discovery of seminal fluid, a "loogie," saliva, blue lipstick, and a case of the clap. Steroids and an over-involved alumnus were red herrings.
Booth is usually absolutely stellar about reading people: This week, though, he actually had the murderer aiding in the investigation and playing good cop/bad cop with him in investigating *other* people for the murder. The murderer was a cop, and he was obstructing the investigation and trying to pin the murder on someone else. The fact that he was a stellar college athlete before he turned cop was the only thing Booth seemed to care about, even after Cutler confessed. Granted, I will cut Booth some slack because he was trying to keep Cutler from killing himself, and you pretty much have to say what you need to say in those situations.
I was surprised that Brennan didn't nail Booth for that pretty serious lapse in judegment; instead, she stroked his ego by telling him he really is a warrior. That might be true, but she doesn't usually bolster him like that.
It must be love.
Yeah, I agree.
wee little puppet man- Doctor
- Number of posts: 767
Age: 44
Registration date: 2008-06-07
wee little puppet man- Doctor
- Number of posts: 767
Age: 44
Registration date: 2008-06-07
marymageli
by wee little puppet man on Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:16 am
Posted 22/04/2008 08:37:33 AM
I have come now with the second review this time carried out by TV Guide.
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Episode Recap: "Player Under Pressure"
by Sandra Kofler
Aw. Hell. No. Did you all watch the same episode I did tonight? And is anyone else wondering how they let this show get away with all the things it does? I’m used to seeing grossly disfigured corpses and perps who have terrible reasons for having killed anyone, but with every detail that came out tonight, I just couldn’t believe the choices that had been made. This ep even somehow bordered on slapstick humor (I'm a scientist, I'm going to dig a rat out of a corpse!) under the premise of working on a serious murder case. Am I being harsh? Let’s discuss the evidence in bold. Bold is fun.
RJ Manning was a star college basketball forward, the agreed-upon star player of the league, whose decomposing body was found under his school’s bleachers being used as a rat birthing center. A big gold star goes out to the team who created the grossest dead body I’ve ever seen on TV. All melted guts and indiscernible bone fragments, RJ’s brain was left as jelly and bits to be found by Justine, a fellow student and overemotional Hot Topic shopper(the girl with too much eyeliner is always a suspect, isn't she?) and Officer Cutler, a campus police chief/ex-college basketball star with broken dreams.
The tables turn when it’s discovered that RJ was getting hardy helpings of both anabolic steroids and the Clap. The steroids were provided by an alumnus, George Francis (your beloved Daniel Roebuck), a real Papa to the teammates and coattail-rider extraordinaire who goaded RJ into signing a contract that would make George RJ’s NBA rep once the star was inevitably drafted. I expected Booth, who made such a big deal this episode of being a Sporting Man (and oh yeah, an FBI man), to be a little angrier about the muscle juice than he was. Not only did we not see whether George got in trouble for providing steroids, but Booth told the basketball player who’d been juicing that his steroid use would be kept between them if he gave up his provider. I’ve known Booth to make deals, but this was just not his style. The man has values, and I don’t think that’s ever been a point of contention. This is also after he released Ed Dekker, the other juicing suspect, from interrogation on the grounds that all he’d done wrong was “dipping his wick” in the wrong place. Thanks gramps, I’ll add that one to Le Vocab.
Gonorrhea should have had second-billing in this episode, because it seems like everyone had it. I never thought I’d say this, but what a time-saver that was, tying one murder suspect to the next. Justine, the girl Ed had unprotected sex with and described as “not-hot,” who tearfully ripped out a clod of her own hair for the team's DNA testing (oww) gave him gonorrhea as broken-hearted revenge after getting it from having unprotected sex with RJ. Bones was right – this is a terrible university. Hopefully someone out there got a lesson on condom-usage out of the whole thing. And If I had to listen to droney basketball player Ed Dekker talk for one more second, I’d have thrown a boot at my TV. As Bones put it, “All the bad decisions you’ve made, and the one thing you’re ashamed of is having sex with a not-hot girl?” What a winner, that Ed. Sign me up for that hunk of burning man loins.
The lab, through the brilliance of Hodge, Zack and Angie, soon discovered that not only was RJ’s death not an accident, but he was partaking in some oral wick-dipping of his own with someone wearing cheerleaders’ brand blue lipstick at the same time his head was being impaled by a 25-pound dumbbell. Talk about multitasking. Oh, and whoever killed him spit loogied on his dead body. Not very classy, Mr. Murderer, but it does hand the forensic team your DNA! Well done.
The culprit turned out to be police chief Cutler, who lost his mind when he walked in on his Smurf-lipped daughter Celeste under the bleachers with gonorrhea-laden RJ Manning. He claimed that seeing his daughter in that position and knowing that RJ was knowingly giving her the disease set him off. But how did Cutler even know Manning had gonorrhea? Was this public knowledge because the guy got around? In any case, I didn’t expect the guy to make his next move, to whip out a gun and try to kill himself, nor did I see Bones’ heroic gun-jamming-with-thumb-webbing on its way. Cutler was arrested and RJ Manning will probably go down as a skeevy skeeve who played some awesome juiced-up b-ball.
Now that I think about it, maybe I’m wrong to jump on all the things that I thought seemed far-fetched. After all, some of these things aren't far off from the stuff that makes me adore this show and recognize its brilliance in comparison to the pantheon of dumbed-down viewing options these days. Or maybe this story line is just more in line with how real life goes, "scientific" skull-in-a-turkey-cavity pressure-testing and all. I won't say I didn't love the episode despite its points of ridiculosity. I just don't want this to ever be a show that someone claims is a shark-jumper, and this one got a wee bit close for comfort.
There are a thousand things I also loved about this ep, from B&B's camaraderie to the Angie/Hodge sex tape that I don't have space to write about, so I'm going to leave that to you fine people. I just needed to discuss this episode and all its wacky glory. Next week we finally get to see the long awaited "Baby in the Bough" episode. No Gormagon action yet, but I hear this one's going to be a goodie.
I have come now with the second review this time carried out by TV Guide.
[Only admins are allowed to see this link]
Episode Recap: "Player Under Pressure"
by Sandra Kofler
Aw. Hell. No. Did you all watch the same episode I did tonight? And is anyone else wondering how they let this show get away with all the things it does? I’m used to seeing grossly disfigured corpses and perps who have terrible reasons for having killed anyone, but with every detail that came out tonight, I just couldn’t believe the choices that had been made. This ep even somehow bordered on slapstick humor (I'm a scientist, I'm going to dig a rat out of a corpse!) under the premise of working on a serious murder case. Am I being harsh? Let’s discuss the evidence in bold. Bold is fun.
RJ Manning was a star college basketball forward, the agreed-upon star player of the league, whose decomposing body was found under his school’s bleachers being used as a rat birthing center. A big gold star goes out to the team who created the grossest dead body I’ve ever seen on TV. All melted guts and indiscernible bone fragments, RJ’s brain was left as jelly and bits to be found by Justine, a fellow student and overemotional Hot Topic shopper(the girl with too much eyeliner is always a suspect, isn't she?) and Officer Cutler, a campus police chief/ex-college basketball star with broken dreams.
The tables turn when it’s discovered that RJ was getting hardy helpings of both anabolic steroids and the Clap. The steroids were provided by an alumnus, George Francis (your beloved Daniel Roebuck), a real Papa to the teammates and coattail-rider extraordinaire who goaded RJ into signing a contract that would make George RJ’s NBA rep once the star was inevitably drafted. I expected Booth, who made such a big deal this episode of being a Sporting Man (and oh yeah, an FBI man), to be a little angrier about the muscle juice than he was. Not only did we not see whether George got in trouble for providing steroids, but Booth told the basketball player who’d been juicing that his steroid use would be kept between them if he gave up his provider. I’ve known Booth to make deals, but this was just not his style. The man has values, and I don’t think that’s ever been a point of contention. This is also after he released Ed Dekker, the other juicing suspect, from interrogation on the grounds that all he’d done wrong was “dipping his wick” in the wrong place. Thanks gramps, I’ll add that one to Le Vocab.
Gonorrhea should have had second-billing in this episode, because it seems like everyone had it. I never thought I’d say this, but what a time-saver that was, tying one murder suspect to the next. Justine, the girl Ed had unprotected sex with and described as “not-hot,” who tearfully ripped out a clod of her own hair for the team's DNA testing (oww) gave him gonorrhea as broken-hearted revenge after getting it from having unprotected sex with RJ. Bones was right – this is a terrible university. Hopefully someone out there got a lesson on condom-usage out of the whole thing. And If I had to listen to droney basketball player Ed Dekker talk for one more second, I’d have thrown a boot at my TV. As Bones put it, “All the bad decisions you’ve made, and the one thing you’re ashamed of is having sex with a not-hot girl?” What a winner, that Ed. Sign me up for that hunk of burning man loins.
The lab, through the brilliance of Hodge, Zack and Angie, soon discovered that not only was RJ’s death not an accident, but he was partaking in some oral wick-dipping of his own with someone wearing cheerleaders’ brand blue lipstick at the same time his head was being impaled by a 25-pound dumbbell. Talk about multitasking. Oh, and whoever killed him spit loogied on his dead body. Not very classy, Mr. Murderer, but it does hand the forensic team your DNA! Well done.
The culprit turned out to be police chief Cutler, who lost his mind when he walked in on his Smurf-lipped daughter Celeste under the bleachers with gonorrhea-laden RJ Manning. He claimed that seeing his daughter in that position and knowing that RJ was knowingly giving her the disease set him off. But how did Cutler even know Manning had gonorrhea? Was this public knowledge because the guy got around? In any case, I didn’t expect the guy to make his next move, to whip out a gun and try to kill himself, nor did I see Bones’ heroic gun-jamming-with-thumb-webbing on its way. Cutler was arrested and RJ Manning will probably go down as a skeevy skeeve who played some awesome juiced-up b-ball.
Now that I think about it, maybe I’m wrong to jump on all the things that I thought seemed far-fetched. After all, some of these things aren't far off from the stuff that makes me adore this show and recognize its brilliance in comparison to the pantheon of dumbed-down viewing options these days. Or maybe this story line is just more in line with how real life goes, "scientific" skull-in-a-turkey-cavity pressure-testing and all. I won't say I didn't love the episode despite its points of ridiculosity. I just don't want this to ever be a show that someone claims is a shark-jumper, and this one got a wee bit close for comfort.
There are a thousand things I also loved about this ep, from B&B's camaraderie to the Angie/Hodge sex tape that I don't have space to write about, so I'm going to leave that to you fine people. I just needed to discuss this episode and all its wacky glory. Next week we finally get to see the long awaited "Baby in the Bough" episode. No Gormagon action yet, but I hear this one's going to be a goodie.
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willgirl
by wee little puppet man on Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:16 am
Posted 22/04/2008 09:23:44 AM
Thanks for posting the reviews here Mary!
Thanks for posting the reviews here Mary!
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Sarah9488
by wee little puppet man on Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:17 am
Posted 22/04/2008 10:42:22 AM
Thanks Mary!
Though it always give me the creeps when they call him Hodge... the man's name is Hodgins...
Thanks Mary!
Though it always give me the creeps when they call him Hodge... the man's name is Hodgins...
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