Watching Bones

First off, let me just start by saying that I loved (and hated) the new squint. His pessimism was hilarious, but it did kind of wear on me after a while. I believe Cam said it best close to the end of the episode…

Cam: Have you considered Prozac, Mr. Fisher?
Fisher: Already on it.
Cam: Then double your dosage, because you’re bringing me down, and that’s hard to do cause I’ve worked with death for years, and you are making it all look like good times now, so get it together okay, Eyeore?

But all in all, I’m surprised to say that he was pretty funny… Made the whole Angela/Hodgins breakup kind of humorous. And about that… I certainly hope they don’t leave it where they did. Sure, it was very grown-up of Angela to say what she did, and for Hogdins to accept it the way he did, but come on! After the whirl-wind, sexual tension filled relationship they just came off of, working as hard as the did to find her husband and fighting for her divorce so they could be together, just to throw it all away? That’s just dumb.

Angela: Hey.
Hodgins: Hey. Hi.
Angela: Look, this tension between us, I hate it. I mean, I know that we broke up and everything, but I’ve experienced loss before and lived through it, and you have too. And I’m not going to pretend that this didn’t happen because it might be easier to break up that way. I’m going to relive us huddled last winder in that cabin in Montana when the lights went out and the heat went out and laughing our asses off when you tried to explain that spectrometer thingy to me. So I’m not going to hide anymore, and I’m not going to walk on eggshells. I’m just going to accept that this whole damn mess happened and pain or not, I’m glad it did.
Hodgins: Okay.

And I loved how analytical Bones is in this episode. Okay, so she’s always that way, but breaking down the working relationship between employees and the company as drone bees in a hive, yet still singling herself out as the “Queen Bee” was really funny, and oddly conceited, although I guess we’ve seen that trait in her before, so I shouldn’t be surprised. But when she seemed to shock Fisher by accepting his breakdown of the murder victim into facts and figures, that was classic disassociation.

Fisher: Listen to me. Reducing the pelvic inlet, the orifice to life to a numerical abstract.
Bones: We need mathematical constructs to understand any aspect of our world Mr. Fisher. And those figures and equations are beautiful like a musical composition they give life meaning and us the possibility of knowing the unknowable.
Fisher: Right.

When we found out the the victim was killed by having a stapler thrown at her, it was almost a funny death - at least as far as the deaths on this show goes. I mean, can you imagine, you’re mad at someone so you pick up the nearest object - that just happens to be a stapler - and wing it at them. Funny image if you ask me… Not so funny when they don’t get up…

Booth: So whoever did this didn’t mean to kill her.
Bones: No, I can’t rule that.
Booth: It’s common sense Bones, one doesn’t usually use a stapler as a murder weapon, and they certainly couldn’t have known that she had an aneurysm.
Bones: I’ll concede on both points.

Even Booth thinks it’s kind of funny - or at least unusual!
Hodgins: Okay, you are not going to believe this!
Booth: Yeah, try topping death by office supplies.

And yet, even with the murder, I still can’t get Office Space out of my mind… but then again, maybe there was a murder in Office Space…