I don't think either of those is a good choice. I would say that it is a bad idea, because the convolutions then necessary to have Alan and Jake living in Ashton Kutcher's house would be ridiculous.
I see no reason to eliminate Charlie Sheen's character just because Charlie Sheen is a fool. Just have him stay in Paris with Rose. That is good enough. It worked when Bonanza wanted to get rid of Adam Cartwright.
When HOSS Cartwright's actor, Dan Blocker, died, they gave him the grace of having his character also die, and mourning him. It was far more respectful. I don't think that Charlie Sheen's character deserves the respect of a death. Just have him vanish, and never speak of him again. That is sufficient. Mr. Sheen is punishment enough for himself. There is no reason why Chuck Lorre and everyone else should have to pile on.
I think it was. It was poorly done. The whole season was Bones jumping one of every species of known shark on this planet. It remains to be seen whether they can salvage a formerly good show from the wreckage. I kind of doubt it. As I said, it took me a while thinking, to remember the end of the season. It was neither memorable nor well-done.
I no longer care about this show the way I did. The actors don't seem to care as much, and why should I, if they don't? There was a lot of phoning-in this season. Booth showed contempt for Brennan. Brennan laughed like a loon. The season was just wrong, and bad.
I had to stop and think for a while to remember the season 6 endeng of Bones. The whole season is one I hope to forget, like Bobby Ewing in the shower showing that Pam dreamed that whole abomination of a season on Dallas. I think that "shocker" is kind of an overstatement for that episode'e end. "Ho hum" would be more like it.
Since they stated early in the series that the FBI does not permit agents to have personal relationships with other agents or consultants, I would like to know how that is going to be overcome. If it is just not mentioned, like the first director of the Jeffersonian's forensics lab is not mentioned, or if it is mentioned-cute, like her dating the boss of Booth a few seasons back, I will be very disgusted with them. But then, I already am.
I am a lot more interested in what goes on with Cam's foster daughter, and seeing how Angela and Hodgins parent their son. Those story lines are far less contaminated. I am also interested to see which squinterns return. (Please, NOT Daisy!) I miss Caroline. I do NOT miss Sweets. And will there be some way to get Zack back for his yearly episode? Perhaps take the baby to his institution to introduce him to it?
I had no intention of watching this show, as I never saw China Beach, but I was too lazy to turn it off. Then I spent the entire hour trying to figure out where I saw that actor before, the one who payed the Col. And I wondered why such a handsome young man as the new male doctor would mess up his arms with all those huge tattoos. Can't say that the story impressed me. Still wondering about the actor who played the Col.
(I never watched China Beach because that was the war of my generation, and it wasn't for entertainment. My father refused to permit Hogan's Heroes to be watched in our house; that was the war of his generation, and he said there was nothing funny about it at all.)
(I saw Elias Koteas previously on Saving Grace. He was brilliant.)
If the winner is supposed to be the one whose improvement over the season is the greatest journey, then I would say that would have been Kirstie Alley. If the winner should be the one who is the most romantic dancer, then I would say, Hines Ward. Chelsea Kane struck me as being a good gymnast, but not such a great dancer. I felt that she deserved third. I would have been pleased with Hines or Kirstie taking first. This was the most even playing field of all the seasons I have watched (about one third of them) I enjoyed it.
The producers did not just jump the shark; they rounded up one of every species of shark on earth, and jumped them all. The ending shows a serious lack of imagination. The season was a train wreck. The center did not hold. Entropy ate my homework. I am really, really disgusted with the contempt that the producers have shown for the sensibilities of the viewers and fans. It is not that we want to see pornographic grapplings between Booth and Brennan. But it would be nice, after ALL THESE YEARS to see some rationale for the final scene.
I said it in a comment on the review of the last episode, and I will say it again. The producers need to take the summer and watch reruns of Castle and old movies from the thirties starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. They have taken a pretty good show, and trashed it. Their feckless plotting reminds me, painfully, of Twin Peaks. That was an admitted pointless scam of the viewers. I had expected better of Bones, but no longer.
No, I think they handled the announcement of the pregnancy very badly indeed. I think the pregnancy will make a mockery of this show next year, and take them off the air in order to make way for the ridicuous and pointless and unbelievable The Finder. This kind of incompetence is reminiscent of the cockup they made over at CBS with Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. I guess the wizards at NBC who created the Tonight Show/Leno scandal have spread their disease of idiocy far and wide by now.
I was never a fan of hers, or of Paget Brewster's, so I don't care either way whether they come back or not. I would like to see the end of the cheaper blonde lookalike, the one with the outre story line of being the child of a serial killer, and having that qualify her to be in the BAU. The ridiculousness of having the new character look so much like JJ has just made me lose my ability to believe in the show ever since they introduced her. It was like having an airplane sitting in the middle of the Tudors. What here does not belong?
But if getting her back means the end of the cheaper lookalike actress's role, I am all for it.
I fell asleep, so I was not aware that there was a cliffhanger until you all mentioned it in the review and the comments. This show never impressed me. I found the gymnasium setting to be ridiculous. The characters were as poorly developed as everyone says. The only actor I really liked in this cast is Janeane Garofalo, and I didn't care much for the person she portrayed. The stories were a stretch. At this point, the only one I can recollect is the one about the father who was blowing places up with his sons in them. I will never give this show another thought.
They would be better off to scrap the whole show, rather than just the one character, but if they intend to keep the show, it will be better without that ridiculous bartending pilot. It is still ludicrous; the basic premise is nuts.
Well, it was nice to see Buck and Wanda Moosejaw again. It was nice to see Ryan O'Neal again. The baby Hodgins and Angela had pretty much had to be sighted, or else the part would have to be played by an animatronic doll. Where would they get a blind baby otherwise? You can't teach a newborn to act. I liked the name. It was fitting. Typical Bones mystery of the old days, when it used to be good. I liked having Wendell trying to do the jobs of three people back in the lab, over a computer, whilst dodging contractions and mindful that Dr. Brennan would accept no excuses. I thought that Mr. Bray handled it quite well, but then, he always does. I always figured Wendell was the most talented squintern of all of them. I thought the reveal regarding Brennan's pregnancy was a major copout. But then, I have come to expect very little from this show this year. Leave us hope that the producers and writers take the summer to reflect, watch Castle reruns and then come back with a better plan. The whole season was just plain lousy, with one or two episodes as exceptions.
They clearly showed Patrick with his right hand in his pocket through the entire conversation with Red John. I knew that man wasn't walking away from that food court alive. Patrick had always maintained that he would be killing him, and no one could stop him.
I think that with Lisbon's testimony, Graces's testimony, and the evidence on O'Loughlin's and Red John's phones, plus Patrick's and Lisbon's phones, that Patrick can make an excellent case for exigent circumnstances, and walk away.
If not, he already showed that he can swim nicely in the school of sharks he will find in prison.
I am just not entirely sure why he would bother to stay with the CBI after his quest has been completed.
As seriously unpleasant as they made this character, what makes them think that anyone will want to watch? I love Mary McDonnell's movies that I have seen, and I love The Closer, but I will not watch that character. I used to work for an arrogant woman like that one; I don't spend my spare tinme voluntarily observing another.
@ Minx -- They did have Palmer bring in his girlfriend (now his fiancee) one time, and introduce her to everyone. She is beautiful, and a mortician, I believe.
My reaction to Cobb's death was pretty much the same as everyone else's: it was too easy; it appears to have been suicide by cop. If he thought that he could guilt either the SecNav or Vance, he is sadly mistaken. The SecNav has no shame. Vance is not one to take responsibility he can shuck. I still do not trust him.
The best thing about this episode was the beautiful coffin. A friend of mine and his brothers made the wooden coffin for their dad a couple of years ago. I hope it was that lovely.
I agree with the poster who said that the P2P killer storyline was confused and uninteresting. Unfortunate. After Swan Song, I did not expect an episode that good again, but this was very much a letdown.
I also agree with viewer1964. That actress looks like someone froze her face. A facility for accents and language pronunciation does not make an actress.
Director Vance continues his fine role of being untrustworthy. His loyalties have never been defined to my satisfaction in either show, except to his wife and children. If he wanted Callan, et al, to succeed, forcing them to resign as he did was not the way to do it. Now they do not have the umbrella protection of the US government.
Interesting, but fluff. I have never believed in the reality of any of these characters. euriana is right. This show is Bondian, with about as much basis in the real world. I won't give it a thought over the summer, but I will watch it in the fall, at least as long as Linda Hunt is involved. No Hetty, no show.
The thing about this show lacking a traditional season finale is that it was an abbreviated season, so they did not have time to build up to one. (IMHO) I still find that I like Curtis quite a lot, and the sidekick with the curly hair.
I cannot see doing real autopsies in those shoes. No sane person would stand for long hours on a hard floor in those shoes. It bothers me.
I wondered when they were beating us over the head with how unworthy all the rich people were, whether they were trying to convince us that money is not worth having? I'm not sold on that. I think I would just be more careful about marrying crazy people and raising selfish brats. It felt like a morality play.
I like Dana Delaney well enough to put up with these distractions, and I expect they will use the off-season to write better scripts. I hope so. I would like to see them use both detectives together again, too.
Bones is the only show I watch on Fox. I believe I will be keeping it that way. At the time, I was not impressed with The Finder, and in retrospect, I like it even less. The premise is ridiculous. The toilet eposode was in bad taste. The cockney accent was poorly done. Michael Clarke Duncan is charming, but to have anyone that huge sitting around essentially being a Greek chorus is also ridiculous. Finding Brennan's lost item with zero information was ridicuous. Do I overuse the word? The whole show was ridiculous. Thanks for asking.
I just thought of another potential complication the writers may exploit next season. With the Captain dead, they will have to get a new Captain, and he or she will have to approve Castle all over again, riding around with Beckett.
I'm also left wondering why Esposito took the revelation of Montgomery's corruption so much more personally than did Ryan, in that bar, and in the alley. Esposito acted like someone insulted his mother. Ryan didn't. This particular relationahip has not been illustrated before, and I would like to know more about it.
I must say, the writers on this show are brilliant. I saw the reason for the death of Montgomery coming the instant he told Ryan and Esposito to kill Lockwood as soon as they saw him. But though I knew what was coming, that did not spoil it; it was fascinating to see how they worked it out, and how they kept a corrupted cop being still a hero rather than a villain. Beckett's wails sounded like she was losing another parent, which in a sense, she was.
@ III -- I think it would be kind of hypocritical for Gibbs to say that there can be no dating on his team. He certainly "dated" Jenny Shepard when she was his partner in Europe. And it did not go badly, so I don't see why that would be the genesis of Rule #12 (Never date a co-worker. Season 1, episode 14, re-iterated in season 6, episode 24 and season 7, episode 14.)
Additionally, McGee and Abby were dating when McGee first came over from his previous station. Gibbs did not lift a finger to stop them, and it would not have passed him by. He misses nothing.
I may be wrong, but I think that Gibbs would let Tony and Ziva be together. It is not contrary to the rules of the actual NCIS. His principal objection to EJ seems to be that he does not trust her, and he does not want her to mess up Tony, who is finally starting to heal after the loss of Jeanne and the reconciliation with his father. That is just my opinion, though.
@ DC -- AAAACCCCCKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I expect you are right. I was wondering who he was mailing that package to, and I figured it was Castle, because the bad guys might not look there, or have access to the mail in what HAS to be a doorman'd building.
What you describe could very well be next season's back story line.
However, I do believe that some addressing will be done to his declaration of love, assuming she heard him. It was hard to tell whether or not she heard him before she lost consciousness. If she did not hear him, he may not bring it up, again. That would be the worst kind of cheating the fans, though.
Did you not love the way his mother was giving him motherly advice? Martha seldom sounds that serious, but it was no laughing matter -- it was vital to her very loved child. It was heartwarming. Martha may have given him a crazy childhood, but it was clear that his was a well-loved childhood. He just has to figure out a way to get Beckett to accept some of that love.
@ DC -- Kate will forgive him for preventing her from hekping Montgomery, or dying with him. Castle was there in the group, which she called "this family" with Esposito and Ryan, when she told them that they would be keeping Montgomery's mistakes within "this family". And at the graveside, when she came to her line about being lucky if you can find someone to stand by you in your battle, she looked at Castle, and met his eyes, for a long pause. She has forgiven him.
@ OaklandShoeDiva -- The Secretary of the Navy is the boss of Director Vance. The President is the boss of the Secretary of the Navy. If Vance was telling the truth (and I would NEVER bet that he is telling the truth), then it seems to me that it would have to be one of those two individuals who told him to put EJ in charge of this investigation.
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I see no reason to eliminate Charlie Sheen's character just because Charlie Sheen is a fool. Just have him stay in Paris with Rose. That is good enough. It worked when Bonanza wanted to get rid of Adam Cartwright.
When HOSS Cartwright's actor, Dan Blocker, died, they gave him the grace of having his character also die, and mourning him. It was far more respectful. I don't think that Charlie Sheen's character deserves the respect of a death. Just have him vanish, and never speak of him again. That is sufficient. Mr. Sheen is punishment enough for himself. There is no reason why Chuck Lorre and everyone else should have to pile on.
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I no longer care about this show the way I did. The actors don't seem to care as much, and why should I, if they don't? There was a lot of phoning-in this season. Booth showed contempt for Brennan. Brennan laughed like a loon. The season was just wrong, and bad.
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Since they stated early in the series that the FBI does not permit agents to have personal relationships with other agents or consultants, I would like to know how that is going to be overcome. If it is just not mentioned, like the first director of the Jeffersonian's forensics lab is not mentioned, or if it is mentioned-cute, like her dating the boss of Booth a few seasons back, I will be very disgusted with them. But then, I already am.
I am a lot more interested in what goes on with Cam's foster daughter, and seeing how Angela and Hodgins parent their son. Those story lines are far less contaminated. I am also interested to see which squinterns return. (Please, NOT Daisy!) I miss Caroline. I do NOT miss Sweets. And will there be some way to get Zack back for his yearly episode? Perhaps take the baby to his institution to introduce him to it?
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(I never watched China Beach because that was the war of my generation, and it wasn't for entertainment. My father refused to permit Hogan's Heroes to be watched in our house; that was the war of his generation, and he said there was nothing funny about it at all.)
(I saw Elias Koteas previously on Saving Grace. He was brilliant.)
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I like Mr. Gibson, but not his character, so much. However, I loathe the character portrayed by Ms. Brewster, so I hope Mr. Gibson comes back.
However, this is ridiculous. CBS looks less competent all the time. I am beginning to wonder why they are the most watched network.
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I said it in a comment on the review of the last episode, and I will say it again. The producers need to take the summer and watch reruns of Castle and old movies from the thirties starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. They have taken a pretty good show, and trashed it. Their feckless plotting reminds me, painfully, of Twin Peaks. That was an admitted pointless scam of the viewers. I had expected better of Bones, but no longer.
No, I think they handled the announcement of the pregnancy very badly indeed. I think the pregnancy will make a mockery of this show next year, and take them off the air in order to make way for the ridicuous and pointless and unbelievable The Finder. This kind of incompetence is reminiscent of the cockup they made over at CBS with Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. I guess the wizards at NBC who created the Tonight Show/Leno scandal have spread their disease of idiocy far and wide by now.
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But if getting her back means the end of the cheaper lookalike actress's role, I am all for it.
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I think that with Lisbon's testimony, Graces's testimony, and the evidence on O'Loughlin's and Red John's phones, plus Patrick's and Lisbon's phones, that Patrick can make an excellent case for exigent circumnstances, and walk away.
If not, he already showed that he can swim nicely in the school of sharks he will find in prison.
I am just not entirely sure why he would bother to stay with the CBI after his quest has been completed.
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My reaction to Cobb's death was pretty much the same as everyone else's: it was too easy; it appears to have been suicide by cop. If he thought that he could guilt either the SecNav or Vance, he is sadly mistaken. The SecNav has no shame. Vance is not one to take responsibility he can shuck. I still do not trust him.
The best thing about this episode was the beautiful coffin. A friend of mine and his brothers made the wooden coffin for their dad a couple of years ago. I hope it was that lovely.
I agree with the poster who said that the P2P killer storyline was confused and uninteresting. Unfortunate. After Swan Song, I did not expect an episode that good again, but this was very much a letdown.
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I also agree with viewer1964. That actress looks like someone froze her face. A facility for accents and language pronunciation does not make an actress.
Director Vance continues his fine role of being untrustworthy. His loyalties have never been defined to my satisfaction in either show, except to his wife and children. If he wanted Callan, et al, to succeed, forcing them to resign as he did was not the way to do it. Now they do not have the umbrella protection of the US government.
Interesting, but fluff. I have never believed in the reality of any of these characters. euriana is right. This show is Bondian, with about as much basis in the real world. I won't give it a thought over the summer, but I will watch it in the fall, at least as long as Linda Hunt is involved. No Hetty, no show.
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I cannot see doing real autopsies in those shoes. No sane person would stand for long hours on a hard floor in those shoes. It bothers me.
I wondered when they were beating us over the head with how unworthy all the rich people were, whether they were trying to convince us that money is not worth having? I'm not sold on that. I think I would just be more careful about marrying crazy people and raising selfish brats. It felt like a morality play.
I like Dana Delaney well enough to put up with these distractions, and I expect they will use the off-season to write better scripts. I hope so. I would like to see them use both detectives together again, too.
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I'm also left wondering why Esposito took the revelation of Montgomery's corruption so much more personally than did Ryan, in that bar, and in the alley. Esposito acted like someone insulted his mother. Ryan didn't. This particular relationahip has not been illustrated before, and I would like to know more about it.
I must say, the writers on this show are brilliant. I saw the reason for the death of Montgomery coming the instant he told Ryan and Esposito to kill Lockwood as soon as they saw him. But though I knew what was coming, that did not spoil it; it was fascinating to see how they worked it out, and how they kept a corrupted cop being still a hero rather than a villain. Beckett's wails sounded like she was losing another parent, which in a sense, she was.
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Additionally, McGee and Abby were dating when McGee first came over from his previous station. Gibbs did not lift a finger to stop them, and it would not have passed him by. He misses nothing.
I may be wrong, but I think that Gibbs would let Tony and Ziva be together. It is not contrary to the rules of the actual NCIS. His principal objection to EJ seems to be that he does not trust her, and he does not want her to mess up Tony, who is finally starting to heal after the loss of Jeanne and the reconciliation with his father. That is just my opinion, though.
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What you describe could very well be next season's back story line.
However, I do believe that some addressing will be done to his declaration of love, assuming she heard him. It was hard to tell whether or not she heard him before she lost consciousness. If she did not hear him, he may not bring it up, again. That would be the worst kind of cheating the fans, though.
Did you not love the way his mother was giving him motherly advice? Martha seldom sounds that serious, but it was no laughing matter -- it was vital to her very loved child. It was heartwarming. Martha may have given him a crazy childhood, but it was clear that his was a well-loved childhood. He just has to figure out a way to get Beckett to accept some of that love.
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