Bones S3E3
Added 2022-05-26 19:22:26 +0000 UTC
So according to Seelie Booth, if you are into BDSM or any fetish then your sex life is a lie and bad and you can't connect? 🙄
edit: ok, just rewatched and he did say two people but did he have to insult people's sex lives just to push a romantic storyline? i don't think so.
Comments
This is an interesting one. While not a favourite episode of mine. What it does do well for me. Is the presentation of balance. Balance is important in good writing. How do we begin to see and understand how others see things differently to how we do. The reflection of opposing opinion, positions and outlooks on societal norms and those who deviate from them, is what's being presented pretty well here. The reflection of the ridicule of others and their life styles, is yet another aspect that is a reality of society. Diversity of attitudes and opinions. The ugly truth in the notion of tolerance in it's entirety. Is that we are required to be tolerant of others, but that also means their intolerance as well. Otherwise we are only tolerant of people if they agree with us. Booth and Bones are representative of the very nature of that discourse. They discuss it. They reflect on it. It's then up to us to draw our own opinion, for at least we have been challenged to think about it. We obviously can draw on the present ideas of religious doctrine. However, some principles and ideas like monogamy, trust, betrayal, dehumanisation, revenge and hypocrisy can be separated out and judged as human values and failings too.
Daryl
2022-07-01 19:59:20 +0000 UTCJust found your Bones reactions last month and I’m loving them (just finished this episode)! I was a massive Buffy/AtS fan back in the late 90s/early 00s, but I never watched Bones when it aired… mainly because I couldn’t see David as anyone other than Angel (so I totally get the initial weirdness of seeing him play Booth). As a result I didn’t watch DB in anything at all for 17 years… but in 2021, after recommendations from friends, I decided to give his shows a try. I watched SEAL Team first (which is an awesome show - I totally recommend it... it also stars AJ Buckley from Supernatural, who was in Bones 2x20). Then I started Bones in Nov 2021 and just finished a few weeks ago… and I’m kind of obsessed with it now (and kicking myself for not watching back in 2005!). Coming at the show from a 2021/2022 perspective, while I do really like Booth (more than Angel, in fact, which I never thought I’d say :P) his behaviour/attitude towards certain things does bug me, as do some of the overall attitudes/insensitivities portrayed by other characters in the show (like Brennan and her comments about dwarfism, the kink-shaming in this episode etc.). I kind of feel that a lot of these issues are due to the time the show was made and also to the dynamic of the EPs/writers room at that time - mid-2000s US TV was still not all that progressive and people were less PC about/tolerant of different lifestyles. Booth is very much written as a ‘straight-laced, Christian white guy with old-fashioned values’ which I imagine may have reflected the dynamic/views of the showrunners/EPs/writers at the time.
Kirsten (Heavenli24)
2022-06-11 10:07:33 +0000 UTCBooth is a strict catholic, so his love life is definitely going to be vanilla. He’s definitely not ignorant he just sticks to religion and uses that to gauge his moral belief. Do I agree with everything he says, absolutely not, but it doesn’t make me mad, to each their own. As far as all the fetish convention stuff, I don’t care about what ppl do for pleasure, but the cheating part I don’t agree with.
Simply.Beyond
2022-05-27 16:29:10 +0000 UTCBooth is pissed that the victim and the murderer were married they destroyed peoples lives instead of divorcing the person they are with they decided to cheat on their spouse. That retreat was full of married people cheating on their spouses. To me it’s all cheating I stand with Booth.
John Walker Is That Dude
2022-05-27 01:14:25 +0000 UTCBooth was right to be mad at Hodgins cuz what he did almost got that case thrown out of court he should have recused himself and he tampered with evidence when he took that picture the defense found out easy and luckily there was new evidence Hodgins didn’t touch or that murderer would have gotten away with it cuz Hodgins touched every single piece of evidence before the found knew evidence Booth was right to be mad cuz the judge threw out all of the other evidence due to Hodgins conflict of interest. Hodgins is a genius who has worked on big time cases he knew he shoud have said something cuz he’s a genius that is what pissed Booth off I get it.
John Walker Is That Dude
2022-05-27 01:04:33 +0000 UTCAlso Brennan does mean the stuff that she says cuz how can she point out every time booth is insensitive meaning she does know regardless of being on the spectrum almost everybody at the Jeffersonian has her same attitude. When booth told her to stop making fun of the state department rep she kept on doing it through out the episode she just didn’t care. Her rudeness has nothing to do with being on the spectrum to me cuz she always checks people if she feels they are being insensitive but she she gets called out on hers she amps up to ten for some reason. U can justify some of her actions on being on the spectrum her rudeness to me is not that’s who she is in my opinion
John Walker Is That Dude
2022-05-27 00:54:03 +0000 UTCI think Booth is sicken by the fact that lady knew he was married and she didn’t care so I’m good with not showing her any respect. That woman also didn’t view him as a person she viewed him as a horse even after knowing he was dead
John Walker Is That Dude
2022-05-27 00:44:00 +0000 UTCBoothe is a conservative Christian, not a demographic known for their open mindedness.
Eric Pfeiffer
2022-05-26 20:56:24 +0000 UTCMr. Ed was a popular sitcom from the 50's about a t talking horse.
Eric Pfeiffer
2022-05-26 20:13:07 +0000 UTCSp did you decide to post Skins and Bones the same day on purpose? Well played.
Eric Pfeiffer
2022-05-26 20:04:15 +0000 UTC
