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'Bones': Hannah and Parker, sitting in a tree
Forgive us for the less-than-creative headline, but let's be honest. After seeing the teaser for next week's "Bones," this episode seems of little consequence. But we can't ignore it completely, because it did have some moments to it. Another baffling case -- though, thankfully, not nearly as nasty as that chocolate bar incident a few back -- finds Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz) investigating around a high school, which is perfect, because we're all about the kids this week.
Specifically, Parker. You know, Booth's son, who told him to go off to war. Remind us why we don't like him again...
Per usual, we're breaking this down matters of professional and personal -- all of which is best read aloud with dramatic flourish.
For the Squints:
- Daisy (Carla Gallo) is gunning for, and ultimately getting, a permanent spot at the FBI, more or less solidifying her spot on the team and furthering our reader-planted theory that she's probably in for a world of hurt when the sniper shows up.
- Psychic much? Brennan is great with kids. Her sly interrogation of the delinquents was going swimmingly until her craptastic segue, "You work repairing motorcycles, don't you?" Real slick.
- After Daisy and Hodgins' (T.J. Thyne) last experiment, hopes were high for this one, but instead of hilariously fake-throwing him over a banister, she accidentally shoots him. He pouts a bit, and that's all we really see of him this week.
- Speaking of Sweets (John Francis Daley) -- did we even mention Sweets? -- we've been seeing a lot of humorous interludes with his other patients lately. Split personalities! Transvestites! It really builds our confidence in this fictitious FBI... and sort of makes us feel like we're breaching some sort of confidentiality thing. That wouldn't bother Sweets though, because professional integrity apparently doesn't stand in the way of him coaching Daisy to pass her psych examination.
- So we weren't exactly paying attention to the case this week, but it wasn't lost on us that Brennan figured out the murderer based off of her skanky zipper-ripping techniques.
For the Shippers:
- Hannah (Katheryn Winnick) doesn't want to meet Parker. And Parker doesn't want to meet Hannah. Naturally, they meet. And when they do, just for a second, we hope that some small explosive takes them both out. Sorry, but they're our two least favorite characters ever.
- In typical "Bones" fashion, our distaste momentarily melts away after their candid exchange." Do you sleep with my dad?" "Yes." Way to be kind of funny you two. We guess we'll disarm this bomb.
- Brennan's forlorn love-looks are back, and we'd really resent them if they weren't such a good example of Deschanel's subtle and spectacular acting. She's more and more realizing what a disaster this Hannah business is, and it's breaking her little scientist heart.
- Hannah and Parker are now BFFs, and in the last scene, they crash Booth and Brennan's sacred Royal Diner time. Channeling his dirtbag father [Editor's note: did we just write that?], Parker wipes chocolate ice cream from his mouth proclaiming "I have a new favorite flavor." Yes, we get it. Everybody loves
RaymondHannah.
Brennanism of the week: "You're certainly not kids. You've probably been menstruating for several years."
Alright. Enough of that. Next week there's going to bring some major, 100th episode-style declarations of unrequited love. And the outcome will probably kill us. So this could very well be our last "Bones" recap. (Preemptive wave goodbye!)
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how can u dislike parker!! bad bad hiss hiss grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Something must be wrong with me because I've always loved Parker. I hope next weeks episode lives up to my expectations!
I was hoping the sniper would make an early appearance and take out Hannah but oh well...lol :)
And I love me some Parker...such a cute kid. Until he decided he didn't hate Hannah...boo hehe.
Next week looks good...I won't get my hopes up though b/c in true Bones fashion, Booth will tell Bones that he's sorry but he's in love with Hannah, gonna marry her, etc.
I never like kid actors on dramas and I'm not sold on Hannah ... but that 'back and forth" between them on the park bench actually made me laugh out loud.
I like Parker.
Not liking the preview. Waa, boo hoo! Suck it up Temperance. You blew your chance and now Seeley is very happy so go lay a big guilt trip on him. If you really loved him you would keep quiet now!
Arrgggggh.
I liked Parker's question at the end "Which animal farts the most?" to which Bones has the answer.
The preview made me cry, oh dear. Kudos to Emily Deschanel. But I'm not looking forward to seeing Bones have her heart stomped on out in the open even though I'm sure Booth will let her down easy.
The v.o. for this week's ep was totally annoying. Of course we knew Bones wasn't going to declare her feelings for Booth, so that was irritating. They're waiting until next week to tug at our heartstrings.
I don't hate Hannah just because she's keeping Booth and Bones apart. Hannah has no personality at all, she's just there being irritating and they have zero chemistry. The whole B&B situation is getting a bit too soapy/angsty so I wish they'd resolve it and move on.
like osych, i would love to see bones and seely together. i mean hannah is gourgeous but she's distant
Looks like Hannah is here to stay....for atleast the rest of the seaon. Who knows, she may grow on me, Sweets did.