Bones

[ratcreature]

As if the bizarre last season finale wasn't enough, Bones continues to throw random character and relationship twists at the audience that make no sense and are not properly set up. Now they make Angela and Hodgins break up? Because they suddenly realize they don't "trust" each other, just because the ex-husband's presence caused tension? What?

It's not quite as bad a twist as what they did to Zack, but it is not making up for it either. Also, the whole "Booth and Brennan do London" plot wasn't as amusing for me as I suspect it was supposed to be.

Comments

[lazar-grrl.livejournal.com]

God, yes. Booth just comes off as a jackass during his initial "I hate England" screed. I also hated that we didn't find out who was the real killer (and that Booth and Bones just sat there and accepted it).

I second to the millionth power the whole WTF of Angela and Hodges. Two years of relationship down the drain in five minutes because of some jealousy issues? Bad, bad writing.

[ratcreature]

yeah, I have no idea what kind of (probably unobtainable) level of "trust" the writers had in mind as relationship benchmark in that conversation. It's not as if there was any cheating and they were honest to each other and so on, so it felt especially forced. Just surreal.

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

It's the annoying thing about shows that work romances into the plot. And I think the problem is that we're trained to believe that the story ends with a woman's marriage (well, the woman's story ends), and there's nothing romantic about marriage, so the only thing you can do with a married couple is turn the show into a sitcom in which the man gets stupid and the woman complains about and yet is resigned to the husband's foibles.

Gah. Patriarchy sux.

[ratcreature]

I see what you're saying, but why couldn't they just write the married couple like the unmarried couple in a longterm relationship only without the marriage waffling? It's not like they become pod people all of a sudden thanks to a piece of paper and a ceremony.

ETA: Some other series manage married couples without it being comedy, like Friday Night Lights for example, the Coach and his wife, they have relationship related plotlines while their marriage is stable, and without cheating or such, and it is still interesting to follow. So it is possible to do romance that isn't UST or marriage y/n? or breakup tension. I guess it does take a bit more effort to think about the relationship the couple has rather than just having stock plots available though.