'Bones' Season One DVDs show that it is CSI for the high school, college, and aging fanboy crowd

December 23, 8:47 AMTV on DVD ExaminerJohn Stahl

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Bones and Booth

The drama 'Bones' has always interested me, and there is no real reason that I did not create a season pass for it on my Tivo; I did get the DVD sets for Seasons One through Three a few weeks ago am writing about the first season as part of my campaign to focus my entries more on current programs.

I am glad that I watched most of the 22 first season episodes of the show; the show was good from the start but clearly improved as the actors loosened up and became more comfortable with each other.

A reference in a later episode to the New York City restaurant Nolita in which the Fox failed com "Kitchen: Confidential" was set thrilled the fanboy in me. Seeing the facade of the restaurant, which apparently opened a Washington, DC location, that the earlier series used in "Bones" was even more special.

The pop culture illiterate character Bones would say that she did not know what I was talking about if I mentioned the connection to the earlier series about which I have written. 

"Bones" has many familiar elements; David Boreanaz, who played vampire-with-a-conscience Angel, plays former Army ranger Seeley Booth who joined the FBI so that he could catch murderers as atonement for the people that he killed in his former profession.

Booth's partner, Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan, is a Grissomesque forensic anthropologist who uses her knowledge of bones and anthropology to solve crimes. This intelligence and her martial arts skills make her a good successor to Agent 99 of the 1960s spy satire "Get Smart," which was one of my top choices for this year.

The characters on "Bones" are younger and either hipper or more "emo" than Grissom and their other "CSI" counterparts. Additionally, I do not believe that any featured victim on "Bones" has been older than 25.

I feel too that this show offers more insight into the personality of each character than CSI, and the geek in me enjoys it when the team of scientists that are known as squints make athletic charming Booth feel stupid. I definitely would have watched broadcasts of this show if it had been on when I was in high school or college.

I laughed as well when one squint commented that another one watched "firefly" marathons; regular readers know that I have frequently mentioned that scifi show and have written about the DVD set of it. I can be squintlike as well regarding inappropriate questions. 

I do think that the interesting stories, excellent casting, and good writing and acting make owning at least the first season set of "Bones" worthwhile. Further, the state-of-the-art 3-D holographic projector that the squints use is on my Christmas list; I would love to see that device play "firefly" DVDs.

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