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‘Bones’ S3: Season of strike and surprise
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'Bones' and her team
The large amount of publicity regarding the upcoming “bumping of bones” between “Bones” main characters Brennan and Booth on this Fox drama is one reason that I watched the DVD set of the third season, which was the 2007-2008 season, of this Fox drama this weekend. Please feel free to read my reviews of the first and second seasons of this overall good show.
Despite the flaws that are described below, I enjoyed this season more than the second. Halloween and Christmas episodes that involved mummies and a murdered Santa Claus particularly had nice “Bone-style” suspense and humor.
The first thing that struck me (no pun intended) of the set of the third season is that Fox offered extras to compensate for the writers’ strike that occurred during that season resulted in only producing 15 episodes, one of which was filmed during the second season but premiered during the third season. These include an amusing gag reel, the unaired extended version of the show from the second season, and the first three episodes of the fourth season.
In watching these episodes, I was struck as well that it seemed that television generally and this show specifically dislikes interesting, brilliant, quirky characters. The continuation of the second season pattern of depicting the still shy and odd Zac “Zacaroni” Addy (a.k.a. The King of the Lab) as much more mainstream reminded me of the similar show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigations” transforming the long-haired showgirl-headgear wearing music-blasting Greg Sanders into a short-haired humorless individual.
Zacaroni was also the focus of one of the biggest surprises of this season. The problem with that development is that it perpetuates one stereotype of super-smart sensitive “squints.” I would not be surprised if the storyline reflected unhappiness by Zacaroni portrayer Eric Milligan regarding the direction of his character.
I expect that the development of the personal relationship between Booth and Brennan during this season interested more viewers. It would have been more noteworthy if virtually every show since the truly dismal “Moonlighting” had not followed this pattern. At least “Bones” star David Boreanaz is very appealing unlike the crude obnoxious “Moonlighting” star Bruce Willis.
The season-long search for the cannibalistic serial killer who Booth and the squints, which again borrowing from humorist Dave Barry would be a good name for a rock band, nicknamed Gorgomon was interesting but should have been more suspenseful. The theory that Masons exert too much influence over society is not new and a strong lead that involved someone in the “food chain” was never developed; this might have been a casualty of the writer’s strike.
A former close friend who is a Mason shared some of that group’s secrets with me; I assure you that the initiation is simply silly and that the group does not plot as many people suspect.
I would also like to offer a very brief law lesson. The prosecution in a criminal trial in one episode asked for a summary judgment. This term refers to granting someone a favorable decision at a very early stage in a trial based on the available evidence not leaving adequate doubt regarding the underlying dispute to entitle the other side to a trial on the merits.
A very general example would be someone suing me for damaging his parked car in a parking lot. A court would likely grant him a judgment without a trial if a surveillance camera showed me hitting his car with my car, a police officer witnessed the event and confronted me right after, and I told my insurance company a month later that I hit the car because I was not paying attention because I was talking on my cell phone.
The first problem with this plot device is that very few people who are not familiar with the practice of law know this term. The second problem is that, as a friend who has practiced criminal law confirmed, summary judgment is not available in a criminal trial. The prosecution must prove the guilt of someone who does not admit to a crime and must provide him or her a meaningful opportunity to defend against that charge.
Please feel free to share your comments regarding this show as an addition to this entry or an e-mail to tvdvdguy@gmail.com. I promise to offer a review of the fourth season of this show near the release date of the DVD set of it.
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