Pelant Is Dead 🥳🥳🥳 No More Pelant Episodes YAAAAY!!!!

I bet on losing dogs

I know they're losing and I pay for my place

i’m in two bones discords but i’m also thinking of making my own. thoughts? 👀

Sweets, Angela, Hodgins, and Zack have a long standing D&D campaign together. Sweets, Hodgins, and Fisher play MTG together too C:

i'm sick, tell me your Bones headcanons to make me feel better? 🥺

Episode of the Week (#35) - 5x04: The Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

I am enamored with the way that the writers of the brain tumor arc in Bones managed to have it be a twist while giving you multiple very strong signs that something was wrong by taking advantage of the fact that as the viewer you know you're watching a TV show. The first two times Booth hallucinates Bones points out that these are moments of unreality but the show couches them in the context of the episodes in which they occur so that the audience can easily and unconsciously dismiss them with their preexisting knowledge of tropes.

"Oh, well Booth was briefly unconscious in the process of getting a concussion. In television, situations like this are rife with characters experiencing dreams where their subconscious solves the case for them. Plus it's a clever way to include their cameo from Luc Robitaille."

"The show really wants me to believe that that really was a ghost that helped Booth and this is another instance of Booth being right about magic in the world while Bones is wrong, but even if I prefer that small space they leave for a little ambiguity, characters in life or death emergency survival situations on TV see visions of a person who's death they blame themselves for as a way to explore a characters relationship with guilt all the time."

And it's not really until both Bones and the show essentially say "screw the case of the week, something is Wrong" that you're, rather abruptly and forcefully, prompted to consider what these incidences might mean when put together, and it's not a very happy list of possibilities.

And while this post is about how well I think they preserve the twist by meeting people's expectations when they added the foreshadowing to avoid suspicion, it should be noted that I also think this is a great example of my belief that a good plot twist is telegraphed loudly beforehand, just in a code most people won't easily decipher.

shout out to heather taffet’s actress for filling me with genuine rage every time her character appears on screen. that’s serious talent, genuinely.

I don’t watch Bones but my roommate’s been binging it so I got the gist of it

zack addy might be absent from the later seasons but his impact is so huge like…

his impact on hodgins’ perception of friendships. hodgins became more closed off for a while after zack left, but later remembered the value of finding joy in your work and establishing trusting connections with other people - and zack was the person who introduced him to that

honestly zack brought hodgins out of his angry, distrusting shell so much, he’s probably part of the reason that hodgins became open and happy enough to get into a relationship with angela <3

the way booth went from deeply disliking zack to being very understanding of the "squints" in later seasons. he didn’t do good by zack, but he massively changed after.

the lab never having a single, consistent intern again… constant references to zack as the best intern that no one can live up to

brennan learning that logic isn’t the be all & end all, and that emotion can have its place, due to zack’s "logical" justifications for his actions (she talks about this in the season 4 opening)

cam seriously changed a lot after zack had to leave… it really hit her hard for a long time. she clearly was beating herself up about not seeing the signs.

at the same time, it oddly helped cam bond more with the rest of the team. they all grew a lot closer, her included.

zack was only consistently in the show for 3 seasons, just 1/4 of the show’s run, but he’s so central to the show even years after he left :(