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The Artisan and the Applesauce
briezey29 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This was an okay episode, the reason that it scores a bit lower for me is that it is an accidental killing. For the majority of the episode, they were talking about how this could be a copy cat of Jack the Ripper and I was really intrigued. Then, of course, at the last minute, it was an accidental killing, ugh. What also bothered me was that this all happened because the business partner slapped the victim, which caused her to fall into the apple blender thing. This reminds me a lot of the plot of one of the episodes in season 2, where the victim gets slapped and stumbles into the plane propellers. I just feel like if we are gonna do an accidental killing, at least don't reuse a plot idea from a previous episode.

It is a little odd to me as well that they took so long to turn to Angela to look at these cut marks. I feel like usually when we have so many cuts that are done with exact precision we usually turn to a machine being the weapon sooner. I just wish there was more of a reason that they didn't look at the machine first.

Also, Sweets moves in with Bones and Booth. I really liked that they didn't make Bones and Sweets at each other's throat the entire time. It shows that while they may not agree with each other in the professional setting, they are able to get along just fine outside work.

Overall, I am really torn about this episode. On the one hand, it is interesting because for the majority of the episode we think that there is a serial killer, which is exciting. On the other hand, it turned out to be an accidental killing that occurred from a slap, which has already been done in this series. Despite all this, I really struggle to give any Bones episode lower than a 7 rating because I think all of them are great on some level, so 7/10.

Best part: Fischer barging into Bones and Booths house when this definitely could have been a phone call

Worst part: Hodgins and Angela recognizing the 3D rendering of the victim as the sketch that shows up on their child's applesauce container - it's funny but ridiculous.
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7/10
The Apple in the Sauce
Hitchcoc19 February 2023
I agree with previous reviewers (although I think it deserves more than a one star rating). The whole chain of events shows relative shortsightedness on the part of the squints. The harshness of the cuts on the bones seems to be superhuman, plus the pattern should have at least led to some kind of machine early on. But that would not have allowed the whole Sweets living at Brennan and Booth's house bit. It's all a little disappointing, although there are a few good moments. The lottery set up at the office is interesting. Even in a silly thing like this, it seems that participant that can control the results should not be participating.
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1/10
Frustrating
LoneAssassin12 May 2014
This is one of the most frustrating episodes I've seen and usually I love Bones! As an armchair forensics expert (serious non-fiction collection) I had the murder weapon and therefore the killer from the start. Yet it did not occur to the team until the end of the episode. The only reason for this would be bad writing. I don't believe a professional of Brennan's calibre would take so long to even start to look in the right direction. Given her experience she would have seen similar injuries and it was just glaringly obvious. There was no mystery. This was more a story of incompetence and failure to see the evidence. They focused on one direction, the wrong one. Even when they discover an oddity and fail to question how it could have occurred. To make it worse, the very next episode Brennan is talking to Booth and tells him that the interns are making assumptions regarding the bones of the victim and tells them to look as if seeing them for the first time and see how the injuries connect. Exactly what the writers failed to do.
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