Bones (TV Series) The Blood from the Stones (2013) User Reviews

Caroline and Temperance

[letiamj-95088 · 8/10 · 29 October 2020]

I like that Caroline was finally shown with a potential love interest. I wished they would have pursued this or shown him again ... maybe at Booth/Bones and Cam's weddings.

I am glad they are finally starting to have people confront Temperance on her disposition and she is starting to consider it.

Ok, Late Entry.

[PartialMovieViewer · 9/10 · 12 October 2020]

Binging the entire show this time around. When I watched the program originally I put up with the lag between shows. This program still had the main stars out front, I enjoyed it. I really like the addition of Cheryle, she is awesome and funny as all get-out. I have not found a big bump in the road yet, but it is coming. I enjoy bones, when it's about Bones and Booth.

Tiring

[macnoty · 3/10 · 28 August 2013]

They've done it before and now they've done it again, done what? played to the camera that's what and hammed it up. Quite possibly a non professional would overact and not be natural but these are supposed to be scientists used to being in the public eye and would act accordingly. Bones strict and inflexible logic is overdone and has become very tiring. This particular episode also leaves unanswered questions such as *spoilers begins here* when Dinco chucks Marcos down the stairs and tells him to keep his mouth shut but there is no explanation why at the subsequent interrogation by Booth and if Dinco is corrupt or not. Jursic is meant to be an award winning documentary maker and yet consistently interjects rather than merely recording then adding the appropriate voice-over. Further the team speaks direct to the camera rather than getting on with their work but Jursic doesn't tell them to just get on with their job and to ignore the camera. At the beginning, the team notes that the choice of location of the dump site and that the bullets have been dug out preventing analysis determine the work was that of professionals yet at the end when we discover the identity of the killer, this is totally at odds with the 'professional' status of the killer. All in all, a very flawed episode, poorly scripted.

The Final Turn-off...Goodbye and Good Riddance

[BBBrown · 1/10 · 17 January 2014]

This seres began with a fairly unique approach (for American TV at least) but inconsistencies have plagued it from the beginning. This episode was the last straw and I have ceased to watch any more.

The Booth character never really impressed me with the worn out, tiresome, cynical cop persona so pervasive in American TV depiction of law enforcement. In this episode Booth deliberately withholds and delays vital medical treatment to a female suspect in order to coerce information to further his investigation of the death of an undercover cop. His wife and emergency medical personnel look on and do nothing nor do they report his gross misconduct. Later in the episode, he verbally threatens another suspect taken into custody with physical abuse, i.e., being thrown down the stairs of the FBI building, while the District Attorney (DA), who is listening in on the interrogation, pretends not to hear. NB: That the DA is an African-American woman makes this even more reprehensible given the well documented abuse many of her race have suffered while in police custody.

This concept of "doing bad things for good reasons" and "the ends justify the means" approach seems to be the accepted entertainment norm in contemporary American TV dramas. One would hope and pray that is not -- nor ever will be --the accepted norm in real life police procedures and that foreign audiences are mature enough to recognize it as such.

Booth Should Be Fired

[Hitchcoc · 4/10 · 23 February 2023]

First of all the whole documentary thing with all the characters mugging for the camera was idiotic. The guy doing the work kept breaking through the wall. I don't know what kind of film this would have turned into, but the technique was beyond humorous. With all the stuff that has been going on with cops these days, maybe i'm a little sensitive, but Booth's actions with that young female suspect were beyond reproach. She had gangrene and he would have let her die to satisfy his need for things to be right now. He didn't even have proof of guilt. And that whole cops can't do anything wrong, that they can't be corrupt, is being proven wrong over and over. The vast majority of police are great, but that doesn't give any of them the right to twist the law in their favor. I was really disappointed with this episode.