Bones (TV Series) The Turn in the Urn (2014) User Reviews

An Enjoyable Episode of a FICTIONAL Show

[briezey · 8/10 · 4 September 2022]

Despite the other reviewers, I really like this episode. Is it ridiculous and stretching the limits of science? Yes. Is it enjoyable? Yes, of course, that's why I watch the show and if other people haven't realized after nine seasons that this show it unrealistic but entertaining than that's their issue.

I found the start of this episode entertaining, going to a funeral for a guy who actually isn't dead, what a fun take on the typical beginning to these episodes. Also, this gives our team another challenge because the body has been cremated, so not a lot of bones to work with.

I also enjoyed the storyline with the chalice. I know that it is totally unrealistic but hey it was fun to watch and I thought it was super great to see how excited bones got over the chalice at the end.

The intern this week was Finn who I have always enjoyed. I think it sucks that he and Michelle broke up but it is a pretty realistic circumstance, Michelle changed in college and found someone else.

Overall, I thought this was a fun episode. It was a bit out there but for a tv show that is completely fictional and made for our pure enjoyment (aka not supposed to be a documentary about actual forensic anthropologists or the FBI) it was great.

Best part: the beginning of the episode, what a fun start to the episode the set the pace for something different than what we usually expect

Worst part: Booth picking up the chalice at the end of the episode! So much hisotry in that chalice and he is going to put his grubby fingers on it, how terrible!! You'd think that museum would have put it behind some glass.

One of the most preposterous episodes

[okrebs · 4/10 · 8 April 2014]

Yes, I know this series is only loosely based on scientific grounds, but most of the time the errors and falsehoods are not so blatantly trust in your face.

What did happen? A man died and was discovered 3 weeks later. He was bludgeoned to death, but the coroner(!) did not find this cause of death? It was later discovered by a forensic anthropologist using only two thumbnail-sized pieces of cremated and ground bone.

OK, we are used to our little genius pulling rabbits out of hats. Just a look on any given piece of bone is enough to determine ethnicity, age, gender, profession, nutrition, health and - of course - cause of death. But that can be stacked higher...

Now we determined the killer from tiny micro diamonds within the cremated bone fragments, transferred there by the killer wearing them within the nail polish, while hitting the victim once(!) with an ancient golden chalice. Oh, and they also found multiple sets of remains within the urn of the cremated victim, but could without doubt determine which tiny fragment belongs to whom. Oh, and they did a drug test from charred remains from the furnace. Oh, and did I mention the micro diamonds? Well, diamonds do not like fire. Since they are only a pricey form of coal, they burn. So...they could not have been found inside those bone fragments. And they sure as heck did not melt.

And the bones they showed were not really cremated bones. Cremated bones will be sintered. They will be shrunken and more or less ceramic in nature. Due to shrinking the proposed skeleton will be much smaller.

Angela did - of course - another "I can morph anything"-computer animation, which - of course - did find the victim in a database. And the good Dr. B. did excel in her archaeological (NOT anthropological) knowledge so much, that she knows the exact numbers of rare mesopotamian artifacts stolen from a far away museum AND recognizes it instantly. And of course she is invited to write an article about the murder weapon turned chalice, which also is not within her field of science.

I like the little over the top weired series, but with a protagonist so hell bend on science and facts it just does not do well to stretch the frame of reality that much. Most of those assumptions, that are far fetched even with a fresh corpse, are treated as facts, which they are not. I would love to see them go to court with that "evidence" bag of assumptions. The lawyers will have a field day with it.

Problem is, people think that this is real. That all of that can be said and done. And then they come to real forensic experts and are angry, because we can't conjure up some evidence from a piece of compact bone and some rust. It's like forensic McGyver! Be funny and have wild ideas but stay inside what really is possible AND probabel.

Preposterous

[Hitchcoc · 5/10 · 28 February 2023]

Once again, as others have said, we have literal miracle performed by the gang at the Jeffersonian. We have a cremation urn filled with ashes from three different people. So we shake out three little piles of ashes and with few minutes, identify the people. Angela has technology that doesn't exist, but she has it. She can make a bloated figure go back to his previous state. We also have a B plot where Finn Abernathy is given the heave-ho by Cam's niece, ending their relationship. She has been a bit of a snot the whole time, so I think he is better off (if there were a real him). At the end, we have one of the most ridiculous things of all. That 4000 year old cup worth a billion, is left on a little pedestal. No acrylic protection or anchor. Then Booth proves that Neanderthals still exist when he grabs it and treats it like the Stanley Cup. I hope the show will get back on its footing. This was worth than the publication of Edison's book!

Seriously ?

[gelasma-1 · 5/10 · 28 July 2021]

Bones has an overall watchable quality, with recurring characters that you end up liking, with some episodes better than others. But I couldn't help being irritated by this one.

We are familiar with the know-it-all character of Dr. Brennan, a modern Pico della Mirandola, de omni re scibili (et quibusdam aliis...), fluent in all languages of the world from Mandarin Chinese to Krio of Sierra Leone..., expert in martial arts... and in all kinds of arts. But it takes a turn to the absurd when she qualify as a Mesopotamian 3.000 BC artifact an urn which is so obviously not Mesopotamian, and certainly not from 3.000 BC.

Something else : Bones "literality" if I may say. OK, we know, we understand the character... But in this case, let's see. Booth remarks "when you're so rich and when you have it all, how can you be a drug addict and overdose ?", Bones answer : "you roll up your sleeve and stick a needle in your vein"... Seriously...? Such a level of misunderstanding ? And she's supposed to write best-sellers...???