After the death of Sweets, Booth continues his out of control drive to get revenge. At least he sort of admits that he was somewhat culpable for the death, not thinking ahead when he gave the documents to him. But after all this the writers seemed to want to get this all wrapped up and the evidence nails the bad guys. I have to say that the means to getting this evidence is pretty much science fiction and requires the greatest of good fortune (luck). They seem to have a new machine for everything they do. Bones makes a long speech at the end as they spread the ashes. It seems way too contrived and staged. I wonder what overriding plot will be employed at this point.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
RiaDanielle30 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Hey, Bones Booth! I haven't been this mad about an episode since the end of season 3 - this story arc is completely mind-numbing. Bones' brief-but-empty threat to leave Booth comes completely out of nowhere, Booth's willful ignorance of government corruption is exhausting, and it feels like the Jeffersonian team committed a serious crime by handling Sweets' body themselves. And those aren't even the worst parts: Sweets' body isn't even cold yet and aGeNt AuBrEy already has his name in the opening credits! This show really thought it could just swap out one baby-faced Hwhyte Man for the next and we wouldn't notice? Sorry, John Boyd, no one can replace John Francis Daley. I'm looking forward to getting back to a nice case-of-the-week with some Cold Open Hooligans again.
Not the worst arc but far from good...
phoenixnl-1664717 March 2020
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Okay, so why did Hodgins have to remove the blood from Sweets log papers when last season Angela just scanned them in different wavelengths of light tto make the text visible??? Bit inconsistent imho
Anyway, I'm kinda tired of these multiepisode complot Arcs. This one is not as bad as the Pelant one but I would still have prefered the normal single episode cases. Also they killed of Sweets. Why do all show writers take that easy way out if they want to get rid of a character/actor it's such an old and tedious overused plot item.
Booth suddenly intending to kill someone in cold blood also raised my hackles. It's completely out of character for him imho and came rather out of the blue.
Later on the idea that the "only" way Booth could get Durants DNA seems flaky to me seeing as he had been drinking from a disposable coffee cup. Then there is the whole Durant profiling part near the end. Really Brennan profiling someone and deducing that because of one religious sentence the files must be hidden in a to him religious/holy place and that place being the Hoover exibit in the Jeffersonian? Very far fetched. This story couldn't manage to suspend my disbelieve unfortunately.
Anyway, I'm kinda tired of these multiepisode complot Arcs. This one is not as bad as the Pelant one but I would still have prefered the normal single episode cases. Also they killed of Sweets. Why do all show writers take that easy way out if they want to get rid of a character/actor it's such an old and tedious overused plot item.
Booth suddenly intending to kill someone in cold blood also raised my hackles. It's completely out of character for him imho and came rather out of the blue.
Later on the idea that the "only" way Booth could get Durants DNA seems flaky to me seeing as he had been drinking from a disposable coffee cup. Then there is the whole Durant profiling part near the end. Really Brennan profiling someone and deducing that because of one religious sentence the files must be hidden in a to him religious/holy place and that place being the Hoover exibit in the Jeffersonian? Very far fetched. This story couldn't manage to suspend my disbelieve unfortunately.
They are really getting desperate for new paper thin plots.
michaelwesten4 October 2014
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I watched the episode, and i understand, if they write someone out that has bin so long in the series, they wane do it with a bang.
Noting really wrong up to here, then they find out who did it, but cant prove it.
But then they become despaired, how do we nail this guy, i got it, we have to think like Sweets did, "yes thats it, more, more, we have to think more like hem", and then find ware the files are.
Then of all places, the files are laying in the J. Edgar Hoover section of the Jeffersonian, because that would honor Hoover.
1. How can someone that has a web of blackmailed people to control, do that from a place he cant access 24/7.
2. How can a blackmailed guard be trusted with all the files, he is for sure gone check it out, why he's blackmailed.
After his arrest the bad guy shows no remorse at all over what he has done, but even calls Booth naive.
Ware a true follower of Hoover's principles, would call it at least what he has done, necessary evils, and show remorse for the blood of the patriots he has killed, and what he has done to Booth.
Afterwards, no s**t storm, to catch all the blackmailed people that have broken the law, by helping the evil mastermind.
And for the spreading of Sweets ashes, fine if you use a green screen, but can they at least make it look as if its not a 60's care scene, whit a film running in the background.
The series should just go back to catching bad guys, and not try to think of paper thin conspiracy plots, and if they do, just work them out a bit better.
Noting really wrong up to here, then they find out who did it, but cant prove it.
But then they become despaired, how do we nail this guy, i got it, we have to think like Sweets did, "yes thats it, more, more, we have to think more like hem", and then find ware the files are.
Then of all places, the files are laying in the J. Edgar Hoover section of the Jeffersonian, because that would honor Hoover.
1. How can someone that has a web of blackmailed people to control, do that from a place he cant access 24/7.
2. How can a blackmailed guard be trusted with all the files, he is for sure gone check it out, why he's blackmailed.
After his arrest the bad guy shows no remorse at all over what he has done, but even calls Booth naive.
Ware a true follower of Hoover's principles, would call it at least what he has done, necessary evils, and show remorse for the blood of the patriots he has killed, and what he has done to Booth.
Afterwards, no s**t storm, to catch all the blackmailed people that have broken the law, by helping the evil mastermind.
And for the spreading of Sweets ashes, fine if you use a green screen, but can they at least make it look as if its not a 60's care scene, whit a film running in the background.
The series should just go back to catching bad guys, and not try to think of paper thin conspiracy plots, and if they do, just work them out a bit better.
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