what are your favorite episodes of bones?
oh boy ok....i'm gonna list my favorite episodes from each season bc i cannot pick just a few favorites from like 250 episodes 😅
season 1
1x08 - the girl in the fridge
1x15 - two bodies in the lab
1x17 - the skull in the desert
1x20 - the graft in the girl
1x22 - the woman in limbo
season 2
2x11 - judas on a pole
2x18 - the killer in the concrete
season 3
3x13 - the verdict in the story
3x14 - the wannabe in the weeds
3x15 - the pain in the heart
season 4
4x14 - the hero in the hold
4x17 - the salt in the wounds
4x19 - mayhem on a cross
4x26 - the end in the beginning
season 5
5x12 - the proof in the pudding
5x16 - the parts of the sum of the whole
5x21 - the boy with the answer
5x22 - the beginning in the end
season 6
6x01 - the mastodon in the room
6x09 - the doctor in the photo
6x21 - the signs in the silence
6x22 - the hole in the heart
season 7
7x03 - the prince in the plastic
7x12 - the suit on the set
season 8
8x06 - the patriot in purgatory
8x09 - the ghost in the machine
8x15 - the shot in the dark
season 9
9x06 - the woman in white
9x09 - the fury in the jury
9x16 - the source in the sludge
9x22 - the nail in the coffin
season 10
10x15 - the eye in the sky
10x17 - the lost in the found
10x21 - the life in the light
10x22 - the next in the last
season 11
11x01 - the loyalty in the lie
11x02 - the brother in the basement
11x08 - high treason in the holiday season
11x10 - the doom in the boom
11x18 - the movie in the making
season 12
12x04 - the price for the past
12x07 - the scare in the score
12x08 - the grief and the girl
12x11 - the day in the life
12x12 - the end in the end
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“What we did to you…you found a way to protect yourself. You channeled your fear into anger, which is why you’re so good at your job. But if you want to save those people, you have to find your way back to that scared little girl.”
Even as she stands there, heart thumping beneath her ribs, fingertips tingling with the adrenaline that flooded her blood at her rush of outrage, Olivia knows this is a lost cause. Because he’s right.
For as long as she can remember, she’s always channeled her fears into anger—even as a nine-year-old, shooting a gun at another grown man who’d abused her instead of protecting her.
living my best life i tell you
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Rheneas and the roller-coaster? (My apologies for inflicting this one on you)
Robin. What the hell did you just make me re-watch.
Heh heh. Actually, in all seriousness, it's imho... not horrible. It is however very bland. Like, I'd gotten through all of Season 7 once but I had no memory of this.
The plot is stupidly unbelievable—railway realism is thrown out the window. Then again it is far more plausible than "Rusty and the Boulder" sooooo...?
The episode simply feels like such a nothingburger than I can't even bring myself to detail all the ways in which it falls flat. Let's just agree that, well, it does. I get the sense it was written with the aim of doing Rheneas's character a long-overdue favor but in the end it's just filler.
Having stipulated, however, that this ep is a low point in season 7... there are actually a couple kudos I want to give it.
Mild kudos:
1) Hey, the "rollercoaster" runaway ride might have been silly and stupid... but it is kinda fun? A little? A pale shadow of the shenanigans of "Boulder," but I can tell the film crew were enjoying themselves. It seems obvious that Mitton wasn't really in charge of this one or, if he was, that he was entirely checked out. No, whoever directed this, you cannot make an interesting action sequence just by filming the whole thing with the camera tilted 90°... it takes a bit more than that.
But. Nevertheless. The detail of the props actually getting wet as they veer by the waterfall is such a nice touch:
This (live water!) ^ is the sort of thing that makes the model series so fun to watch, even when the writing is shit.
2) Is the writing all shit, though?
[Disclaimer: I feel the TVS has already established context/continuity in Season 6 for the NWR/Fat Controller having taken over the narrow-gauge railway and starting to make some drastic changes; we see the engines adjusting to a management style very different from what they experienced in the plots that were based on the books. So I take FC's and Rheneas's exchange in that spirit. He's trying to show a gentler side than "I'm going to shut down your entire line on a whim." Rheneas is especially keen to use this chance to prove himself to a somewhat capricious owner.]
On the one wheel, I sort of hate how this is another in a long line of episodes in this era that continue to baby-fy Rheneas and Skarloey (who are in need of kind, brave, clever Rusty to look after them in a cruel world).
On the other wheel, this particular story—if it is considered strictly on its own, and not in that sad, sorry context—I feel does a plausible job of characterizing Rheneas? Who is not an easy character to work with, since even Rev. Awdry left him quite undeveloped.
I can see people (probably yourself among them?) preferring other interpretations of Rheneas. But honestly... this one is valid. If you need him to have some sort of weakness or flaw to motivate a story, "fears he's not exciting enough to be of interest to a train full of kids" feels legitimate. In RWS, one of his things was very much always seeming to be overshadowed by Skarloey's charisma. He's the quieter and more serious of the pair, and while he gamely gives it a go he's also nervous and not at all comfortable when the Thin Controller puts him on the spot to give a little speech on his birthday.
The "insecurity" motive gets way overused in TVS, of course—but as of Season 7 it wasn't quite overused yet. And, obviously it would be stupid to have Rheneas feel he's not up to most jobs, given that at this point he's got over a hundred years of badassery under his boiler bands. But the specific charge of "this is a very special day for the kiddos; make sure it's memorable for them!"... like okay, I can actually roll with this and easily believe in a Rheneas that's secretly going, Well, fuck. Then why didn't you have literally anyone else do it? I'm not the entertaining one.
*insert cute image of Rheneas licking his thumb and quickly flipping a handbook entitled How To Be Fun*
Sooooo... yeah. It's not a good episode. But I don't actually find it dire. It's within the usual range of Season 7 bland.
(Which I used to think was the worst... until I watched the next few seasons. At least Season 7 bland was still short and sweet, clocking in at under 6 minutes a pop!)
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