In season 4e23 is Sweets talking about Gender, that gender is not important and that we should accept that. This episode aired in 2009! Also the vegetarian diet was addressed- I know, that Emily is Vegan since college. The show also shows same sex relationships in the very beginning. And addresses women’s rights in 2016 (s11e12).

Thank you guys for all of your help with the bone. You guys were so nice, I actually watched a few re-runs of the show "Bones" last night. Thanks again for the help, much appreciated!

Going into Seasons 7-12, are there going to be a lot of involved Angela/Hodgins storylines? I was just curious, I will probably watch regardless but wanted to prepare. No offense at all to people who love Angela, I just find her character boring and annoying as well as her expertise that she brings to solving the cases. I wouldn't mind her as a minor character, but have found her scenes with Hodgins boring since they've gotten together especially when they add in her dad. For the record, I do love Sweets, Cam, and most of the interns but appreciate that their storylines are small and enjoyable. I'd prefer the episodes to focus on Booth and Bones mostly and feel like storylines focusing on Angela/Hodgins take too much time away from that!

I think a spin off of the kids would be really interesting. Like Christine is a genius FBI or CIA consultant while owning her own auto body shop and her best friend Michael, who followed in his parents footsteps in becoming a scientist/inventor/artist.

There's Michele who is a Special FBI Agent and is Christine's handler/gets her out of wrong-time-wrong-place arrests.

And then there is Hank. Who I have nothing for except that he's trying to survive is trouble finding sister.

I can't help but feel it's a bit hypocritical and contradictory, especially in a show that focuses on bringing murderers to justice. Do you think Max's acquittal was justified? Should he have faced consequences for his past actions, or was his transformation enough to warrant forgiveness? How do you feel about his character development throughout the show?

First time watcher:

Freaking Howard…. I absolutely loved this episode, obviously it was upsetting to see the characters in danger, but it was incredibly well written and the acting was phenomenal. However, I’m kind of sad that Howard is dead. Obviously I hate him and I’m glad he’s dead but that also means that we won’t get any more of these crazy episodes, at least with Howard. I’m sure as show goes on we’ll get more crazy criminals and more crazy stuff like this, but I’m just kind of sad that it won’t be with Howard anymore. Just because he was so creepy and just such a freak and so unpredictable. Also, his mother was just like so disturbing. Of course you cannot blame the entirety of who Howard was on his mother, however that he was raised like that definitely puts some things into perspective. Also, I realized his killing type is the complete opposite of his mother, brunette, overweight, older, all his victims are young, thin, blonde women. It’s interesting to me because his mother mentioned beating him because of some girl he was with, like she was a tramp & leading him on or something. Which is really interesting because it makes me wonder if he really is a killer because of his mother. Maybe these women that his mother disapproved of and wouldn’t let him see are the same type as his victims, young blondes. I think maybe his mother telling him these girls are leading him on and they’re tramps, and all of these things led him to those becoming his type of victims. Because he’s all about the innocence, and his mother claimed that these women were not innocent, so he finds the ones that are innocent and kills them…? And the fact that he wrote to her every day in prison tells me that he still worships her on some level, like maybe he’s partially committing these murders to get his mother‘s approval?

Anyways those are my thoughts on that, don’t rest in peace Howard

Unfortunately I don’t have enough time to binge watch the whole show. Any recommendations? Which are your favourite episodes?

Long time watcher and just now i see that the soldiers name tag says PELANT😅.

I recently had a dream about Bones and it made me wonder if other people have had dreams with the characters? Whether it’s your brain making up an episode in your sleep or dreaming of a past episode, I’m curious to know if anyone else has experienced the same thing. Felt like I was given an extra episode of the show for free during my sleep lol

Finally got to Oliver's debut episode and I can easily see why he's such a polarizing character. He reminds me of that quote from the social network: "You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole."

First off I’m not an Aubrey hater, but I do think his integration to the team is too sudden and not very well done. IMO they should’ve had Agent Shaw join the team in a more prominent role since she already had good rapport with Booth and the team at the Jeffersonian. She even stated how excited she was that she got to work with the lab in one of her first episodes. I just think it was a missed opportunity because she also had interesting character details that could’ve been elaborated on (like the fact that she’s a mother).

With Aubrey, it was made to seem like he and Sweets were close (at least close enough for Sweets to disclose Booth’s gambling addiction) and yet we never see him until the end of season 9. With Agent Shaw it would’ve been so much more believable as she’d been around a while.

I love that they intodruced Zooey Deschanel as the cousin of Emily Deschanel in the show 😂 it’s so funny to see idk why 😂

Just a simple comment about how good a job the show did at pairing the Squinters with the drama of the main cast. Even the choice to have Vincent Nigel Murray be the one who passed was a brilliant choice.

It just dawned on me on how well they did at this while watching the S6E16 - The Blackout in the Blizzard. Wendell being the one to support Hodgins while he waits for the test results.

And it’s something that I appreciate and think played a larger role than I realized in my opinion of the show.

I’ve started watching Bones and enjoy it, but I have found that not all of the mysteries are very well fleshed-out. I’m looking to find the must-watch mystery episodes that I can binge.

Watch the show casually, just curious

Edit: why so many downvotes, it's just a question

Hodgins is one of my favorite characters, probably my favorite character below Brennan. And I know that it has to be incredibly hard to deal with becoming paralyzed, especially in such a horrible way that he did, and doubly especially when he thought he got away mostly fine, just sore (as he says at the hospital).

But Holy cow, the way he treats everyone, but especially Angela, in the aftermath..... I want to grab him and shake him.

It's only been 2-3 episodes, but it's especially frustrating that those who get the worst of it are Angela and Cam, because I feel like anyone else (but especially Brennan) would not take that shit directed at them, but Angela doesn't want to be too hard on him, and Cam probably is still grappling with guilt about letting him come in the day after the accident, and thus feels like she's to blame for him being wheelchair bound. Especially because Brennan already looks ready to punch Hodgins whenever he snaps at Angela. Angela has been nothing but patient with Hodgins, and truing to do whatever she can to help him. :(

after 4.5 months, i finally watching the series in whole. i would always catch the reruns on TV and decided i wanted to watch the whole thing through. i loved the show cause it combined my love for medicine/anatomy with forensic science. also weirdly loved how gory they would make the dead bodies.

favorite characters? Angela, Cam, and Sweets

favorite intern? Dr. Edison

i think my favorite episode was the one where it was filmed like a documentary. honestly any episode that was related to a real life pop culture moment were fun. ( the acapella episode following Pitch Perfect’s success, etc). I did enjoy how “fun” the last season was despite Max dying but i think the writers did well “sending” everybody off. like how Daisy left the lab for the NFL, Dr. Fuentes leaving. wish we got to see all the main characters and interns at Cam’s wedding tho!

don’t think I’ll rewatch it any time in the future, though. I loved Dr. Brennan but I can only take so much of that personality of hers. my one gripe about the show is how nobody really called out her behavior. yes, i get she’s supposed to be a super smart not super social autistic woman, but often it felt like the characters never tried to correct her behavior as the show went on. they’d let her be rude to the interns, project her negative feelings onto others, and say hurtful things. often Cam and Hodgins/Angela would just give each other the side away and move on like she never said anything. i guess i feel this way cause personally, i would tell someone like her about themselves if they said those kinds of things to me or my friends 🤷🏾‍♀️

Also, Booth frustrated me so much when he wouldn’t tell Bones why he wouldn’t marry her and when he fell back into his gambling addiction 🤦🏾‍♀️

overall, I’d give the show a 7/10 cause they killed Sweets off, Brennan’s attitude, and the Pelant story line (i was so ready for that mf to die!)

I was rewatching Erin Brockovich for the first time in a WHILE and I was so surprised to see TJ Thyne playing a scumbag (though ultimately very unimportant) lawyer. For someone who spent so many years on Bones, he has so many other little roles throughout so many shows and movies I love. It's like a little game to spot him some times!

Ok I'm on a rewatch and I just need to rant. Fuck this episode. The mom killing her kid cause she had AIDS and no foster family would take her. I get it. Makes sense in an idiotic way. What I don't get is why the mom didn't kill herself too? She thought she was going to die anyway and she allegedly loved her daughter so much. And then she covered it up. I'm sorry. I ain't buying it. The fact that bones was showing her so much compassion when the evidence says that woman didn't give a shit about that kid. Disposed of her like trash. Threw her in a pit with crack pipes and shit because it was "peaceful" gtfoh.

I would like to thank those of you who recommended West Wing to me because of Richard Schiff. Ya know Moira Kelly, Allison Janey, Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen they’re all known people who I knew were on the show but the actor that gave me the opportunity to explore another role Richard Schiff has played is great!

It's such an amazing thing, especially if you consider that they're both fish out of water half the time.

• I just feel like, as actors, they're always facing each other instead of the camera.

What ever happened to the hot sauce business that Hodgins and Finn started? It seems after Finn and Michelle broke up they just kinda dropped the idea Hodgins had to make his money back and Finn all together disappeared? I know the actor was filming another show at the time but if I recall he’s never even really brought up again..

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Everytime i rewatch Bones i am deeply impressed about the quality and variety of the "victims". Honestly the props team was on god mode in this show.

Holy sheet! I was waiting for us to get around to the mystery of Brennans parents, but I didn’t think it would be this soon. I can’t believe her parents were literally bank robbers who changed their identities and basically went into their own version of witness protection! I mean they did it to protect themselves and their children, and give their children a better and safe life. So I understand that. I mean her mom died of a head injury that developed into a brain bleed eventually, she wasn’t like brutally murdered, so that’s a good thing. But the two years between when she got injured and when she died, I need to know more about that. I think they stayed away to protect their kids, great! But her dad is alive and well! And saying this is bigger than she has any idea of?? What does that mean? Also he has her phone number, has he been keeping track of his children’s lives from afar? That makes sense of course he is their father. But the way it shattered Brennans whole sense of identity was heartbreaking.

Overall a great first season. Bones and Booth’s partnership blooming into friendship was great! Seeing Bones become more human because of Booth. More well rounded I’d say. She was quite one dimensional and boring in the first half I found, seeing her begin to discover those other parts of herself she may have been pushing away for years, was amazing!

When Hodgins goes to see Trent Mcnamara and hits him with that astute personal observation, leaving Trent looking like an injured puppy 😢 I have always wondered what Trent meant when his only reply was ‘You’re the only one Jack’. Maybe he meant Hodgins was the only person who ever saw him? Would love to hear your theories since I can’t verify it.