The Pain in the Heart

[doc_3]

Just my initial thoughts:

1.  This definitely should have been a two-parter.  

2.  Tamara and T.J. were fantastic in this.  Both of them took a mediocre/bad script and worked miracles. 

3.  David and Emily seemed rushed in their scenes (see number 1).  I could have done without the bathtub scene, it was contrived.  I think this ep opens a lot of doors for them though.  Them together at the end really got me.  

4.  I don't know how I feel about Zack being the apprentice and losing Eric.  I just can't wrap my brain around it all.  

I need to sleep on this and maybe watch again.  My head's still spinning.  Ugh.
 
 

Comments

[wimseynotes.livejournal.com]

2. I am a big fan of Cam - I think she's had a great character arc throughout. The scene between Hodgins and Cam was great (and I agree about the painkiller scene - I had a moment of wondering how far he was going to go with that!)

3. Bathroom scene didn't go far enough - either more UST or more anger would have worked better.

4. I think if they were going to make Zack the apprentice, they needed to set up better. Yes, he was clearly suffering from post-Iraq-trauma, but NO ONE (especially the ones who serve in such situations and return damaged) are well-served by such a facile explanation. BONES usually does better with these types of military-response story-lines.

For me, the whole "logical" argument breaks down when Brennan was nearly killed by Gormagon. There is NO WAY Zack would accept the necessity of that - that's why he sacrificed his hands for Hodgins, Killing people? Yes. Having the Master eat them? Well - okay, I can maybe find a way for him to accept that (he is an anthropologist, after all - cannibalism is fairly common in human history). But hurting the people he is most emotionally attached too -next to his 40 family members who love and accept him? No way. Just no way.

A very disappointing outcome, and one which could have been better.

[doc-3.livejournal.com]

I definitely think the bathroom scene was in poor taste. It was too goofy to come on the heels of such a big thing. They totally wasted their opportunity there.

[wimseynotes.livejournal.com]

That is going to be a problem for the next season - this is such a huge affront to the team/family they have created. The goofiness which has predominated in this half of the season will feel so completely out of place under the weight of this disclosure.

I am okay with Sweets, but not as a replacement for Zack. I kind of liked the idea of them playing off each other some more.

[doc-3.livejournal.com]

I just hope they treat the loss of Zack and Booth's "death" with the weight these two things deserve. If not I'll be extremely disappointed.

[wimseynotes.livejournal.com]

I doubt they will - the season opener is supposed to be a two-parter set in London (with Booth being all-annoying-American and Brennan being all cosmopolitan-world-traveller, no doubt). I don't think there will be a lot of focus on past events.

[doc-3.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I'm sure you're right. :(