bones: s05 e01

Bones is back!!!!

I already wrote up an offical review over on Examiner (along with Fringe, which will be chonicles in the SciFi Blog), so here I'll takae this space just to squee-out:

- Like I said there, the balance seems to be back between the drama / soapiness, and the crime-solving. This is good. Last season seemed pretty much cursory over most of the crimes, and that sort of weakened the concept of the show.

- Bones and Booth are so gret together. Scenes where they're apart are so much less than ones where they can bounce off of eachother.

- David Boreanaz seems to have gotten tanner, and maybe lost some weight over the summer; the lines around his mouth look deeper-- but the smile is still there, and that's what matters.

- So Booth has come to grips with the fact that he's in love with Bones-- and the scene where Cam totally already knew what he was going to say before he said it was just priceless, but I really want someone at some point to say something to the effect that they have all know Since The Beginning and they were getting tired of waiting for them to figure it out-- but now he thinks it's fallout from brainsurgery and doesn't trust himself. I prefer to think that before his surgery, his brain was occupied with other things, like not dying, and didn't have a chance to be mooning over Bones at the moment of the brainscan, and it makes me sad that people might convince him that he doesn't really feel the way we all know he does. But the fact that Sweets knows about it means they'll probably have to talk about it in therapy, and that means maybe they'll face it this year. His frustration at their denseness has been mounting, after all... man, these writers know how to jerk me around!

- Bones vs Pyschic was pretty awesome, and that really charmed smile when Avalon told her that 'he sees the truth of you and he's dazzled by it' was so sweet. If only she could make the connection there.

- Booth said it! He confessed-- and immediately threw her a safety rope before that wide-eyed slack-jawed look could settle in, but he said it. I wish the camera had given us just a moment more of that look-- the looked terrified.

- Cam rationally offering a hug was brilliant. Hodges not even pretending to be rational about it was equally brilliant.

- That moment with the 'king of the lab' bit could have said something about missing Zack there, it's been two years by now, but it didn't and I'm sad.

- Cyndy Lauper probably isn't the best actress, but she was great for the part they gave her, and she was remarkably sweet and affecting. She didn't overplay the psychic thing, and that was great. It could easily have gone too far and been a joke. I hope she comes back; it's fin to have someone even less rational than Booth around, and see how he gets closer to Bones in mindset to allow for it.

- Caroline. I love me some Caroline, and it's always great when she's grumping up a scene and making everyone else play off her. I'm glad she's still around, and I love that she made Booth cram his big manly self into the back of her tiny two-door car. I also love that Booth had that moment of overflowing affection and she didn't know what to do with it-- and when he turned to Bones and she looked positively alarmed.

- Ooh, and that sweet moment from the physicist episode where Booth pushed Bones into the wall and his hands were in her hair made it into the opening credits montage, so I'm going to take that as an indication of future plans. I mean, it's been five years. Real people have gotten married and had a kid by now. It's not like they rushed anything.

- I wonder how long they're going to drag out the recovery thing? I'm hoping on the shortest amount of time possible unless it's forcing issues they won't deal with; otherwise, it will just become a crutch for him to be inconsistent, and that would suck. And the sooner he gets his confidence back, the better... unless a lack of confidence drives him into Bones's arms. You see where I'm going with this.

Overall, it was a great first episode, shippy enough to keep me afloat, real enough to make me sad and hopeful at once, and I love how they didn't go the easy way through this-- Booth didn't deny his feelings again, didn't waffle about needing to tell Bones (until someone made him doubt himself), and when it came down to that moment at the end when he's forced to face that he isn't quite right, he told her anyway, and let it hang there between them for just a moment before sparing her, and it was all very sweet.