Anyone that has yet to watch
Friday night’s episode of Bones,
entitled ‘The Spark in the Park’, that is what I suggest you go and do now
before proceeding ahead. For this is not a spoiler free blog. THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!
You’ve been warned.
I have to say that I really
enjoyed Brennan in this episode. The amount of emotions she was able to
demonstrate just based on her parallels with the victim’s father this week was
wonderful. It’s been a while since we’ve been able to see her character really
show an array of emotions, and I always enjoy it when that is really able to
come through on screen. This kind of Brennan is more of what I really want to
see of her character, not the Brennan that is almost completely pulled back
from everyone or always happy. Getting to see the complete scale of emotions is
what I like.
Booth, on the other hand, I felt
was very much an ass in this episode. I understand that he is an FBI agent
trying to find the murderer, but he was way too hard on the father when even I
could see that the man was grieving. For someone that is able to figure out
people, he wasn’t really able to use that skill when it came to the professor. Sure,
it may have been partly because the man is similar to Brennan in that they
grieve strangely compared to the average person, but I almost felt that his
character did that so that Brennan would be the one to take an interest. In
that case, it is okay, but still not natural to Booth’s character.
This week, Cam was able to
confront the woman that stole her identity. For such an intricate problem to be
given to this character, the whole reason behind why the woman had stolen Cam’s
identity, the woman that had been her friend in college, was kind of
ridiculous. I expected more from this story than what panned out. Also, Cam
really needs to grow her hair an inch longer, or at the very least half an
inch.
All in all, this was an enjoyable
episode. This series is becoming a bit too ludicrous for my liking, but it does
have its moments. There is a lot of humour to this series now, and almost too
much happiness for these characters that it becomes a little plain. I really
think that this series needs more depth going forward, if it wants to continue
on one more season passed this one.
My rating: 7 out of 10.
Best Lines:
“Do you really think I care if she sits in there for a
while?” – Booth asks Cam, regarding the woman that stole her identity.
“I’m more of a wrath and vengeance type.” – Cam relates to
Arastoo.
“That’s a gross oversimplification.” – Brennan says.
“Yes! I’m never wrong about an identification.” – Brennan
states.
Okay, so apologies for not getting this up yesterday, I
would’ve had to choose between watching this, or Haven, if I did that, but I really wanted to watch both, so I
picked watching yesterday, reviewing today. So here this is. Stay tuned for my
review of Haven, coming up next.
