So I started watching the show this week (already on season 2) and I was making a super long post about all of my thoughts but I need to learn how to summarize myself better.
I feel the show didn't age as well as many procedurals but better than some of the shows of it's time
2. I was very exited about rewatching it, one of the biggest things that I remember the most was, of course, the bones and the fact that they only focus on cases of badly decomposed bodies, and the comedy
3. I didn't remember Hodgings being so crazy before, some scenes of him in the first season are worrisome
4. I know Booth is accused of toxic masculinity and I do see it, (also complains of lack of character growth) he is very much alpha male, somewhat stereotypical guy
5. I think I could make a whole post about Bones(brennan) sometimes annoying, kinda childish and ignorant despite her high IQ(that scene in the club was kinda funny tho) I was surprised to learn on this rewatch that it was based on a real anthropologist, I used to like her more before I think, in the first episodes I was all for her but now it's been toned down a bit, she has her faults
6. I think my favorite character so far is Angela (I also think it was before) and I love her loyalty to Brennan, she is so refreshing (although I saw a post complaining about her sudden understanding of technical stuff overnight and tbh, I'm very confused about her job in the institute) (also that scene of the director explaining her role and she hugging him, his discomfort and zacks commentary (although 👀) made me chuckle)
7. The change of the director was weird. I always remember Cam as the boss but I got used to Goodman quickly, I miss him being a regular in the episodes and the fact that they did it off camera(they tried to explain it in a logical sense in the show but still)
8. I actually like Cam more on this rewatch, I couldn't stand her before
9. Plenty of scenes rubbed me the wrong way, during the car bomb episode when they were looking for the terrorist... like Bones tried to excuse it because they are arabs when truly, we know terrorists are most often the ones born here, it's disrespectful
10. Bones is actually disrespectful plenty of times, it's excused as a quirk of her, she's just not a people person, but girl, you're how old? You've been doing this for a long time, enough to pick up on some cues.
I've been enjoying my rewatch of the show but I have to say, it's becoming darker by the episode. Also that whole storyline with Brennan's parents? I'm still wrapping my head around it. And the fact that they killed the killer by the second season... I'm very curious to know the truth, I have no recollection of this even being a thing.
