#bones rant

[bonesdontmelt]

The world building in Toriko is legitimately so good, and the power crawl is I kid you not probably the best I have ever seen in a shonen and these are SO related guys

Like Toriko shows up and you know he and the others are the Four Heavenly Kings and you THINK this means they're the Most Powerful Dudes Ever right but turns out that, no, they're literally just the IGO darlings because they're a bunch of orphans raised in the public eye and they ARE powerful, regular people understand that, but people don't get that they're STILL the IGO darlings -- at the beginning of the show none of them would stand a chance against Ichiryu or any of the other higher ups.

They're still very much seen as Babies and this is driven in when they reveal OHOHO there's a whole gourmet world out there that most people can't survive five seconds in--and guess what the 4 heavenly kings are NOT among the number who can. Gives them a goal, something to work towards.

ALSO usually the worst thing to do in a fantasy world is start throwing arbitrary power levels on things (7 deadly sins, DBZ I am looking at YOU) but Toriko does it and it works because they give a basic, easy meaning for each unit (capture level 1 means it would take 10 normal people to get it or something) and then it sticks to that (I think the highest we ever see is the Final Boss of the manga with a capture level of 30,000 which is a ton but sure is evocative)

And this isn't just done with the fighter people either! Komatsu gets this just as much, and it's probably one of my favorite world building things because they use our knowledge of the real world against us as readers to achieve it. Komatsu is introduced as a cook in a five star restaurant and obviously we're like "aha so he's a very good chef" only to reveal several arcs in that, in this food-focused world, the cap is actually ten stars and Komatsu is actually a solidly mid ranked chef at the start.

There are so many more things because the worldbuilding of Toriko is in turns mind-blowingly brilliant and absolutely unhinged and I love that but basically they do an amazing job managing the audience's expectations by leveraging our knowledge of the real world and tropes commonly used in similar media to set up and then pulling the rug out from under us and I love it.

[stealingyourbones]

Just found out that a majority of the links I’ve ever made for my many many master posts are ✨broken✨.

Time for me to go yell

[divorcedlizbartlet]

I’m rewatching Bones- have some ramblings

I forgot how amazing the first season is??? I love the squints. They are my children. Zack “She Apologized To Me” Addy will never help any serial killers. IDK what ur talking abt. And now that I’m taking chem I Understand Hodgins???? I’m v proud of myself. Just watched ep 2 and hodgins recreates the bomb used and I can hear,,, I can hear Cam yelling at him all the way from s2. Angela snooping into Booth’s personal life and low-key stalking his girlfriend? Not Smart but You Do You. I love them

Booth did the Thing that I think is Hot where he wears the shoulder holster and rolls his sleeves up. Women in suits and Men who do That are the reason my pan ass watches so many crime dramas. I love this show so much. B&B? Soft. Squints? Antisocial Geniuses. Me? Dying of happiness. Hotel? Trivago

[imnotonantidepressantsimonspeed]

No judgement if you love Bones, I sort of do too, but seriously... watching it is like watching an armature fanfiction but as a show. Major spoilers ahead so he warned. The writers keep introducing new plotlines and then abandoning them, every time they get bored they just throw in a pregnancy for the fuck of it. They have the darkest backstories that are hardly ever alluded to or practically abandoned. Sweets is shirtless a while after the plot about the scars on his back and it's just not shown or alluded to or mentioned. One time Bones is just hallucinating and then boom never mentioned again. It's seriously unclear whether Booth's hallucination was a hallucination or just an actual goddamn ghost. They have a character have a new romantic plotline, then get a girl pregnant but they hardly mention it, then die, then be pretty much forgotten, in the space of like four episodes. Characters have a will they won't they for several seasons and then they're just suddenly together and it didn't even mention them getting together. I literally cannot ask enough who tf was writing this. And it had so much potential but genuinely wtf. They just got rid of sweets and all the characters recovered in like one episode. Sweets cheating on Daisy but they don't even really explore how he has commitment issues related to his childhood trauma maybe... but they just ignore it. They suggest he's deeply traumatized and lonely and then just never show how it affects him. I genuinely don't even know if I can be bothered finishing the show after they got rid of him, not because they killed him off but because they did it so quickly and then just brushed past it like it never happened. Very clearly replacing him with some new guy, but no one seems to react, no one mentions how it's weird to replace him, no one seems to judge this guy for being sweets' replacement. And "she worries too much" in his last words but we hardly get to see how she worries. What does she worry about? Why don't they mention it? They've practically forgotten about all the drama with bones and her family and Booth's brain tumor. It makes me so mad. Do better for these characters, honestly, they deserved better plot.

[god1ngs]

sam isn't even here 😔😔😔😔 im so sad. my baby. at least i get punz and xen content

[sclly]