Mrmgmrgblgrbl what was I going to say. Oh, that's right. I think.
As intelligentish as the hit crime drama(dy?) series Bones may be, the characters never change and if anything only become parodies of themselves as the series progresses. I'm not sure if this is true of the books, where presumably there's some of that but a lot more time for characterization, but that's exactly the thing: we have to analyze the TV show as itself.
There's no character arc with Dr. Brennan. She's stuck in a state of perpetual social awkwardness. She actually gets worse. Early on, she doesn't realize she's offensive, but she comes across as an actual sadist later on. She learns things on how to interact with people over individual episodes, but maybe she just doesn't take those lessons to heart? Because she should get a little better, at least. Am... I... like that?
This lack of character arc is also precisely what makes the continued success of Chuck Lorre sitcoms so baffling.
But, David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel do have some terrific chemistry going on there. Yay.
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