[Review] Bones 5.01: Harbingers in the Fountain

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Writer: Hart Hanson
Director: Ian Toynton
Actors: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, T. J. Thyne, Michaela Conlin, John Francis Daley, Tamara Taylor
Guest: Cyndi Lauper, Patricia Belcher, Michael Bryan French

Six weeks have passed since Booth and Brennan have seen each other. During this time, Booth has been recovering from brain surgery and Brennan has been busy on a dig in Guatemala. Angela's psychic, Avalon Harmonia, reveals that there are bodies buried under a fountain in DC, but both Booth and Brennan are skeptical when Angela tells them about it. However, when the lead pans out, Booth and Brennan find 11 bodies buried underneath a fountain. Meanwhile, Booth has to deal with side effects of his coma and brain surgery.

My Thoughts:

Yes, I'm just starting reviewing at the beginning of the 5th season. Yes, I have a small, mostly ignorable urge to go back and review the other seasons. I'm handling it very well. We'll just cover those seasons by saying that I started watching the show for David Boreanaz, and the story and the rest of the actors [as well as him] have kept me coming back for more.

If you remember, we left off last season with a kinda trippy episode in which we got to see Booth's coma!dream in which he and Brennan run a club and are married. A lot of people felt cheated with this episode, I personally loved it. To each their own. Of course, when he came out of the coma, he didn't remember his life outside the dream [apparently]. I now want stories that take place during those few days where he was convinced that his coma!dream was real.

I wasn't all impressed with the fact that they had a psychic telling both Booth and Brennan that they belong together. The show has already sold us, we don't actually need the guest of the week to point it out. On the other hand, I do love Cyndi Lauper, so I can overlook this bad judgment call. Didn't she play a psychic or something similar in a movie with Jeff Goldblum?

A good judgment call? Booth's scruff. Also, I really enjoyed the way they played his awkwardness with his feelings for Brennan, as well with reintegrating. Everyone [okay, all three people] telling him not to hurt Brennan got really old. I still believe that he was falling in love, if not already in love, with her before the coma!dream. Also, I don't by Sweets and his shaky science. Everyone is so eager to protect Brennan from Booth. It gets more than a bit ridiculous after a bit.

I admit, part of me was thinking 'no, not another ghost episode' when we first saw the reconstruction that looked like Harmonia. I'm still wondering how, if Booth's old war buddy was a hallucination, did Brennan interact with him? Anyway, Harmonia isn't a ghost, so I was relieved.

I found it a bit unbelievable that Brennan couldn't take down that doctor. Didn't she take down the airport security in the first episode of the series? Seriously, wtf?

So, save for Sweets and the wtf fight moment, I really liked this episode. Also, I can't really want for more.

Music: "Fearless" (Acoustic) - Cyndi Lauper [info from: fox.com/bones/]