Bones

[ivyfic]

Though I have far better things to post about (and to do, considering the mountains of work on my desk after my vacation), I just need to post again about Bones. Specifically—I have never seen a big budget prime time drama have as many continuity errors as this show. They're glaring. People's hair, hands and props moving, props changing color between shots. But this is my favorite:

In "The Skull in the Desert," Booth and Brennan are driving along, desert scenery whipping past them. In one shot of Booth, the scenery behind him cuts from scrub brush to a mesa. Let me repeat that: there's a hugely noticeable cut in the background scenery. Now, either their car is equipped with a teleport, or they are sitting on a set with a projector screen behind them. It is ri-di-cu-lous that nobody caught that before they aired it.

I don't pay a whole lot of attention to this stuff—I don't look for continuity errors. In this show, they are so blatant you can't help noticing them. Not to mention the plot holes and logical inconsinstencies. Why do I still watch you ask? Because the cast is darn entertaining.

One more note: they've done a couple episodes now where Brennan goes on a TV show to publicize her book and bombs. We do not do that to our authors. That's why we have publicists. If an author was as socially awkward as Brennan, no way would we book her on a TV show. If we felt it necessary, we'd give her media training, and the publicist would be on set with them. We don't just throw authors out there and watch them crash and burn. Yet another thing in the long list of egregious misconceptions about publising in this show...

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

they've done a couple episodes now where Brennan goes on a TV show

You know, I could buy it if it happened once: The author thinks she'll be fine, the publisher/publicist has no reason to believe it won't, then she gets sstage fright and everything goes to hell. It's the repitition where reality breaks down.

On an unrelated note: Stop watching Bones and read Watchmen. Then bring it back to me so I can loan it to the other folks who have been clamoring to borrow my copy.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Okay! Okay! My brother actually asked to borrow Watchmen, at which point I had to tell him that "my copy" was a friend's copy that I'd had for years and loaning it to him would be a baaaad idea.

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

My favorite part was when her publisher buys Brennan a car.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yes, and how her book becomes an instant bestseller while she is in South America and not supporting it at all. And, right, she's a debut author, too. That always happens.

[tirtzah.livejournal.com]

Actually I think Brennan is supposed to already have had one book published prior to the series. Or something like that. But I could be wrong, it's been a while since I watched the early episodes. There seemed to be a thing early on where they really wanted to highlight Brennan's social awkwardness especially with things like tv or the courtroom. That goes away after a while. The show takes a little while to find it's feet, but it does do some very good stuff, mostly in the character department.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

The book I'm referring to is the one that pubbed just before the pilot. (I'm still in season one.) Also--the social awkwardness thing is being done inconsistently. For example, the explanation we're given for her awkwardness is the disappearance of her parents and the resulting trauma, right? They disappeared when she was fifteen. Up until then, we have no indication that her childhood wasn't normal. (If it's revealed later on that it was, I call too many coincidental special things about her and the show disappears in a puff of paradox.) So why doesn't she get a reference to Clue? That's a childhood boardgame. She went weird at fifteen. She should have perfectly accurate cultural knowledge up until then.

They also keep saying she doesn't get stuff because she doesn't have a tv. The tv that was destroyed in the pilot. So, she had a tv until a few months ago. There are plenty of ways to be socially awkward with a tv, but since she had one until recently, that can't be the reason. Ergo.