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...

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[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.