Okay - I live in DC. What a JOKE this is! The locations are ridiculous (there is no lake next to Arlington Cemetary that *I* know of), but worse are the references to things like "The Jefersonian". Is that supposed to be the Smithsonian? I don't think that is a copyrighted term - nor do I think they'd care if it was used. Also they call where DB works the "Washington Field Office" of the FBI - last I checked the DC "Field Office" is the FBI Headquarters. Then I just fell asleep. I will go back and watch the rest of the TiVo, but it looked mostly laughable.

Pretty weak premiere, IMO. Not sure if I'll even continue watching.

Or possibly as "What if Angel was an FBI agent instead of a vampire." Apparently, the guy only has one character.

My favortie part: we got not one, but two different montages of Bones doing her thing over a pop music background.

I agree with Adam Tyner -- this wasn't actively bad, but as it stands now, this is not a very good show, either. Of course, the potential is there, so who knows. Maybe they'll pull a Tru Calling and retool it into something really worthwhile (only to have Fox cancel it).

The only thing that could possibly make me watch this show again is if Jason Priestley gets added to the cast.

If they survive past 5 episodes, I guarantee there will be a long-running secret government subplot that only Bones and Angel can uncover. Maybe they'll figure out what happened to Jordan's mother.

das

HD-DVR'd it. What's the word, das? Should I bother watching it?

it was okay, wasnt as bad as some make it out to be. I liked David Borenanz in it though. He as the best part of the show. I dont care for her co-workers I will watch only because of David Borenanz

"Terrible" was the word he used earlier in the thread. I'd personally lean more towards "mediocre". You won't be impressed, I'm sure, but you might find it to be an okay timewaster the way I did. I wouldn't slap it with a Season Pass, though.

Aha! I entered the thread cause the interesting show title, and saw the surname. Was just about to ask about any relationship to Zooey. Cool...might check out an ep just for that.

Much as I loved Angel, can't count David as a bonus tho. Only non-Angel project I've seen him in is Valentine. Bleh.

hmmm... Yeah, I'll give it a shot. If not for Boreanaz honestly I wouldn't even know this show existed. Shows like this come and go without me ever being aware of them. Sigh.

Don't call her Bones!

I made it through a half hour, though I was reeeeeaaally tempted to switch it after the opening airport scene.

"Mediocre" is probably more fair, but with 37 C.S.I. clones on the air already, "mediocre" becomes a severe waste of time. Breaking it down, the acting was fine, the story was mediocre, and the dialogue was terrible. How much free time you have to waste on stuff like this, Gil, is probably the determining factor.

das

My wife and I had read some good things about it and decided to tune in (we love House, anyway). I thought the two leads were good but the background characters were too annoying and one-dimensional.

When I saw them coming into the lab around that big table, I thought to myself, "Please don't let that be a big hologram thingy" and it was. At that point I could tell that they weren't going for realism at all. I know that CSI stretches things (a 2 hour turnaround on DNA tests) but at least there is some basis in reality.

I think I'll give it one more try and see how it goes. Sometimes there are a lot of changes between the pilot episode and the second episode.

zap2it.com:

The series premiere of "Bones" got FOX off to a healthy start at 8 p.m. with a 6.6/11. An "NCIS" rerun on CBS was second at 5.9/10, beating the season opener of "The Biggest Loser," 5.0/8, on NBC. "Gilmore Girls" returned with a 4.0/7 for The WB, which beat reruns of "According to Jim" and "Rodney" on ABC. UPN went with repeats of "Girlfriends" and "Half & Half."

"We have no idea who this is."
"Increase technobabble by 5%."
"Oh, look! These skeletal remains look just like that lady who went missing a while back!"

das

I thought it was pretty good but was focusing more on seeing Boreanz with stubble for the first time. Not a good sign. Weird seeing him outside too.
I thought it was ok. I dont think I will be watching again.

When I saw that original version, I recognized music from two James Horner scores: "Aliens" and "The Forgotten"


Word for word, that makes two of us.

I don't want to sound like I'm defending it, because I'm really, really not.

I wonder what the interface for that software looks like.

[ ] White
[ ] Black
[/] Mulatto...I mean "mixed race"; they don't say "mulatto" anymore
[ ] Pacific Islander

...and I guess there's a cheekbone density slider too.

If she's so out of touch with popular culture and the media, how would she know who this girl is, let alone be able to recognize her when she's initially shown as being part of a different race?

The thing I found most ridiculous was the "fetal bones" and they said she was not that far along in her pregnancy. When I was pregnant, I would get those week by week emails and the bones did not form until the end of the second trimester.

And the fact that the "ripped from theheadlines" story was Chandra Levy but with a black father. Ok, I guess that makes it different enough.

It was good enough that I will keep watching for now, but it wasn't mind blowing or anything close to that.

This show is scheduled to follow American Idol when it returns in January, with House moving to Mondays. I wonder if that will stay the plan considering all the negative thoughts about the show.

I agree with this. I didn't think it was awful, but it wasn't great either....and with how overly flooded the tv market is with crime shows.....I don't expect this one to last....especially on Fox. I mean they cancelled The Inside over the summer when there was nothing else on......and that was at least an interesting crime show in my opinion, it was dark and interesting. Bones has got nothing going for it really. It's survival will depend on how many people keep watching it just because David B is in it.

If they hadn't of put it on before House, they wouldn't of gotten me to watch and now that I watched it once, that's all, folks. Boy howdy, would it of been asking to much for some acting? How about a plot? And even though I love mud covered fake bones as much as the next gal, that was the worst crime scene depiction I've ever seen...... I was way expecting more with Kathy Reichs involved. I hope they paid her a whole lot of money up front and she invested the heck out of it!

As those that came before have so aptly pointed out, "I don't get it" got old and lame real fast. What planet is she supposed to be from? And if I was her, I'd prefer "Bones" to "boring" anytime........ I'm not interested in watching a gal that supposed to be intelligent and yet she doesn't "get" Mulder and Skully! I almost dropped out after 10 minutes too....... that whole airport ninja thing was butt-ugly-awful.

I did like the Asian gal....she (flash or no flash) was the best thing I saw in that hour. Forgive me for being too lazy to Google her name. She knows who she is.

This show was okay. It has an interesting premise and I like the leads. However, it's not really based in any reality I'm aware of (holograms?), the supporting characters were annoying for the most part, and they're trying too hard to turn Bones and Booth into Sam & Diane/Dave and Maddy. A lot of the dialogue between them seemed forced. I think if they scale their back-and-forth back a bit and try to keep one foot in reality and never ever ever focus a single episode on Bones' team of annoying clichés this show could improve. I'll watch it for a while, but if it doesn't get any better I'll drop it.