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Bones on a Blue Line
Original Air Date: Apr 1, 2010
Karen – Sr. Staff Writer
Karen@thetwocentscorp.com
Well Bones is back…finally! It was a great to have the Squint Squad back in our living rooms and we finally got to see Booth and Bones realize their love for each other and they finally had sex!
Just kidding…April Fools!
We start out with Sweets on the subway and meeting a young man who just got the news he has beaten cancer. He shares with Sweets that he is going to live life to the fullest and stop holding back. Then an earthquake hits the area and as the ground starts shaking, a huge water burst comes crashing toward the subway cars. Sweets and the young man see a skeleton wash up to the window and then the car gets thrown off track and the kid hit the pole in the center of the car and is killed instantly.
Sweets is quite stressed out with all that has happened and pushes Daisy away as she tries to comfort him. He feels he doesn’t want to disappear without living life the way he wants to live.
Meanwhile Bones is being interviewed by a Japanese writer who is doing a story on Temp and her new book “Bone of Contention”. Kind of hard for me to pronounce let alone spell the characters name, so I will just call her Iggy.
Iggy asks about the similarities of the characters Kathy and Andy to Bones & Booth. She mentions the hot sex life of them in the book and wonders if it is the same as in real life. Bones says “no”.
Daisy tells Hodgins that the steamy sex scene on pg. 187 is one that she and Sweets tried and the neighbors complained. Hodgins doesn’t want to hear anymore.
But then, Hodgins goes back and reads ahead to pg 187 and his eyes get wide and he runs to Angela’s office. Here we find out that this sex scene is “his thing he does”. Angela told Brennen but not who did it. This was a pretty funny scene and Hodgins likes to claim fame to his famous move.
In a quick, between commercial breaks, we learn Sweets title of his book is “Heart of the Matter” and he concludes Booth and Brennen are in love with each other. (ahhh, yea, we know that)
Iggy tells Bones that the “fluff” is the important part of the book, not the forensic stuff. Bones doesn’t understand why people only care about the characters and not the case. I found this quite funny, because this is exactly how I write these recaps. I could really care less about the case, only what is going on with the characters. Bones tells Booth that she gets info from Angela…and that she wants to try pg 187…hehe.
Booth then asks Angela how she helps Bones with the book. She tells him that she usually gets a glass of wine and listens to the story and then inputs what she thinks should happen.
Iggy follows Booth and Bones to a pawn shop where she finds it sexy when Booth pulls his gun. Bones chimes in that it IS sexy and he never misses his shot…unlike Andy, who has missed.
Bones realizes that Angela has helped with the book and decides to give Angela a check for her contribution to the success of it. Angela opens the check and practically falls over. Bones gave her 25% of the royalties. Angela is stunned that this is JUST 25%! She must have made boo-koo cash!
Finally, Sweets confronts Daisy and she is quite nervous that he is going to break up with her (not that she knows for sure, because nobody has ever broken up with her..lol). But Sweets doesn’t want to let life get by and has had a life altering moment, so he proposes to Daisy…No April Fools joke..he really does! Woo hoo!
Well, what did you think? Did you like the fact that Daisy and Sweets are engaged? I am.
Did you notice the characters name is Kathy and the true author the show is based on is Kathy (Reichs)?
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TheTwoCents 
Yep, it’s been the running joke through the series (when they mention her books) that Temperance Brennan writes about Kathy Reichs. Also, it’s been mentioned many times that Tempe is wealthy due to the sales of her books, so when she gave Angela a check for 25% of her estimated sales on all three books, that’s going to make Angela a wealthy woman in her own right.
I really liked this part of the story because Temperance is so matter-of-fact I couldn’t really imagine her writing character development. She would see them in the way that they are useful to the story, but not give them private lives at all unless it somehow serves to solve the mystery.
The page 187 bit reminded me of an episode of Seinfeld after Elaine teaches Cutty how to do what Jerry referred to as his “signature move” and Cutty then shares it with the guys in some male-bonding locker room type talk. I saw online that the subway set they used for the earthquake had also been used by the Seinfeld show and I wondered if the writers threw in page 187 as a wink or a nod. 🙂
I wonder if a real book will come out like they did on Castle. That would be pretty cool!
(Making some Seinfeld corrections., that’s Puddy, not Cutty, and he learned the move from Jerry’s bragging before he ever met Elaine. Elaine was surprised when Puddy knew it and Jerry was upset that Puddy used his move. Obviously, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen any Seinfeld!)
It was a very brave thing for Brennan to admit that Angela has helped her a lot with her books and gave her 25% of the book royalties. What pissed me off was that Japanese reporter rude comment in the end.
Angela might have given her some ideas on how to make the book better but Brennan remains the writer. She was the one who incorporated the ideas into the book. Unless Angela actually wrote major pieces of the book herself she cannot be called a co-author.
I just watched this episode and found this post trying to see if anyone had ideas about how much 25% of the royalties came out to.
Just to clarify, the comment the Japanese reporter made about taking credit for other people write was about the man who was murdered, not Brennan. The reporter didn’t know about Angela’s involvement with the book.