Bones (TV Series) The Brain in the Bot (2017) User Reviews

Character growth

[briezey · 7/10 · 20 September 2022]

I'd say that this was a pretty decent episode.

To me, the case feels a bit unresolved. Like I feel like Hodgins put so much effort into mapping out that chaos just for the killer to be a guy on LSD. Also, why did Hodgins have to map the evidence like that? I'm sure Angela would have been able to do the same thing in like half the time on the Angelatron. It made for some interesting scenes but if this was real it probably would have been a waste of time.

One little acting mistake: when Booth is looking for that anti-robots guy in the dark abandoned building, he has hands positioned the wrong way. When using a gun and a flashlight at the same time, the hand holding the flashlight (aka the non-dominant hand) goes under the hand holding the gun. This way the gun hand has support and can push down on the flashlight hand if you were to actually need to shoot.

I really liked Brennan's surprise party. Before I finished the episode I was planning on coming on here and talking about how I wish she was a bit more supportive of her friends but clearly I was fooled like the rest of the team. I thought it was so sweet that Brennan was the one who nominated Angela and recommended Daisy. I love the character growth.

Overall, this episode wasn't anything crazy but it had some decent storylines.

Best part: Booths gift to Brennan was sweet, I can't wait to see what happens with this Zack storyline

Worst part: unresolved storylines (unless I just missed some obvious explanation about all the random trails through the woods that Hodgins had to graph)

I Liked the Gift

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 25 March 2023]

Things are certainly winding down as we finish the last year of the show. A man who has developed robots to help with autistic children has been found dead. His genius, however, is what makes him a target, that and a bit of arrogance. Looking internally seems logical because jealousy and competitiveness are at work in such a futuristic industry. While all this is going on, Angela has been awarded an extremely prestigious honor. Daisy also waits on a leadership position. But there is also Bones turning forty and throwing her own surprise birthday party (real surprises engender pain to the recipient). But somehow the whole thing seems a bit bland and Brennan's actions seem outside her usual being. One thing that is revealed to us. There is something going on with Brennan's father. It is hinted at a couple times.

This stuff again

[boigonh · 7 September 2022]

This isn't the first episode Bones has done playing off autism. For a show with a clearly undiagnosed autistic woman at the center they didn't talk to any autistic people about any of these episodes. Yes there are scientists putting effort into making us pretend to be neurotypical but they shouldn't be glorified.

For a show with one of the first autistic women characters, glorifying the idea that we should give up all the things that make Brennan who she is, is remarkably tone deaf. I turned it off after the intro.

Since there's a minimum 600 characters, put those tease arch dollars into robots to help with the stuff executive function makes difficult. Let us be who we are. We get along fine with each other.