Bones - The Loyalty in the Lie

Bones premiere time!!!
The last time this happened, you bastards ripped my heart in  two, so let's not have that happen again, shall we??

I still miss you, Sweets

Brennan had her baby, a little boy named Hank, and he's precious of course. Their genes would make the most adorable children ever. Hank's also wearing a Flyers onesie and HAHAHA this just happened:

@David_Boreanaz And the #Flyers are big Hank Booth fans. (And we guess Seeley Booth too...)

— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) October 2, 2015

Cam's hair is long again, and she's considering hiring Arastoo as the replacement for Brennan. But oh dear, can you say conflict of interest??

They find a body with a gun burned into it, after someone set a van on fire. And Angela is freaking out because the gun belonged to Booth and that theoretically means the body is Booth and MY GOD WHAT DID I JUST SAY ABOUT NOT HURTING ME DEEPLY

Just kidding, Emily Deschanel tweeted this photo of a Booth hospital bracelet so he's not dead. But he's still missing. And his wedding ring was found at the house - in the box where his gun should be, but isn't. So something hinky is going on here. Seems kinda early for a lengthy montage interspersed with flashbacks, but there it is...

Brennan runs into the room and says "It's not Booth!" But we knew that already... And so she uses that moment to look down on Arastoo because he missed the lack of an injury that indicated it wasn't Booth. And I also think this is the first time I've heard her refer to him as 'my husband' so many times in one scene.

Aubrey has sprouted a backbone and nearly bites the head off of some Internal Investigations lady who comes in referring to the missing man Booth as 'a suspect'. Uhh... It's not possible that the dead guy could have stolen Booth's gun? Or that Booth gave it to him for protection??

Same woman is now taking Brennan on, and I hate making this generalization when meeting a new female character, but OH MY GOD SHE'S SUCH A BITCH (who is just doing her job BUT IN THE MOST BITCHY LEAST SENSITIVE MANNER POSSIBLE)

Oh my god the dead body is Jared.. As in Jared Booth. Which makes me sad, because I really liked him and wanted him to come back at some point buuuut I guess that ain't gonna happen. Also explains why Booth would have given him his gun.

Oh Jared. We hardly knew ye. 

Someone sent Booth a Boy-Scout coded message that Aubrey translates to 'GO' from a burner cell, that was bought by Jared. Wow, they managed to get back the actress who played his wife after all that time, only for her to be throwing rudeness in all directions - but her I will let off the hook because she just found out her husband was killed. This is mourning rudeness.

Arastoo was going to propose to Cam, Angela found out, but he was embarrassed after missing important things in the case, so he thinks she'll say no, but then she accidentally sees the ring box and so he shows her the ring but doesn't ask anyways, and then Hodgins walks in and thinks he's proposed but they have to correct that assumption and he just leaves all awkwardly. Ah, classic Bones.

Oooooh, preeeeetttty

Aubrey and the II lady go to interview one of Jared's army buddies, who tells her "I resent you putting your garbage assumptions on him." GOOD FOR YOU SIR.

Stereotypical scene of Brennan looking into her old office with a longing face, and Angela bringing her yogurt (because that's what women eat when they're sad, right??) and them discussing Booth which then cuts away to a shot of Booth lying bleeding (from a gunshot wound?) in an alley.

David Boreanaz has been sharing hilarious 'theories' on what happened to Booth on Twitter

Booth is off looking for his socks! The sock thief ...

— David Boreanaz (@David_Boreanaz) October 2, 2015

Booth is off writing the great American Novel

— David Boreanaz (@David_Boreanaz) October 2, 2015

Booth fell out of the car on the freeway and he's bleeding out! Need gauze

— David Boreanaz (@David_Boreanaz) October 2, 2015

All their evidence leads them to a giant fancy mansion-type house where they go in with a SWAT team and then, even though the majority of the house is pristine, there's a room with 3 or 4 guys all shot dead inside it, and blood everywhere. Oh dear. None of them is Booth, but I'm SUUUUURE stupid II lady will want to keep calling him a 'suspect' again.

So it was a robbery gone wrong, and the lady said "we will get who ever is behind this. And one of them is Booth." Aubrey did that clenched-jaw thing he does that's kinda hot but also makes him look like he's about to smack someone.

BTW it should be mentioned that Caroline is back and I love her so much, She did some digging on Agent Miller (from II) and her partner had also gone missing - a fact she seemed happy to leave out.

It was a 5-man team who broke in, and they stole about 2 million dollars. But now they've figured out that Booth has been hurt and is bleeding and needs help. Somehow he managed to find a bathroom and he's cleaning himself up, but is clearly in a lot of pain - and with some unsavoury characters. Also with Jared's army buddy who Aubrey interviewed earlier. And a looooot of money.

Aaaaaaand 'To be continued.'
RUDE!!!

One more time for me, Jon... 

Bonus: This happened during the West Coast airing of the show. I love those two

@David_Boreanaz I thought you would know. #checkingthesubshop

— John Boyd (@johnny_boyd) October 2, 2015

NCIS: LA - Active Measures

I don't think I ever paid attention to the title format of this show, what with the colon before the name of the city. I think I just kind of assumed it was like the CSI title format - and it is!

Sorry this is later than usual, as I explained in my Big Bang Theory post from last night, I was watching baseball because the BLUE JAYS RULE. TV premiere night is usually my favourite night of the fall season (my birthday being a close second) but meaningful September baseball is so damn exciting/stressful, especially tonight's game. It won't happen again (it totally might happen again).

If you need a refresher on what happened in the season finale (I know I did) you can find my blog with that recap over here . Now, on with the show!

Callen is walking in a dark alley (side note - the beard is back!) when he comes across a mysterious stranger with a gun - only it's not a stranger, it's Sam! And Sam shoots someone else who looks mysterious and sketchy, and was apparently following Callen.

Kensi and Deeks are running/biking along the beach, he looks like every adorably backwards-hatted frat boy ever. All these random girls keep saying hi to him, as he's convincing Kensi to eat breakfast. Because it's the most important meal of the day! I never miss breakfast! It's an excuse to eat sweet things or bacon or bacon AND sweet things!

*Drools*

But it's cute because Deeks says he loves her and she loves him too and AWWWWWWWWWWW

Callen's taken off on Hetty, without her permission, and slammed the door - rude! You don't slam doors on Hetty Lange! He was doing something on a Chinese computer when she just casually showed up at his house.

Granger doesn't look worried, he looks annoyed. He says Sam wouldn't like to see him when he's angry. I'm guessing Granger has the same range of emotions as Darth Vader:

Eric should not be trusted with a gun, I have the feeling he's going to hurt himself... Sam wants him to keep tabs on Callen, which is sketchy and a little creepy.

The guy who Callen was meeting was Kensi's old pal CIA officer Sabatino. And Callen has gone 100% off the grid. Hetty is worried and kind of sad (because she has facial expressions).

Callen needs to check on the guy Kirken who Deeks helped fake his death last season (remember. the one in the bathhouse?). He said he'd help Callen if Callen steals a painting for him. Granger meets with Sabatino, who says that Callen was asking about Arkady and the dead guy was a bad guy and had actually been following Sabatino.

Funny enough Deeks was what Kirken had asked for initially when making the deal with Callen... But Deeks refuses to go back to the bathhouse. Not that I blame him. That did not look like a good time.

Callen uses some kind of drone to spy on Kirken, which is incredibly convenient because there's a lawnmower going nearby to drown it out. That thing is noisy. Sam breaks into Callen's house, like any good friend would, and talks to him via the security camera, asking him to come back or at least let him in.

Kensi and Deeks have one of those ambiguous conversations that basically goes like this:
"What's bothering you"
"Things"
"What things"
"I don't know"
"Tell me the things"
"I can't"
"Why not?"
"Because I don't think I know them"

He'd seen someone from IA snooping around in his garbage, and also tells her a story about his first day on the job he was paired with an old-school guy who had interrogation methods of questionable legality. Said guy had also shoved his gun in Deeks' mouth for reporting him. Yikes. And then Granger interrupts that conversation (as he does) to get them all back to Ops.

Sam agrees to try to track Callen down, Eric becomes paranoid and thinks Callen has 'snapped' and gone rogue. And then he starts listing movies, because clearly that sounds logical. Sam mocks him by going along with it and then exaggerating so as to make the theory sound ridiculous.

It's ok Eric, I know another adorable nerd who'd be happy to go along with your conspiracy...

OH MY GOD

Hetty just straight-up tasered him!! I knew something was up when she was holding her hands behind her back when she confronted him in that parking lot. But to tase the guy?! Somehow he manages to get up and run away in spite of the tasing, and runs into - you guessed it- Sam.

"I'm working the streets"

"You look like the streets are working you"

A+ banter from Sam in a tense situation. But then he just lets him go! I don't get this, Sam still doesn't know what Callen's doing, or why, or the fact that he'll be ok. 

Hetty and Sam get into an argument and she tells him to 'step off' and in that moment I believed that she could seriously kick his ass. She also told Granger she 'doesn't need any damn tea'. GO HETTY!!! Some typical Nellric awkwardness when they're like the kids trying to sneak away from the table during a fight without finishing their vegetables, and their dad Granger calls them back down. Sorry, guys. Nice try, though. 

Sam gets a big grin on his face and drops the bomb - he put a tracking device on Callen. Clever man!

Callen should not wear hats. They do not look good on him. Somehow he changed the temperature in the other Russian guy's house remotely - I have no clue what this has to do with the whole painting-stealing plan - and he breaks in and takes it. Suddenly Kirken and his goons appear out of nowhere and point guns at Callen. They were planning to take him hostage because someone else wanted him in exchange for the painting. But the team showed up in time and no one got shot or kidnapped or anything. 

Callen knew the whole time that Sam was tracking him, Sam doesn't believe this, and I think I detected some Granger sarcasm! 

I agree, Granger. 

Sam and Hetty made up, she forgives him for not following orders. They hug and Deeks gets inappropriate thoughts that cause Kensi (and me) to cringe. 

Hetty gives Callen a list of Kirken's contacts, and then threatens to fire him if he goes behind her back again. I still don't get why he had to keep all of them out of it... But oh well he's back and everyone's safe and it's all good. Yay!

Big Bang Theory - The Matrimonial Momentum

Sorry all my posts are late today - I was watching the Blue Jays game. Normally I'd have been all over 3 shows premiering in the same day, but meaningful September baseball is a priority!!

No, Ron, no I do not!! 

Leonard and Penny are about to get married, and Sheldon calls and interrupts them to tell him about his breakup with Amy. Poor Sheldon! He's heartbroken! And sounds like a sassy teenager.

Amy is mega-insulted, also sounds like a sassy teenager. Sheldon's being passive-aggressive. Apparently it's pathetic to watch a wedding (even on the internet) without a date. Oops I might be pathetic then... I've never had a date to any of the weddings I've been to. Although, I was 7 when I went to the first one, so that might not count...

"We make everyone feel awkward, that's our thing!" Sheldon has never been so self-aware hahaha

Vegas weddings always seemed so sad to me. I couldn't imagine having no control over my wedding, or not having any friends or family there. Not that I'm getting married anytime soon...

Penny doesn't have any proper vows prepared, so she just recites the lyrics to 'You've Got a Friend in Me'. Which I thought was weird (so did the minister) but Leonard loved it, so that's good!

Sheldon insults Amy and they have a huge fight and she decides they're officially broken up - right in the middle of the wedding. So everyone missed the end of the ceremony.

Leonard screws up by continuing to talk about that girl he'd kissed. Apparently he works with her, and Penny freaks out, and well there goes the honeymoon!

Sheldon's mom! I love Sheldon's mom. He's sworn off women and pop rocks, because apparently they both hurt you on purpose.

Pop rocks: Practically the same thing as a woman

Penny's hair sprouted some length on the drive home from Las Vegas... No WAY it was long enough to pull into a mini-bun the night before.

Apparently if one's hands are full, saying 'knock knock knock' is a good enough substitute for Sheldon's ritual. He lets slip that the girl Leonard made out with is 'brilliant and attractive', and Penny's reaction to that was priceless.

Stewart continues to be kinda creepy, first hitting on newly-single Amy and then saying 'innnteresting' when he finds out Penny is at home alone.

So nothing really got resolved in this one, I gotta say that's a bit disapointing! Leonard and Sheldon are both sad, Penny's miffed, and Amy's alone. And everyone else had minimal screentime. Let's hope next week ties up some loose ends!

NCIS: Los Angeles - Deep Trouble (Part 2)

EEEEEEEP
That is all.

This is possibly one of the most-anticipated premieres for me this year. Partly cos of the stupid cliffhanger, partly cos I love the people on this show! They're like a little family, complete with excellent chirps. AND THEY LIVE-TWEET!!!!

Who among us hasn't compared our sibling to a sheep?

New theme sequence is new! And includes Eric and Nell removing their sunglasses in sync - I'm going to take that as an homage to CSI: Miami and give it a thumbs-up.

Who exactly is steering that sub? And where is Hetty going?? And Granger - YOU DO NOT TURN OFF HENRIETTA LANGE!! She has a lipstick gun in her purse and she's not afraid to use it!

Friendly reminder: Hetty is a badass.

Everyone keeps saying Kensi and Talia (remember, that cute DEA agent that had cringe-inducing chemistry with Deeks?) are 'twins'. But all I can tell is that they both have brown hair and crushes on the same dude. And like kicking ass. That could be anybody. Even me! (If I knew martial arts and Deeks was a real person and I knew him)

Where the hell did Sam find a Sharpie on that submarine?? Oooh turns out there are actually people on the submarine! And they're terrorists. Muslim terrorists. Typical TV.

YOU DO NOT CONDESCEND TO KENSI BLYE!!! And Talia gets a headbutt to prove it. Also, Talia is borderline-creepy with all her innuendo - also hey, girly, has it occurred to you that a) Kensi is referring to Deeks as her 'partner' and not her 'boyfriend' because she wants to stay professional and keep her job and b) it doesn't matter if you hit on Deeks, if he doesn't like you, he's not gonna reciprocate?? Sheesh...

I seriously don't see the resemblance. Just because they're both wearing plaid...

Callen just coined the term 'mathmagician' and suddenly Sam is a human calculator. And because they're running out of air, they're gonna go crazy before they die. This ought to be good.

Here's a clue: some people bought fertilizer. This is suspicious only if they are not gardening. HETTY'S BAAAACK!!! And Granger is interrogating some guy who was on the season finale who we've forgotten already - apparently he built the sub? OOH so he can help! Maybe? I don't get it.

Deeks is also a human calculator, and has just informed a dying man who is 'refusing to die' that he has 'refused to grow up' which was unnecessary, because we already knew that. Oh, how I've missed his banter. Even if it's not with Kensi. Should he really be drinking on the job? Even as a bargaining tool? HAHAHAHA nevermind it's apple juice. And he fooled the guy into thinking he was dying, but he's really not. So many mind games here!!

Apple juice: pretending to be scotch on TV since... The invention of colour TV.

YES LET'S START A FIRE ON THIS UNDERWATER SUB WHICH IS FULL OF EXPLOSIVES!!! THAT WILL NOT CAUSE ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL!!! Sam logic. And is it just me, or is LL Cool J starting to look like a wax figure of himself in this scene?

And ok why does every single Muslim terrorist on this show have to have a really thick accent?? Like seriously. Especially the ones who are supposed to 'blend in' always drop their American voices after they're revealed to be bad guys. How cheesy is that?? (And yet they still communicate with each other in English, of course)

Holy crap how has only a half hour gone by already?? I feel like so much has happened already!! TIME IS IRRELEVANT IN NCIS:LA LAND!! Callen is joking about Sam dying, and this might be the beginning of him going insane. 'Too soon' to joke about Sam dying BEFORE he dies... I would think 'too early'. And oh please, these terrorists are capable of driving a sub but don't know Morse Code?

Hetty!! You know praying is a useless plan of action!! Why do you not have a better idea?? Or are you saving it until the last possible second just so you can be awesome as usual?? Cos that's a really mean plot device, you know... 

Speaking of mean things, it is mean for them to post this and remind me that I am not on that couch right now.

Typically, the ladies gang up on Deeks, who asks if he's missing something - Kensi replies 'yes, it's called a frontal cortex'. ZING! And then he gets his revenge by pretending to be Kensi's fiance and tackling an old lady. (She was a bad guy, don't worry).

Callen tells Sam he needs to act like Mr. T, and Sam wonders aloud if he would have been better off with Deeks. [Side note: Sam & Deeks trapped in a room together?? I want to see that episode please NCIS:LA writers!!!!]

The Navy is now dropping bombs over the sub.. And for some reason, the Navy bomber looks an awful lot like a commercial jet. When did Hetty get so religious??

Terrorists want to die on their mission, but now they're so desperate they just decided to kill Sam and Callen in an effort to stop sinking. I don't get the physics or the logic of this show. But obviously it backfires, because Sam and Callen are awesome. We interrupt this episode of NCIS:LA to bring you Jaws, with the terrorists being snuck up on and dragged under the surface.  (By Sam and Callen. There isn't a shark on this sub. Want to make that clear.)

DUN dun... DUN dun... DUN dun... DUNdunDUNdunDUNdun etc.

The Navy drops the bombs anyway, team at Ops looks somber, shit-they're-dead-fakeout aaaand then they surface right beneath the helicopter containing Kensi and Deeks - and for good measure, throw in some witty banter while treading water. Nothing can phase those two.

Deeks just uttered the phrase 'nerd herd' and I'm taking it as a shoutout to Chuck. Speaking of whom, it's Zachary Levi's birthday today - yaaaaay!! The day before mine - double yaaaay!!!

A motto for today, and every day.

I know you're celebrating the fact that no one died, but should ALL of you be drinking at work???

Season 6 is off to a good start! See you next week! (Hope you all remember it's on Mondays now, I know that's going to mess with me for a while)

Bones - The Conspiracy in the Corpse

Bones being back makes me really excited because I have been watching Season 7 on DVD the last couple of days and it's really interesting to compare Booth and Bones when they first got together as a couple to the Booth and Bones that are now been married and have an almost-three-year-old.

Plus, it's one of those shows where the cast members really feel like a family and they all just make me so happy - except for the conspiracy bullshit that happened in the Season 9 finale and has left Booth arrested and him and Bones with a shot-up house.

Booth now comes with a beard and looks a lot older all of a sudden. Maybe that's just the harsh prison lighting. He also gets beat up a couple times. I'm still dumbstruck that the circumstances under which he's been imprisoned don't seem incredibly stupid to anyone else.

Sneaky squints are being sneaky and 'keeping things on the down-low'.... Not that anyone in the FBI will wonder what they're up to, in PLAIN SIGHT in the MIDDLE OF THE LAB.

Bones has a tense visit with Booth, and the security guard at the jail has been watching too much Arrested Development

Apparently the only way to get Booth out of jail is for Bones to walk into the office of a federal prosecutor and tell him 'Oh hi, I'm here to blackmail you.'....And it worked.

She also illustrates the crucial difference between being ordered not to do something, and promising not to do something.

I need to applaud the set designers on this show... Not only is the lab and attached offices utterly stunning, but THEIR NEW HOUSE OH MY GOD it looks like one of those places on Cribs or something.

Booth can't go back to work yet because he's a 'pariah' at the FBI office. Excellent use of the word. And I love that this show (like House) is one that would freak out Peter Griffin every five minutes, because they say the title almost constantly. Both as a nickname and as a noun. I'd wager it's one of the most-said words on the show.

He said it! And again! And there too!

'Insinuating' is also a good vocabulary word. But apparently people who are friends with Booth's boss should not be intimidated. Shouldn't they do a better job of figuring out who's sketchy and who's not before they hire/befriend them? But Booth is being followed by a handsome agent guy who Booth manages to outsmart. Apparently his name is SA James Aubry. And don't just take my word for it - one of the writers thinks he's a looker too.

Booth hasn't called Sweets a 'kid' in a while so he needs to call Aubry one now. I think Sweets would call that 'transference'. I hope they keep this one around for a while... Not like all the other random agents who are there for like four episodes then vanish, never to be seen/heard from again.

Like what happened to her?!!

Or her?? Although it's plausible she got fired after shooting Sweets... Poor kid, TWO 'accidental' bullet wounds.

Or... OK he wasn't an FBI agent but can you blame me for wanting more of him??!!

WHAT THE HELL SURPRISE DAISY AND PREGNANT DAISY NO LESS!!!!! Baby Sweets is gonna have a baby!!! This makes me very happy but slightly less happy because Daisy.

"It hurts when I breathe" I think Booth is channeling his inner Shania Twain. And then he and Bones start undressing and making out on their bed which is in front of a GIANT wall of windows. Not that they have neighbours or anything...

According to Twitter, TJ Thyne (Hodgins) and Tamara Taylor (Cam) laugh the most on set. I don't know why, but the idea of them giggling like idiots in the middle of shooting just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I love these people!

Bones says Sweets is going to be a good father. I concur. Remember how cute he was in Season 8 with Christine?? I couldn't find photographic evidence of that - but you know it to be true!

Suddenly, in the words of one of the writers, 'everyone's being blackmailed!' (Sounds like an episode of The Mentalist, amiright?)

(Commercial break) friendly reminder that I love Elementary... But it's not back until October 30th. Poo.

Sad Sherlock is all of us.

I gotta say, this show is going to be so helpful when I take Human Anatomy next semester. Things like 'spinal processes' are going to come in handy. Also Christine looks way older than she should. Children don't age at a normal pace in the TV universe.

Surprise Aubrey! Apparently he answers to 'James, Jimmy... Anything'. Does 'Handsome' fall into that category? And after seeing the adorable sleeping Christine, he wants to get himself a child... DOES EVERYONE ON THIS SHOW JUST MAKE BABIES IN THEIR SPARE TIME??

Don't just take my word for it...

Oh for shit's sake, more conspiracy bullshit, taking the remains that were the last clue they had. But Cam is brilliant! And swapped out the bones!! She thinks of everything!

And then the whole world just went to shit and I want to tweet the writers saying I hate them, but I tried that and one of them (another Emily, no less) favourited my tweet but no. Just no. I don't even have any words. Fuck this show. Not my baby, not precious baby Sweets. I get it, they bring in a young, dark-haired cute agent just to replace him, right? Like 'here's your new Sweets' NO TAKE HIM BACK FORGET WHAT I SAID EARLIER!

Is this how things work in the Bones universe? Someone has to die whenever someone has a baby? So the baby can have a namesake? Karmic balance or something? Bones' daughter was named after her mother, who, granted, died years before but it's still sad. Then we have Angela & Hodgins' son named partly after Vincent - which reminds me, I STILL HAVEN'T FORGIVEN YOU GUYS FOR KILLING VINCENT!!! And now baby Lance? Why must they kill all of my favourites? First Zach goes psycho, then Vincent, now this, and they already gave Wendell cancer!! Isn't that enough??

Swear to god, this is the most empathy I've ever felt for Daisy.
And then when Brennan said "This isn't Sweets. It's a set of remains that will help us find the man who killed Sweets." I just lost it. Let me put it this way - I read the entirety of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (for the first time) today, and this hurt me more. Not okay. NOT FREAKING OKAY.

Apparently John Francis Daley wanted to pursue his writing, so they killed him. I'm getting flashbacks of Kal Penn on House.  We have a fatherless baby so you can get a sequel to Horrible Bosses. You're welcome.

It hurt me to look through all the pictures of him just to choose one. So here are a bunch.

Remember the goatee?

*Sobs*

At risk of sounding like Daisy - goodnight, sweet Lancelot.

This turned into a much longer and much more screamy post than I intended. Sometimes emotions get the better of you. I can just go back to watching Season 7 - EXCEPT THAT'LL MAKE ME CRY NOW. Good grief.

Screw it, I'm gonna go watch Friends.