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Mar. 29th, 2009 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordI finished Bones!
Ok, so I'm probably going to be totally abnormal here, but I absolutely adore Angela/Hodgins. Mostly because I adore Hodgins. Like, I totally expected to love Booth and Booth/Brennan because that's all anyone talks about when I read about the show. I really did not expect to love Hodgins or Angela/Hodgins as much as I did, though.
I was spoiled for several things before starting the series, the main ones being that Zack was Gormagon's assistant and Angela and Hodgins would be together for awhile and then break up. Well, I was sure about the getting together part, so when they got engaged I was like "Oh, maybe they don't break up." And then they did, which sucked. The whole break-up thing is really stupid and makes me dislike Angela a lot (because even if he could have stopped her from leaving, it's pretty clear that if she said she wanted to get back with him, he would agree immediately). But I'm glad that in the very last episode they showed that Hodgins is still totally in love with her, and they aren't just forgetting that the relationship ever happened.
Anyway, apart from the two of them, I do remember last year after the finale everyone being upset about the Zack is Gormagon's assistant thing, but that didn't really bother me since I knew it from the start. I did really like Zack, but it makes the most sense for it to be him out of all the regular cast members. I think it's kind of cheap that they changed it this year for him to have not actually killed anyone, but it makes more sense, I guess. I just hope they don't bring him back permanently, because even if he didn't kill anyone, as he said, he might as well have. I mean, he helped a serial killer. I can't just handwave that away, you know? And it kind of made me uncomfortable in that episode in the beginning of season 4 that he was in that everyone was all "OMG ZACK WE LOVE YOU WE'RE SO HAPPY YOU'RE HERE" because it seemed like they were totally just excusing everything he did. I understand that they care about him, but I don't know. I mean, especially since, as far as they know, he did kill a man. That's something that I would have a hard time forgiving like they appeared to.
But anyways! I also really love Sweets, mostly because he's played by John Francis Daley! (Everytime I see him in anything, though, I still expect him to look like he did on Freaks and Geeks). I don't really care about Cam. I don't really fully understand the point of her character, I guess. I don't dislike her, but she's just kind of... there.
As I mentioned, I love Booth. Watching this after watching season 1 of Buffy also makes it clear how much David Boreanaz has improved as an actor in the past 10+ years. I was already expecting to like Booth, though, so I don't really have much to say about him. He's just overall awesome.
I like Brennan much more now than I did the first time I watched the first couple episodes of season 1 back when it was first airing. The one thing that still bothers me about her, though, is whenever she says "I hate psychology." I mean, I'm a psych major and will presumably have some sort of career related to psychology, so I always feel kind of insulted? Which is stupid, I know, but it bothers me anyways. Mostly because everything she says is... wrong, I guess? I don't know how to put it. But she talks about how psychology is all about the individual, which it's not. At least not research psychology, which is primarily concerned with generalizing to populations and actually isn't interested in the individual. Sure, therapy is focused on the individual, but that's only a part of psychology. And she mentions that it's not scientific, when research psych is incredibly scientific. And mainly I also just find it really weird to say "I hate psychology" when you're talking about studying it in school. It's like saying "I hate chemistry" but you're not talking about hating taking chemistry classes, but hating chemical reactions and, I don't know, elements and atoms. It just doesn't make sense to phrase it that way. I actually really do like her, it's just this one thing that comes up every so often and it really bothers me every time. But I try to ignore it. Especially since she's kind of softened to that over time, seeing as how she participates in the sessions with Sweets and Booth and even asks Sweets to help her relate to people so she can interrogate them and all that.
Anyways, overall, I'm just kind of sad that I didn't keep watching the show past the first 3 episodes back when I was originally watching it. It's much better than I gave it credit for, and I really enjoy it. Yay for new shows!
I caught up on most TV stuff this weekend. I just have last week's Lost to watch, which I'll do sometime today. I really, really have the urge to watch the HIMYM DVDs that arrived last week, though. I keep telling myself that it's a bad idea because I know exactly what will happen if I start: first I'll just watch the episodes when I have time or when I can do it while doing something else, like making flashcards, but then I'll start just wanting to watch the episodes and pretty soon I'll be like "Let me just finished these next 5 episodes and then I'll write my paper that's due tomorrow!" and it's just not a good idea. We'll see if I can resist. Last week wasn't too bad with Bones (because that's what happened with Bones, as well) since I didn't have TOO much to do, and I was able to multi-task pretty well, but this week it won't be as easy.
Room draw for living on campus is Tuesday and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I requested a number just in case, and I got 291 out of like 500. ugh. Not a good number at all. So now I don't know what to do. There aren't very many singles, and after the singles run out, then you're forced to live with other people in the remaining suites and stuff, and there aren't many of those, and then you get put on the waiting list. So there's a chance I won't even get a room with my number anyway, and I feel like I shouldn't bother showing up. But getting an apartment by myself is so stressful, and everything right now is available in April or May, and I don't want to move in until late August/early September anyway. =/ Ugh, I'm so bad at making decisions. I really don't want to live on campus anymore, though.
Ok, time to work on my lab and watch Lost and do whatever other homework I'm forgetting.
Ok, so I'm probably going to be totally abnormal here, but I absolutely adore Angela/Hodgins. Mostly because I adore Hodgins. Like, I totally expected to love Booth and Booth/Brennan because that's all anyone talks about when I read about the show. I really did not expect to love Hodgins or Angela/Hodgins as much as I did, though.
I was spoiled for several things before starting the series, the main ones being that Zack was Gormagon's assistant and Angela and Hodgins would be together for awhile and then break up. Well, I was sure about the getting together part, so when they got engaged I was like "Oh, maybe they don't break up." And then they did, which sucked. The whole break-up thing is really stupid and makes me dislike Angela a lot (because even if he could have stopped her from leaving, it's pretty clear that if she said she wanted to get back with him, he would agree immediately). But I'm glad that in the very last episode they showed that Hodgins is still totally in love with her, and they aren't just forgetting that the relationship ever happened.
Anyway, apart from the two of them, I do remember last year after the finale everyone being upset about the Zack is Gormagon's assistant thing, but that didn't really bother me since I knew it from the start. I did really like Zack, but it makes the most sense for it to be him out of all the regular cast members. I think it's kind of cheap that they changed it this year for him to have not actually killed anyone, but it makes more sense, I guess. I just hope they don't bring him back permanently, because even if he didn't kill anyone, as he said, he might as well have. I mean, he helped a serial killer. I can't just handwave that away, you know? And it kind of made me uncomfortable in that episode in the beginning of season 4 that he was in that everyone was all "OMG ZACK WE LOVE YOU WE'RE SO HAPPY YOU'RE HERE" because it seemed like they were totally just excusing everything he did. I understand that they care about him, but I don't know. I mean, especially since, as far as they know, he did kill a man. That's something that I would have a hard time forgiving like they appeared to.
But anyways! I also really love Sweets, mostly because he's played by John Francis Daley! (Everytime I see him in anything, though, I still expect him to look like he did on Freaks and Geeks). I don't really care about Cam. I don't really fully understand the point of her character, I guess. I don't dislike her, but she's just kind of... there.
As I mentioned, I love Booth. Watching this after watching season 1 of Buffy also makes it clear how much David Boreanaz has improved as an actor in the past 10+ years. I was already expecting to like Booth, though, so I don't really have much to say about him. He's just overall awesome.
I like Brennan much more now than I did the first time I watched the first couple episodes of season 1 back when it was first airing. The one thing that still bothers me about her, though, is whenever she says "I hate psychology." I mean, I'm a psych major and will presumably have some sort of career related to psychology, so I always feel kind of insulted? Which is stupid, I know, but it bothers me anyways. Mostly because everything she says is... wrong, I guess? I don't know how to put it. But she talks about how psychology is all about the individual, which it's not. At least not research psychology, which is primarily concerned with generalizing to populations and actually isn't interested in the individual. Sure, therapy is focused on the individual, but that's only a part of psychology. And she mentions that it's not scientific, when research psych is incredibly scientific. And mainly I also just find it really weird to say "I hate psychology" when you're talking about studying it in school. It's like saying "I hate chemistry" but you're not talking about hating taking chemistry classes, but hating chemical reactions and, I don't know, elements and atoms. It just doesn't make sense to phrase it that way. I actually really do like her, it's just this one thing that comes up every so often and it really bothers me every time. But I try to ignore it. Especially since she's kind of softened to that over time, seeing as how she participates in the sessions with Sweets and Booth and even asks Sweets to help her relate to people so she can interrogate them and all that.
Anyways, overall, I'm just kind of sad that I didn't keep watching the show past the first 3 episodes back when I was originally watching it. It's much better than I gave it credit for, and I really enjoy it. Yay for new shows!
I caught up on most TV stuff this weekend. I just have last week's Lost to watch, which I'll do sometime today. I really, really have the urge to watch the HIMYM DVDs that arrived last week, though. I keep telling myself that it's a bad idea because I know exactly what will happen if I start: first I'll just watch the episodes when I have time or when I can do it while doing something else, like making flashcards, but then I'll start just wanting to watch the episodes and pretty soon I'll be like "Let me just finished these next 5 episodes and then I'll write my paper that's due tomorrow!" and it's just not a good idea. We'll see if I can resist. Last week wasn't too bad with Bones (because that's what happened with Bones, as well) since I didn't have TOO much to do, and I was able to multi-task pretty well, but this week it won't be as easy.
Room draw for living on campus is Tuesday and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I requested a number just in case, and I got 291 out of like 500. ugh. Not a good number at all. So now I don't know what to do. There aren't very many singles, and after the singles run out, then you're forced to live with other people in the remaining suites and stuff, and there aren't many of those, and then you get put on the waiting list. So there's a chance I won't even get a room with my number anyway, and I feel like I shouldn't bother showing up. But getting an apartment by myself is so stressful, and everything right now is available in April or May, and I don't want to move in until late August/early September anyway. =/ Ugh, I'm so bad at making decisions. I really don't want to live on campus anymore, though.
Ok, time to work on my lab and watch Lost and do whatever other homework I'm forgetting.
