Most Hated Bones Episode Game

The Devil in the Details 21 +1
Player Under Pressure 14 -2

I like Josh Malina but then I did learn about the cringe factor from Player. Oh, well....

The Devil in the Details 19
Player Under Pressure 15

Devil in the Details 20
Player under Pressure 13

-2 Devil in the Details
+1 Player under Pressure

Devil in the Details 21
Player under Pressure 11

+ 1 Devil
- 2 Player

Devil in the Details 22
Player under Pressure 9

-2 player
+1 devil

Devil in the Details 20
Player under Pressure 10

Devil -2
Player +1

Devil in the Details 21
Player under Pressure 8

Devil in the Details +1
Player under Pressure -2

Devil in the Details 22
Player under Pressure 6

Devil in the Details +1
Player under Pressure -2

Devil in the Details 23
Player under Pressure 4

Devil+1
Player-2

Devil in the Details 24
Player under Pressure 2

Devil +1
Player -2

RM

And I believe we have a winner! The most hated Bones episode is....

The Devil in the Details 25

Devil + 1
Player -2

RubyRuby wrote:And I believe we have a winner! The most hated Bones episode is....

The Devil in the Details 25

Devil + 1
Player -2

w00t! Devil, the DoubleDeath of Season Five! Of course if not for Baily DDotDD could be sitting there right now, but I'm content that Devil won.

RM

I vehemently disagree!

I loathe DDotDD, but Devil's up there on the list too. Interesting results.

Well... personally, Devil was one of my favorites of S5.

THX1138 wrote:

RubyRuby wrote:And I believe we have a winner! The most hated Bones episode is....

The Devil in the Details 25

Devil + 1
Player -2

w00t! Devil, the DoubleDeath of Season Five! Of course if not for Baily DDotDD could be sitting there right now, but I'm content that Devil won.

RM

Ok, I cannot be the only one who doesn't hate that episode.

bailey wrote:

THX1138 wrote:

RubyRuby wrote:And I believe we have a winner! The most hated Bones episode is....

The Devil in the Details 25

Devil + 1
Player -2

w00t! Devil, the DoubleDeath of Season Five! Of course if not for Baily DDotDD could be sitting there right now, but I'm content that Devil won.

RM

Ok, I cannot be the only one who doesn't hate that episode.

Of course not. I'm sure the folks who wrote it thought it was a good idea at the time.


RM

bailey wrote:

THX1138 wrote:

RubyRuby wrote:And I believe we have a winner! The most hated Bones episode is....

The Devil in the Details 25

Devil + 1
Player -2

w00t! Devil, the DoubleDeath of Season Five! Of course if not for Baily DDotDD could be sitting there right now, but I'm content that Devil won.

RM

Ok, I cannot be the only one who doesn't hate that episode.

You're not; I actually like it a lot!

I didn't hate it either! But out of the two that were left this was the one i prefered less.

^^^ See Evil, see? I'm gonna sound like Hart here but you really shouldn't ever think you speak for everyone.

My understanding is that you dislike the episode because it's too comedic and farcial ... and it is, but that's why I like it. I try not to take my TV too seriously. My life is pretty serious, my family, my job, etc. so I like to just "enjoy" TV and I enjoyed DDotDD. And, before you say it, yes I get that you just didn't think it was a good idea for Bones ... but again I say, I think you're just putting too much stock into what your personal idea of what Bones should be. I like the show because I feel like it can be lots of things, sometimes all at once.

Although even I could've done without Borenaz singing.

bailey wrote:^^^ See Evil, see? I'm gonna sound like Hart here but you really shouldn't ever think you speak for everyone.

Heh, now you're projecting. I never said, nor have I implied, that I spoke for everyone. If I come across that way, well it's probably just a byproduct of my high intelligence and superior reasoning skills. And yes, I can actually be that arrogant - just ask the Queen.

My understanding is that you dislike the episode because it's too comedic and farcial ... and it is, but that's why I like it. I try not to take my TV too seriously. My life is pretty serious, my family, my job, etc. so I like to just "enjoy" TV and I enjoyed DDotDD. And, before you say it, yes I get that you just didn't think it was a good idea for Bones ... but again I say, I think you're just putting too much stock into what your personal idea of what Bones should be. I like the show because I feel like it can be lots of things, sometimes all at once.

I can actually agree with you on that most of the time, I mean it's just a TV show, right? The thing is the episode isn't just atypical for Bones it's the antithesis of what the show purports itself to be.

Let me put it another way, if I'm watching HOUSE I want the drama, not a second rate version of SCRUBS. When Hart gave us BONES he gave us a show with bizarre crimes, cutting edge science, strong personalities, and just enough comedy to keep it from being a downer. By and large, with some notable exceptions in S4 and S5, he's kept to that formula. So when HH and SN decided to air DDotDD they were basically telling me, "Yeah, I know you tuned in to see a smart procedural dramedy, but I'm going to give you a show that's a rip off of Weekend at Bernie's and you're gonna watch it anyway because you've got no where else to go."

Hey, love it all you want but don't kid yourself, that wasn't Bones you were watching. At best it was a rejected episode of Psych acted out by the cast of Bones, but more likely Hart owed someone some money and that script was the payoff.

Although even I could've done without Borenaz singing.

There, at least, we can agree.


RM

THX1138 wrote:Heh, now you're projecting. I never said, nor have I implied, that I spoke for everyone. If I come across that way, well it's probably just a byproduct of my high intelligence and superior reasoning skills. And yes, I can actually be that arrogant - just ask the Queen.

My mistake, I thought at one point you had actually said that I was the only one who liked this episode. In which case you would've been speaking for everyone else. Or I could've misunderstood your meaning or simply forgotten because that's been quite a while ago.

I can actually agree with you on that most of the time, I mean it's just a TV show, right? The thing is the episode isn't just atypical for Bones it's the antithesis of what the show purports itself to be.

Is it the antithesis of what the show purports itself to be or of what you believe the show to be?

Let me put it another way, if I'm watching HOUSE I want the drama, not a second rate version of SCRUBS. When Hart gave us BONES he gave us a show with bizarre crimes, cutting edge science, strong personalities, and just enough comedy to keep it from being a downer. By and large, with some notable exceptions in S4 and S5, he's kept to that formula. So when HH and SN decided to air DDotDD they were basically telling me, "Yeah, I know you tuned in to see a smart procedural dramedy, but I'm going to give you a show that's a rip off of Weekend at Bernie's and you're gonna watch it anyway because you've got no where else to go."

Hey, love it all you want but don't kid yourself, that wasn't Bones you were watching. At best it was a rejected episode of Psych acted out by the cast of Bones, but more likely Hart owed someone some money and that script was the payoff.

I can see your point here. And I agree it did stray from the typical formula Hart uses but I don't think he threw the formula out the window either. In either case it didn't stop me from enjoying the episode, I thought it was funny ... and I didn't analyze it any further than that. It made me laugh therefore I liked it. Perhaps it had more to do with the mood I was in when I first saw the episode.

I get why you don't like it, I guess it's just the utter hate you seem to have for the episode that caught me off guard.

THX1138 wrote:

Although even I could've done without Borenaz singing.

There, at least, we can agree.


RM

I believe each and every fan of Bones can agree on that.

bailey wrote:

THX1138 wrote:Heh, now you're projecting. I never said, nor have I implied, that I spoke for everyone. If I come across that way, well it's probably just a byproduct of my high intelligence and superior reasoning skills. And yes, I can actually be that arrogant - just ask the Queen.

My mistake, I thought at one point you had actually said that I was the only one who liked this episode. In which case you would've been speaking for everyone else. Or I could've misunderstood your meaning or simply forgotten because that's been quite a while ago.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever claimed to speak for everyone, though I might have said something like "well then you're the only one" but that's obvious sarcasm - or I should say to me that's obvious sarcasm. I have noticed that sarcasm doesn't always translate well in electronic media. In any case, I don't speak for everyone even though I probably should because of my incredibly sound judgment and impeccable taste. How's that?

I can actually agree with you on that most of the time, I mean it's just a TV show, right? The thing is the episode isn't just atypical for Bones it's the antithesis of what the show purports itself to be.

Is it the antithesis of what the show purports itself to be or of what you believe the show to be?

Hmm, well that's rather begging the question isn't it? But to respond directly, no, it's not just what I believe the show to be, it's what most everyone believes the show to be and how it's been presented in the trades. Going back to 2005 there are articles at TV Guide that refer to the show as a crime procedural and IMDB lists it's genres as Mystery, Romance, Drama, and Procedural, more recently I've seen Matt Roush, among others, refer to it as a dramedy - in fact the one thing I've never seen it described as is a comedy.

Feel free to run your own searches but nothing I've seen or read lends me to believe that the show was ever intended to be a crimedy, and honestly if you could point to even one crimedy type episode in the first three seasons I'd concede the point and be done with it. As it is DDotDD, Double Trouble, and a few others in notables in S4 stand out from the rest of the series for their notably irreverent tone. Again, fine and dandy in small doses and great if you want a forensics version of Scrubs, but it can hardly be said that those episodes enhance the series overall. In fact their incongruous nature rankles in light of the overall tone the series sets when you contrast the farce of DDotDD with Mayhem, Conman, or Mask.

Let me put it another way, if I'm watching HOUSE I want the drama, not a second rate version of SCRUBS. When Hart gave us BONES he gave us a show with bizarre crimes, cutting edge science, strong personalities, and just enough comedy to keep it from being a downer. By and large, with some notable exceptions in S4 and S5, he's kept to that formula. So when HH and SN decided to air DDotDD they were basically telling me, "Yeah, I know you tuned in to see a smart procedural dramedy, but I'm going to give you a show that's a rip off of Weekend at Bernie's and you're gonna watch it anyway because you've got no where else to go."

Hey, love it all you want but don't kid yourself, that wasn't Bones you were watching. At best it was a rejected episode of Psych acted out by the cast of Bones, but more likely Hart owed someone some money and that script was the payoff.

I can see your point here. And I agree it did stray from the typical formula Hart uses but I don't think he threw the formula out the window either. In either case it didn't stop me from enjoying the episode, I thought it was funny ... and I didn't analyze it any further than that. It made me laugh therefore I liked it. Perhaps it had more to do with the mood I was in when I first saw the episode.

I get why you don't like it, I guess it's just the utter hate you seem to have for the episode that caught me off guard.

Heh, yeah, well you know us men folk, we're emotional and all that. Seriously though, I do get quite passionate about the things I like, in fact the best measure of how much I truly love the show, and how devoted I am to it, is the strength of my reaction to things like this. If I didn't care, I wouldn't care. (Sounds circular, I know, but it's really not). At least you don't have to deal with me when it comes to football - pity my girlfriend, when I watch a game I lost all perspective, as well as volume control and my verbal filter. And if the Packers lose? Oh yes, there will be cussing...



RM