The Science in the Physicist – REVIEWS

by Turi ray of sunshine Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:00 am

Post reviews here; hopefully the trend they started last week will continue and Bones will keep given peeps good things to talk about!

by marymageli Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:12 pm

Here is Zap2It's recap.

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'Bones': Oversexed scientists and ZZ Top

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April 09, 08:45 PM

See that blue-lit pressure chamber over there? See how it's all shiny
and enticing? You want to go in it, don't you? Well, don't! Have you
learned nothing from [Only admins are allowed to see this link], or, say, every other sci-fi flick involving sealable rooms ever made? I mean, really, folks -- that's almost as dumb as pissing off a founding member of ZZ Top!Our Corpse of the Week is more mangled that usual -- it's a couple of
garbage bags full of flesh and bone fragments, looking like chili con
carne. And just like that, I'm off chili for life. The body has been
through the ringer -- the cells exploded from the inside out,
suggesting they were frozen; there was evidence of advanced leukemia
and tumors on the bones; some marks on the collarbone suggested a
stabbing; and the bones had basically crumbled along their weakest
points. Hodgins finds fragments of gold and what appears to be
part of a black pearl in the mess. It's not -- it's a fragment of a
meteorite. The meteorite in question is at the Collar Institute, where
randy scientists think great thoughts and have frequent sex. Among the
denizens:

Landis Collar, a superconductivity expert. He's also blind, and is working on a spiffy echolocation device.
Chris, who is working on harnessing energy from earthquakes
Milton, who is working on Star Trek transporter technology, starting with pond scum
Jennifer, working on new methods of carbon dating with radioactive isotopes.

The dead person was Diane Sidman, a theoretical physicist, editor of
the institute's scientific journal, and a contributing genius to the
Hadron Large Collider (you know, that thing that will either advance
science incalcuably or cause a blackhole that swallows the Earth). She
was also Landis' fiancée (the gold and meteor fragments came from her
engagement ring), but she was sleeping with Chris. Suspicious! Or maybe
not -- it seems everyone was bonking everyone else at the Institute.
But they're all FAR too rational to have killed out of jealousy! It
must have been something else!Well, let's see, what do genius-types care about? What would they kill for? Why, for science, of course! And in this case, with
science, as well. A radioactive isotope was painted on Diane's chair,
giving her quick-acting cancer. When that didn't kille rher quickly
enough, the murderer stabbed her with a pencil, then flash-froze the
body with liquid nitrogen. And if you watch movies, you know that
flash-frozen bodies shatter when they're dropped or hit, right? Wrong.
Apparently, they bounce. OK, so how about massive vibrations?
There were plenty of opportunities for vibrations at the institute --
Landis, Chris and Milton all used vibrational chambers in their work.
Booth and Brennan investigate one of the sonic resonance chambers, and
they are, of course, locked in. Someone turns on the sonic juice, and
their brains are in danger of becoming pudding. But they are saved --
either because Brennan counteracted the sonic wavelength with whale
sounds, or because Booth shot out the window and attracted help. My
money's on the gun. The team goes over the chamber with
Luminol, and finds blood. Or, um, vegetable matter. Or copper. Or
cleaning fluid. Or... seriously, Luminol seems to pick up a lot of
stuff. But hey, vegetable matter -- like pond scum? Yes, indeed --
Milton as ready to publish a paper on his pond-scum transporter, and
Diane demanded co-credit because he used her physics theories, or
something. Rather than share credit, he decided to kill her.

Booth and Brennan
Hey, finally some Booth/Brennan interaction! Booth gets a little wigged by
all the smarties around him, and also by all the sex that said smarties
are indulging in. He also predicts that Collar will hit on Brennan as
soon as physically possible. Booth tries to explain why he’s so
disturbed by the thought of Collar moving on from his fiancée’s death
so quickly -- good people leave marks on you, and you need to let them
fade away, rather than scrubbing them off. Brennan... kind of doesn't
get it. But when Collar does, in fact, ask for her number, she
declines. "You know what? You're the only smart person I like," Booth
tells her. A[Only admins are allowed to see this link] Later, Brennan tries to return the favor, but fails in a spectacularly Brennan-esque fashion:

Booth: We’ve just got to stop hanging out with geniuses, because you're going to figure out that I'm really stupid.
Brennan:
What? Don't worry about that. I figured out a long time how stupid you
are....What I just said is true and yet it really sounded wrong. What I
should have said was I don’t care how stupid you are. ... It's not any
better.

Finally, she finds the right words. There are a
lot of brilliant people around (Angela not among them, according to
Brennan), but Booth has something equally if not more important -- the
ability to use that intelligence. Nice save, Brennan. The Lab Rats and the Outside World
Hodgins and TriviaMaster NotZach get to experiment, which is always fun. First,
they attempt to fire a meteor-like substance at a dummy with a cannon
to prove.. well, to prove that shooting cannons at things is wicked
cool. Cam is not amused by the ensuing destruction. Then, they try to
prove that a flash-frozen body will shatter when dropped from a great
height. They do so with a turkey -- which bounces, and deals Angela a
glancing blow. Heh. Speaking of Angela -- her daddy is in town,
and he is NOT happy with Hodgins. Angela tries to get Hodgins to flee,
but he refuses. He should have. Billy Gibbons is one scary dude. Angela
thinks she gets her daddy to back off, but Hodgins wakes up alone in
the desert somewhere, with a massive portrait of Angela tattooed on his
shoulder. Heh. Apparently Billy Gibbons agrees with Booth that good
people leave a mark -- whether you like it or not!