Posts Tagged ‘Angela’

I am still updat­ing this web­site so it might be a few days until it is com­plete again, plus includ­ing new screen cap­tures of all TV shows and movies that Michaela has appeared in, it is quite dif­fi­cult to get hold of.

I have added a new cat­e­gory Talk shows and inter­views which I am now cur­rently screen captured.

269 Screen Cap­tures Hol­ly­wood 411 — 8th Oct 2008

I’ve never been a fan of pro­ce­dural dra­mas like “CSI” or “Law & Order.” But I’m com­pletely hooked on Fox’s “Bones,” which moves next week from Wednes­day night to the network’s prime Thurs­day lineup with a new episode at 8 p.m.

I’d like to say I’m drawn to the show because it’s dif­fer­ent from the typ­i­cal forensics-mystery for­mula thanks to solid char­ac­ter devel­op­ment and a heavy dash of dark humor.

What made me watch “Bones,” how­ever, was a bor­der­line unhealthy crush on lead actor David Boreanaz.I absolutely loved Boreanaz’s moody vam­pire char­ac­ter on “Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer” and its spin­off, “Angel.” I approached “Bones” war­ily, imag­in­ing it impos­si­ble to view the actor as any­one except a rean­i­mated, but gor­geous, corpse. And since it was hard enough watch­ing “Angel” with min­i­mal appear­ances by Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gel­lar), could I adjust to a fully Buffy-less world?Happily, I did. From just the first few min­utes of ever watch­ing “Bones” last year, I learned Bore­anaz is an incred­i­bly ver­sa­tile actor.

All traces of brood­ing Angel dis­solve when he plays FBI agent See­ley Booth. The char­ac­ters are as dif­fer­ent as night and day (no pun intended). Plus, Booth, a sar­cas­tic, sports-loving ex-Army Ranger is funny, lik­able, authen­tic and sur­pris­ingly sen­si­tive. And, like George Clooney, Bore­anaz uncan­nily gets bet­ter look­ing with age. Per­haps he is a forever-young vam­pire after all.The will-they-or-won’t-they chem­istry between Bore­anaz and co-star Emily Deschanel is electric.

Deschanel plays Dr. Tem­per­ance Bren­nan, or “Bones” as Bore­anaz calls her. Bren­nan is a genius foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist who works at a Smithsonian-esque “Jef­fer­son­ian Insti­tute” in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. The socially clue­less Bren­nan becomes part­ners with the self-assured every­man Booth when the FBI needs help iden­ti­fy­ing human remains that are too dif­fi­cult for stan­dard investigators.Most episodes fea­ture self-contained plots, but there are season-long story arcs.

To appre­ci­ate the char­ac­ters’ quirks, it’s best to watch them in order. Each show opens with dis­cov­ered skele­tal bits Bren­nan and Booth, along with the lab coats at the Jef­fer­son­ian, work to find the perpetrator.While the who-dun-it aspects are often com­pelling ? and thank­fully, not always overly gory if you find decom­posed body parts more palat­able than blood and guts ? the best thing is the back-and-forth between Bren­nan and Booth. A crime-mystery writer on the side, Bren­nan is impos­si­bly lonely and has trou­ble main­tain­ing rela­tion­ships due to her blunt, lit­eral nature. (The series is very loosely based on the novel series by real-life foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist Kathy Reichs, who is a producer.)

Bren­nan is uncon­ven­tion­ally beau­ti­ful with a square face, pale blue eyes and habit of dress­ing mod­estly. Her book­ish ways are so pro­nounced it’s under­stand­able why most men find her intim­i­dat­ing. Though she and Booth are both ambi­tious and com­pet­i­tive, he is the kind of guy who, when in dan­ger, shoots first and asks ques­tions later.Booth has lit­tle time for the tech­ni­cal jar­gon Bren­nan and col­leagues toss about and lit­tle stom­ach for the dissections.

The rela­tion­ship between the dis­parate char­ac­ters is volatile at first, but over time, works as they bond ? and develop a solid track record of crack­ing crimes. It’s the age-old opposites-attract ten­sion that brings Sam and Diane from “Cheers” to mind. So far, it works because the char­ac­ters are so com­pli­cated and roman­ti­cally dys­func­tional, they have yet to get together. I’m root­ing for a rela­tion­ship, but worry it could ruin the dynamic.“Bones” pre­miered in 2005 and is now in its fourth season.

The rest of the char­ac­ters from the Jef­fer­son­ian are fine, but I could take or leave Hod­gins (T.J. Thyne) and Angela (Michaela Con­lin). I do get a huge kick out of a newer addi­tion, Dr. Lance Sweets (John Fran­cis Daley), a Doo­gie Howser-ish psy­chol­o­gist who pro­vides part­ners ther­apy to Booth and Bren­nan after some­thing bad hap­pens in the field.Their shared skep­ti­cism and ini­tial dis­dain for psy­cho­analy­sis cre­ates an affin­ity between Bren­nan and Booth, the lat­ter of whom dis­misses Sweets’ field as “Jedi mind tricks.” Sweets’ role as a comic foil ? and as an oppor­tu­nity for interruption-free scenes with our lead char­ac­ters ? is always a wel­come digres­sion from the skulls and dis­mem­bered limbs.Sometimes the plots are highly unbe­liev­able, but Bren­nan and Booth’s dia­logues and parts are so smartly writ­ten, it’s worth giv­ing a shot if you haven’t already.