Bones: Good?

From the few episodes I've seen (disc 1 of season 1) I got mixed feelings about the show Bones, which I started watching last week.

Oh, right. Hello there. Yup, I'm alive.

Back to Bones. Witty! Smart! A Sexed-up CSI! These descriptions on the back of the box seriously discouraged me from buying it, but Target's sale pricing and David Boreannaz's coy smile on the cover got me over that speed bump easily enough.

The pilot was....okaaaaay. I suppose. But I'm happy to say that so far no episode has repeated the oh-so-terrible effects on the holographic projector from the pilot, not has the music been so awkwardly placed. I'd like to imagine that the season really starts at the 2nd episode. Then you could imagine a much more entertaining backstory in which an anthropologist and an FBI ex-sniper are working together.
Plot wise, it's your basic crime drama serial episode-by-episode. Victim found dead, body is analysed, very suspicious person found, later discovered to not be the murderer (I like to think of this as the Scooby-Doo suspect), and later they discover the killer is one of the few people they questioned before. The crimes so in the first six episodes are creative enough, but then again if they weren't, I doubt it would be a show.

I like the characters, with sometimes nerdy humor; sometimes just watching Brennan be a terrible people person is funny too. I like the typical genius grad student, the other scientists that work at the Jeffersonian, and I tend to think all the supporting characters in each episode are regularly well done. Music, like I said, gets better after the pilot. Besides that, I guess the main reason why I like the show so far is it want to entertain/intrigue you thoroughly through each episode, and I think it does that well enough.

I'll post another review probably after I finish the first season. If anyone has seen the show and would like to voice their opinion, feel free to do so in comments!

Twilight Update:

In Tawm's last video, he doled out part 1 of a multi-part punishment for skipping videobloggery for so long. So, I had to go to a bookstore and buy a copy of Twilight. Weee!

While buying it, I overheard some people (females) talking about the book agreeing that 'yeah, it's just like Harry Potter; [They] liked the book, but the movie was simply terrible.' Well, I thought. I liked the HP books and loathed the movies- maybe this won't be so bad. (Clarification: i have neither seen nor read Twilight, my lack of logic here was merely desperation)
But I was wrong. Clearly.

Twilight summed up in about 10 seconds (if you are a quick reader) can be found at Hijinks Ensue in their parody of a focus group concerning the upcoming Buffy movie. I almost agree with Joel, Twilight is season 1 of Buffy (the least appealling season in my opinion, too!) but with a twist: it is painful for me to read. Two points in the book: beginnings of chapter 11 and 13, I had to drop the book and walk away. I'd come back later and try to read the same page, but I'd get two sentences in and give up again. It seems Meyer knows something dark and dangerous, but nothing to do with vampires; it's more to do with the craft of weaponizing words into a book this potent.

But maybe it's less than that. A lot less, actually. Granted, when I start a book I don't like, I don't read it. Undoubtably, this book is recieving much unwanton critizism because it's the first book I've been forced to read all the way through since high school English. Maybe if you liked the first season of Buffy you would like this book. I'll try and save any real comments about the book for after I finish- I just needed to get my displeasure out.

Videobloggery: Terminated

No, the Videobloggery is not terminated. It's just a 'review' (if you can call it that) of the Terminator movie.
Seeing as how June is already both upon me and my comic only got 2 pages inked, I'll extend my thing-a-month for one more month. I have something different planned for July, though. If things work out the way I plan, I could be getting myself into a lot of trouble that may amuse onlookers. But more on that next month.