This week's body parts in the purple muck episode should have many of you buzzing, but somehow I think it might have little to do with the case of the week (wink, wink). Then again, is that ever what has us buzzing??THE GOOD
Zach. OMG! How wonderful and fabulous and totally awesome was it to have Zach back?? It was a Zach Attack and I LOVED it! I'm not even a Zach fangirl and yet, here I am squeeing just like one. Oh, how I've missed Zach. Also, the usual Booth/Bones/Sweets funny quota, more emotional impact for Hodgins and that cute little scene at the end where Booth retrieved Brennan's manuscript and quoted her reviews and then she fixed his back. I guess you could say it was a nice "I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine" kinda moment.
THE BAD
Zach. I know it seems strange because, as I've already enthused, it was so fabulous to have him back, but this is the same reason why having him back was so bad. It's kinda like when you're a kid and your parents come to visit at school -- you're psyched to see them, but after they leave, it makes the rest of the day that much harder. Having Zach back was a tease. And learning that he's not a cold-blooded, deluded killer and he doesn't want Sweets to share that little tidbit with Bones and co. was just torture. Free Zach!!
THE UGLY
Take your pick: those body parts floating in the purple water, the ugly side of the publishing world and the effect it had on Brennan, Booth's back injury, the latest intern misinterpreting Dr. Brennan's "have you ever had sexual relations with an older woman" question, and that fly-hatching-visual.
If you missed last night's episode ("The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond"), check it out for free at Hulu.com.
2 comments:
I did not like the Zack parts last night. I liked Zack in the past and I still find it hard to accept that he was the assistant, but I really don't want him back now.
I found the new Zack twist (he was "merely" an accessory to murder, cannibalism and made bombs) less credible than the original story and he still unuseable in the main plots.
The idea that he could leave and return to a mental institution with no real consequences when he is confined because he was found insane is beyond belief. And that includes if his psychiatrist vouches for him.
And can Zack have a psychiatrist who had a personal relationship with him before this and is close friends with Zack's friends. Aren't there professional rules against that and wouldn't the state want an independent therapist to evaluate him?
The whole Zack story is a mess.
I find myself having to agree with John somewhat. The Zack thing was a bit of a mess. Good to have him back though.
So, Zach is locked up for killing someone. He didn't do it because he wanted to but because it was the logical thing to do. He steals Sweets' keycard (saw that coming a mile off, why else would Sweets' card fail) and used it to escape so he could explain the case to Brennan/Booth. That's logical?
The escape itself is barely credible but how did a killer, and one no doubt known to other Jeffersonian staff, and dressed like that get into the Jeffersonian?
Laughing and joking in the diner with Cam, Hodgins and Angela? Hardly a Zack thing either.
And now Zack says he isn't the killer, but would have been if his predecessor wasn't. More logic? I can't remember the sequence of events but the man that Zack apparently killed, when did he die? Was it at a time that makes sense for Zack to have done it, or not? The master would have need to recruit Zack after his predecessor died. Was the crime properly investigated?
I guess we now have a situation where Sweets wants to tell the gang the truth about Zack but can't. So he will have to find a way of getting them to discover it for themselves.
As far as the actual crime in the episode goes I had the pretend actor down as the killer from when they first mentioned him. He had a lot to loose when the actual author could take his rightful place in the spotlight. Plus, he'd be shown as a fraud which would not have helped his career.
This week's substisquint had to go. Not good.
RichE.
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