God bless America rating 4/10 - standard noughties crime procedural, nothing particularly egregious here (by bones standards) UPDATE 5/10 - Bones' rival author literally uses the phrase "god bless america"
Body reveal rating 4/10 - there's something to be said for a skeleton in a beaver dam, but there was wasted potential
Randy Angela rating -2/10 - negative randy points due to Hodgins' infestation
Hodgins mouth to boot rating 4/10 - he lacks his season 1 anti-government spark
Bones as a believable anthropologist 0/10 - all she does in this episode is go on telly to talk about her book
How offensive did I, personally, find it 7/10 - booth commits police brutality against a black man in this episode and, as always, the show treats it as nbd
Silly score 10/10 - Wendell briefly gets stuck to both a bone and Hodgins' face - it should've been an episode long B plot but wasn't, I wanted to see them go to the toilet together. However, the real magic comes in when Hodgins carries a bot fly to term in this episode. "If you had a bot fly I wouldn't touch you" - my wife, watching this episode with me
How bad is the song at the end 7/10 - oof, not good
Best outifit of the episode - Cam wins by default with her Vulcan bob
Is Sweets a little baby boy - yes, Sweets is present in the episode
Overall rating 5/10 - knocked off a point for inaccurate portrayal of leopard slug mating
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It's empty, isn't it? Both boxes. There's nothing in them. Just buttons. Of course. And do you know how you know that? Because you've started to think like me. It's hell, isn't it? No one should have to think like that. And no one will. Not on our watch.
Do you call this a war? This funny little thing? This is not a war! I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know! I did worse things than you could ever imagine! And when I close my eyes... I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight... till it burns your hand... and you say this...
DOCTOR WHO — The Zygon Inversion (S09E08)
directed by Daniel Nettheim | written by Peter Harness and Steven Moffat
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