'Bones' pushes some buttons
http://blog.zap2it.com/ithappenedlastnight/2008/10/bones-pushes-so.html (http://blog.zap2it.com/ithappenedlastnight/2008/10/bones-pushes-so.html)
10/8/2008
Bones threatens to offend all of the people, all of the time with a
tale that involves gender reassignment surgery, megachurch religion,
and yappy, trivia-obsessed Englishmen. But damned if they don't end up
with something that was actually touching and heartfelt. Not bad,
Bones!
The corpse of the week comes in two parts. The upper half of the
skeleton that washes up in Chesapeake Bay had breast implants, so it's
obviously a chick, right? The implants have serial numbers, so it's
easy to identify the owner: Patricia Ludmuller, a good-looking blond
who was the pastor at a community church on an isolated island.
Then the bottom half of the body washes up, and the pelvic structure
says the skeleton is male. The vagina, on the other hand (and thank
you, Cam, for not saying "vajayjay")... Obviously, we have a
transgender woman who underwent gender reassignment surgery.
I found the show offensive.
Sarah L.
I thought it was pretty well done myself. What did you find offensive about it?
Dennis
other than pronouns the show was awesome. i seriously see how boreanaz would screw something like that up. it wasn't probably even part of the script and they just went with it. i think the choice of the guy to play her son was well thought out as he had previous experience on 7th heaven.
my wife still doesn't get it, cause she fell asleep and i told her the guys wife killed her(the one with the boat) and she thought i was talking about Patricia's wife. she'll just never get the pronoun thing. =(
Warrior Princess Mickie
I liked the bit about Booth screwing up the pronouns because it gave everyone else a chance to react to it in a positive manner, like when the one woman says "you're acting like a jerk to try and get him going, right?"
Dennis
yeah, i'll agree there Dennis, that wasn't bad, that part was extremely interesting and entertaining.
Warrior Princess Mickie
I liked it. I think the screw ups were intentional and they show the difficulty that some people unaccustomed to the concept of TG people might have when first trying to work it out.
I think they did correct the screw ups in a quiet way rather than an in your face way.
I know they were trying to do right, so anything that might have rubbed me the wrong way is easy to forgive.