“The Princess and the Pear,” last Thursday’s episode of the لومڑی دکھائیں Bones, opened with a group of eighth graders dressed like wizards and warriors playing Dungeons & Dragons in a sewer.
And my first thought was, “Oh, God, here we go again with the tired stereotypes of fantasy enthusiasts!”
The kids soon find a decomposed corpse dressed like a princess — which makes sense, of course, because it’s only RPGers who root around in sewers, never football players یا rodeo riders.
Soon the apparent murder is being investigated سے طرف کی Dr. Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan (Emily Deschanel). Special Agent Seeley Booth (Angel’s David Boreanaz) Bones‘ regular co-star, is waylaid سے طرف کی an injury this episode, so Bones is joined in her investigation سے طرف کی another agent (guest سٹار, ستارہ Marisa Coughlin).
The corpse in the sewer, it seems, was the owner of a highly prized artifact — “Excalibur,” the sword used in the first fantasy film ever made.
Truthfully, I wasn’t particularly impressed سے طرف کی the plot, یا the “reveal” at the end, which seemed pretty obvious. Don’t آپ need a red herring if آپ want your audience not to be sure who the killer is?
Anyway, the episode mostly struck me as an excuse to parade — for laughs — an endless assortment of stereotypes of fantasy-enthusiasts: the goth girl, the history nut, and — mostly — the nerds and geeks.
Oh, Lord, were there a lot of nerds and geeks.
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And my first thought was, “Oh, God, here we go again with the tired stereotypes of fantasy enthusiasts!”
The kids soon find a decomposed corpse dressed like a princess — which makes sense, of course, because it’s only RPGers who root around in sewers, never football players یا rodeo riders.
Soon the apparent murder is being investigated سے طرف کی Dr. Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan (Emily Deschanel). Special Agent Seeley Booth (Angel’s David Boreanaz) Bones‘ regular co-star, is waylaid سے طرف کی an injury this episode, so Bones is joined in her investigation سے طرف کی another agent (guest سٹار, ستارہ Marisa Coughlin).
The corpse in the sewer, it seems, was the owner of a highly prized artifact — “Excalibur,” the sword used in the first fantasy film ever made.
Truthfully, I wasn’t particularly impressed سے طرف کی the plot, یا the “reveal” at the end, which seemed pretty obvious. Don’t آپ need a red herring if آپ want your audience not to be sure who the killer is?
Anyway, the episode mostly struck me as an excuse to parade — for laughs — an endless assortment of stereotypes of fantasy-enthusiasts: the goth girl, the history nut, and — mostly — the nerds and geeks.
Oh, Lord, were there a lot of nerds and geeks.
Read the rest of the مضمون link