It's not impossible at all. I had one coworker who lived on base and for the entire three years he was stationed there wouldn't let his wife and kids go out in town. We're talking backwater Spain, ain't nothin' happening there. But they was furriners! Egad.

You'd think I'd learn.

I finally watched "Bones" and I did not like this premiere at all. I felt like they dumbed down the show for no good reason and they broke up a couple who were at least interesting. I would have liked to continue to see them in a long-term relationship and perhaps with kids because I think they would have had to continue to work on their issues and worldviews.

BTW, the whitefont about Angela is bullshit IMO. I cannot believe that. I agree with the statement above about pandering. And I'm worried about the situation being played for laughs. Couldn't they bring in a new character who might touch on these issues? I would MUCH prefer that.

And they've got a perfect whole for a new character, too. I do hope they don't do the "new character as romantic interest so we can have jealousy" thing.

I'm also hoping that the premiere was an aberration, because normally Bones is a lot better at the clever twist. I had such high hopes when Angela and Hodgins kissed and all the bicycle bells went off and her husband only laughed and told the universe he got it already.

I had such high hopes when Angela and Hodgins kissed and all the bicycle bells went off and her husband only laughed and told the universe he got it already.

Me too-- I figured he'd at least explain that to her, so that when he slept with Cam, which was incredibly inevitable IMO, Angela would also understand.

A friend of mine actually got why Angela was so upset about it- in her words, "They spent all of last season trying to resolve this issue and tracking him down and discovering that he didn't want to give Angela the divorce because he was still in love with her and then you see him and he's a god and he's been building houses for her and saving little sick children for her and then the minute he finally gives Angela the divorce, he's in bed with Cam?"

My response-- "If he loved her that much, he would've come back earlier once he knew where she was, not dicked around for however long it was he dicked around."

However, I see her point. It still doesn't seem very Angela-like, in terms of the reaction, but I see where she's coming from with the story arc idea. Still doesn't account for breaking her and Hodgins up.

My response-- "If he loved her that much, he would've come back earlier once he knew where she was, not dicked around for however long it was he dicked around."

If he'd loved her that much, he wouldn't have been trying to dick around with her life in the first place. That aggravated the fuck out of me. "You don't know what you want, little lady."

The whole "trust" thing was so mystifying, especially since they were basically in the same positon. There's not a lot of space between "I know you don't want him, but it still bothers me that he's hanging around" v. "I don't want him but I'm still bugged that he just up and slept with Cam."

I'd have expected something from Angela more along the lines of (to take a current example) how a huge storm no longer be stomping Florida and the Carolinas, but it takes a few days for the system to fully dissipate, and even as far as Massachusetts there'll be a few lingering effects. Except much more poetic and with a tinge of new agey mystic or something.

I keep writing Angela & Hodgins' make-up scene dialogue in my head. I want them back together and I want Zack back, too!

Maybe now that Angela isn't happily paired off she'll stop trying to hook Brennan and Booth up.

You know, I just realized that I am disappointed mostly because I hoped they would become like Zoe/Wash and be married, yet interesting, yet happy in their marriage.

How the NY Times describes the cliffhanger from last season's season finale of House:

HOUSE (Fox, Sept. 16) Will prime time’s most unhealthy, obsessive love affair — the one between Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) and Dr. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) — survive the fact that House was instrumental in Wilson’s girlfriend’s death?

Ah, bless the NY Times. I didn't see the rest of that season, but the two final episodes broke me!

Meanwhile, I too am disappointed as hell that the writers seen fit to break up Angela and Hodgins in what does sound like a terribly random and unconvincing fashion. Really, I think that they're underestimating the audience's attention span. The time they took in setting up the attraction between the two of them, and on the relationship developing in a refreshingly grownup way (and I can't help but recall Angela's amusement and understanding at Hodgins' attraction to the hot FBI agent chick with the nice rack, and his flusteredness & guilt).

I'd prefer them to stay together, on the whole, because I like them as a couple and because it's so refreshing to see a relationship ticking along and getting stronger, rather than being beset with contrived plotbunnies. But if they wanted to break them up, then I think that the actors' work and the writers' time and effort in establishing the relationship did merit a little more laying-of-groundwork.

It sounds cheap, is what I'm saying.