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.

So, someone at twop typed up the Bones breakup scene. Here it is in all of its glory:

Angela: Sweets is actually good at his job.

Jack: I know, right? I mean, did you understand that you were actually mad at Cam?

Angela: Actually, I was mad at her. I mean, you don't have sex with someone and then expect everything to be fine.

Jack: [..]when they're supposed be gone and out of our lives, it's not fine.

Angela: It definitely is not.

Jack: Why? You're divorced. Why weren't you fine with Cam sleeping with him?

Angela: For the same reason you weren't fine with him still being in town.

Jack: But if everything's over with him, why do you care who he sleeps with?

Angela: Why do you care that he's still in town?

Jack: I don't care.

Angela: Obviously you do. If you were 100% certain of me, you wouldn't care. But you do.

Jack: If you were 100% certain you didn't want him, you wouldn't care that Cam slept with him.

Angela: You don't trust me.

Jack: Saying that means you do n't trust me.

Angela: How can two people who don't trust each other get married?

Jack: I thought we did trust each other!

Angela: Yeah, I did too. Two people who don't trust each other shouldn't be with each other at all.

Jack: You really think that?

Angela: Don't you?

Jack: Yeah, I do.. I actually do think that, but.. Oh, my God..

Angela: Yeah..

Jack: I don't know what happened.

Angela: I don't either. But I know it did happen. I'm gonna go.

..she gets up.

Angela: You know, all you had to do was trust me.

Jack: Hey.. You're the one that's leaving.

Angela: You're the one who isn't stopping me.

..and she leaves.

Angela: Obviously you do. If you were 100% certain of me, you wouldn't care. But you do.

Jack: If you were 100% certain you didn't want him, you wouldn't care that Cam slept with him.

And that's one place where it completely falls apart-- because it devolved into a high school/adolescent tunnel-vision sort of mentality. Because real grownups understand that life and love aren't ever about one hundred percent anything.