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.

Oh good grief.

Really? Really? THIS is how we're writing them? After going to such lengths to establish that these are two grownups with many and varied relationships under their belts? Suddenly they sound like characters from Twilight?

I am very disappointed.

It is extremely disappointing. I suppose the writers must think that decent on-going relationships must be boring - even if the people involved are people we like and don't find , you know, boring.

And that's one place where it completely falls apart-- because it devolved into a high school/adolescent tunnel-vision sort of mentality.

Oh, how I hated this. I know there are some people who think like this into their 50s, 60s, wev, but we've already seen Angela and Hodgins be grown-up. There's no take backs, writers! Not without a hell of a lot more laying it out over time. Gah! I dropped this show back in season one, but picked it back up in season two, because it did get better. I make no guarantees for this season.

I must be clueless but I totally missed the hinted-at-whitefont established in last season. Anyhow, I thought the breakup was, as said by others, lame.

If I'm remembering correctly, something was said in the episode where the annoying female PI was hired by Hodgins to track down Angela's husband. The PI had discovered that Angela had changed her name somewhere along the line, and the only other person who knew was a roommate/girlfriend from college... or I may be remembering completely incorrectly. I also remember the episode where Booth and Brennan were off somewhere in the west because a bear had been found with human parts inside it, and Brennan kept shipping evidence back to the Jeffersonian. Zach and Hodgins competed for the attention of the really attractive female delivery person, and finally asked her who'd she'd prefer to go out with. She answered Angela, who was flattered, but turned her down.

I do remember something about the name change from the PI, but I don't remember more than that.

re: the delivery girl, Angela's only reaction was to be flattered, which I figured would be the standard reaction of an openminded woman.

I have been TiVoing things to watch while DH is away this week. The "Three Stories" House is going to be on and I grabbed it and am totally psyched. One of the best-written hours of TV ever, IMO. Yahoo!

If you had to pick the best House, L&O, Bones (or any of the other shows on this thread), what would you pick?

The last two eps of last season's House. Wilson being so worried about House, then House nearly killing himself trying to save Amber for Wilson--it's good stuff.

re: Bones, the ep where she finds out what happened to her mother--I suck at titles. It's first season. And the second season one where we meet her father, the one where the corrupt FBI director is killed. It's directed by David Duchovny.

Edit: "The Woman in Limbo", the season 1 closer, is about Brennan's Mom. "Judas on a Pole," Ep 13 of Season 2, with Brennan's dad.

Two episodes in Bones that were absolute standouts for me were ones with Stephen Fry: "The Girl in the Gator" and "The Priest in the Churchyard." In fact, it's in looking at the IMDB listing for the latter that I find evidence that Angela was once sharp as all get out with respect to human nature and relationships.

Dr. Gordon Wyatt: [after Angela tells him he was wrong about Booth and Bones's issue] I stand by my diagnosis.

Angela Montenegro: He also says "Journeys end in lovers meeting every wise man's son doth know."

That's the show I miss.