Saturday

[nightdog_barks]

Very warm, windy. Started reading Born Yesterday -- so far, very good.

In other news:

deekayw Diane Kristine Wild
Comments on my @HartHanson twitter article are either sympathetic, willfully misunderstand, or prove his point. http://bit.ly/mxccWT

Which ... pretty much rules out anyone who might have an honest disagreement with the piece. The article is here, for those who want to read, and concerns Hart Hanson's (the creator of Bones) less-than-positive encounter with the world of Twitter followers.

Comments

[nightdog_barks]

I think she's a forensic anthropologist (unless they're the same thing?) and yes, that's the show. I used to enjoy it, but as time went on I thought it got progressively sillier, and I stopped watching when the season opener last year had one of the female characters taking her clothes off in order to distract a group of armed (South American?) men who might have been terrorists. It was one of the very few times I've actually been offended by a television show.

[silverjackal]

Forensic anthropology is a branch of physical anthropology, and I didn't remember the forensic part because to me it wasn't there. So we are thinking of the same program! The one episode I saw (I don't know where it falls in terms of show timeline) was ridiculous to me, even though I'm prepared to cut the "science" in such shows slack. (I watched and enjoyed the original StarGate series, for example, and abuse of science doesn't get much more egregious.) There was no way I could believe that either of the main characters were supposedly professionals in their given fields, and the story premise was... I don't even remember because it was so absurd. Heh. Different tastes, yes? I imagine if they tried to make television which pleased me exclusively it wouldn't be popular since I like documentaries and reasonably accurate (because in some cases a best guess is all there is, yes?) historical fiction.