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The Horizons of Love
Sep. 24th, 2013 04:15 pmToday in Spotlight (a chain of craft stores) I passed a Christmas display. Stockings, Santas... and a tub of scythes. Standing upright, like sunflowers. So that's festive.
I had lunch with our new-ish research lady today. She seems nice. She said, 'You know how you read those books set in England and they always talk about seeing the first swallow of spring? In my room right now is the first blowfly of spring.' We agreed that was very poetic, and then she went looking for the fly spray.
I saw the end of an episode of Bones the other night. As I said, it was the end, so I don't know the circumstances that led up to this moment, but here is what happened. There was a man in a hospital bed set up in what appeared to be Bones' lab (although it may have been a weird-looking hospital). He looked very ill, about to be fatally morted, as my mother likes to say. Bones and the policeman-who-used-to-be-Angel dragged another man in to see him. This second man, it appeared, had the antidote for whatever ailed the first man. The second man refused. Bones said, 'We don't have your antidote, but we do have the virus,' and with that, she picked up a syringe and stuck it into his neck.
We didn't get to see the immediate aftermath of that, but the final scene suggested that the second man had given them the antidote, allowing them to cure both him and the first man. And everyone was all, 'Oh, Bones, you saved the day,' and all I could think was, I'm pretty sure she's not allowed to do that.
Then again, I have only seen one entire episode of Bones, and that involved Bones and her bearded friend being trapped in a car in quicksand, with only a second's worth of call time on a mobile phone. So they wound down the car window, got a sample of the sand, analysed its composition with whatever they had in their bags, texted the chemical symbols of the sand to the lab, then sat back and waited to be rescued. Which duly happened, after the lab found somewhere that had sand made up of those particular chemicals. So I'm guess realism isn't this show's strong suit.
I had lunch with our new-ish research lady today. She seems nice. She said, 'You know how you read those books set in England and they always talk about seeing the first swallow of spring? In my room right now is the first blowfly of spring.' We agreed that was very poetic, and then she went looking for the fly spray.
I saw the end of an episode of Bones the other night. As I said, it was the end, so I don't know the circumstances that led up to this moment, but here is what happened. There was a man in a hospital bed set up in what appeared to be Bones' lab (although it may have been a weird-looking hospital). He looked very ill, about to be fatally morted, as my mother likes to say. Bones and the policeman-who-used-to-be-Angel dragged another man in to see him. This second man, it appeared, had the antidote for whatever ailed the first man. The second man refused. Bones said, 'We don't have your antidote, but we do have the virus,' and with that, she picked up a syringe and stuck it into his neck.
We didn't get to see the immediate aftermath of that, but the final scene suggested that the second man had given them the antidote, allowing them to cure both him and the first man. And everyone was all, 'Oh, Bones, you saved the day,' and all I could think was, I'm pretty sure she's not allowed to do that.
Then again, I have only seen one entire episode of Bones, and that involved Bones and her bearded friend being trapped in a car in quicksand, with only a second's worth of call time on a mobile phone. So they wound down the car window, got a sample of the sand, analysed its composition with whatever they had in their bags, texted the chemical symbols of the sand to the lab, then sat back and waited to be rescued. Which duly happened, after the lab found somewhere that had sand made up of those particular chemicals. So I'm guess realism isn't this show's strong suit.