As I said, the beginning was good. A body was found in an industrial washer, destroying a whole lot of evidence in the process. It could have lead somewhere cool - we did get some interesting forensic development as fracture lines were used to determine the post-mortem injuries, and the discussion about testicles following finding one of them whole and discovering that the other had been a silicon replacement was entertaining - but the case was mostly neglected.
There was really no focus to the episode.
1. Cam (Tamara Taylor) found a gynecologist for her daughter, but ended up dating him. I'm kind of happy that we looked at Cam's life for once, and I wish this had been the only track going other than the murder.
2. Brennan (Emily Deschanel) tried to be positive about Booth (David Boreanaz)'s new relationship, but her persistence bordered on the annoying.
3. Vaziri (Pej Vahdat) used baseball metaphors for every discovery he made, which also got annoying.
4. Everyone was so completely obsessed with rock'n'roll music that the focus of the episode seemed more to be about that than anything else.
5. The murder was finally solved. No one cared that the victim was dead because a) he seemed like a real jerk, and b) he didn't properly appreciate rock'n'roll so he deserved to die. Plus, the arrest took place really quickly because the writers had wasted so much time focusing on other things that the murderer only had time to say "It was worth it." He got to play on stage for 5 minutes with a talented guitarist rather than the man he killed.
I was completely unimpressed with this episode. There was just WAY TOO MUCH going on, but none of it was substantial. If Bones continues like this, I will not watch season 6, regardless of whether or not Booth and Brennan get together in it.
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