Bones 5x01

God god god so much work to do today, but I'm waiting until after lunch. I had a GLORIOUS 10-hour sleep last night so I'm no longer the blurred mess of sleep deprivation that I have been for the last week.

But this post is mostly because, in breaks between lectures yesterday, I managed to watch ( the season opener of Bones )

Bones 5x01 - tarot analysis

For a TV show that gleefully tramples all over science while touting geekiness and the scientific method, it actually did quite a good job with this esoteric episode, albeit one stuffed with anvils and heavy-handed metaphors.

The redeeming thing about the way they portrayed Avalon was that there was familiarity in her hands, a sense that she HAD attached particular individual meanings to each card in her deck, and she used them as a conduit to guide her intuition and her more 'genuine' psychic power, and so the writers could be shamelessly flexible in the message that she drew out of each one.

( That said, I am now going to gleefully overanalyse everything. LET'S GO. )