Pilot

This show is excellent. A little dark and spooky but it and House beat the hell out of those useless reality shows.

Bones and House show that Hollywood has decided to think and produce quality TV again.

Bones has a future.

It makes you think and wonder about what happens out there in the real world. Only thing is I wish Bones and House were still on same night.

Made for one great evening of REAL TV. I wish they'd shown more of Bones this summer even if they had to only show one House per week. Emily is truly a good actress. The entire cast of Bones work well together. I cannot wait for the new season of Bones.

Dr. Temperance Brennan is seen for the first time in this episode. She's a bit different from the one later in the show. She seems more emotional and personable. I think I like her better this way, but understand why they developed the character the other way.

In this episode, Seeley Booth announces that he had worked with Bones before - we'll see that in a later episode (Season 5) as they tell the story of how they met. (I LOVED that episode!!!)

You can tell the characters are loosely developed. This episode got me interested in watching the rest, and it's become one of my favorite shows. Booth and Bones have chemistry from this beginning episode, and it only grows over the years.

Excellent!

My baseline vote for the overall show is 7. Given when I used to watch it as it aired on tv.

6 is given because and to record particularly bad moments. Like in the pilot. When bones is speaking to the senator.

Usually the camera will focus on the person that is doing the talking. So in a conversation, the camera will switch from one person to the other depending on who's talking. This is What usually happens in the show as well. Except in this scene.

Maybe they had to dub in Some dialogue or something... But in the senate scene the camera does the opposite. The results is so jarring it's impossible not to notice.

I've already seen the whole series while it was active and now I'm just revisiting.

It was pretty good but I've always found it odd that she's the opposite of the usual brain person that we always see in shows.. usually the person is smart but completely useless when it comes to physical contact.. that's why Castle was a hit.. the detective girl was the brawn and castle was the "brain" but here brennan if pretty much both asides from being a big inept socially speaking but overall great story.

I only recently came into the Bones fold, but friends of mine have been watching it on Fox since the beginning.

I must admit, as I am not a David Boreanaz fan, I didn't go into watching the pilot episode with any expectations of something positive, and I was pleasantly surprised.

I found the first few scenes a bit forced, especially Angela in the airport and the altercation between Brennan and the Homeland Security agent, but I enjoyed the adversarial pretext between Booth and Brennan.

The case in this episode is believable enough, although I found it quite odd that there didn't seem to be any concern that small bones may have slipped through the netting the body was bound in.

Sam Trammell turned in a fantastic performance as Ken Thompson, but besides his and Emily Deschanel's, most of the performances in the pilot seem jumpy and in David Boreanaz's case, stiff.

The blend of actual science, plausible plot, and just enough action to keep you interested made me want to continue on to episode 2.

I'm glad I gave Bones a shot; it's now one of my favorite shows, and one of the only ones I actually tune in to on TV each week.