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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543526025 Format: AC-3 Label: Fox / MGM Manufacturer: Fox / MGM Number Of Items: 5 Publisher: Fox / MGM Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2008-11-18 Running Time: 655 Studio: Fox / MGM
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Canada Comment: This item is only $19.98 (as of Dec. 4)from 'amazon.ca' & you will save 20% on the exchange rate. I don't agree with one of the other reviewers who stated that the series was as good as the books. I like the series & I will be buying this item but it is so different from the books that I don't ever know why they bothered keeping the character's name. Customer Rating: Summary: WHAT HAPPENED? Comment: BONES was a good show. good chartures and story lines. the first two seasons were rather good. this third season is, however, a great disapointment and Ive decided to stop watching the show as a result. for one thing I disliked what happened with Zack. I rather liked the charture and they up and change him and screw up his charture. I was VERY disatisfied with what happened to Zack. I was displeased with what happened to Angela and Hogins. they go through a whole lot and after all that they end up breaking up just because of one fight. so all in all im very upset with this series because of what happened in this season. im upset that Zack, a charture I liked is turned into a bad guy im annoyed that the charture is changed and in a way that makes no sense whatso ever. im disapoined that the hogens and angela relationship ended the way it did. these disapointments have left me disastisfyed with the series as a whole and I just dont feel interested in the series any more and have deceided to stop watching it. Customer Rating: Summary: Make no bones about it, the third season is a keeper and includes 4 bonus episodes from season 4 Comment: The third season of "Bones" was even more compelling than the first. Although it was a shorter season due to the Writer's Strike (15 episodes), Fox has elected to include four seasons from the fourth season (which may have been why the set was deleted)as compensation. During the fourth we had a number of marvelous episodes but the story arc involving the cannibal serial killer Gormogon dominated most of the season. Two excellent episodes are expanded on this set with an unaired version of "Player Under Pressure" and the Holiday episode "The Santa in the Slush" has an "extended kiss" scene. While the latter isn't any big deal the former for "Player Under Pressure" improves an already exceptional episode. We also get the gag reel which is fun, a featurette "Director's Take" (which I haven't gotten around to watching yet--I tend to watch all the extras AFTER I've watched the episodes to prevent spoilers). While the extras aren't quite as generous as previous seasons, at least Fox isn't recycling the same idea (i.e., commentary tracks--although I like them--a lot of folks never listen to them and they are dependent on how engaging the people involved with them are). The episodes from season four while we'll get them again, are a nice way to fill out the set and keep fans in anticipation for the next set which will come out about the same time next year. All in all an excellent season that was unfortunately cut short by the Writer's Strike. While the retail price is a bit high (look for bargains folks and snag them while you can!), the extras included here makes up for some of that. Customer Rating: Summary: ALL BONES ABOUT IT Comment: Once more DVD comes to the rescue of a TV series that has turned from so so ratings to solid hit. The series is BONES and there is no better way to watch this than on DVD. Why? Because once you get into the series you'll want to continue on rather than wait for the next episode. Just released is BONES SEASON THREE: TOTALLY DECOMPOSED EDITION. How can it be that this show has been on that long already? For those unfamiliar with the show its time to catch up. Based on the real life of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the story revolves around Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), a forensic specialist who works at the Jeffersonian in Washington, D.C. When the FBI comes calling for assistance in the form of Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), Temperance takes to field work like a pro with an intense interest in each case presented. Along with Temperance, known as Bones to Booth, are a team of equally dedicated professionals at the Institute. Among them are Angela (Michaela Conlin) who specializes in facial and body reconstruction via sketches and computer software, Dr. Jack Hodgins (TJ Thynes) who specializes in organic materials and Dr. Zack Addy (Eric Milligan) who knows more about bones than, well, Bones. Each member of the team adds to a complete whole not only in their expertise but in their character functions as well. For the first two seasons we were allowed to explore the world of the "squints", Booth's nickname for the intelligent research team at the Institute. But as the show continued, we watched as Booth came to appreciate each individual in their own way. We also watched the sexual tension between Booth and Bones grow in the most subtle of ways as they worked case after case together. There you have it, the main crux of the series. But it's more than that. It involves cases being solved using clues found only by this team of forensic anthropologists. Each week they discover clues no mere mortal would find with the naked eye. And each week Booth and Bones have the chance to put the guilty behind bars. At the same time we get to watch the interplay between the characters as well. What you have here is a combination of age old detective show combined with the technological side shown in the various CSI series. But rather than focus mainly on the science of evidence we get that as well as interaction between characters in more familiar TV territory. Romance and buddy systems are seen in each episode as opposed to straight police work. This brings us to season three. This time around we begin with Bones acting unlike herself. Could it be because Booth sent her father to prison at the end of last season? Could it be the attraction between Bones and Booth became too much? Or could it be because Zack had decided to take a leave and head out to work in Iraq? Just as the stories offer clues to the murders, the series offers clues and at times answers to these questions. As the season starts we find Hodgins and Angela still very much in love, still planning on marrying and still searching for the man who was a one night stand Angela married in a drunken stupor. This was an arc left open from season two that finds an answer this year. Zack returns from Iraq a bit different. Fortunately for fans of the series (and Zack) he shows up in the first episode, just in time to save the day and help find the criminal. Bones and Booth start off not nearly as close as before. Whichever of the reasons discussed that seem to have had an effect on Bones is clearly visible from the first minutes of episode one. And as the pair start to work things out, they begin therapy to help with their work. The first show offers a new challenge for viewers and the team as they encounter a secret cannibalistic society that has left their calling card. While the Gormogon killer may not be a familiar name to most, it will be by the end of this season. Not only are the guilty not found by shows end but they continue to show up during the season. A more in depth view of Bones sex life is offered as well (no, not seen) as we begin to meet the men she dates. This seems to upset Booth who does his best to hide it. The affection between these two characters may be more blatant than Scully and Mulder of X FILES but it is still held in check for the present. Humor, mystery, relationships and friendship are all regular topics in each episode of the series. And Season Three brings forth more of the human characteristics of each member of the forensic family found here. It is these human qualities and interaction between characters that makes this show the success that it is. While Bones comes off as cold and out of touch with the world around her, Seely comes off as having lived more than his years would seem. Put these two together and you come up with one of the most successful teams since Nick and Nora Charles. Extended episodes, alternate episodes and more make this box set worth adding to your collection. And if you don't have them already, buy the first two as well. This is a fresh series with great acting that makes the entire production believable. And that is what makes for good TV. And good TV now means good DVDs. Take a 3 day weekend or the holidays to get acquainted with the Bones family. It's a great mystery filled time for all. Customer Rating: Summary: Pissed Off Writers Comment: Given the attrocious writing that ruined Bones' Season 3 for me, the only thing that makes sense is that we had a bunched of pissed off writers before the strike and the same group of pissed off writers who obviously didn't get what they wanted as a result of the strike. I just wish that they hadn't taken their anger and frustration out in destroying all of the good work they did in Season 1 and 2. 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