Comments on: Death by Physics

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:47:24 +0000

Well, to be fair, that was a standard bit of exposition for the audience's sake (aka playing The Watson). Pretty much every TV show with a science theme has random characters briefly turn ignorant so someone else can give the audience a quick lesson on basic physics, chemistry, biology or whatever.

By: F

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:13:38 +0000

I agree with E. I had never heard the term “daughter isotope” but I accurately guessed at the meaning based on an 8th grade science lesson.

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:45:04 +0000

Former guest blogger claiming innocence here… only suggested a variation of one of the twenty different deaths inflicted. Man, that was vicious. Let’s look at the bright side, it may serve as a cautionary tale for whimsical referees everywhere.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:01:16 +0000

I don’t blame Sean. I doubt he knew ahead of time how bad it was going to be. Well, no more than anyone might have assumed, given the usual result of putting reality through the Hollywood meatgrinder.

But I do wish I’d come back here and read the comments before deciding to watch it myself. UGH.

By: E

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:58:36 +0000

And the dialogue wasn’t even self-consistent. How could Bones not know what a daughter isotope is?

By: coolstar

coolstar — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:26:16 +0000

Wow, I actually LIKE Bones, but not because of idiotic episodes like the one last night.
Essentially everyone’s comments have been spot on, except that no one has mentioned the INCREDIBLY BAD physics! Leukemia in two weeks from radiation poisoning? Bouncing frozen turkeys (try it, it’ll go SPLAT). PLEEEZE, thanks for turning everyone off to what is usually a quite enjoyable show Sean.

By: per

per — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:55:37 +0000

Physicists helping Fox network?

Sell outs….

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:24:07 +0000

I guess after reading the comments about the casual sex among physicists, this episode must be a product of SEEx.

By: macho

macho — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:42:29 +0000

In the interest of self-preservation (since my office is only a few doors down from
“previous guest blogger” I thought it might be wise to find out what kinds of
death by physics he was helping to cook up…) I watched the show. I should have taken my chances with the guy down the hall — would have been much less painful. TV at its worst, and the portrayal of physicists was awful — without exception they were arrogant, rude and cold, unable and uninterested in concealing their disdain for anyone w/o a PhD in physics.
Also not clear how they found time to teleport pondscum when they seemed to spend 90% of their time having sex with one another in every possible permutation (choose 2/5 at random) of the scientists working at the Collar Institute. (none of whom was over the much over the age of 30 — seems to be a bit of an Eloi problem…)

By: amphiox

amphiox — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:24:52 +0000

Wait a sec here. . . . With the exception of poisoning, wouldn’t you say that nearly all criminal related death, be it by bullet, bat, defenestration, or icepick, etc, would classify as death by physics?

(Well, maybe we can include strangulation with poisoning as death by chemistry).