An irrational love for Bones

So I and Cam just went through and mainlined all 3.5 seasons of Bones. By the end of season one we went from "This is ok and might be fun to watch" to "This is awesome" and while the start of season 4 was terrible it's gotten fairly good again and I find myself fangirling it embarrassingly.

I'm pretty sure that it's not, objectively, that good of a show, but it somehow manages to short-circuit my brain into liking things I normally wouldn't.

In short:

• Short circuits to my squee mode, possibly thanks to very dark humour
  
• Compassion for murderers and victims
  
• Ambiguity and open mindness (and what bias there is matches my own :))
  
• Kick-ass female lead
  
• Character continuity/soap opera elements
  
• Sexy UST
  

Unfortunately I think they sometimes have filler episodes written by CSI writers so this stuff isn't always true :/

Warning: written at like 5am with insomnia because it seemed a fairly safe subject to ramble about

( In which I ramble on these points at length )