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july-19th-club · 2 years ago

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so far the best illustration of the main difference between bones and house for me is the fact that on house the large majority of the characters are agnostic, jewish, jewish agnostic, atheist, or some other flavor of non-christian, except for chase, who's the weird guy for being a semi-practicing catholic. on bones, brennan and zack are the only two atheists and everybody else is some flavor of christian (goodman's a deacon, booth is devout if not specific, even conspiracy guy has a vaguely defined belief in god) and if that doesnt say something about the different ethoses there idk what does

#bones has a christian moral framework despite its protagonist being a staunch atheist and rationalist #house has a humanist framework with jewish underpinnings . and as annoying as all the house characters are #i would rather talk philosophy with them than with the bones crowd #for example: in any other show a character with cameron's personality - moralistic softhearted and good-deed-driven - would be religious #and most likely christian of some flavor. but she's a serious and committed atheist in her own story #like i'm on the bones christmas episode in s1 #house has a christmas episode like every season despite the fact that none of them celebrate it for religious reasons lmao #it's just like. a Theme for them. absolutely zero jesus but high chance of yuletide-related pratfalls

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