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The way they handled the explosives to scuttle the ship in the episode REALLY bugs me.
Let me count the ways:
  • 1. The explosives would have been placed against the hull, meaning the Booth would have had no access to them.
  • 2. These were 'professionally placed' demolition charges, not something the criminal rigged up, meaning that they weren't booby-trapped. HE COULD HAVE JUST PULLED THE WIRES OUT OF THE BRICKS OF EXPLOSIVES!
  • 2A. OR DISCONNECTED THE RECEIVER!
  • 3. Using WAY too much explosive to get through the bulkhead. Technically the ghost/hallucination did that, but that just raises further questions.
  • 4. The way the ship explodes at the end. What. The HELL. SCUTTLING DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
Also, earlier in the episode when the Gravedigger blows up the... plinth? with the suitcase of evidence on it, they don't even TRY to recover it.I'd say that whole episode bugs me, but seeing the way the Gravedigger gets served at the end (and beaned by Bones) leaves me with a fuzzy feeling inside.
  • That's your biggest issue with the episode? Really? Not the fact that, despite the Ghost being a hallucination, multiple parts required two people to pull off?
    • Unless Booth also hallucinated the presence of those multiple parts, and was actually just stumbling around at random when he thought he and Parker were cooperating?
  • The Ghost isn't a hallucination, or its a shared one, as it says hello to Brennan and she responds at the end of the episode.
    • Or Brennan really interacted with some random passerby, and Booth hallucinated that the person looked like Parker.
  • Not poking around the plinth may have been self-preservation. If the Gravedigger'd already left one bomb there, the possibility that the perp might have double-rigged the plinth, and/or could be watching the site through a sniper rifle, surely occurred to them too.
  • Since the reality of what happened on the ship is meant to questionable and we only see it from Booth's perspective and he may be hallucinating and/or experiencing a paranormal event we can pretty much call anything on the ship a wash. As for the explosion well, explosions in fiction are always like that, sense be damned.

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