I had to post about it, & included a link roundup.
I'd forgotten "ancient wiccan symbol." It was just so ridiculous that it wouldn't stick in my head. (Can't, of course, say "ancient witchcraft symbol;" must remind the public that we're talking about a religion, not evilmajik.)
And the "consciousness-altering substance" line made us giggle. A lot. Aside from the wine, caffeine, chocolate, sugar and nicotine that are fairly common among Wiccans, there's the ones on Prozac or Wellbutrin and such. Which, um. Have as their sole purpose, "alter your consciousness."
The History!Fail gets its own special category, 'cos Bones is supposed to be a "Science!" show, dammit. And, um. Any show about a marginalized group is going to get extra attention from that group, and it's not like "history of Salem witch trials" is an obscure and rare hobby among modern witches.
It's like inventing someone who died on the Titanic... while the general public doesn't know whether a certain person was, or was not, on the ship, the passenger lists are not secrets. They'd've been better off claiming that she was pressed to death by upset neighbors who performed an illegal mock-trial of their own; *that* might've stayed out of the official records. (Still wouldn't quite cover the name problems. Dammit, should've done a bit of research & given her an ordinary name for the period.) Feh.
I don't do much history, so my only thoughts about it on watching the episode were, "umm, don't we have a complete list of the people killed in those trials? And there was only one pressing, and it was that guy? Something's off, here."
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I'd forgotten "ancient wiccan symbol." It was just so ridiculous that it wouldn't stick in my head. (Can't, of course, say "ancient witchcraft symbol;" must remind the public that we're talking about a religion, not evilmajik.)
And the "consciousness-altering substance" line made us giggle. A lot. Aside from the wine, caffeine, chocolate, sugar and nicotine that are fairly common among Wiccans, there's the ones on Prozac or Wellbutrin and such. Which, um. Have as their sole purpose, "alter your consciousness."
The History!Fail gets its own special category, 'cos Bones is supposed to be a "Science!" show, dammit. And, um. Any show about a marginalized group is going to get extra attention from that group, and it's not like "history of Salem witch trials" is an obscure and rare hobby among modern witches.
It's like inventing someone who died on the Titanic... while the general public doesn't know whether a certain person was, or was not, on the ship, the passenger lists are not secrets. They'd've been better off claiming that she was pressed to death by upset neighbors who performed an illegal mock-trial of their own; *that* might've stayed out of the official records. (Still wouldn't quite cover the name problems. Dammit, should've done a bit of research & given her an ordinary name for the period.) Feh.
I don't do much history, so my only thoughts about it on watching the episode were, "umm, don't we have a complete list of the people killed in those trials? And there was only one pressing, and it was that guy? Something's off, here."