Linger on your pale OMG!BLUE eyes....
The Buffy shipper wank made me nostalgic for the days when David Boreanaz was thin and pretty, so I went and dipped my toes into the Bones fandom. Guess how long it took me to find wank..?

TWO MINUTES FLAT!

It starts back in February, over on the books discussion of the Fox forum for Bones, when tcjmom sounds the alarm about the first spin-off novel, 'Buried Deep', written by Max Allan Collins: "I'm only on page 14 and have quit reading. I got so mad. ... It seems that not the person who wrote the book or any of those editing it has ever watched one single episode. If they had how could they have gotten something so grossly wrong!!!!! ****steam if coming out my ears***** Oh, you're still waiting for me to tell you what's irritating me so much?! The description of Agent Seeley Booth ...."with his square jaw, close-cropped brown hair, and (***gnashes teeth***) steel-blue eyes..." BLUE EYES!!!! How could anyone mistake them for blue?!!!

****slams down books and stomps off****"

She's mildly worried that she might be over-reacting, until Edgeoforever assures her that she isn't. Just to *really* show her that she isn't, Edgeoforever does what anyone would do in a situation like this, and emails the author to let him know that she most certainly won't be buying the book: "What is the point of writing a book based on a TV series if your characters are not going to be based on the characters in said TV series?
I was going to buy your book, when I checked the physical description of the main character and... I passed.
Too bad. Your failure to check with the casting of the show is taking away from you...well, all the built-in market you had.
Good luck with people who are interested in the series but...not watching it."

Max Allen Collins allegedly takes some time out of his busy schedule of knocking out CSI novels to actually respond: "When the book was written, we had only a rough version of the pilot to go on. What did we get wrong about the description? Kathy Reichs and the producers of the show approved the novel, in fact went over it in detail.
We also added and rewrote as the episodes began to appear, by the way."

Edgeoforever emails him a picture of David Boreanaz to "express her feelings".

Collins considers the picture and loses his cool: "I would say Boreanaz is square-jawed.
As for his eye color, I guess it's brown, but no one at Fox, Pocket Books or the Bones production company noticed this.
It seems to me if you are a fan of the show you might (a) appreciate the hard work that went into doing this novel, including huge forensics research, under considerably backbreaking deadline constraints, and (b) want to support a project that is officially sanctioned by the show and makes an effort to be (eye color or not) true to the series. It also happens to be a really good novel.
I would also suggest that you have people skills even worse than Brennan, writing a complete stranger an insulting, patronizing pair of e-mails.
But then maybe that's just me."

Edgeoforever explains that she has a very rare medical condition: "I won't argue with you about my people skills, but maybe, like Brennan, I also have a mania for truth."

fluteishness offers a valuable contribution to the debate about Boreanaz's features: "His face is square-shaped, not his jaw. His jaw is prominent, but it tapers normally like most other guys'."

Edgeoforever sends Collins some of Boreanaz's interviews to aid him in writing future books about Boreanaz's dreamy eyes and hair Bones and magnanimously offers to actually read 'Buried Deep'. It transpires that she has in fact had "many lengthy exchanges like that with writers, radio personalities, journalists etc.  I don't find anything unusual in that."

And all is momentarily quiet, until lasakra invokes the First Amendment to defend the writer's freedom to give the character whatever eye colour he wants!

Edgeoforever: "Freedom of speech is all fine and dandy, but then don't put on the cover "based on the TV series" - because then the so call freedom becomes deceit and false advertising."

After a little more tedious mudslinging, fluteishness steps forth again to illustate that paying attention to detail is important when it comes to Bones, by talking about how she created Sims of Seeley and Tempy: "I just created their faces with the Simulator. Several hours, and several downloaded pics later (including quite a lovely one where someone was in a bathtub...) two lovely sims were born (and later married *g*)."

And there was still wank coming out of this thread five days ago...