Considering how much screentime Sweets already got last season, I honestly wonder how they could show us even more Booth/Sweets scenes without firing the rest of the crew altogether. I was hoping we'd get to see a little more of the Jeffersonian team actually working on cases (instead of reducing them to "cutesy" B plots or mostly forgetting about them altogether, as it was the case for most of last season) now that Brennan is less available, but I wasn't holding my breath, and it looks like I was right.
Yes, me too - shoving him into scenes where he just doesn't fit hasn't done his character any favors. I'd hoped that they'd introduced Agent Shaw so that she could replace Brennan in the field during her pregnancy, but from what I've heard so far, it'll be Sweets all the way again...
However, HH has tweeted that he LOVES JFD and loves scenes between Booth and Sweet.
Like other posters, I was hoping for more scenes with the rest of the ensemble AND more scenes with Mentor!Booth and Agent Shaw.
Oh HH, you are so predictable. The fans want more B/B; you give them B/H and less ensemble. You finally get the message that we hate HB, we want more ensemble, and we like Agent Shaw as Booth's protege, so you give us more Sweets.
I just am not a Sweets fan. It's the writers fault. I hate how they made him this boy genius and he doesn't come off intelligent at all. I think he's over abused and created to be this super human being when it doesn't come through.
Everything he does everyone else can do or do better. Like having him do interrogation scenes. I HATE that. I want it to be Booth. It's a lot more personal and touching when it's Booth.
I think it's obvious that HH has this man crush on him and wants to over use him.
I actually quite like that Sweets is an intelligent person without initially seeming to be so. He's obviously good at his job (or rather, the writers WANT him to be good at his job but absolutely fail on the research front, so he would be good at his job if they only got a real psychologist on board) but he doesn't flaunt it. He's quietly intelligent and intelligence is not all that defines him. I feel like this is probably an accident rather than a genius stroke of writing, but either way, it's nice to see a character who can be intelligent without falling into all the stereotypes of typical intelligent characters. I feel like many more real-life people are intelligent in a Sweets or Angela style way than they are a Hodgins or Brennan style way
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I think he doesn't come off intelligent in any way though. I think they TRY to but it just fails. Everything about him is an immature boy; I get that he's a boy but he's in an adult profession and he doesn't act like it even when he needs to be.
My issue with this is they don't know how to write realistically. IF Sweets really is a young genius he'd have some quirks and they don't show it. They make him too ordinary for what they're trying to do with him.
I think it's poor writing; but that's just my opinion.
I don't think he's actually meant to be a boy genius, though. There is no indication that he has or is meant to have any particular aptitude in anything other than his chosen subject and profession. They don't pretend he is good at maths or science, for example, so he is a very different kind of genius from Zach. Not to mention that not everyone is the same; there are plenty of hugely intelligent people who exist without 'genius quirks' and making him slightly odd just to fit into the typical image of geniuses would be nothing other than fulfilling stereotypes. You don't have to be odd just because you're intelligent
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I think they imply that he is meant to be. I mean he accomplished all of this when he was 23...
I think his immaturity comes from the writers; to be honest. They want and need that humor. I mean he's even immature in his own profession. He's not good at what he does; I don't buy the fact that he's smart or that he deserves to be in this profession. He comes off as if he's in training.
I think it's just in the writing; they're even dumbing down Brennan a lot more for laughs.
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Yes, me too - shoving him into scenes where he just doesn't fit hasn't done his character any favors. I'd hoped that they'd introduced Agent Shaw so that she could replace Brennan in the field during her pregnancy, but from what I've heard so far, it'll be Sweets all the way again...
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However, HH has tweeted that he LOVES JFD and loves scenes between Booth and Sweet.
Like other posters, I was hoping for more scenes with the rest of the ensemble AND more scenes with Mentor!Booth and Agent Shaw.
Oh HH, you are so predictable. The fans want more B/B; you give them B/H and less ensemble. You finally get the message that we hate HB, we want more ensemble, and we like Agent Shaw as Booth's protege, so you give us more Sweets.
Grr arghh!!
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Everything he does everyone else can do or do better. Like having him do interrogation scenes. I HATE that. I want it to be Booth. It's a lot more personal and touching when it's Booth.
I think it's obvious that HH has this man crush on him and wants to over use him.
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My issue with this is they don't know how to write realistically. IF Sweets really is a young genius he'd have some quirks and they don't show it. They make him too ordinary for what they're trying to do with him.
I think it's poor writing; but that's just my opinion.
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I think his immaturity comes from the writers; to be honest. They want and need that humor. I mean he's even immature in his own profession. He's not good at what he does; I don't buy the fact that he's smart or that he deserves to be in this profession. He comes off as if he's in training.
I think it's just in the writing; they're even dumbing down Brennan a lot more for laughs.
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