Before you go Agent Booth

[a_mistletoe]

What with all these icon challenges and health issues it's been hard to concentrate enough to get Booth out of Season 4. I just checked, and do you know I haven't done one of these since October? That's a hiatus worthy of Bones itself so we really must get the show back on track and Booth out of his as yet undiagnosed illness. Just like me there

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[huronia]

This is in my top 5 favourite episodes. It takes us from humour to pathos at lightening speed and that is one of the things I love about Show

[a_mistletoe]

I pondered the last episode but it was, to me, nothing but pretty pictures and indulgent in-jokes: Sweets and the Gormogon thing; David's cap; Mottley Crue, nothing to do with Booth.

As for Critic in the Cabernet, it did cover a lot of ground and I think Bones was consistent in that she was completely rational about her personal life. She wanted a child, she needed a man to produce one, but she didn't need any empathy with the man to do it; completely in character.

I wasn't too convinced by the out of the blue way the topic was introduced. If you look at the word association responses she ignores Booth's responses and just follows her own train of thought.

It's hard to say how far Booth's reactions were being affected by his brain tumour, but underneath, he still wanted to be a proper dad. Took a long time to get there!

Thanks for reading.

[huronia]

By the way , that was supposed to be "face" in jail. I really should proof read.
I agree that the way the baby topic was introduced was weak. It was kind of a shame, given that they had said in interview way back in the fall that Brennan was going to ask Booth to father her child. They had all that time to figure out how to do it, and still couldn't make it really convincing.

[limone1]

A hiatus matching that of the Bones season (this is the part where you say it was all intentional.)

Brennan had her reasons and Booth had his for agreeing to the baby scheme. Fisher's discount sperm must have been a deciding factor for Booth as was probably the fact that Brennan would have gone ahead with another donor had he said no. It took him long enough to admit that he wanted to be more, though. Brennan knows him, but she didn't take this into account.

One of my favorite scenes is when Cam confronts Booth. She knows him and she will tell him what she thinks and Booth in turn doesn't dare shut her up the way he does Sweets. But the scenes with Sweets in this epi worked well.

[a_mistletoe]

Yes of course I did it on purpose.

I think you're right about Booth's motives and I wonder if he thought Brennan would think better of the whole idea. By the time he saw she was committed, it was almost too late to tell her his real feelings and then other events halted the plan for 2 whole years. she never mentioned it again, maybe because she couldn't just delete a real baby like she did her coma dream baby.