Why hello Mr Booth. Where have you been?

[a_mistletoe]

Speaking as the Walrus I shall say the time has come. We are not going to talk of many things and certainly not shoes and ships and sealing wax. No it's Booth all the way and launching into Season 5, just before Season 7 finally gets going in 2 weeks time. Squeeeee

Comments

[limone1]

You're back with Booth!

In many ways, Booth is rediscovering who he really is in the episode and he hasn't got all the information he needs.

That's a very good summary of this epi.

Maybe a bit cynical (I've been awake for too long) but the exchanges with Cam in the bar, Sweets in his office and Brennan in the street with the clown is a way to address B&B. A way of dealing with this issue and moving forward without any progress... Apologies for half-baked theory but it made sense in my fuzzy head :)

[a_mistletoe]

No I see what you mean. I think they were dancing round the elephant in the room by pretending to focus on it, but actually only looking at it sideways. At least they had Booth admit he had feelings of some sort. We'll have to wait for Gordon-Gordon to reappear before Booth explains why he didn't go further.

[tempertemper]

I like what you say about him telling her his true feelings when she's in shock and her not hearing it - that's so true!

[a_mistletoe]

Well what he said wouldn't have fit with her world view anyway. She was in denial about what had happened while he was comatose the whole episode. I think he said it because he nearly lost her before he could say anything to her. They are both afraid of losing what they have, so moving forward is not really going to happen. HH wouldn't let it at this stage.

[fourth_rose]

I've always wondered what the makers were trying to achieve with making Sweets insist that Booth wasn't in love with Brennan pre-coma. Of course, Sweets could just be messing with Booth again (it's not without precedent, after all), but the brain scan seems to indicate that he has medical facts to back him up, so at least it looks like they wanted the viewers to believe it too (not that many of them did, I guess). Given that we get Booth's "I knew right from the start" half a season later, were they just trying to muddle the waters or did they change their minds later? Given what happened before, it makes sense for Booth to be confused in "Harbingers", but if we believe what he said in episode 100, it doesn't make sense to me that it would be sufficient to make him seriously doubt his feelings for her.

Also, I'm still not sure how Booth's initial reaction to the brain scan ever made it through standards&practises, but I'm very glad that it did ;)

[a_mistletoe]

I put it down to the writers presenting Booth with a dilemma of what to believe at a time when he is off balance. So they give us the heart, the head and the unknown - ex-lover, psychologist and psychic.

What they did not acknowledge was that Sweets always believed B and B were in love (see Mayhem on the Cross with the caveat that Gordon-Gordon thought his conclusions in his book were inaccurate).

Here he is basing his conclusion on the brain scan evidence that Booth is still suffering from brain trauma and shouldn't jump the gun. Pretty ironic when you think of what he does in episode 100. It's another example of how HH and SN make the characters fit the needs of the script.

And I never knew how they got Booth's comment through unless it was sheer luck and the standards people were just reading the script and not seeing the visual. He he.

[fourth_rose]

It's another example of how HH and SN make the characters fit the needs of the script.

Very true - starting with the fact that Booth's re-certification really should have come from a neurologist in "Harbingers"!

the standards people were just reading the script and not seeing the visual

That makes sense - and it could also explain how the censors missed the "4Q" in 6.03 ;-))

[a_mistletoe]

Dear me! You'd think reality would occasionally be addressed. Oh wait, it's television reality. Sweets, just like Angela, can always take up the slack and save the need to hire another actor.

[incasink]

I havent seen this episode in ages! I remember the part about his boring ties and socks... I remember thinking that was a massive part of himself missing.

[a_mistletoe]

It's true! Until you find out he only started wearing them after he met Brennan and she suggested he needed to signify he was not part of the hive mind.