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Bones 4x26 -- The End in the Beginning
Er, I loved it a lot. Like. A lot. I will be going in search of icons momentarily.
BUT FIRST:
I was going to get a cap of everyone but then I got massively distracted by what Mr Nigel-Murray was wearing. My loins almost spontaneously combusted, I swear to god. Umph. RED SHIRT AND BLACK HAT. WITH HIS SKINNY DARK-HAIRED SELF AND HIS RIDICULOUS FACES. JKDHJDAJKHDLKJFKDJFKAHNCUIYESDHKS.
YOU'RE THE KIND OF MORON WHO GOES TO PRISON FOR A MURDER HE DIDN'T COMMIT.
(Zaaaaack!)
I'M ENGLISH; WE DON'T USE GUNS, WE USE OUR FOREHEADS.
Okay okay that was the last one.
*DIES*
*DIES MORE*
I also loved Wendall-the-bodyguard ENORMOUSLY. Sadly there was a brief descent into racefail when it came to 'the Persian' (SERIOUSLY, BONES?)
I'M PRACTICALLY A PSYCHOLOGIST. jskhashd oh Sweets and his expert bitchface.
SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT I'M GORMAGON, BUT I'M NOT.
(can we talk about how Daisy's dress was the most hideous thing in the world btw)
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YOU USED LOGIC ON ME, THAT'S SWEET!
& MORE MAKEOUTS.
I'M ICELAND.
(She was so gorgeous this episode. Gah.)
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Okay, meta time.
I think I'm going to come down on the 'shared fantasy' side of the What The Fuck fence; working off the assumption that Brennan has been sitting there for four days pouring her nerves and her emotions into this ridiculous story and reading it aloud, and all the nurses think she's kind of nuts but they've seen people do weirder things when the person they love is hanging in the balance. So they bring her coffee and let her talk.
But she's not just talking to him; no, what Temperance Brennan is doing is talking herself into her own story. She's been getting closer every episode this season and now she's there, at the point where she is honestly prepared to admit that she thinks Booth is worth the risk. Worth stepping out into the places where she can't rely on rationality.
And she has to tell herself that it's worth it, that Booth wasn't lying when he told her that despite the potential for pain and fear of death it's always worth it, because it's just her luck to have figured it out only to have her person be threatened by something from which she, in all her brilliance, cannot save him.
Booth said: You're a genius. That's good enough for me.
She's afraid it isn't going to be enough.
I'll admit here and now that I identify enormously with Brennan (nobody is surprised, right?) and so what touched me personally and deeply about this episode was the fact that she's doing exactly what I do: writing her thoughts into coherence. It's interesting because Brennan's identity as an author has always been a minor one, in the series, but at this time of stress...this is what she turns to. She turns to words and silliness and imagination. She creates a narrative in which to hope. Because the story she's telling is the one in which she allows herself to get it right, in which she and Booth fall in love, then get married, then have a kid (she's realising that she can't extricate love from that particular equation). In which she gets to collect her family around herself -- her not-by-blood family, take note, they being the one upon whom she & Booth know they can rely absolutely -- and then lean on them when bad things happen.
The first question she asks of her own story is: do you love me?
(Should I risk this?)
And the answer is: yeah.
Meanwhile, because this is Telly and Stuff Like This Can Happen, Booth is also dreaming the story that her voice is telling him. Which is why it contains things like the two different alarm clocks (one set to show military time, one not), and the fact that they are actually married instead of just together. And Jared saying you don't use your head, you think everything that you feel is true and being entirely right and entirely wrong: everything Booth feels is true. Real or unreal, he trusts Brennan completely. And if he wakes up and his head is failing him, well, that's okay too. Because it's what he feels that will matter in the end.
(Amnesia, schamnesia. Next season's going to be FUCKING AWESOME.)
Do they lead separate lives, or a single life shared? As far as this episode's concerned, my money's on the latter.
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LET'S DISCUSS, GUYS. I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO START ON HOW AWESOMELY NOIR HODGINS WAS. AND 'THE LAB'. AND SWEETS AIR-DRUMMING AT THE CONCERT. AND BRENNAN'S PURPLE TRENCHCOAT.
BUT FIRST:
I was going to get a cap of everyone but then I got massively distracted by what Mr Nigel-Murray was wearing. My loins almost spontaneously combusted, I swear to god. Umph. RED SHIRT AND BLACK HAT. WITH HIS SKINNY DARK-HAIRED SELF AND HIS RIDICULOUS FACES. JKDHJDAJKHDLKJFKDJFKAHNCUIYESDHKS.
YOU'RE THE KIND OF MORON WHO GOES TO PRISON FOR A MURDER HE DIDN'T COMMIT.
(Zaaaaack!)
I'M ENGLISH; WE DON'T USE GUNS, WE USE OUR FOREHEADS.
Okay okay that was the last one.
*DIES*
*DIES MORE*
I also loved Wendall-the-bodyguard ENORMOUSLY. Sadly there was a brief descent into racefail when it came to 'the Persian' (SERIOUSLY, BONES?)
I'M PRACTICALLY A PSYCHOLOGIST. jskhashd oh Sweets and his expert bitchface.
SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT I'M GORMAGON, BUT I'M NOT.
(can we talk about how Daisy's dress was the most hideous thing in the world btw)
sljdahSDh
YOU USED LOGIC ON ME, THAT'S SWEET!
& MORE MAKEOUTS.
I'M ICELAND.
(She was so gorgeous this episode. Gah.)
~
Okay, meta time.
I think I'm going to come down on the 'shared fantasy' side of the What The Fuck fence; working off the assumption that Brennan has been sitting there for four days pouring her nerves and her emotions into this ridiculous story and reading it aloud, and all the nurses think she's kind of nuts but they've seen people do weirder things when the person they love is hanging in the balance. So they bring her coffee and let her talk.
But she's not just talking to him; no, what Temperance Brennan is doing is talking herself into her own story. She's been getting closer every episode this season and now she's there, at the point where she is honestly prepared to admit that she thinks Booth is worth the risk. Worth stepping out into the places where she can't rely on rationality.
And she has to tell herself that it's worth it, that Booth wasn't lying when he told her that despite the potential for pain and fear of death it's always worth it, because it's just her luck to have figured it out only to have her person be threatened by something from which she, in all her brilliance, cannot save him.
Booth said: You're a genius. That's good enough for me.
She's afraid it isn't going to be enough.
I'll admit here and now that I identify enormously with Brennan (nobody is surprised, right?) and so what touched me personally and deeply about this episode was the fact that she's doing exactly what I do: writing her thoughts into coherence. It's interesting because Brennan's identity as an author has always been a minor one, in the series, but at this time of stress...this is what she turns to. She turns to words and silliness and imagination. She creates a narrative in which to hope. Because the story she's telling is the one in which she allows herself to get it right, in which she and Booth fall in love, then get married, then have a kid (she's realising that she can't extricate love from that particular equation). In which she gets to collect her family around herself -- her not-by-blood family, take note, they being the one upon whom she & Booth know they can rely absolutely -- and then lean on them when bad things happen.
The first question she asks of her own story is: do you love me?
(Should I risk this?)
And the answer is: yeah.
Meanwhile, because this is Telly and Stuff Like This Can Happen, Booth is also dreaming the story that her voice is telling him. Which is why it contains things like the two different alarm clocks (one set to show military time, one not), and the fact that they are actually married instead of just together. And Jared saying you don't use your head, you think everything that you feel is true and being entirely right and entirely wrong: everything Booth feels is true. Real or unreal, he trusts Brennan completely. And if he wakes up and his head is failing him, well, that's okay too. Because it's what he feels that will matter in the end.
(Amnesia, schamnesia. Next season's going to be FUCKING AWESOME.)
Do they lead separate lives, or a single life shared? As far as this episode's concerned, my money's on the latter.
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LET'S DISCUSS, GUYS. I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO START ON HOW AWESOMELY NOIR HODGINS WAS. AND 'THE LAB'. AND SWEETS AIR-DRUMMING AT THE CONCERT. AND BRENNAN'S PURPLE TRENCHCOAT.
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also, thank you for reminding me of why i think it is more complicated that just "Bones reading it out loud."
YOU'RE THE KIND OF MORON WHO GOES TO PRISON FOR A MURDER HE DIDN'T COMMIT.
booth is the only person who knows this, right? ffs, show!
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I have been quoting this line at everyone who will stand still long enough.
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Seriously though it is embarrassing how much I want to jump his skinny bones.
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End.
I'm so disappointed by the amnesia thing. FAIL.
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THEY LOVE EACH OTHER. THEY LOVE EACH OTHER, AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, I DON'T THINK EITHER OF THEM ARE STRUGGLING WITH THAT.
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The long answer is: all this season they've been slowly (and, for TV, quite beautifully) making Booth and Brennan address their emotional fears and convictions when it comes to one another. Because Brennan's a casual-sex kind of person and even though she loves Booth, there have been a lot of episodes where she's coming to terms with the risk involved in putting all your emotional eggs in one basket and allowing yourself to admit that one person means everything to you.
And she's decided she wants a baby and she spent an entire episode pestering Booth with completely rational arguments as to why she wants his sperm but doesn't expect him to be involved in the child's life in any way, and you could just SEE him practically exploding with pride and frustration. Because Booth would be SO INVOLVED.
AND THEN during the penultimate episode they pulled a brain tumour on us (though to be fair, they'd set up the hallucinations earlier in the season, and the viewers accepted them as just A TV Plot Device. sneaky.) and it ended with Booth going in for surgery.
THIS episode was a murder-mystery episode except set in a WACKY AU WORLD narrated by Hodgins, in which Booth and Brennan are married and own a nightclub called 'the Lab' (the show used the existing set of the Jeffersonian lab and they turned the inside of it into a BITCHIN' CLUB) where all the main characters had hilarious roles. Basically it was AU fanfic...in an episode. Complete with cryptic references to reality and lots of injokes for the fans.
And it ends with Brennan taking over the narration (which is at that point about letting yourself make the decision to love someone) and we see her typing it onto a computer at Booth's bedside.
Booth wakes up, Brennan gets teary and explains that he had a bad reaction to the anaesthetic and was in a coma for four days, and it ends with Booth saying 'Who are you?' (DRAMALLAMA)
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YES! wtf it looked like she stole it off some Birthday Cake Barbie from the 80's. Made especially worse by the fact Angela's clothes were so cool T__T That sequins dress!
Actually when I was watching and Nigel came on I was all "Oh man, Fahye's going to love his red and black and english snark." Wendall the body guard looked so slick and badass, that bit with the toothpick cracked me up <3 And Sweets singing. Haha but it made me realize how much I miss Zack. OH! Also detective noir Hodgins, loved him too.
I enjoyed the episode, but I kind of felt it was a cop-out. A let-me-throw-some-pretty-AU-at-you-instead-of-plot cop-out, but lots of fun.