In Which Booth's Fiiiiiiine - It's His Skeletal System That's Falling Apart

Season 6, Episode 6

The Shallow in the Deep

Who's got two thumbs, speaks limited Spanish, and has a busted computer that was the victim of a tv-falling-onto-desk-and-spilling-water-everywhere accident so the post she originally planned for this episode is gone?

THIS SENORITA.

For all the times for this to happen, though, it's best that it was now, considering this was quite the slow episode (which, as I always say, is NOT a bad thing; I don't know about you, but I like a break from getting my heart ripped out of my chest every now and then).

And it definitely has its awesome points. Like how we start with a scene that starts with Booth in bed and, miracle of miracles, Hannah isn't there. Which doesn't mean anything storyline-wise, but it does make for a more pleasant watching experience for the average B&B shipper.

I love how normal it is for them, her walking into his apartment in the morning and following him around. And I also love the way she says “You're fiiiiiiiiine!”, all reassuring and total Brennan-believes-in-Booth-whole-heartedly mode, and then also adds on at the end, “...it's your skeletal system that's falling apart”, and is back to literal Brennan (although it a jokey-joke kind of way). We get two different Brennans in one line, which is quite the rarity.

And right after, we go to Brennan listing off all his injuries. And of course, I'm starting to type what I always do after she lists things she remembers about him: “SHE REMEMBERS EVERYTHING BECAUSE SHE CARES ABOUT HIM!” But, then, she says it herself for once. (Way to steal my thunder, Brennan. Yeesh.) But really, though, the fact that she acknowledges it out loud and they both pass over it so quickly is... both good and bad. Good, in that it's partly because it's so ingrained in them that they don't even think of it to be anything important, but bad because it was an opportunity to further delve, even if just a little, into how she does care for him (BECAUSE SHE LOVES HIM SO MUCH SDIUGHSDUIGD), that of course neither of them take because neither of them think anything is wrong, that anything needs to be delved into.

You know what else I love? How Brennan gets so irritated when she says “You really have to double-check these things, Booth!” to him in the car scene, and two seconds later accuses him of being touchy. I also love the tone of their bickering in this. Irritated, yes, perhaps to ease a bit of their awkward tension they can't otherwise ease, but also with their typical sense of playfulness, especially with the whole “You're wrong” “I am not wrong!” right when they're at the lady's door. Those little tastes of the baseline dynamic of B&B are so refreshing.

Can we also note how they're leaning in towards each other in the diner scene? Again, it's something so typical that generally neither us nor they notice it, but how the show has changed now, it's more meaningful to notice what is the same with them as opposed to what's different, and also, whether they notice something is the same or not. The leaning-in, the familiarity of the diner scene, like with the car scene, shows two things: 1) that they still have that baseline B&B dynamic, which is good, and 2) that they still aren't entirely accepting that things are different with them, because they never fully accepted what they had before. They see their closeness as just a partner thing, so they believe that they can still have it, since they're just partners. But really, it's a more-than-partners thing, and the more they start to realize that, the more they'll be drawn to action about their situation.

And then, we have the dock. The dock that was the setting to the scene to the quote that is the namesake of this blog. The “Everything happens eventually” dock. They make a point to show that it IS, in fact, that dock, because of the landscape shot while Booth starts talking. It's recognizable. But then... nothing happens. “What?!” the fangirls cry. But still, there are many reasons for this. Maybe it was simply to remind us of that scene, to remind us that everything happens eventually. Maybe Hart Hanson is just having fun with throw-backs to previous episodes this season.

What I do love (I seem to love a lot of things in this episode) is how Brennan insists there's no such thing as over-thinking, when that is precisely what she did with her whole reasoning of “I should be protecting YOU from ME!” when she turned him down in 5.16. Just saying.

Irrelevant: The way she says “don't be so hasty” is perfection. Emily Deschanel, you are a gem.

ProtectiveAndTerritorial!Booth is so good to see again. The whole thing... mhmm, thanks for the assurance that your feelings for her are still there, Booth. Not that it was every doubted, but still. Deep-rooted, they are, and deeply pushed aside, but your protectiveness of her will always be the biggest sign.

And then, in that last scene that Tamara Taylor played so beautifully and made me tear up... that little tiny bit where Brennan looks at Booth and smiles, and he looks back at her and smiles as she turns back away... that's just lovely. It doesn't mean anything monumental; it hardly means anything at all, except that Brennan is happy they were able to identify all the people on the ship and wants to share that happiness with Booth, but a nice, little, meaningless moment with them, after all the ~unspoken drama~ they've had thus far this season, is simply nice to watch.