In Which They Both Agree: Love Is An Idiot

Season 6, Episode 7

The Babe in the Bar  

The slowest of the slow episode thus far this season for B&B. There's an obvious reason for this, but alas, it involves spoilers, so I'll be discussing it at the end of the post.

So, instead, let's talk about a few random tidbits before I get into the main thing about B&B I got from this episode. Like I laughed so hard I choked on my own spit a little when Brennan started doing the oompa loopa dance with Booth even though she had no idea what it was. Yeah.

And also, Booth wearing the shower cap. It looked like he put it on like a hat. SO FUNNY.

However, I forgot completely about the hilarity of that when it got to the last scene and Mr. Nigel Murray is all “I beg of you not to look at me directly”. THAT was one of the funniest moments of the show in awhile...

… at least, until Brennan was all “Yay, wonderful, baby!” again and again. They are all such bad actors, I can't even stand it (the characters, DUH, not the actors themselves.) Positively hilarious.   

So. Random tidbits out of the way, there's something new happening in this episode. It has to do with Bones and her super-literalness. Yes, as we all know, she's gone back to being super-literal as a means of protecting herself, the more literal she is outside, the more hurt she is on the inside, blahblahblah. Her super-literalness has always been funny.

However, that is starting to change. Bones and her super-literalness is starting not to be funny sometimes because Booth is starting to react more and more negatively. Like with the chocolate technique scene, for example, when she goes on about how it's not a science but a technique. Normally, he would just be like “Bones!” in a cute-annoyed way, or something else in the annoyed-but-joking realm. This time, he just brushed her off. And not in an annoyed-but-joking way. In a simply annoyed way. And this happens more than once in this episode.   

Whenever she was literal before, he responded in a jokey-joke way. But now, she is like that ALL the time. And Booth has always dealt with it, yes. But 1) he can't take it ALL the time. It's not who he is. And 2) She had stopped being so super-literal all the time for quite awhile, so he got used to the frequency in which she was super-literal. Now that it's shot up again, he's not used to it.   

And the fact that Booth automatically thinking she'll be all like “It's just chemicals dummy” were they to talk about love... is not good news. Well, it's good news for the sake of dramatics. But otherwise... the image of her in his head is morphing from a progressing, emotionally-growing, changing Brennan to a Brennan that is set her in ways, a Brennan who doesn't believe in love, a Brennan that can no longer be changed. And so in his head, any sort of hope that was hiding in the back of his head is dissipating. Of course, that's not to say it can't come back were she to display that she IS, in fact, still the same growing, changing Brennan that gave him hope for their future before, but that is where they are right now.   

There's also still that whole “But she's trying to use more idioms, be more socially knowledgeable!” argument, to which I have the fact that the way she's going about it is wrong. “Objectively it was very funny!” “Love is an idiot... personifying a non-human entity is poetic!” Saying why something is poetic makes it not poetic. It's how she's going about being non-literal using reason and logic, which is the same as her being super-literal. I dare say it's more tragic than in the beginning when she simply didn't know what any of these things meant: now, she wants to know what they mean, but she can't.   

She gets too literal too often, he's going to get annoyed with her, and things won't end well. She's super-literal because she's hurting about him (which neither of them will admit), he gets annoyed, she gets more hurt so she gets more literal, he gets more annoyed... it's a bad cycle that something or someone is going to have to intervene in in order to end. This is just going to make things more difficult for them. Like I said before, things are going to get a little worse for them before they get better. And I think this is part of that.

I realize this is a more despairing idea than I normally have to say, so I give you this for consolation: yes, it may get worse before it gets better. But the fact that it gets worse now will just make the comeback even better than it would have been otherwise. They'll have been through more; the stakes will be higher. It'll payoff.   

But in the meantime, we can all mentally smack Booth upside the head for ditching Angela's pregnancy announcement party to go have sex with Hannah.

SPOILER TALK:

The slowness of B&B stuff in this episode is obviously because the next episode is the Brennan's perspective one. In which shit is supposed to go down, for lack of a better phrase.

THANKSGIVING, GET YOUR ASS HERE ALREADY. WHOOPS I LIED. Apparently the one that was supposed to air after that the Brennan-centric airs December 2nd, and Brennan-centric airs December 9th. So. (although what I said still counts, since that that's how they originally planned to aired them.) DECEMBER 9TH, GET YOUR ASS HERE ALREADY.