Tuesday, November 29, 2011

In Which They Connect

Season 7, Episode 3
The Prince in the Plastic

Ok, before I get into other things: I'm not even going to say anything about that first scene with Booth, Brennan, and Sweets because it would be redundant. Everything you got from that scene about all their relationships (B&B, Booth and Sweets, Brennan and Sweets, and all three of them together)

Honestly, besides all their little cute moments, the only thing from this episode that really has anything to be said about is that golden line in the scene in the middle of the episode where they're chatting at home:
“You connect with me, right?” “You know I do.”

Not “yes”, not anything else, but “you know I do.” So it's something that, at least to her (but I think to him too), is unnecessary and silly for him even to be asking because it's obvious – he knows. Not to mention her body and face when she says it – looking up at him, lowering them back down and resting back into him almost as soon as she starts talking, but not hurriedly. This thing he's asked isn't just something that's obvious, it's something that is so obvious that she knows that he already knows her answer, and so she can tell he's just asking it to make a point – hence the looks when answering.

Now for something not quite usual to this blog: addressing why there wasn't much to talk about in this episode.
So far this season, Bones has given us all the cutesy-adorable-heart-melting-make-me-vomit-rainbows scenes we could ask for, which has been great. But because we have a lot of that going on, there's less focus on the rest of their relationship. And after a few episodes, while all the cute stuff is still great, the lack of the rest starts to make things feel a little... stagnant. It might just be me, but that's the feeling I had after the episode.
Here's the thing, though: Most shows have patterns in regards to the kinds of episodes they have. Bones in particular has some predictable patterns, one of which being that the first few episodes of a season (or after a particularly emotional episode for one of the main characters) tend to be similar, to establish a sort of base from which to move for the season. Bones has always been a show that has crafted itself not by the arcs of episode after episode, but by the arc of the whole season. I think this right now is just a lower point in that arc, is all.

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