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.
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