I definitely think this season has lost its way. I watched the 'bubbling bones' episode last night, and kept wondering how in the hell Brennan could be even MORE clueless about people than she was in Season 1?! Isn't she supposed to be intelligent? Isn't she supposed to be quite quick at picking up and integrating information (the definition of an academic)? So how - why - would she be so incredibly dense that she would think 'reading people like Booth' is something she could or should be able to do?
Oh don't get me started. You really don't want to. Brennan has a family now, friends, she is better at dealing with people in her life. She had grown so much. The scene with Jared Booth, when she hit him because she realized he had made her doubt Booth's courage? Her fear that Booth would never forgive her for not knowing him, trusting him, better was so real - so powerful. Yes, I thought - she is growing, developing, becoming a fully integrated emotional AND intelligent human...
Oh God. What happened? She is has even less EQ now, is more arrogant, less in touch with her own feelings and other peoples' - she is devolving at such a rapid pace she has actually gone back further than the beginning of the show. What a pity that the writers and the producers have destroyed what was an interesting character in the name of...
Well, of what? What does this accomplish? It doesn't make Booth look any better - the last few seasons he was mentoring her, watching her, proud when she learned, patient when she couldn't. Now he's just... just... well, I don't know what he is. Not Booth. Not even a good Goof!Booth.
I'd like to blame Sweets for pushing Brennan back, but I don't think it is fair. Even though he sucks.
If it weren't for Cam (I have a total girl-crush on Cam) and Mr Nigel-Murray (I have a completely different kind of crush on Vincent Nigel-Murray!) I would stop watching altogether.
It took me three season to get into the show (I prefer the Tempe Brennan in the original fiction series, usually), but I have been struggling since the Yanks in merrie-olde-England pip-pip-what-what season opener (two episodes I still haven't been able to watch all the way through). Please, someone, explain to Borenaz that even a genius like Kenneth Branagh ran into problems when he tried to play God, as well as direct and produce!
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Date: 2009-03-15 09:55 pm (UTC)Oh don't get me started. You really don't want to. Brennan has a family now, friends, she is better at dealing with people in her life. She had grown so much. The scene with Jared Booth, when she hit him because she realized he had made her doubt Booth's courage? Her fear that Booth would never forgive her for not knowing him, trusting him, better was so real - so powerful. Yes, I thought - she is growing, developing, becoming a fully integrated emotional AND intelligent human...
Oh God. What happened? She is has even less EQ now, is more arrogant, less in touch with her own feelings and other peoples' - she is devolving at such a rapid pace she has actually gone back further than the beginning of the show. What a pity that the writers and the producers have destroyed what was an interesting character in the name of...
Well, of what? What does this accomplish? It doesn't make Booth look any better - the last few seasons he was mentoring her, watching her, proud when she learned, patient when she couldn't. Now he's just... just... well, I don't know what he is. Not Booth. Not even a good Goof!Booth.
I'd like to blame Sweets for pushing Brennan back, but I don't think it is fair. Even though he sucks.
If it weren't for Cam (I have a total girl-crush on Cam) and Mr Nigel-Murray (I have a completely different kind of crush on Vincent Nigel-Murray!) I would stop watching altogether.
It took me three season to get into the show (I prefer the Tempe Brennan in the original fiction series, usually), but I have been struggling since the Yanks in merrie-olde-England pip-pip-what-what season opener (two episodes I still haven't been able to watch all the way through). Please, someone, explain to Borenaz that even a genius like Kenneth Branagh ran into problems when he tried to play God, as well as direct and produce!