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The One in Which Doc Rants ***SPOILERS***
Okay. If you haven't read the spoilers for the Season 4 finale stop HERE.
Seriously, you have been warned.
No really. You've been warned. A LOT. DO NOT CLICK. DO NOT PASS GO.
From what I've gathered, Booth and Brennan are having sex in the Season 4 finale. Apparently they are having sex because Brennan wants Booth to father her child. (I haven't actually read that verbatim anywhere, but I'm no dummy. I can put two and two together like a champ.) Booth apparently doesn't feel as clinical and detached about this as Brennan. Hart Hansen thinks this is a good plot device.
THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!
I feel better now that I've shout-typed that.
I think this is a horrible idea. To use the popular "jump the shark" metaphor: they are strapping on the water-skis with the Fonz. Goof!Booth is annoying, but Pregnant!Brennan may be the last straw. I have stood by this show through a lot and it kills me to think I won't always love it. I will watch every episode between now and the finale, and pass judgment then. I just had to get this out.
~Doc
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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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