First of all, we have to think what we are examining - not what we think is actually going on in their heads, but what GG has observed. I don't think he would presume to know this much about Brennan - she hardly wears her heart on her sleeve in public...
Then it was all about that scene at the end. Sweets worked out who GG meant from that moment with the handkerchief.
To me, Brennan was all about Sweets there - she wanted to make him feel better, both after seeing that he had gone through a similarly traumatic childhood and after the last ep (probably still feeling bad for the Daisy cock up). She shared her story with him and asked Booth to do the same and the ONLY reason he did was because she asked him to. He was all about dragging Sweets back to his for dinner before she gave him that imploring look. This Sweets sees.
Then she hands him back the handkerchief and I love that she puts it in his pocket - deeper meaning for her? Handing him a little bit of her heart? Maybe. But it was a dramatic device, to give us first Booth's little look of surprise (gulp!) that she did that, such an intimate thing, and then his putting his hand there just for a second, over his heart as though he could capture that and hold on to it.
That is what Sweets saw, IMO.
It was Sweets that mentioned denial and sublimation of feelings, GG said it's not that it's that one of them knows full well how they feel and struggles with it everyday. It's not about denial so much IMO.
I think Booth struggles with his feelings because he knows she's not ready. He can't push her - he's said this before. She's not there yet.
You and I know she could be soon - she is getting there - handing him a little bit of her heart each time.
But yeah, GG meant Booth.
....So that's my take on it!! Long-winded as usual. I just don't think anyone would describe Brennan as struggling with these feelings every day as she's only just beginning to discover them. Booth, on the other hand, I think is well aware of how he feels.
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Date: 2009-04-17 03:21 pm (UTC)Re: What GG saw:
What I wrote at Space's post:
First of all, we have to think what we are examining - not what we think is actually going on in their heads, but what GG has observed. I don't think he would presume to know this much about Brennan - she hardly wears her heart on her sleeve in public...
Then it was all about that scene at the end. Sweets worked out who GG meant from that moment with the handkerchief.
To me, Brennan was all about Sweets there - she wanted to make him feel better, both after seeing that he had gone through a similarly traumatic childhood and after the last ep (probably still feeling bad for the Daisy cock up). She shared her story with him and asked Booth to do the same and the ONLY reason he did was because she asked him to. He was all about dragging Sweets back to his for dinner before she gave him that imploring look. This Sweets sees.
Then she hands him back the handkerchief and I love that she puts it in his pocket - deeper meaning for her? Handing him a little bit of her heart? Maybe. But it was a dramatic device, to give us first Booth's little look of surprise (gulp!) that she did that, such an intimate thing, and then his putting his hand there just for a second, over his heart as though he could capture that and hold on to it.
That is what Sweets saw, IMO.
It was Sweets that mentioned denial and sublimation of feelings, GG said it's not that it's that one of them knows full well how they feel and struggles with it everyday. It's not about denial so much IMO.
I think Booth struggles with his feelings because he knows she's not ready. He can't push her - he's said this before. She's not there yet.
You and I know she could be soon - she is getting there - handing him a little bit of her heart each time.
But yeah, GG meant Booth.
....So that's my take on it!! Long-winded as usual. I just don't think anyone would describe Brennan as struggling with these feelings every day as she's only just beginning to discover them. Booth, on the other hand, I think is well aware of how he feels.