'Cinderella' and 'Mayhem' Post-ep Reaction

[doc_3]

**SPOILERS ****




I watched both eps back to back, so it feels like one long one.  This may be rambly - just a warning :)


- The last scene of 'Cinderella' was fantastic.  DH actually was watching with me and he loved her taking the bottle and giving him the glass.  He also admitted that he couldn't watch without staring at her boobs in that outfit. 

- I thought the Hodgins/Angela moment at the bar was really angsty goodness.  Those two are destined!  (PS - How did Wendell get such hot friends?)

-Who doesn't love Gordon Gordon? 

- Am I an idiot but which one of them is he saying is fighting the attraction?  I've always assumed Booth, but something about the last scene in Sweets office just seemed like it was her.  Maybe I'm just slow but it didn't seem obvious that it was one vs the other - it seemed like both of them are fighting it pretty hard.

- Her admission about the foster family broke my heart - loved that it broke Booth's too.  I thought he was going to cry. 

-I'm glad we found out more about Sweets, and this ep seemed like Wyatt was passing the torch to him, which I can live with now I think

- All in all, I loved the second ep and only liked the first.  I'm starting to get a feel for how they plan to have her character undergo some changes this season, leading up to the finale.  


What about everyone else?  

PS - Britt - read your rant and you go girl!   

Comments

[britt-1975.livejournal.com]

We better get told who it is. And soon!

And I'm so afraid that we won't! I just posted that I think that this mystery may even be better than what the letter said in AitS... and that we may never know. I actually sometimes love how they leave some stuff to audience interpretation. It's what makes such a fertile ground for fanfic!

Do you mind if I friend you?

[ama-blue.livejournal.com]

Just friended you!! :)

Oh, god! We will probably never know what that letter said. But I think you're right...sometimes it is wonderful when it's left to the audience's imagination.

I propose we have an ep called The Heart of the Matter next season and find out what Sweets found so obvious in that moment. Because, he must be a pretty damn good psychologist if he can discern. They both looked pretty enamored of one another in that handkerchief scene.

[britt-1975.livejournal.com]

I have to wonder about the content of Sweets' book... and how obvious it is that it's Booth and Brennan... because if it's just about them and no one else, and he isn't careful, then his suppositions about their sublimated attraction could cause problems for them... don't you think???

Assuming that they don't out themselves prior to the book being released.

I just read a really interesting post on a forum that proposed that it wasn't that Sweets saw which one was aware and struggling, but that what he saw was that they aren't the opposites that he thought they were... this person also said... oh heck... I'm just going to quote directly:

"With the ongoing threads of metaphorical marks and scars, Booth's story touches Bones' heart and she goes one further and physically touches his.

And then with the pan to Sweets' manuscript at the end - right down to the changed title - they give the audience the answer. He sees now it's not about opposites, it's not about jobs, it's about the love, it's about how they care and feel for each other - the heart - they have between them. And the matters, thereof."

I thought that was very insightful.. and still leaves the "who" part up to the watcher.

You can find the post here

[ama-blue.livejournal.com]

if it's just about them and no one else, and he isn't careful, then his suppositions about their sublimated attraction could cause problems for them...

I wrote some cracked out fic last Christmas where this happens. lol

I don't think Booth and Brennan realize what they are getting themselves into with this. I think it will be completely obvious to anyone who knows them that they are the subjects of this book. And having it just thrown into their face that they are attracted to each other--well, they won't really be able to avoid this fact quite so easily anymore.

"With the ongoing threads of metaphorical marks and scars, Booth's story touches Bones' heart and she goes one further and physically touches his."

That is such a poignant observation. I'm so very glad you linked over to that comment. In my shippery-haze I pretty much forgot all about the fact that GG also told Sweets that B&B are very much alike. And that's the whole point of the show--two people who superficially are opposites but come to share this deep love and respect, who ultimately share so much with one another. (And maybe some crime-solving thrown in there too.)

Oh, show. You are awesome.

[doc-3.livejournal.com]

This totally makes sense. With the history and background we were given on Sweets, and the way they have been hammering the idea of metaphorical marks and real (and metaphorical) scars - this really could be the whole idea they were getting at. It's not for us to know "who is fighting their feelings" but that Sweets now understands what they are all about.

Isn't it interesting that GG was all about "they're just partners" before when he was there, and now he's the one telling Sweets it's the exact opposite - they are way more than partners?