'Critic in the Cabernet' ep Reaction ***SPOILERS***

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***** Spoilers *******


I'll borrow a trick from spacekid77  and post what I just wrote intempertemper77 's LJ:

I'm still a little shell-shocked from the ending, but the last two minutes were worth the rest of it. 

My initial thoughts:
- The case was crap.  But the two women with babies provided, well, <i>babies</i> for her to pick up and play with.  Meh.
- The baby thing was very jolting, and made her seem even more out there in left field.  Despite all the foreshadowing they have done, it still was a shock.
-Booth was not acting like Booth, but I'll attribute that to the brain tumor.  Of course he would be involved, and I like to think that Stewie was his projection of that even though the tumor was screwing it up. 
- Her reaction to his repeated hallucinations was awesome -  from that moment on the ep was made of win.  She basically made the emotional connection right there.
- Sweets rocked.  His melt-down was priceless and perfect and made me love him a little bit for the first time.  He was a terrified duckling there for a minute.
-Cam and Angela are a shipper's dream.  I love Cam/Booth friendship moments.
-The prep scene onward: I can't say enough about DB, and the range of emotions all over his face.  He so clearly loves her.  And his insistence she 'take his stuff'.  I expected it, but it still hit me hard.  *tears up* 

Gah... I could go on for hours.  Next week can't come soon enough...


ADDENDUM:

In addition to above, most of all I'm a lot anxious about the finale.  I think I have a pretty good theory now that I know the brain issue, but you guys are probably totally sick of my theories. *grins* 
 

 

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Okay - I think I've finally thought this theory through to where I can put it on paper (screen):

When the brain is manipulated/stimulated during surgery, there are documented cases of people seeing things/smelling things/hearing things that aren't there. This is seen when brain surgeries are done when people are awake, and for example, the area responsible for taste is stimulated - blam, the person tastes something that's obviously not there. (There's a lot more to it, but I'm not a neurosurgeon so this nutshell works for me.)

So... what if while they're digging in Booth's brain he is transported into an alternate universe with the Crue, and Zack, and he and Bones looking an awful lot like Tony and Roxy? He's not asleep so it's not a dream. And he's not technically hallucinating.

The biggest niggle I have with this theory is that little snippet of conversation they have in the car. That seemed very real to me.