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So I just finished the latest Bones, and I felt like doing a bit of a rant about Booth and his season 5/6 characterisation. As per usual, would love to hear your thoughts. Spoilers up to 6x13 under the cut.
Something that has grated on me about Booth that really stood out last night: the way he sets the standards and you either conform to them or you don't. I mean, the clearest example from the last episode, was the way he told Brennan she could either stay and not get emotionally involved, or go and their partnership would be severed forever. I understand that he was drunk and upset and all that, but it just seemed like he just keeps delivering all these ultimatums to the women in his life.
Rebecca, we don't really know that much about, but Brennan? When he told her he loved her - which I thought was super sweet at the time, and still do - it was a forever type of love. She couldn't do that - she couldn't see that far in the future, but you know, she loved him at that moment. It was just that she didn't know if she still would 30 years from then. And he couldn't deal with that. To him, it was either she loved him, or she didn't. End of story.
Hannah - she wanted to be with him. She loved him - she said she loved him, and whatever you feel about Hannah, I'm pretty sure you can see that. But she didn't want to get married - she's always said she didn't want to get married, but she loved what she had with him, and even after his proposal she was still willing to go back to that. Naïve as that must seem, she never once lied to him, and never once led him on. But Booth, obviously wanting to prove his love for her, had to propose. And the fact that she couldn't conform to his standards - he couldn't take that either.
I'm not saying that Booth should have just sucked it up, and carried on with their relationship. He's the marrying kind, we know that. But he also knew she wasn't. And the fact he carried on the relationship, despite knowing this, despite knowing that his endgame was marriage just makes it seem like he was hoping to change her mind. Like he was expecting to.
And that speech he gave about being pissed that women didn't want what he had to offer - that really annoyed me too. I mean, I'm trying to make some concessions for his state of inebriation and the fact that he'd just been dumped, but it did not sit well with me at all. There are heaps of women out there who want what you have to offer, Booth - you just need to go out and find them, instead of trying to force 'what you have to offer' on women who clearly don't. I have to say, I was half-hoping that Brennan would choose to leave instead of staying. Maybe I just don't have enough empathy for people in pain.
Anyway, those were my thoughts, and I'm not sure how much of Booth's characterisation is due to the writers' and their dodgy plotting, but I guess, as a viewer, there's not that much difference. How Booth acts onscreen when he's pissing me off is as much a part of his character as how he acts when he's being all lovely and sweet and there for Brennan. So, I'm just going to sit here and reserve judgement on the writers until I see how this all plays out.
So. Thoughts?
(Sidenote: Hodgins and Angela continue to be tres adorable.)
Off to watch the latest Community now. Real life post to come eventually. :) Also, I feel like I need a new, more appropriate mood theme.
Something that has grated on me about Booth that really stood out last night: the way he sets the standards and you either conform to them or you don't. I mean, the clearest example from the last episode, was the way he told Brennan she could either stay and not get emotionally involved, or go and their partnership would be severed forever. I understand that he was drunk and upset and all that, but it just seemed like he just keeps delivering all these ultimatums to the women in his life.
Rebecca, we don't really know that much about, but Brennan? When he told her he loved her - which I thought was super sweet at the time, and still do - it was a forever type of love. She couldn't do that - she couldn't see that far in the future, but you know, she loved him at that moment. It was just that she didn't know if she still would 30 years from then. And he couldn't deal with that. To him, it was either she loved him, or she didn't. End of story.
Hannah - she wanted to be with him. She loved him - she said she loved him, and whatever you feel about Hannah, I'm pretty sure you can see that. But she didn't want to get married - she's always said she didn't want to get married, but she loved what she had with him, and even after his proposal she was still willing to go back to that. Naïve as that must seem, she never once lied to him, and never once led him on. But Booth, obviously wanting to prove his love for her, had to propose. And the fact that she couldn't conform to his standards - he couldn't take that either.
I'm not saying that Booth should have just sucked it up, and carried on with their relationship. He's the marrying kind, we know that. But he also knew she wasn't. And the fact he carried on the relationship, despite knowing this, despite knowing that his endgame was marriage just makes it seem like he was hoping to change her mind. Like he was expecting to.
And that speech he gave about being pissed that women didn't want what he had to offer - that really annoyed me too. I mean, I'm trying to make some concessions for his state of inebriation and the fact that he'd just been dumped, but it did not sit well with me at all. There are heaps of women out there who want what you have to offer, Booth - you just need to go out and find them, instead of trying to force 'what you have to offer' on women who clearly don't. I have to say, I was half-hoping that Brennan would choose to leave instead of staying. Maybe I just don't have enough empathy for people in pain.
Anyway, those were my thoughts, and I'm not sure how much of Booth's characterisation is due to the writers' and their dodgy plotting, but I guess, as a viewer, there's not that much difference. How Booth acts onscreen when he's pissing me off is as much a part of his character as how he acts when he's being all lovely and sweet and there for Brennan. So, I'm just going to sit here and reserve judgement on the writers until I see how this all plays out.
So. Thoughts?
(Sidenote: Hodgins and Angela continue to be tres adorable.)
Off to watch the latest Community now. Real life post to come eventually. :) Also, I feel like I need a new, more appropriate mood theme.