Sides ~ S05E21 "The Boy with the Answer"

tinkrella wrote:I too wouldn't put it past hart and co. to slip some fake things in with the real ones just to "shake things up."

joybrennan wrote:

tinkrella wrote:I too wouldn't put it past hart and co. to slip some fake things in with the real ones just to "shake things up."

Ditto! However, I think she actually will goto jail, because it's hard to get the actress that plays her. Also, they may be setting up that Katherine chick Booth is supposed to date ( ) as the gravedigger's accomplice, so they'll still be someone out there to do her dirty work.

Or Hacker! You mustn't forget about him, and frankly he would be a better choice than , imo.

I find it interesting that Taffett is representing herself. After all, "a lawyer who represents [herself]has a fool for a client."

dawnsfire wrote:
I find it interesting that Taffett is representing herself. After all, "a lawyer who represents [herself]has a fool for a client."

joybrennan wrote:

Arviana wrote:As far as the scans go... I think that in DitD they set up a resolution in Bone's speech. She says that "love comes first and creates the reaction" in reference to brain chemistry. So that would nicely clear up the fact that there was no "brain chemistry" before the coma and that there was afterwards.

Hopefully that is their intention with that speech, and the scans will be cleared up soon.

Nice thought, but I think it's just about Brennan's turn-around on her thinking about sex and love. They couldn't just have her suddenly believe in love and have it linked to sex after five years of insisting that sexual attraction was simply a matter of hormonal brain chemistry. Also, I don't think they're being that particular about the brain scan thing. They just needed something as a stall for the B&B thing and threw the scan issue together. When they need to, they'll get rid of it just as quickly.

I say this because the scan issue is, to me, the most bogus, non-researched, non-medical theory they've done on "Bones." Having a tumor removed would likely have two results: to take things AWAY, such as memories, abilities, etc and/or bring BACK behavior that had been lost. IE, one sign of a brain tumor is problems with sight. Another is PERSONALITY CHANGES. The following is from emediencehealth.com

(A brain tumor can cause) "Gradual changes in intellectual or emotional capacity

In many people, the onset of these symptoms is very gradual and may be overlooked by both the person with the brain tumor and the person's family members, even for long time periods.

The symptoms are caused by the tumor pressing on or encroaching on other parts of the brain and keeping them from functioning normally."

Hence, Sweets' point about the scan makes NO SENSE. In fact, it points to the opposite. It is more logical to assume that Booth's lack of activity in that part of the brain was CAUSED by the tumor, keeping him from having direct access to that part of the brain. Once the tumor was removed, thus releasing the pressure on that part of the brain, he is flooded with the truth of his feelings - which were acted out in coma dream, and made that part of his brain "light up." The gradual change in his ability to access those feelings of romantic love also helps explain why it took FIVE SEASONS for him to acknowledge his feelings for Bones, as well as why the hallucination about the baby came up - it was his true feelings looking for an alternative pathway to come out about the situation.

In fact, when I first heard Sweets tell Booth that his feeling might not be real, I thought it was some plot by Sweets to keep Booth away from Brennan so that it wouldn't ruin the conclusion of his book! At any rate, I'm sure that if they decide they actually want B&B together, they'll come up with something to negate the scan thing. Might even be what I just wrote about.

MoonlightGardenias wrote:^Exactly.

I mean, if it was an issue I guess that's fine. But if it was, you don't drop it and just leave it be like that. This season has certainly gotten better in the continuity department, or at the least better than last season was. However, there's the issue of the scans, the fact Booth publicly admitted to someone else he was in love with Brennan, not to mention the fact that at the end of last season Brennan decided she wanted HIS baby and then turned around and changed her mind on the drop of a dime. Do I expect all of that to be resolved/addressed accordingly? Not necessarily, but I'd like them to do something here.

Booth's...well, Booth, and so of course the scans are an issue for him and maybe that's what's holding him back from truly accepting the fact that he loves her. That being said, if we leave this season and everything is STILL ambiguous between them and they haven't at the very least admitted their feelings for one another, I will be one unhappy fangirl.

MoonlightGardenias wrote:I'm not even asking for a happy resolution to this season. I mean it would be nice yes, but given what we know it might not happen. To be honest, I *want* angst at this point. Not them hating each other or anything, but I want them pushed to the brink. I want an all out, no holds barred, truth-revealing argument in which the band-aid gets ripped off and this whole in-between where we know she loves him and he loves her but they both think the other doesn't or couldn't love them. I know that it's necessary and that there is a method to the madness, but it doesn't make it any better.

I don't expect perfect. I just want something that shows we're headed somewhere. The speeches and looks and moments of physical contact with them both being aware of "something" happening are fine and good and we can still have those, but there has to be an inclination at some point that they're headed somewhere with this thing.