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Happy St Patrick's Day
Cold here. I'm watching the Cheltenham Festival this week which is National Hunt's horse racing highlight and very close to the hearts of the Irish who come over in droves. They had a really successful day yesterday winning 6 of the 7 races. I tipped two winners on Tuesday, but only the one yesterday when there were a lot of big priced winners.
Let's get most of Season 3 finished. I'll leave the last two episodes until later because I want to look at a specific thing about Booth that got me quite annoyed when I did my rewatch.
Few bits and pieces first that crop up in Baby in the Bough and Man in the Mud.
In the latter, Sweets gets himself involved by interfering in the partnership because he thinks they need to share more beyond their work. Booth is resistant, particularly when the 'therapy' turns out to be an evening of ceramics with Sweets and his girlfriend. However, he rises above it and proves to be an adept sculptor. This unexpected artisitc skill was last seen in Season 1 when he made the origami for Goodman.
Unsurprisingly, Booth turns out to be a dab hand with baby care in Baby in the Bough and that made me wonder how involved he was with Parker's early days. He knows how to change a diaper and does all the gushy stuff that parents do. I found Brennan's voice particularly strident when she talked to Andy as if shouting would make him understand and although Booth did the goofy face and baby talk stuff it was cute.
He also revealed some aspirations that are clearly beyond his financial means. This was prompted by Brennan revealing she had a 7 figure advance and didn't know what to do with it. Booth's money goes on food and rent, but his dreams are simple.
BOOTH:You know, I don’t wanna sound insensitive here, but I’m telling you: real estate? It’s gotta be a steal. I mean, you could build yourself a beautiful house on the river. I could come out and fish. You could put in one of those media rooms. You know, I saw a one hundred and three inch flat-screen TV–
BRENNAN: I don’t need another residence, Booth.
BOOTH: Just, you know, tryin’ to give you a little financial advice.
Simple desires really, but not what Brennan wants. Her altruism, does not extend to an individual like Booth.
By the end of the episode, when she has paid for a bridge and given Carol Grant a job, Booth is still dreaming, only his dream has become more refined.
BOOTH: Wow. That is going to cost a fortune.
BRENNAN: Well, to you it’s a fortune, but with my advance, and selling the movie rights–
BOOTH: Yeah, I get it. You know, I thought you said that towns lived and died liked organisms, that sometimes we should just let them go.
BRENNAN: Sometimes it takes one thing, like a bridge, for a town to start recovering. Back on the scenic route the gas stations could reopen, restaurants, maybe a bed and breakfast for people wanting to stay in the area.
BOOTH: Wow. Listen to you. Good for you. (He hands her the documents and sits back.) You know, it’s a, it’s a shame.
BRENNAN: What?
BOOTH: No kids: who’s going to be proud of you?
BRENNAN: I don’t do it for that.
BOOTH: Yeah, okay. I know. I know. You know, with next year’s book, you should uh, you should get that second home in that town you saved. I mean, it only makes sense, right? Because every year, you know, plasmas, they go down, they get cheaper and cheaper–it happens all the time.
BRENNAN: Forget it.
BOOTH: What? I’m just saying. Andy’s going to miss his Auntie Bones. He’s going to want to see you. We could all go fishing, come back home, plop ourselves in front of that one hundred and three inch plasma screen of *heaven* and *football* and you can make the *five layer* dip.
BRENNAN: Seven layer dip.
BOOTH: Even better! Seven layers! Perfect! You can talk to Andy: hello Andy, little baby, little baby baby Andy– .
Nothing wrong with a little dreaming, but Booth gets shot down in flames. Brennan is not interested in Booth's fantasy life, which could be a reality for her in a week. What is striking is Booth doesn't resent her success, or her attitude to his dreams. She doesn't want what he wants; she doesn't even know why he wants those things, which are unimportant to her.
So by the end of the adventure with Andy, Booth has had a little moment of pleasure where he could dream about a family, the family that he has found, sharing his reward, except there is no reward. Brennan says she hasn't done what she did for someone to be proud of her. However, she hasn't been truly altruistic either. It's close to the meaning of altruism as selfless concern for the welfare of others. Still, what has she actually sacrificed? She has more money than she needs so although financially she is giving selflessly she is giving nothing of herself emotionally or that she could not afford. Of course Brennan has little time for emotions and this is best exemplified by The Verdict in the Story. But there is a dry run in The Santa in the Slush where we see yet more of Booth's willingness to put the well being of others before his own.
Booth normally enjoys the Christmas season, but not this year;
BOOTH: I'm thinking about driving the truck right off the bridge. Oh, I'm being melodramatic and self pitying.
BRENNAN: You love Christmas.
BOOTH: I love it – you know – when I have Parker. But this year he's going skiing in Vermont with Rebecca and Captain Fantastic.
So who does he think about? Brennan and her family. He arranges for Caroline to get a trailer in the jail; kisses Brennan; teaches her about lying to kids; thinks up a story to get Russ to appear innocent; gets her a tree. All of these things he does knowing his own Christmas is going to be ruined without Parker. By chance, he is able to have Parker for Christmas, so at least he does get something but he was willing to manage without while Brennan was resistant to family fun throughout. At least they both end up getting a Christmas with family.
In Verdict in the Story however, Brennan asks considerably more of Booth's altruism than a kiss and a tree. This is the most annoying use of Booth's loyalty to date and the most selfish act by Brennan. By the end of the episode, Booth has been complicit in allowing a known murderer and accessory to murder to go free. It's all right though because it is Brennan's father. It is another sacrifice he is willing to make for her sake and she knew he would do it. That is what I find annoying and a real piece of double standards. Yes she used the legal system to help her, but in the previous episode she said this:
BRENNAN: Don't get mad; I'm just saying that, I just like it better when we catch 'em, and they go to jail.
BOOTH: Yeah, well, sometimes it can get messy, Bones, but the point is, it gets done.
BRENNAN: This one started out in a bit of mud and ended in a bit of mud.
There is nothing but mud in the case of her own father and none of it sticks. Booth is just trying to do the right thing as ever, but in this case, he is forced to do the wrong thing because Brennan makes him. Booth also knows why.
BOOTH: Right. Okay. Listen up, people. Bones, she believes in the system. She finds out that Angela is not going to testify, she’s not going to like it. Okay? She’d want all of us to do our jobs.
In addition:
BOOTH: Angela refuses to testify.
BRENNAN: Why?
BOOTH: Probably because she’s your best friend…
BRENNAN: Well, you’re my friend and you don’t mind.
BOOTH: I mind. We all mind. Except for Zack.
BRENNAN: Well, in that case, Zack is the only one thinking clearly. I had to give Hodgins permission. I don’t know what’s wrong with everyone.
BOOTH: It’s not what’s wrong, Bones. It’s what’s right.
Right and wrong. That is the crux of what happens and the journey for Brennan is punctuated by such insights from Booth.
BOOTH: How ya doing there, Bones?
BRENNAN: When it looked like my father might go free I got.. (she pauses to take it all in) This is very confusing for me.
BOOTH: You liked the idea of him beating the murder charge.
BRENNAN: Yes. But he did it. We both know my father did it.
BOOTH: Bones, wanting your father to come home instead of going to prison, that's- that's okay.
BRENNAN: But what I do – what we do is put murderers like him away.
BOOTH: Okay. You're not Dr. Brennan today. You're Temperance.
BRENNAN: I don't know what that means.
BOOTH: The scientist part of you got sidelined, temporarily.
BRENNAN: I still don't know what that means.
BOOTH: Bones, just, take the brain, okay, put it in neutral. All right? Take the heart – pop it into overdrive.
(Booth imitates a car engine revving and pretends to drive. Brennan laughs.)
BRENNAN: Sometimes I think you're from another planet.
(Booth stops 'driving' and sits back up, across from her.)
BRENNAN: And sometimes I think you're really very nice.
Yes, he has seen that dilemma she has of brain over heart, but he, of all people, is arguing by using semantics. However compartmentalised she claims to be, no one could resist the feeling of relief that her father could be released. Of course, the murder weapon being found in her apartment with no room for it being any other, does make the case stronger, but it also allows the reasonable doubt that the defence needs to be successful.
Putting aside the facts which would disallow Brennan as a suspect, what does she ask Booth to do? Nothing but support a story, again by using semantics.
BRENNAN: If the truth can't be proven, is it still the truth?
BOOTH: You invited me to breakfast to talk philosophy?
BRENNAN: A theory isn't even really a theory until it's challenged. It's just simply a hypothesis. I don't believe that a man should die based upon a hypothesis, do you?
BOOTH: If you have a question, just ask it.
BRENNAN: I have a way to lodge reasonable doubt in the jury.
BOOTH: We can't talk about this.
BRENNAN: Please? You're the person I talk to about things like this.
BOOTH: No perjury involved. Just an interpretation of existing facts.
BRENNAN: An alternate story.
BOOTH: You don't know that he did it, you know, your old man.
BRENNAN: Well, we both know he did it.
BOOTH: No, not the way that you define “know”. You know, with proof and all that.
BRENNAN: It's going to be enough for the jury.
BOOTH: Juries are a human factor in a trial, all right? You never know what they'll do.
BRENNAN: You think it's all right for me to take advantage of that?
BOOTH: Brain and heart, Bones. Brain and heart.
Booth is the romantic, in the sense of romance that is a fanciful tale, idealistic and removed from reality. He sees this as allowing the heart to rule the head. Brennan uses that against him. He also is a stickler for the truth when it matters and she uses that too. In a way she has asked for his permission, but he is the one who has to tell the absolute truth without any room for interpretation, or, apparently, cross examination.
BARRON: Dr. Brennan could have burned the body hours later when you were safe at home.
JUDGE HADDOES: The witness will answer the question.
BOOTH: (to Brennan) That's a lot of heart, Bones.
BARRON: Your Honour-
JUDGE HADDOES: Answer the question please, Agent Booth.
BOOTH: Could Bones have killed Kirby? Temperance Brennan – I've worked with this woman. I've stood over death with her, I've faced down death with her. And Sweets, he's brilliant, he is, but he's wrong. She could not have done this.
BARRON: I didn't ask you your opinion of Dr. Brennan's character. I asked you, did she have time?
(Booth looks to Brennan and knows that she needs him to tell the truth. )
BOOTH: Yes. She had time.
How dare she? Yes it's the romantic outcome in that against all the odds her father is found not guilty. The argument is simplistic; the facts do not bear out the events if they had bothered to consider that Brennan did not return to the rooftop after the initial trip to find the first body, not Kirby's, and therefore could not carry the seminary particulates there. That's the logic of it. Nor would the copper pipe serve any purpose being left on the rooftop other than to throw suspicion on her father and therefore away from herself. Why did Max use the misericorde when he had the copper pipe? I still don't know why she wasn't arrested. If it is all about reasonable doubt I suppose that is the reason, but no further investigation is called for.
I maintain that she was lucky Booth was so committed to proof. In any other case he would do all he could to make sure the guilty party was exposed as in The Man in the Mud. Brennan's father is a special case, and much has been made of Booth's sympathies with Max as a man if not his methods, but I still don't think it sits easy with him that Max got away with it on a technicality; that he got the reward for abandoning his family, for taking the law into his own hands; for charming his way out of two brutal murders and ordering the murder of MacVicar in prison. Brennan accepts Booth's hug and I suppose there is implicit gratitude there, but nothing is said openly by way of thanks. The victims were all corrupt or murderers themselves, but is it right that their killer gets away with it thanks to semantics? What is right and wrong? That debate is being revisited in the current season with the Jake Broadsky story: another man who has his personal agenda for punishing the guilty in a manner which he thinks they deserve. This time it is Booth's history that is being challenged and him having to make the call on how to respond. His altruism here is such that he does not even resent the way he has been manipulated to serve the justice system in a way I am sure he finds abhorrent. I guess he is in love.
Booth's only reward is his partner's happiness and in true romantic hero fashion he walks off into the sunset, alone.
Only two episodes left to look at in the season.
Let's get most of Season 3 finished. I'll leave the last two episodes until later because I want to look at a specific thing about Booth that got me quite annoyed when I did my rewatch.
A BOOTH FOR ALL SEASONS
BOOTH IN SEASON 3 - Altruism That is right, people. I am a constant surprise.
Few bits and pieces first that crop up in Baby in the Bough and Man in the Mud.
In the latter, Sweets gets himself involved by interfering in the partnership because he thinks they need to share more beyond their work. Booth is resistant, particularly when the 'therapy' turns out to be an evening of ceramics with Sweets and his girlfriend. However, he rises above it and proves to be an adept sculptor. This unexpected artisitc skill was last seen in Season 1 when he made the origami for Goodman.
In the end, it is Sweets who loses his partner and Booth and Brennan who take him out to something Booth is good at: bowling.
Unsurprisingly, Booth turns out to be a dab hand with baby care in Baby in the Bough and that made me wonder how involved he was with Parker's early days. He knows how to change a diaper and does all the gushy stuff that parents do. I found Brennan's voice particularly strident when she talked to Andy as if shouting would make him understand and although Booth did the goofy face and baby talk stuff it was cute.
He also revealed some aspirations that are clearly beyond his financial means. This was prompted by Brennan revealing she had a 7 figure advance and didn't know what to do with it. Booth's money goes on food and rent, but his dreams are simple.
BOOTH:You know, I don’t wanna sound insensitive here, but I’m telling you: real estate? It’s gotta be a steal. I mean, you could build yourself a beautiful house on the river. I could come out and fish. You could put in one of those media rooms. You know, I saw a one hundred and three inch flat-screen TV–
BRENNAN: I don’t need another residence, Booth.
BOOTH: Just, you know, tryin’ to give you a little financial advice.
Simple desires really, but not what Brennan wants. Her altruism, does not extend to an individual like Booth.
By the end of the episode, when she has paid for a bridge and given Carol Grant a job, Booth is still dreaming, only his dream has become more refined.
BOOTH: Wow. That is going to cost a fortune.
BRENNAN: Well, to you it’s a fortune, but with my advance, and selling the movie rights–
BOOTH: Yeah, I get it. You know, I thought you said that towns lived and died liked organisms, that sometimes we should just let them go.
BRENNAN: Sometimes it takes one thing, like a bridge, for a town to start recovering. Back on the scenic route the gas stations could reopen, restaurants, maybe a bed and breakfast for people wanting to stay in the area.
BOOTH: Wow. Listen to you. Good for you. (He hands her the documents and sits back.) You know, it’s a, it’s a shame.
BRENNAN: What?
BOOTH: No kids: who’s going to be proud of you?
BRENNAN: I don’t do it for that.
BOOTH: Yeah, okay. I know. I know. You know, with next year’s book, you should uh, you should get that second home in that town you saved. I mean, it only makes sense, right? Because every year, you know, plasmas, they go down, they get cheaper and cheaper–it happens all the time.
BRENNAN: Forget it.
BOOTH: What? I’m just saying. Andy’s going to miss his Auntie Bones. He’s going to want to see you. We could all go fishing, come back home, plop ourselves in front of that one hundred and three inch plasma screen of *heaven* and *football* and you can make the *five layer* dip.
BRENNAN: Seven layer dip.
BOOTH: Even better! Seven layers! Perfect! You can talk to Andy: hello Andy, little baby, little baby baby Andy– .
Nothing wrong with a little dreaming, but Booth gets shot down in flames. Brennan is not interested in Booth's fantasy life, which could be a reality for her in a week. What is striking is Booth doesn't resent her success, or her attitude to his dreams. She doesn't want what he wants; she doesn't even know why he wants those things, which are unimportant to her.
So by the end of the adventure with Andy, Booth has had a little moment of pleasure where he could dream about a family, the family that he has found, sharing his reward, except there is no reward. Brennan says she hasn't done what she did for someone to be proud of her. However, she hasn't been truly altruistic either. It's close to the meaning of altruism as selfless concern for the welfare of others. Still, what has she actually sacrificed? She has more money than she needs so although financially she is giving selflessly she is giving nothing of herself emotionally or that she could not afford. Of course Brennan has little time for emotions and this is best exemplified by The Verdict in the Story. But there is a dry run in The Santa in the Slush where we see yet more of Booth's willingness to put the well being of others before his own.
Booth normally enjoys the Christmas season, but not this year;
BOOTH: I'm thinking about driving the truck right off the bridge. Oh, I'm being melodramatic and self pitying.
BRENNAN: You love Christmas.
BOOTH: I love it – you know – when I have Parker. But this year he's going skiing in Vermont with Rebecca and Captain Fantastic.
So who does he think about? Brennan and her family. He arranges for Caroline to get a trailer in the jail; kisses Brennan; teaches her about lying to kids; thinks up a story to get Russ to appear innocent; gets her a tree. All of these things he does knowing his own Christmas is going to be ruined without Parker. By chance, he is able to have Parker for Christmas, so at least he does get something but he was willing to manage without while Brennan was resistant to family fun throughout. At least they both end up getting a Christmas with family.
In Verdict in the Story however, Brennan asks considerably more of Booth's altruism than a kiss and a tree. This is the most annoying use of Booth's loyalty to date and the most selfish act by Brennan. By the end of the episode, Booth has been complicit in allowing a known murderer and accessory to murder to go free. It's all right though because it is Brennan's father. It is another sacrifice he is willing to make for her sake and she knew he would do it. That is what I find annoying and a real piece of double standards. Yes she used the legal system to help her, but in the previous episode she said this:
BRENNAN: Don't get mad; I'm just saying that, I just like it better when we catch 'em, and they go to jail.
BOOTH: Yeah, well, sometimes it can get messy, Bones, but the point is, it gets done.
BRENNAN: This one started out in a bit of mud and ended in a bit of mud.
There is nothing but mud in the case of her own father and none of it sticks. Booth is just trying to do the right thing as ever, but in this case, he is forced to do the wrong thing because Brennan makes him. Booth also knows why.
BOOTH: Right. Okay. Listen up, people. Bones, she believes in the system. She finds out that Angela is not going to testify, she’s not going to like it. Okay? She’d want all of us to do our jobs.
In addition:
BOOTH: Angela refuses to testify.
BRENNAN: Why?
BOOTH: Probably because she’s your best friend…
BRENNAN: Well, you’re my friend and you don’t mind.
BOOTH: I mind. We all mind. Except for Zack.
BRENNAN: Well, in that case, Zack is the only one thinking clearly. I had to give Hodgins permission. I don’t know what’s wrong with everyone.
BOOTH: It’s not what’s wrong, Bones. It’s what’s right.
Right and wrong. That is the crux of what happens and the journey for Brennan is punctuated by such insights from Booth.
BOOTH: How ya doing there, Bones?
BRENNAN: When it looked like my father might go free I got.. (she pauses to take it all in) This is very confusing for me.
BOOTH: You liked the idea of him beating the murder charge.
BRENNAN: Yes. But he did it. We both know my father did it.
BOOTH: Bones, wanting your father to come home instead of going to prison, that's- that's okay.
BRENNAN: But what I do – what we do is put murderers like him away.
BOOTH: Okay. You're not Dr. Brennan today. You're Temperance.
BRENNAN: I don't know what that means.
BOOTH: The scientist part of you got sidelined, temporarily.
BRENNAN: I still don't know what that means.
BOOTH: Bones, just, take the brain, okay, put it in neutral. All right? Take the heart – pop it into overdrive.
(Booth imitates a car engine revving and pretends to drive. Brennan laughs.)
BRENNAN: Sometimes I think you're from another planet.
(Booth stops 'driving' and sits back up, across from her.)
BRENNAN: And sometimes I think you're really very nice.
Yes, he has seen that dilemma she has of brain over heart, but he, of all people, is arguing by using semantics. However compartmentalised she claims to be, no one could resist the feeling of relief that her father could be released. Of course, the murder weapon being found in her apartment with no room for it being any other, does make the case stronger, but it also allows the reasonable doubt that the defence needs to be successful.
Putting aside the facts which would disallow Brennan as a suspect, what does she ask Booth to do? Nothing but support a story, again by using semantics.
BRENNAN: If the truth can't be proven, is it still the truth?
BOOTH: You invited me to breakfast to talk philosophy?
BRENNAN: A theory isn't even really a theory until it's challenged. It's just simply a hypothesis. I don't believe that a man should die based upon a hypothesis, do you?
BOOTH: If you have a question, just ask it.
BRENNAN: I have a way to lodge reasonable doubt in the jury.
BOOTH: We can't talk about this.
BRENNAN: Please? You're the person I talk to about things like this.
BOOTH: No perjury involved. Just an interpretation of existing facts.
BRENNAN: An alternate story.
BOOTH: You don't know that he did it, you know, your old man.
BRENNAN: Well, we both know he did it.
BOOTH: No, not the way that you define “know”. You know, with proof and all that.
BRENNAN: It's going to be enough for the jury.
BOOTH: Juries are a human factor in a trial, all right? You never know what they'll do.
BRENNAN: You think it's all right for me to take advantage of that?
BOOTH: Brain and heart, Bones. Brain and heart.
Booth is the romantic, in the sense of romance that is a fanciful tale, idealistic and removed from reality. He sees this as allowing the heart to rule the head. Brennan uses that against him. He also is a stickler for the truth when it matters and she uses that too. In a way she has asked for his permission, but he is the one who has to tell the absolute truth without any room for interpretation, or, apparently, cross examination.
BARRON: Dr. Brennan could have burned the body hours later when you were safe at home.
JUDGE HADDOES: The witness will answer the question.
BOOTH: (to Brennan) That's a lot of heart, Bones.
JUDGE HADDOES: Answer the question please, Agent Booth.
BOOTH: Could Bones have killed Kirby? Temperance Brennan – I've worked with this woman. I've stood over death with her, I've faced down death with her. And Sweets, he's brilliant, he is, but he's wrong. She could not have done this.
BARRON: I didn't ask you your opinion of Dr. Brennan's character. I asked you, did she have time?
(Booth looks to Brennan and knows that she needs him to tell the truth. )
BOOTH: Yes. She had time.
How dare she? Yes it's the romantic outcome in that against all the odds her father is found not guilty. The argument is simplistic; the facts do not bear out the events if they had bothered to consider that Brennan did not return to the rooftop after the initial trip to find the first body, not Kirby's, and therefore could not carry the seminary particulates there. That's the logic of it. Nor would the copper pipe serve any purpose being left on the rooftop other than to throw suspicion on her father and therefore away from herself. Why did Max use the misericorde when he had the copper pipe? I still don't know why she wasn't arrested. If it is all about reasonable doubt I suppose that is the reason, but no further investigation is called for.
I maintain that she was lucky Booth was so committed to proof. In any other case he would do all he could to make sure the guilty party was exposed as in The Man in the Mud. Brennan's father is a special case, and much has been made of Booth's sympathies with Max as a man if not his methods, but I still don't think it sits easy with him that Max got away with it on a technicality; that he got the reward for abandoning his family, for taking the law into his own hands; for charming his way out of two brutal murders and ordering the murder of MacVicar in prison. Brennan accepts Booth's hug and I suppose there is implicit gratitude there, but nothing is said openly by way of thanks. The victims were all corrupt or murderers themselves, but is it right that their killer gets away with it thanks to semantics? What is right and wrong? That debate is being revisited in the current season with the Jake Broadsky story: another man who has his personal agenda for punishing the guilty in a manner which he thinks they deserve. This time it is Booth's history that is being challenged and him having to make the call on how to respond. His altruism here is such that he does not even resent the way he has been manipulated to serve the justice system in a way I am sure he finds abhorrent. I guess he is in love.
Booth's only reward is his partner's happiness and in true romantic hero fashion he walks off into the sunset, alone.
Only two episodes left to look at in the season.
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You're right, Brennan does not give of herself and she is very submissive of Booth's dreams and wishes. But I can't help wonder that if she did offer him a giant plasma TV, if he wouldn't be too proud to accept it. Sure she would not even notice the cost, but I think Booth would have reservations.
Sweets strikes again! Seeing his patients in a different surrounding is one thing (although it seems he has problems with boundaries and tries to shoehorn himself in), arranging a double date is something else completely.
Very impressed with Booth's ceramic skills. I have two thoughts here, one practical; hope he scoped out the inside of the horse or it will crack in the kiln. The second one; what is he wearing?!! Somewhere there is a middle aged woman who hasn't noticed that the 1980s are over and wonders who stole her shirt ;) The others wear aprons, so it can't be the place they're at that supplied the it.
Priceless picture of Booth contemplating the ceramics evening is priceless. If he can do artwork like this on a whim you wonder what he could do with training and guidance. We know far from all about Booth's earlier life, but somehow I don't think it included much artistic expression.
I was reminded of the discussion Booth and Brennan had, when Booth explained that in some circles Max is considered honorable or similar, but still I can't see him acting as he did unless your guess about him being in love wasn't right.
Borders?! I meant boundaries!
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I think the plasma screen dream was interesting because it involved the television being at her house where they would be together. The second version had them fishing together and him watching football while eating 7 layer dip that she had made with a baby in attendance - Andy for now, but I bet Booth could easily work it up to their baby. Look at how the dream went in The End in the Beginning: a family life.
Sweets made his move at this point and I wish he had recognised that what happened was his own fault because he was treating his girlfriend like a patient too. Already he is treating B&B as surrogate parents.
When it looked like they didn't need him any more he offered them the book idea. Then it was Booth's fault because the bargain he proposes is spurious. Surely Sweets would be available on tap to do profiles anyway. And when was he ever good in the interrogation room before this? Verdict in the Story was when he got his feet under the table and he has dug in ever since.
The horse looked pretty solid to me so would explode in the kiln. I believe the clothes are typical examples of David's own wardrobe at the time.
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Apologies for sloppy writing yesterday, had spent too long writing something else. Topped it off by thinking the kettle was broke - forgot to plug it in...
Surely Sweets would be available on tap to do profiles anyway.
FBI surely has enough profilers not to force agents to make informal deals with employees not specializing in it??? And if Booth needs help with interrogations, they have people who are trained for that too.
*Ponders what's in a 7 layer dip* I can think of 6 (salsa, avocado, beans, sour cream, cheese, and possibly put the corn chips in there too.)
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I think they could have left Sweets alone. Even if they had stuck to the bargain it would be better. I do not need him having full participation in all aspects of a case where neither profiling nor being in the outer room of the interrogation suite is seen. Why does he have to go to the lab and suit up in a hazmat outfit just so he can sneeze in it other than for comic relief? Why is he conducting interrogations when Booth could do them other than to marginalise Booth's skills in that department? Why is he suddenly the go to guy for Hodgins and Angela and Cam too when they work for the Jeffersonian? That is where I object to Sweets.
I have no knowledge of layered dips except they must be messy.
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Maybe part of the latter has to to with TV shows often having a small team doing practically everything. The makers have made the Jeffersonian team plus Booth into a crime solving unit, so when Sweets comes along he gets to join too?
In case you're concerned about my kettle making ends meet, I've lent it some money until it gets it paycheck ;) And submissive - dismissive, what's the difference... Oops. Finally found the time to go to a spa, but the meditation & detox must have relaxed the language center in my brain too!
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You have put my Sweets concerns in a nutshell. They were so keen to have him be professional in spite of his youth at the beginning that it does not sit easy that he is constantly having to be a buffoon. Why would people 10-15 years older than him defer to his 'wisdom'? Has he ever been right about a relationship, or how to make that relationship better?
I sometimes think it's an American thing with regard to psychological navel gazing, but more than anything it is the way show falls in love with certain characters and then rams them in our faces to the detriment of that character and others who have to diminidh in order to make room.
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Made me think of another character, guess who ;) Clue: although she is young she is wise, brilliant and overall amazing. Come to think of it, she and Sweets would be a match made in heaven!
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-beans
-cheese
-beef
-sour cream
-guacamole
-salsa
-cheese, olives, tomatoes and gree onions.
Definitely sounds messy.
I thought Sweets mentioned at one point that he was also a trained profiler - he definitely mentions that he did the profile on Max for the prosecution. Even so, making a deal to bring him in seems strange, unless the idea was that Booth and Brennan would prefer not to have a different profiler every case and having one profiler to work with each time is better. Which I can see (if I squint ;))
I wouldn't mind Sweets barging in all the time, because I think it is in character for him - abandonment, surragte parents, land of misfit toys, etc ;) - if only the show occasionally raised the fact that he really isn't qualified to be there most of the time. Even if Daisy was around more it would make sense for him to be at the lab. (I know most people doesn't seem to like Daisy, but I can't seem to help it, I find her hilariously awful and I love her and Brennan interacting, it amuses me massively.)
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Yes Sweets does have profiler on his cv and if that was what he did then I have no problem. As you say, most of the time he has no reason to be in the episode and no qualifications in doing what he does. It reminds me of the two characters they extended in the latter stages of Moonlighting (Ms DiPesto and Bert Viola) when it forgot what it was supposed to be doing and became surreal rubbish. That is Daisy and Sweets. Daisy has the same problem as Sweets in that she is supposed to be brilliant but is maddeningly loud.
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Pasta is good.
Yes. But not in a dip ;)
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In a nutshell!
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I like your point about it being IC for Sweets to barge in, but I would prefer if show not only pointed out that he really isn't qualified, but would stop him from interrogating and had the characters confide in each other like they used to, not running to Sweets for a consult every five minutes.
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I go back and forth on whether Sweets should be in the interogation room. While I think I largely prefer him not to be, I think sometimes it does make sense to have him there - depending on who they were interviewing. And presumbly he has at some point been trained by the FBI to question suspects. I think if he was used sparingly it would have worked quite well, but he always seems to be there for no good reason.
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Did this actually make sense to anyone? Murder prosecution is always really, really tricky.
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As Booth said on the stand, all three of them could be placed on the scene thanks to Hodgins finding particulates from the seminary and Brennan's apartment at the murder scene.
They conveniently forgot the first murder however, with the same M.O. and the additional evidence of the Columbus coin being found on both victims. Brennan had an alibi for the first body, and at that point no way of knowing his connection to her father or the significance of the coin. There is also MacVicar's murder in prison that was instigated by Max. She actively would not want that laid at her door.
Yes, televisual murder trials are tricky beasts, impossible to tie up loose ends..