Congrats on both your icon challenges and victory in your battle with LJ As yet, Sweets is not the irritant he becomes later Sweets had some purpose then. It really seems to me that he has outlived his usefulness as a character and the search for something for Sweets to do results in Irritating!Sweets. The high school episode is also irritating to me in its own way. While it held itself up in the context of season 3, now that we know Booth's backstory, this episode is really full of missed opportunities. If the showrunner really knew that Booth's father was an abusive alcoholic during this season, would he not have made some reference to it in light of the fact that their victim was himself apparently trying to escape just such a family life. Instead we are left with the impression that Booth was the high school hero golden boy and Brennan was the butt of a cruel teenage prank. I thought Brennan took the hero analogy a little too far in her interpretation of Booth's story. It wasn't that he failed to act the hero, but that he failed to stand up for what was right. To some, that might be heroic, but it's also being a good person. Good catch re: Gormogon story! Knowing what we do of Sweets' backstory, it should have been Sweets! In reading your post, I found myself feeling slightly melancholy for this Booth. I enjoy complicated!Booth, with all his demons and mistakes, but I do miss the Booth who had a spring in his step and seemed a little more sure of the world and his place in it (though one might argue that this was all image). Or perhaps I miss the Booth who hasn't been dumbed down to the point of not being a good listener and not being able to read people.
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Date: 2011-03-10 03:26 pm (UTC)Sweets had some purpose then. It really seems to me that he has outlived his usefulness as a character and the search for something for Sweets to do results in Irritating!Sweets.
The high school episode is also irritating to me in its own way. While it held itself up in the context of season 3, now that we know Booth's backstory, this episode is really full of missed opportunities. If the showrunner really knew that Booth's father was an abusive alcoholic during this season, would he not have made some reference to it in light of the fact that their victim was himself apparently trying to escape just such a family life. Instead we are left with the impression that Booth was the high school hero golden boy and Brennan was the butt of a cruel teenage prank.
I thought Brennan took the hero analogy a little too far in her interpretation of Booth's story. It wasn't that he failed to act the hero, but that he failed to stand up for what was right.
To some, that might be heroic, but it's also being a good person.
Good catch re: Gormogon story! Knowing what we do of Sweets' backstory, it should have been Sweets!
In reading your post, I found myself feeling slightly melancholy for this Booth. I enjoy complicated!Booth, with all his demons and mistakes, but I do miss the Booth who had a spring in his step and seemed a little more sure of the world and his place in it (though one might argue that this was all image). Or perhaps I miss the Booth who hasn't been dumbed down to the point of not being a good listener and not being able to read people.