Slim Pickings

[mistletoe]

Here is a very brief update of A Booth for All Seasons. It is brief because there is a run of episodes where we have very little Booth action except he gets progressively dumber. Whether this is because of the brain tumour or writers decisions that Sweets needed a boost, there is not much to add in the way of background.

A BOOTH FOR ALL SEASONS

I'm a people person.

Passenger in The Oven
Apart from the ridiculous premise of this episode all we learn is that old ladies like Booth, which we already knew (Boneless Bride in the River) and he has a thing for librarians wearing glasses and their hair tied back. Or that could just be a Humphrey Bogart line that Bones didn't get. He also gets cranky in coach and squeamish when up close and personal with body parts when the body is dead.

The Bone That Blew
Another silly story but here we find out that Booth went to college for 4 years although he didn't say what he studied and it cost him less than $28,000. Max accuses him of being gay because he isn't sleeping with Brennan.

Double Trouble in the Panhandle
Silliest story of them all. We learn Booth had the best knife skills in the Rangers and he can drive a motorcycle because he is a cop. He also knows hair care products beacause his dad was a barber.

And I have watched all those episodes now so need never watch them again.

A few pictures to soften the blow of lack of Boothy factoids.

The masked boobies are toast.


Let's run away to Mexico Bones


Small boy foolishly calls Booth a meat sack.


To which he does not take kindly.


Don't lie to me Dr Escralow.


Are you gay?


Waste of a good tie on an Italian car.


I loosened more buttons but I didn't know you'd lied.


But Sweets did?


It's a partner thing.


Oh look. Hanky in top pocket. Aaaw.


Enter Buck and Wanda 1.0


And Buck's arms.


Smokin'!


Just stand there and look like that while I stare.


Knife action.


Oh my.


The Great Escape


Looking for loose change.


Boris and small animal.


Taking aim.


Yes! The only hair on my body is fake!

 

Comments

[dabhug.livejournal.com]

Double Trouble is one of my favorite episodes of the season. And yes, slim pickin's indeed.

(I have to use my icon, please forgive the language. Too yummy.)

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people do like it and yet it seems so OOC that it feels like ED said I want something I can have fun in.

Nothing wrong with that icon (;

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

Double Trouble is D's FAV ep!

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

You wound me. I've gone right off him before the affair even started I've met him. Ah well, not even D is perfect. (-; We still have our football.

[huronia.livejournal.com]

You're back with more! Agree as to slim pickings on these episodes. Also agree that this is the beginning of Booth's slide into stupidity. I had forgotten that Booth even said he went to college. I guess that makes sense as it would be a requirement of FBI anyway. However, I think somehow Booth must have found a way to bend time, what with the army, college and 12 years of service with the Feds, as of Season 4.
The librarian scene proves that DB could ignite a potted plant if he really unleashed his powers. Makes me wonder all the more if he intentionally made his scenes with KW just a little bit awkward, or if she really is just that bad.
Double Trouble - as cringe-worthy as that rat on his upper lip is, this episode still makes me laugh.

In other news, I have been tuning into action from the Fortnight, and can't believe Centre court has a roof now. I see they do still serve strawberries and cream. I told my husband that if he ever wanted to give me a most awesome gift, it would be tickets to Wimbledon.

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Booth's timeline is impossible unless he is over 40 or you pick and choose "the facts". He went to college on a basketball scholarship but his shoulder crapped out (Season 2 when he was also 35). Now he went to college for 4 years with a major that was no use in enriching Parker's education. I assume it was suitable for his skills so may have been sports based. That's all he seems to know about.

Wimbledon is an experience. I was there in the John McEnroe era when 4 strawberries in a plastic dish were £1.00. The roof means they actually got through Week 1 with minimal disruption by rain. It's still grass though. I can't remember how much the tennis tickets were (£25.00?) but the year we got Court 1 I saw Tracey Austin walk onto court and then the heavens opened. It rained for the rest of the day and Sir Cliff Richard wasn't there to sing. We could afford to get there because there was a soap powder that did rail ticket offers - 2 for the price of 1 and we used to get a Friday off in June called a Baker Day courtesy of the Education Secretary of the day. All gone now of course. It would be a £1,000 outlay these days. You can imagine that we haven't bothered to apply for tickets to the Olympics.

[huronia.livejournal.com]

It would be a £1,000 outlay these days. *sighs* Maybe for something really special. It does fall in my busiest time at work, though, so maybe we can justify a retirement celebration. Husband goes to the World Series every year, so I do feel as if he owes me, just a little.

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Absotively! And at least you'd be in London. Most of the cost is getting there from the other end of the country for me and the hotel. Us pensioners that aren't old enough for a travel pass get no perks.

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

If you ever make it there we must all meet up!

[huronia.livejournal.com]

For shure, although by the time I actually make it there I suspect it will be easy to find me as I'll be the one in the walker

[limone1.livejournal.com]

Gate crashing/butting in to say Centre Court has a roof now, pfft, it's worked without one until recently! Actually I was there the year (2007? must check my Wimbledon souvenir mugs) when they had ripped off everything in preparation for this new, questionable roof, so the views of the sky were very nice. We did have to take a few rain breaks (we went for Pimm's) so I'm probably only jealous.

[huronia.livejournal.com]

Has there been a roof on it for three years and I haven't noticed? I am so lame. I'm used to Toronto and the wonder of retractable roofs.

[limone1.livejournal.com]

Checked my mugs, one of them has 2007 on it, so yes.

We shared a cab back to the train in the evening with some very nice people from Canada (you go on the train to Wimbledon and take a cab to/from the tennis courts).

The roof is probably very practical, it's just that I like it when you have to accept that it's England, it rains sometimes, and the spirit is "We can deal with it and won't complain" ;)

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Boy were we cheap in the 80s! We walked!! Mostly because there was a transport strike. I have no idea how we got back in the rain but I remember we did get a taxi to Harrods at one point and the traffic was so bad we gave up about a mile away and walked from there. I inadvertently gave the cabbie an £8 tip!

[limone1.livejournal.com]

The cabbie probably still remembers you fondly!

I wouldn't have minded walking, but the people I went with didn't want to. I had my waterproof, daisy embroidered coat from Macy's!

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

LOL. It was a great weekend anyway. We saw CATS with the original cast (anagram) and had gorgeous Italian food afterwards. I'd made everybody walk to the Tate Gallery in the morning. Ha ha.

[limone1.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Tate. Which one do you prefer, (sorry for straying from your Booth study) Tate Modern or the "old" one? Haven't been to the old one in ages. I'm a sucker for modern art and when time is short I prioritize that. But the word "oil on canvas" makes my heart flutter too *am sad, pathetic person*. Next time I'm in London I'll make and effort to revisit the "old" Tate instead. Managed half an hour with Constable and Hogarth at the NG in April :)

Strikes, wait a minute, didn't Thatcher win the Election in 79? Thought she outlawed strikes...

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Well the Tate Modern was still a power station when I was there. I like proper old fashioned paintings and the Tate has the best collection of Victorian paintings. So that's where we went down by the Embankment. It was only 2 miles according to my map.

[limone1.livejournal.com]

2 miles, I could walk that easily.

Watching the BBC(?) The Romantics, shh, might have DL that, a new look at Ophelia and the Lady of Shalott is called for.

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

Yep the first two years after they installed it it didn't rain LOL!

[tempertemper.livejournal.com]

...what with the army, college and 12 years of service with the Feds, as of Season 4

As for him telling Brennan that the Finder was sent to find him when he went AWOL from the army to attend Parker's birth, who is all of 10 years old??! *brain melts*

[limone1.livejournal.com]

You know, pretty pictures work very well in your study of Booth too ;)

he gets progressively dumber. Whether this is because of the brain tumour or writers decisions that Sweets needed a boost

I'd like to think it was the former, but I believe it's the latter. I miss the Booth of previous seasons!

I like Double Trouble too. Can't decide why. Usually I prefer the more serious episodes, like Mayhem, and mutter when it's followed up by a lighter, humorous one like Double Death, the contrast is jarring.

Not exactly sure why I like it. I've never liked the circus. My one and only visit to one ended with one of those stories everyone but me think is hilarious. Maybe it's the costumes or the atmosphere or because B&B get to be completely different persons in a different world. Also liked that the twins were called Julie and Jenny, had to tell my BFF Julie (who doesn't watch Bones) about it. She thought it was funny too and agreed that if we joined a circus we could use our first names ;)

PS. I have not forgotten about your previous Booth for all seasons posts I said I'd get back to. I will. Eventually. But the rest of today I'll enjoy luxuries I've had to do without lately, like running (hot)water, a cool glass of sauvignon blanc and my own, soft bed with fluffy pillows!

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

I have no love of circuses and was at only one as a child when I had to throw a ball at a clown so he could catch it on a stick. I missed.

Piccies ♥

Ah I thought you must be out and about. Missed you!

[limone1.livejournal.com]

Must have been the same stupid clown who expected me to catch a ball and throw it back to him!!! Why? Didn't see the point then. Apparently I gave him one of my death glares, put my hands around my back and refused.

I missed you too!

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

At least we didn't shoot him!

[limone1.livejournal.com]

LOL :D

Not worth it, you'll have to see a shrink if you do. Probably some 12-year-old Sweets person ;)

[a-mistletoe.livejournal.com]

Step away from the keyboard! No call for that tone of talk.

[limone1.livejournal.com]

LOL again!

I find that when dealing with people like Sweets you give them the cliché answers to test them, and if they accept those answers they're not someone you want to confide in = not Wyatt ;)