Mistletoe's Musings

This is probably a mistake as my laptop is running very slowly for some reason and so my connection is iffy. Anyway, we must push on with Booth's background by looking at The Beaver in the Otter which provides surprisingly rich pickings for late Season 4.







( I don't want my frontal lobe to be a dried up raisin )

Two episodes left!

Today we are looking at Agent Booth well out of his comfort zone. He gets by with the science geeks at the Jeffersonian because they tolerate each other. Besides, he can always threaten to shoot one of them. Booth's self confessed deficiencies in the enrichment side of Parker's education and his own perception of what Brennan and Hodgins are talking about most of the time mean that when he is surrounded by highly qualified professional scientists he feels a little out of his depth. How does he cope?
( You’ve got to be kidding me. It’s like ClubMed Mensa around here. )


Th-th-th-that's all folks!

I am not impressed with the new improved(sic) posting box when it comes to long and complicated entries, but I shall endeavour to post my next installment of Booth for All Seasons, still in Season 4.


We have hit a bit of a trough with the next three episodes: The Princess and the Pear, The Bones That Foam and The Salt in the Wounds because they add very little new to our picture of the many facets of Booth and in many ways go over old territory. So I shall endeavour to find something which has been cast aside, or even forgotten in Season 4, namely, that Booth is a very intelligent guy. Too often in this season, he has been reduced to the muscle with the transport and the inappropriate comment at the scene of the crime. He has had his role narrowed even in the interrogation room thanks to the 'assistance' of Agent Dr Sweets and frequently the Jeffersonian crew not only find the hard evidence, but solve the crime too and Booth is left to flourish the handcuffs or pick up the tab.



( You should stop using cartoons as a scientific reference point. )



So there we are. The focus was largely elsewhere in these three episodes with Agent Perotta and Sweets getting a fair amount of screen time while we also had to deal with the personal foibles of Mr Nigel-Murray and Mr Fisher along with the introduction of Mr Vaziri and the end of Angela's relationship with Roxie. Not much room for Booth's backstory in there and we don't fare much better in the next three episodes either! Short entries are good too.

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. ( Okay, you just have to give me a minute, okay, you can have your boobies all to yourself. )

It's another glorious day in the neighbourhood and amilyn 's timeline for Booth post reminded me that I hadn't got started on Season 4 in quite such as timely a fashion as I would have liked. I think I was prevaricating because the first episode was greeted with a certain amount of antagonism on this side of the Pond, because of the cliched view of the UK it presented. This had nothing to do with Booth, but I need to say it. The British aristocracy is not royalty. They are wealthy landowners who may trace their titles back to Norman times (11th century) but they are not relatives of the Queen. These are the exceptions:
Duke of Edinburgh - Prince Philip, married to the Queen. He is Greek. He does not own Edinburgh.
Duke of Kent - Prince Edward, Queen's first cousin, a grandson of George V
Duke of Gloucester - Prince Richard, Queen's cousin and grandson of George V
Duke of Cornwall - Prince Charles, Queen's eldest son
Duke of York - Prince Andrew, Queen's second son
Earl of Wessex - Prince Edward, Queen's youngest son.

Secondly, the police in London tend to be referred to as the Met., short for Metropolitan Police, rather than Scotland Yard. Also, homicide is not the name given to  police investigations of murder in this country

Right, after that is out of the way, everything else is just nitpicking.

( Character analysis of Seeley Booth: God, the man’s got a head like a boulder. )

Oh, I'm going to miss the first day of our first game at home on Wednesday if I go to the Quayside. *ponders* Quayside I think. Good food, good wine, good friends. I can go to days 2 and 3 instead. he he

So, having got through Passenger in the Oven I thought I better get through The Bone That Blew sharpish and it turned out to be quite educational if looked at in a cold rational way.
( Spoilers for The Bone That Blew: "I know you Booth. You're trying to do me a favor by telling me it's a favor for you." )

Speaking of murder I have had to resort to the mousetraps. Two dead last night. There was blood. I won't dwell. I hope that's the back of them as disposing of little dead mouse bodies is gross.

Gosh, no football today so it's back to Season 4 and the development of Brennan's character. This is the start of a run of three episodes that I find particularly challenging to watch again because they lack appeal in the cases and the characters are cliched. So, through gritted teeth I give you Brennan in The Passenger in the Oven.
( Spoilers for The Passenger in the Oven: "You're bored. The spark has gone" )

Next time we have the similarly annoying Brennan in The Bone That Blew where she displayed very irritating traits with regard to her father.