so many feels I can’t even
OK SO, it’s an understatement to say that I have major issues with the scripting and characterisation of Bones from the end of S3 onwards (dear entirety of S4 but especially that bullshit with Booth’s hockey hallucination, multiple stupid dressups and Stewie Griffin’s cameo, I am looking directly at you) but I still love the show to the point where, despite knowing how S7 ends, I haven’t actually been able to bring myself to watch the last few episodes of it yet, because I find false accusation deeply upsetting on a fundamental level, both in narrative and IRL, and I won’t be able to cope with happens to Brennan until I’ve got total reassurance as to how it all works out. Which is a long way of saying: I’ve seen gifs and stills of the final scenes where she takes Christine and leaves Booth behind, but haven’t actually watched the episode in its entirely - which has, to a certain extent, kept me from having Feelings about the teasers for S8.
Except.
I’ve recently started rewatching Bones from the beginning, and have just finished S3E12 - The Baby in the Bough. And I don’t know if Hart Hanson’s been playing some wicked, Whedonesque long game, if it’s something he just remembered after the fact and decided to use, or if the whole thing is a species of perfect accident, but there’s this bit, right, where Booth and Brennan have baby Andy with them in a potentially dangerous situation, and when Booth tells Brennan to stay in the car with Andy, the conversation goes like this:
BRENNAN: But–
BOOTH: Bones, there is a baby involved. If you hear gunfire, anything like that, drive away.
BRENNAN: Bu–I’m not leaving you.
BOOTH: Yes you will, because this is about the baby, not me. Promise me.
BRENNAN: I promise.
And all of a sudden I was OVERWHELMED BY FEELINGS, because this is pretty much exactly what ends up happening at the end of S7, only with Christine, and I was reduced to lying on the lounge going ajhfgsjhgdjhgdjhgs my feeeeels, because even with all the stuff that bugs me in the later seasons, that is some heart-crushing synchronicity right there.
Well played, Hart Hanson. Well played.
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