Ann \'Nellie\' · @nelliesbones
10th Dec 2010 from Twitlonger
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose, or: The Doctor in the Photo. It's superfluous to say that I love it, I expected that.
What I expected as well, was despair. Surprisingly, that didn't happen. It takes the world three days to be upside down again - with that TPTB gave us a pocket universe in which we can understand this ep.
Let's start with the most importat part: Emily is beyond amazing, and I'm madly in love right now. She carries the whole episode, and I love her uncharacteristic behaviour. Feeling. Openness. Going with her gut. How she comforts the pilot? Amazing.
Then she is brave enough to admit her mistake to Booth. (By the way, does it make any sense that he was in this street?) But I have to say: Girl, what did you expect? He IS with another woman now. I can simply guess that she did not think past admitting her feelings because that is already so unbelieveably hard for her.
"I can adjust." "I did." "Yes, you did." And that is what happened. We come full circle here. He had gambled. She couldn't do it. Now she gambles. And he can't do it Now they're even. It's not as if she did not want to, and I don't believe for a second that Brennan is anything less than the standard for Booth. She was scared. And now he has found a safe place and is too scared to leave it. What we've seen from Brennan today is not the woman we know, the woman Booth knows. How can he dare believing her, risk his heart again? Season 6 Booth is not the man we've come to know either. He was seriously broken. By her. How can he risk the life he has now?
Where does it leave us?
I believe she will adjust - but she won't forget. Neither will he. It will seethe under the surface. I believe there is a point of no return once she has accepted her love, her mistake. Maybe her walls will be stronger than ever, but this realization cannot be denied.
And he will have to see her, every day, fully aware that she knows about her mistake, that she regrets. And one day, the gambler inside of him will stir again.
I haven't loved these two and the show so much since they crushed me in "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole".