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More than one season finale has polarized fans.
He wants to be with her.
He doesnt care if the FBI would separate them.
Right from the beginning…. Im that guy.
Bones, Im that guy.
I dont know how…
I dont know how.
The first time I watched the scene, I turned on Brennan.
Isnt this exactly what weve been building toward for nearly five seasons?
Hasnt she shown amazing progress?
He alreadyisa different outcome.
I dont believe Booths White Knight Syndrome is what draws him to Brennan.
But I do think fear of abandonment is whats really keeping her from being with Booth.
Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce.
Shes playing it safe shes not a gambler willing to go all or nothing.
She cares about him too much to risk losing him.
But I think he really does understand how her mind works thats the only way.
Watching the scene again, you start to realize how brilliant Emily Deschanel was in it.
She said it with a certainty and a sadness that meant shed change it if she could.
The two of them ending up with tears in their eyes definitely enough to make me well up.
Brennan: Thank you.
Booth: But I gotta move on.
Brennan: I know.
And then they walked.
Lets back up to the beginning, apropos for a flashback episode (directed by David Boreanaz).
But well play along.
She just wanted him to know that theyd worked together before the murder of a pregnant congressional intern.
He needed to hear about the real one.
The New York police were giving up on finding the killer.
Booth then met with the New York Coroner, Cam, who suggested he get another point-of-view.
Maybe from a forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian who had solved a 4,000-year-old murder.
Reluctantly, he agreed.
He went to meet Brennan while she lecturing on defleshing techniques at American University.
You could tell they liked the look of each other immediately.
He asked if she believed in fate (smooth).
Of course she didnt.
Booth gave her the girls remains but withheld her identity.
He wanted to see what pony-tailed Brennan and her team could come up with on their own.
This flashback was the only way I was ever going to be okay seeing Zack again.
That was whacking cushion-suited Zack with a baseball bat to determine if it could have been the murder weapon.
T.J. Thyne has such great timing.
She could reveal all kinds of things about her from her bones, but not her name.
How can you tell at what age someone moved states from her bones?
Our Tempe, always about the facts, said she wouldnt do that.
Shed help him find the truth.
He couldnt believe they werent fighting yet.
They were just feeling each other up, Brennan explained.
(Somethings never change.)
(Seriously, I forgot she was this bad.)
Zack and Brennan figured out a pattern of bruising on the girls bones inflicted shortly before her death.
She read the rebellion in his fashion, then asked him if he was seeing anyone.
Sweets and I both were hyperventilating at this point, Im sure.
They started off so straightforward!
Thats too bad, she said.
So she totally wanted him.
Booth and Brennan took the judge to the opera house, and she blurted out the scenario.
The judge made the mistake of calling her ridiculous.
She punched him in the nose, twice.
I miss the days of Brennan kicking a little ass.
Booth loved it then: You are so hot, he said.
Caroline, however, was less impressed and told Booth to fire her.
They knew theyd like it!
Brennan quickly realized the upside to being fired was that they could now sleep together.
Booth called a cab.
She thought it was that he was a direct descendent of John Wilkes Booth.
She could tell THAT from his bone structure?
But he was taking care of it.
Brennan: Why did you feel you had to tell me that?
Booth: I dont know.
I just feel like, um, this is goin somewhere.
Brennan: Why did you feel like this is going somewhere?
Booth: I dont know.
I just, I feel like Im gonna kiss you.
CUE AMAZING FIRST KISS and a cruel cut to Sweets, now standing up in shock.
There was tongue contact, Brennan said.
Sweets asked how long the affair had lasted.
Turns out, Brennan wasnt drunk enough to sleep with a man because she was drunk.
I love how sexually confident shes always been.
Seeley couldve gone back into the pool hall, but instead he went home.
She was already making him a better man.
The next morning, a hung over Brennan told the squints they were fired but offered Angela steady work.
Hodgins not-so-casually hit on Angela.
(You ever feel like you saw something great that almost happened, then it didnt?
YES, your future wedding!)
She was back in her world and suddenly didnt find his ignorance and demands on her time charming.
She said it was because hed gotten her drunk to fire her and have sex with her.
Brennan: Youre a superstitious moron.
Booth: Get a soul.
Brennan: Get a brain.
In short, I concur with Sweets, who said,Its like you two missed your moment.
And then you punished each other for it.
I also think the honeymoon period was over.
Brennan realized she wasnt going to just use him and his hot symmetry for sex.
She might actually have to keep working closely with him.
The case worked itself out.
He thought she was dead and went to get his car.
Sweets knew there was more relationship drama to be told.
(A confession doesnt count?)
She called him a bully who uses his badge and gun to intimidate people.
Just like she uses her brain to make people around her feel stupid, he said.
She called him stupid and said she hated him.
He said, What are you, 10 years old?
Im not your dad.
She learned to protect herself and doesnt want to be manhandled physically, verbally, or mentally.)
She vowed to never work with him again and stormed out.
Sweets was growing increasingly frustrated.
Why have neither of them been in a serious relationship since they started working together?
Someone was going to have to break the stalemate.
It had to be Booth, Sweets said.
Hes the gambler: For once, make that work for you.
A sitcom couldve gotten away with ending there, no questions asked.Ha-ha!
The jokes on you, audience!But a drama needed those final three minutes thatBonesdelivered.
Presumably its a reference to Booths coma dream in which he and Brennan were married.
Did it make any of you think we were getting a happy ending?)
How much did you love this episode?
What kind of antics did you put your mind and body through watching it?
How many times did you rewind the drunken kiss and the final scene?
Which episodes do you want to rewatch now?
(Ill be starting with the pilot.
The sexual tension at the shooting range?
Now even hotter.)
Where do we go from here?
(Dating other people, followed by jealousy?)
And what will happen to make Brennan change so they FINALLY end up together?
You still think that will happen, right?
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