6x01 ~ The Mastodon in the Room ~ SHOW DISCUSSION

tinkrella wrote:so....metaphorically was the mastodon Hannah? Or....was it all that has happened between booth and bones and if they were going to stick.


And....who do you think is the lynch pin? It made me chuckle that they all wanted to take credit for that. We know booth and bones are the center.

dreamerktm411 wrote:This is actually one of my favorite season premieres. I liked it way better than the last two years.
The Hannah thing was not at all a big deal and the scene where Brennan and Booth talked about it wasn't that bad.
The Angela/Brennan scene was so sweet it wanted me to hug them too and the case was both interesting and a little heartbreaking, the best kind for Bones.
I fell (a little more) in love with Hodgins when he was so wonderful and excited about Angela being pregnant. It actually made me tear up.
Then they smiled at each other and it turned from me tearing up to me full-on crying.
There was something so great about Brennan in this episode. In season 5, her awkwardness made me want to roll my eyes sometimes or even cringe at parts. But in this episode (and hopefully throughout the rest of season 6) it was perfectly endearing like it used to be. There's obviously been a lot of growth in her character in the "seven months" they were away and I can't wait for it to hopefully be explored better in later episodes.
Also, Brennan and Caroline's conversation was the perfect mix of being so completely human and beautifully pure yet at the same time funny (Caroline's facial expressions are epic) that it was probably one of my favorite Bones moments in a long time.
And, of course, the end scene was sweet.

Oh, Hart. Even when I get angry and frustrated and completely unhappy with you, you always win me back in the end.

tinkrella wrote:

gordongordonfan wrote:Let's not forget what was, for me, a much more important conversation in this episode in terms of illuminating Booth's relationship than the whole 'heart attack' convo was.... and THAT is his convo with Miss Caroline! I don't have the whole convo in my head, but when she asks what "Dr. B thinks about that" and also Booth drops a VERY TELLING line about how "Hannah doesn't have 'issues'" (He uses different words but I can't remember them right now)... Caroline says something like "nope, no issues there."... It made me happy that right out of the gate they are having Booth bring internal comparisons b/n the 2 women up the moment he starts talking about Hanna to people who are traditionally "His and Bones'" people... He may be trying hard to convince himself he is in love, and I think that at this point he really wants to be, and maybe even thinks he is... but how many obvious clues can the writers have given us to show us straight away what is really going on here. I love that they gave us that.

you're right. i forgot all about that conversation. This episode deserves a rewatch just for all the not so subtle hints they through out at the future of this storyline. It's rather obvious, the more I think about it. The one he had with sweets was very telling too.

treble21 wrote:awww they're so happy to see each other!!! and Daisy's comedic value is overkill so far. But happy to see the return of kickass Brennan

dreamerktm411 wrote:This is actually one of my favorite season premieres. I liked it way better than the last two years.
The Hannah thing was not at all a big deal and the scene where Brennan and Booth talked about it wasn't that bad.
The Angela/Brennan scene was so sweet it wanted me to hug them too and the case was both interesting and a little heartbreaking, the best kind for Bones.
I fell (a little more) in love with Hodgins when he was so wonderful and excited about Angela being pregnant. It actually made me tear up.
Then they smiled at each other and it turned from me tearing up to me full-on crying.
There was something so great about Brennan in this episode. In season 5, her awkwardness made me want to roll my eyes sometimes or even cringe at parts. But in this episode (and hopefully throughout the rest of season 6) it was perfectly endearing like it used to be. There's obviously been a lot of growth in her character in the "seven months" they were away and I can't wait for it to hopefully be explored better in later episodes.
Also, Brennan and Caroline's conversation was the perfect mix of being so completely human and beautifully pure yet at the same time funny (Caroline's facial expressions are epic) that it was probably one of my favorite Bones moments in a long time.
And, of course, the end scene was sweet.

Oh, Hart. Even when I get angry and frustrated and completely unhappy with you, you always win me back in the end.

treble21 wrote:ok so I'm a little confused. Parker told Booth to go away in the finale because he didn't want to be the reason Booth didn't go to help people... and now he's all cool with Booth staying home because of him.... help me out here.. am I missing something?

katharine wrote:

treble21 wrote:ok so I'm a little confused. Parker told Booth to go away in the finale because he didn't want to be the reason Booth didn't go to help people... and now he's all cool with Booth staying home because of him.... help me out here.. am I missing something?

no, just the bad writing from the season finale that they knew they have to atone for now.

And on an odd note I found it wierd that they even threw in something about Booth not wearing his seatbelt. I had read somewhere before that people had busted HH's chops on why Booth doesn't wear his seatbelt - him being a "cop" and all. He said he couldn't get Booth to wear it, but DB does.

jro54 wrote:

katharine wrote:

treble21 wrote:ok so I'm a little confused. Parker told Booth to go away in the finale because he didn't want to be the reason Booth didn't go to help people... and now he's all cool with Booth staying home because of him.... help me out here.. am I missing something?

no, just the bad writing from the season finale that they knew they have to atone for now.

And on an odd note I found it wierd that they even threw in something about Booth not wearing his seatbelt. I had read somewhere before that people had busted HH's chops on why Booth doesn't wear his seatbelt - him being a "cop" and all. He said he couldn't get Booth to wear it, but DB does.

I read that HH said that he could never get DB to wear a seatbelt because she doesn't want to wear a seatbelt in fake car, he does in real life.

jro54 wrote:I should see it for myself, tomorrow when it becomes avaible on HULU, but from the posts that I've read, it seems that Booth is just trying to convince himself that he's happy, but he's not really natually happy. It does make me a little sad for him, but it also makes me think that I can get through this "Hannah" arch.

treble21 wrote:

jro54 wrote:I should see it for myself, tomorrow when it becomes avaible on HULU, but from the posts that I've read, it seems that Booth is just trying to convince himself that he's happy, but he's not really natually happy. It does make me a little sad for him, but it also makes me think that I can get through this "Hannah" arch.

Well the Booth stuff is subtle if you take it at face value, he's happy, but there's indications that he's not as happy as he could be.

treble21 wrote:Booth seems unaturally happy.

THX1138 wrote:

treble21 wrote:Booth seems unaturally happy.

It's unnatural because it's totally forced. Watch the scene with Booth and Sweets again. Their exchange, when Booth is trying to convince Sweets to let Daisy go and move on? Man if he was giving me that advice I'd go the opposite way because he's clearly unhappy even as he insists that moving on finally gave him his chance for happiness. He's kidding himself and it's all gonna end in tears. Actually I'm looking forward to that now, I'm betting Hannah has even less of a shelf life than Tessa.


RM

treble21 wrote:Booth used the term "squintern" I think that may be the first time it's been used on tv?