Why would you do that?
It's all so weird - aside from my discomfort with the whole meme, it's hard to see why they threw this in so slapdash at the end of the season. How much better if something like this had been building for a while? (Well, not
this
this or I wouldn't be watching, probably, but still. A more subtly done this would be okay.) Or, if they hadn't wanted to take the focus off the trial and needed something to ramp up quickly at the end, why not have it more out of the blue, unexplained, setting up a mystery for next fall?
This just feels so lazy - "quick, we need a cliffhanger for the end that doesn't need much build up. I know - we'll get a fat chick to shoot Booth! No need for narrative build up since everyone already knows how that goes down."
That's a big part of why I'm so bothered by this, actually. It's the fat girl equivalent to lesbian bed death, and it's fucking old.
I wonder if the stalker storyline is one that suffered from the shortened season. I assume that there was a place that they wanted to end up at come hell or high water and to get there they needed to do this.
I wonder if the stalker storyline is one that suffered from the shortened season.
oh, that's an interesting point. If they'd had this ep end with everyone watching Brennan and stalker!chick sitting in the back, whispering "look at me, Seely", that would have been a better ending. Then, they could have had her show up in random eps, like sitting in the coffee shop, or someone noticing Booth's new belt buckle that was a gift.
I thought that she was going to go after him because she was the one who killed the object of her affection in the first place. That would make sense to me that she would try to shoot Booth, but since they found that culprit, I was completely irritated with the ending scene. No real purpose and it sucked.
I thought that she was going to go after him because she was the one who killed the object of her affection in the first place. That would make sense to me that she would try to shoot Booth, but since they found that culprit, I was completely irritated with the ending scene. No real purpose and it sucked.
good point, I agree. I think that they couldn't do that, because then she would be in jail and couldn't shoot Booth. If they were still looking for her, they wouldn't be out at karaoke.
(laughing at the absurdity)
You are absolutely right. Another reason it sucks.
They better have some fallout re: "author/forensics expert kills stalker who shot partner after having been implicated in killing of FBI directory who threatened brother." Her publisher should almost be putting out that story themselves.
I just had to cringe over Bones shouting at Booth and shaking him.
And, aside from the "fat girl stalks hot guy" cliche, didn't she escalate from meeting, stalking, then shooting awfully fast? wouldn't it usually take a little longer for her to reach that point? another episode, at least.
