Booth and the Idiot Ball?
- First, he gets a phone call in the park and instead of telling Bones who is it, he just lies, when there is no point in lying at that very moment. And then he just does as the caller asked (refusing to marry Bones, hurting Bones and their relationship. Couldn't he, you know, tell the truth? Given the caller (Pelant), I get that massive precautions would have to be taken, but it's not impossible! The mind, it reels.
- Rule of Drama, up to eleven. It's still messed up though
- Along this same theme: (Also, agreeing Booth could have saved a lot of hurt Brennan feelings if he'd just been honest. And if he were honest, he could enlist the help of the squints and the FBI.) Since they knew Pelant was back, why not take the paranoid level up to eleven, Fox Mulder style? If Booth hasn't already had their house swept for listening devices (or even if he had), why not do it again?
- One, Booth is the sort of hero who will try to solve everything alone if he can. He's the only one who can legally kill Pelant without repercussions and he will not allow Brennan or the Squints to do the deed if he can help it, even though all of them would love the opportunity, because he thinks the blood should be on his hands alone. Two, the writers are hoping we'll just ignore the gigantic hole in this plotline. If the backlash on the TV review sites (and especially their comment sections) is any indication, the fans are not taking this very well. While Pelant is right about this sort of senseless self-sacrifice being in Booth's nature, it stinks of Writer on Board.
- Well, it is implied that Pelant has some kind of surveillance on Booth & Brennan and would know if Booth told her what was going on. I see it as him postponing the wedding until he can sort this out, not breaking her heart. Bottom line, the writers wanted to give the payoff of the wedding proposal accepted but delay the actual event and up the stakes by placing Brennan in danger. Personally, I think they could have put off a wedding until the final season. Raising a baby together is enough of a challenge in itself to give them material to work with. A wedding is just a shipper reward and would be a great way to end the series (which should happen in another season or two).
- As many people have stated, grab a cab, go into the wilderness, ditch the cab, then talk to Brennan. I've seen this example given at least twenty times. The only way Pelant could track Booth in UNTOUCHED FOREST is by hacking a satellite. And while the writers will probably claim he can do that, you can't get sound from a spy satellite, only images. And that's what the tree cover is for. It's all-around bad writing that they really wish we weren't smart enough to see the flaws in.
- Or a cave, a nice, deep, abandoned cave in the middle of no where. Pop in, talk, Pop out.
- In fairness, given Bones' Bad "Bad Acting", letting her in on the truth would probably give it away eventually.
- Not to mention the fact that, while there are many, many ways to get a message to Brennan, it's entirely, utterly, completely in character for Booth to take all the responsibility upon himself and not involve her. He's got a bit of a Messiah Complex like that. But for the sake of fun... he could've slipped a hand-written note in a lab report to her... or my personal favorite, take Bones to the Senate or House Chamber. No electronics whatsoever are allowed so civilians or even government workers with cell phones isn't an issue, the only microphones around are C-SPAN cameras which can't possibly listen in to a conversation (especially since they're specifically placed to NOT hear the galleries), and it takes advantage of the fact they're in DC, which the writers seem to enjoy.
- It appears the producer is only interested in melodrama and dragging the the wedding out til the series finale. Any further speculation is likely pointless. Let's just hope he allows Booth to grow a pair and call Pelant's bluff before season 9 ends.
- Looks like they did and he finally shot the guy.
