- I like to think that Bones, and possibly Isles, didn't even consider either option. Whenever they get together again, they launch into any one of a hundred really old debates (or a completely new one) and pick right up where they left off with passionate (as close as it gets for Bones anyway) arguing that has everyone else worriedly backing away, until they see what the time is (lunchtime or something) and instantly drop the heated argument in favour of just popping out for a bite to eat together like old friends.
- Adding on, it's not too much of a stretch that if the Tams descended from Brennan, maybe a certain Genki Girl mechanic is the descendant of a certain Genki Girl squintern (and, by extent, a certain plucky psychologist).
- And maybe Mal is descended from Booth as well, through Parker. Wash through Hodgins and Angela. Book through Caroline. Inara through Arastoo (and Cam?). Zoe through Wendell. Jayne through Fisher. Yes, this troper actually thought about this.
- none of them, it's not standard, it's called the ANGELAtron for a reason, she's a computer genius and made it herself
- Isn't she a photographer with an art degree? where did she learn this sci fi magic computer stuff? and don't give me that weird throwaway excuse that she has a minor in Computer Science. People with PHDs in the field wouldn't have half an idea where to start with this thing.
Sweets showed up at the right time, threw a small monkey wrench into the Gormogon case, and pegged Zach as the perfect patsy. And now Sweets is Zach's therapist, keeping him from confessing too much.
- The secret societies in the government know that the apprentice wasn't really killed. That's why they ran the Jeffersonian labs through that thing in the JFK episode "The Proof in the Pudding" that Sweets identified as a psychological test.
- Something tells me that
- A) That a writer for Bones is a Troper, and
- B) This isn't correct, as it was even mocked in the S4F, "The End in the Beginning".
Sweets: Um, I mean the name of the band is Gormogon. Some people think I'm Gormogon, but I'm not.- A) this theory was added after the season 4 finale
- B) You say "mocked," I say "reiterated." They addressed the fact that in the season 3 finale where they discover Zach is Gormogon's apprentice, Sweets was one of the suspects. This is their way of reminding us of that so that, if this theory is correct, it doesn't come out of left field. After all, while Alt!Sweets claims "I'm not", he first has to admit that he *is* a *part* of Gormogon, being in the band that is name Gormogon!
- According to Word of God, the character of Sweets really was created to be Gormogon's apprentice, and that was the intended reveal at the end of Season 3. Note that Sweets becomes a lot nicer and less manipulative, particularly with Booth and Brennan, in Season 4, but before that had been very deliberately playing mind games with them. His backstory also fits well with the criteria for a member of Gormogon—a highly intelligent young man with little real-world experience, and a dead father figure. However, Sweets tested very well with audiences, and the production team greatly enjoyed working with John Francis Daley. At the same time, they felt that Zach Addy's character arc had run its course. So they switched gears. The same thing happened with Cam in season 2: she was introduced as a future victim for Howard Epps, but audiences liked the character too much and the producers were too impressed by Tamara Taylor.
Note that he seems okay with the idea of ghosts. The Roman Catholic Church isn't.
- Then again, how many people, Catholic or non-Catholic, actually know the Church's position on the existence of ghosts?
- I'm an altar server and I believe in ghosts.
- The views of the church aren't necessarily the views of the individual, but that doesn't make the beliefs of either less Catholic (or whatever other religion).
- He may consider himself "Catholic" in the same way that, for example, Dara O'Briain, an outspoken atheist, still calls himself a "Catholic" atheist. And, as far as the Catholic doctrine is concerned, there's no such thing as an "ex"-Catholic.
- But the First can't interact with physical objects, either.
- Hmm, that does make sense, but who's to say he actually did that? Perhaps he gave Booth a power boost for a bit and made it look like he was doing it.
- Maybe her cousin's daughter, rather than her sister's.
- Brennan only sees Micah when she is alone.
- Brennan says she understands what he is saying more easily than she understands anyone else.
- Despite that and in the many years they've worked together, she has never mentioned him to Booth until that very episode.
- The biggest issue I see with this plot is that they already did it with Booth.
- Seeing as the show likes to throw in the occasional moment of characters not being so different, this might actually be a point for.
- His line about how Bones "doesn't normally talk to herself" was especially telling to me. She doesn't talk to herself... because she normally visualizes him and does it that way.
- Additionally, this episode explicitly shows Bones interpreting reality differently this episode (seeing the victim as looking identical to her). Granted it's not on the same scale as visualizing a dude, but it does create a precedent that she's not exactly reliable.
- Except that, at least sometimes, it does. There are all sorts of Supernatural things (Like the Witch's ghost) that get half-explained by the show, but still make more sense if viewed as Supernatural. Micah definitely seems to count.
- For all it's worth, Micah means "Who is like God?" and is certainly not the most common name amongst security guards. It fits both as a Meaningful Name if he's something supernatural, and a cool name a writer like Brennan would make up if he is a figment of her imagination.
- Or maybe he is her guardian, he had a really sweet friendship with her.
- Expansion: Zack has good reason to be afraid. Traditionally, 'Gormogon' was not the only member of the society. We're told in the show that there's only the one pair left, but, we don't actually have any evidence this is the case. They were a whole *secret* society after all.
- The only inconsistency is that Zack has a large family. Gormogon is all about the Widow's Son, or is that only for their victims? So would Zack even qualify for the job as Apprentice?
- Zack could be the Widow's Son and still have a large family.
- Being a Widow’s Son is something the victims have in common, it’s not a requirement for the secret society.
- Namely, the barriers between the living and dead have been growing weaker over the series and the weakest point is in the Jeffersonian. By the final season, this rift will be reaching a breaking point. This will mean either a) the ghosts will try and repair it with the help of the Squints or b) Zombie Apocalypse.
- Or, considering the writers are obviously huge fans of the works of Joss Whedon, it's a fanfic set in a unified Whedonverse. The Dollhouses would fit right in, the supernatural already exists and an artist daughter of a rockstar invented holograms.
- Given that the series is now confirmed to share a universe with Sleepy Hollow, this gets a lot more plausible.
- Would that make Zack Robin?
- That would explain why Zack and Hodgins live together.
- And Zack just seems like sidekick material.
- Or it could possibly be Sweets. Hodgins once referred to him as a sidekick and they've been on a "secret mission" together.
- That was the time Angela's dad made Hodgins get his car back as a test of character. Sweets just tagged along.
- Maybe that was a test of character for Sweets too, except from Hodgins instead of Billy Gibbons. He wanted to see if he'd make a good sidekick.
- That was the time Angela's dad made Hodgins get his car back as a test of character. Sweets just tagged along.
- Come on guys, there's more than one Robin. Zack was the first and then when he got locked up Hodgins bonded with Sweets and let him become Robin. If Zack was to ever return he'd become Nightwing or Red Robin.
- So that makes Sweets actually Jason Todd.
- Wendell could be another Robin.
- What would that make Angela?
- Maybe all the Squinters take turns being Robin.
- Angela would either be Batwoman or Harley Quinn.
- Or Talia. She and Batman did have a kid together.
- And if Angela is Talia, that would mean Billy Gibbons is...
- Billy Gibbons. There is no superhero mightier than him.
- Also, Daisy would be Harley Quinn.
- And Psychic Cyndi Lauper is Zatanna.
- If we go into villains, Howard Epps would be the Joker.
- That EMT who scared girls to death in season 3 could be Scarecrow.
- The Gravedigger would probably be Poison Ivy or The Riddler.
- Confirmed. Brennan is pregnant and Booth is the father. And then she gets pregnant with their second child in season 10.
- Oddly enough, it's making her more humanistic, rather than more Data-like.
- This is basically canon. She essentially confessed her love for Booth and broke down crying after being rejected in "The Doctor in the Photo". That whole episode is about Brennan realizing her fear of real relationships and emotional connections is a flaw rather than a strength. This is either Character Development or Character Derailment depending on your perspective.
- Hodgins usually has a strong Screw the Money, I Have Rules! bent, so this would be serious Character Derailment.
- If Goodman threatened to fire Hodgins (or someone else that Hodgins feels close to, like Zack or Angela), then it's possible Hodgins would have had a few strings pulled behind the scenes to have Goodman replaced.
- This needs to be canon or at least a fanfic.
- Adding on, it's not too much of a stretch to assume Booth and Brennan's baby, if it's a girl, growing up to becoming Agent Scully.
- Or, they could grow up to be X-Files: The Next Generation. Come on, you know you want it. They could tie up all the WTF dangling threads from the original...And it might just be worth it for the possibility of seeing an older Doggett passing down wisdom to the next generation.
- Now that we know it's a girl, this is entirely possible.
- Jossed. There was no time-skip
- Ok, Ok... Sorry.
- They'd never do it, since Stephen Fry is a Timelord and wouldn't want to give people that strong a hint.
- ...And Gormogon's The Master. Shut up, it makes sense.
- Three episodes to go on the final season and it just starts to make sense.
- This should happen. Although I'd have it with Hodgins and Sweets as Back-to-Back Badasses in a heroic last stand. Other than that...Seems like a logical thing to air mid-season just to lighten it up a bit. Could even have old cases come back to haunt them.
- Practical for the show, given that writing in the baby in any meaningful capacity would be tricky, and the loss would provide good emotional trauma as an excuse to keep her and booth separate for a bit longer, and continue the long-running UST without awkward break-up episodes.
- Given that the show is as much about Brennan's evolution as a person as it is about the cases, having a miscarriage this far along, which would just serve to undo all her Character Development, smacks of a Diabolus ex Machina. More likely, she'll have a close call, which will cause her to stop intellectualizing and truly consider her impending motherhood.
- Jossed. They found an even dumber way to break them up.
- Christine and Hank both seem fine.
- One could have an autism condition like Brennan.
- Alternatively, NCIS is an alternate universe in which Booth and his younger brother are never born, which is why you don't see them in NCIS. In Bones, Gibbs doesn't turn to boats after Shannon and Kelly, and he never met Franks, he just drinks a lot and later has the two Booth kids. The only problem is the last name.
- Jossed. He returned and comforted Brennan after her dad died but didn’t want her back.
- Jossed. Zack isn't even mentioned in the final Pelant episode.
- Nope! Booth doesn't give him the chance.
- Even years after the end of the show, Temperance might end up finding out about Booth's preference for larger women and decide to gain a lot of weight. After all, he might need to pass FBI physicals in order to remain a qualified field agent, but being fat won't make anyone question her ability as a forensic anthropology consultant. She was certainly quick to point out all the cultural traditions based on finding fat women sexually attractive. Maybe she always wanted to get fat with a romantic or sexual partner, and was simply slim up till now because she hadn't found anybody that *also* wanted her to get fat while they were together.
- She did gain a bit of weight during the last season...
This has several implications for Bones fans because it implies that a universe mostly established as being set in the natural world (with just a little Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane now and then) is actually set in a very supernatural world and just not aware of it.
However, there does exist an alternative that Bones didn’t really crossover with the real Sleepy Hollow at all. Instead, the possibility exists that Bones crossed over with an alternate continuity of Sleepy Hollow while Sleepy Hollow then crossed over with an alternate continuity of Bones.
“The Resurrection of the Remains” avoided showing any explicit supernatural elements but did show some things which would seem to imply that the supernatural had to exist (even if Bones didn’t accept it). Firstly, there’s the letter that was somehow written in Ichabod’s handwriting 200 years ago. Second, the episode ended with Ichabod talking about how he’d known Benjamin Franklin
The alternative explanation to how this happened is that Bones merely crossed over with an alternate version of Sleepy Hollow without the supernatural elements in which Ichabod Crane (not his real name) was, in fact, a con man who was pretending to be a man who’d lived 200 years earlier. He’d adopted this man’s name and identity after reading everything he could about him. Knowing people might do a handwriting comparison between the two, he taught himself how to forge the man’s handwriting and now exclusively writes in that man’s style.
That explains why Angela was able to match their handwriting and why Ichabod claimed to know Franklin. It was all part of the con.
Meanwhile Ichabod Prime (as I shall now call him to distinguish him from Ichabod Alternate who is the fraud) along with Abbie Prime met with Brennan and Booth Alternate (who were basically the same as Brennan and Booth Prime except living in a supernatural world) and together they shared a continuity.
- Based on the *books* featuring Temperance Brennan, in which the supernatural is real and Brennan has a werewolf niece now, maybe the Sleepy Hollow crossover isn't really a crossover with Sleepy Hollow, but simply a remarkably similar set of characters who still *are* supernatural. For example, the Bones version of Ichabod Crane might actually be a witch, using magic to achieve immortality.
- Turns out he's got a heart condition, enough to need a pacemaker. But it's a moot point, as he gets fatally wounded protecting Christine and Hank from gunmen working for the last Big Bad.
- There is no book Christine. Brennan’s niece Tory was in the Virals series which seems to have been co-written by Kathy’s son. Still this would be a great show.
- Not til the far future of course, but I’d hate to see one go on without the other and it would be fitting if they had a big heroic death.
- Brennan was struggling with her father’s return in the episode, and she asked Booth how he felt about his father. Booth said he loved him. This definitely doesn’t add up with what we learn about Edwin Booth later on. Booth hated him so much that he may have considered suicide just to end the abuse. I think the easiest way to reconcile it is to say he thinks of Pops, rather than Edwin,as his true father. There may also have been some reluctance to talk about his past as well...Booth doesn’t like discussing it and may not have been ready to admit it to her yet. Combine that with the idea of him seeing Hank as his true dad and it’s easier to accept.
- The modified Chick V virus wreaked havoc on the dead woman’s bones and joints. Arastoo was saved in time, but there’s probably still a good chance it took a harsh toll on his bones before it was cured. He’s likely headed for bad arthritis at best and some new joints at worst.
- Jack wanted it donated, and it would be a decent cause anyway and earmarking a portion of it for Jeffrey’s future would be a good way to ease whatever financial burden it still put on them.
- One day Booth and Bones will need rescue while abroad and Bones will be shocked by how much a Navy Seal leader looks like Booth.
- Better yet, since the Seal Team wiki doesn’t say much about Jason’s childhood, maybe they’re long-lost brothers.
- It would be fun to think about, anyway. Although Booth would have his mind blown if he discovered his ancestor having been demon-possessed in SH continuity and the thing was later released in SH season 4.
- Of course, if Sleepy Hollow is canon, anything said there would figure in as well. Like the demon possessed part.
- He has at least three special interests - ballroom dancing (in "The Diamond in the Rough", he noticed the flaws in two of the contestant's moves while Brennan didn't, and was vindicated by the judges), hair styling (in "The Don't in the Do", he makes a comment about a hair stylist's technique, citing the fact that he was a barber's kid), and hockey (even discounting that he plays it, his knowledge of the game, including the politics behind it, was instrumental in solving "The Head in the Abutment").
- As Dr. Saroyan puts it in "The Yanks in the UK, Part I", "Booth's not adaptable", which she said just before he has a meltdown over driving on the left - complete with getting out of the car, in the middle of traffic, and shouting to the sky. To be fair, it really was more of a last straw situation, but still!
- While he is good at reading people, this is a particular skill he's cultivated to get better at his job - a skill he had to, and was able to, relearn after his tumor was removed. A conscious knowledge of other people's behavior is also a necessary component of successful masking, and there are hints he engages it outside of the interrogation room.
- Outside of meltdowns, he still feels his emotions sharply, except when they get too much, like when he learned his mother abandoned him and his brother for another family in "The Party in the Pants". When his mother confronts him about it to explain, but not excuse or apologize, he gets so angry he dissociates from the conversation and just ... stares at her, dead eyed. He later explains to Brennan what was going through his head at the time, including how scared he was that he was turning into his father.
- He clearly has CPTSD from both his childhood and his time in the service. While not a symptom of autism, it is a co-morbidity, especially in those with parents who don't understand the condition - like an alcoholic who regularly beat his children.