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Watching Bones Season 6, episode 22 again:

Much as I love Bones, she is overall more obnoxious than Rodney McKay. Which even when it annoys me, I like that about her. I literally cannot think of another female character who has this much sheer confidence that simply doesn't even dent, much less break. The closest she came to genuinely shaken on her own abilities was the series finale and that took being inside the Jeffersonian while it exploded and only after she'd verified something was off like five different ways and it was only temporary. I mean, that's...I'm more shaken by life before coffee in the morning.

However, this is not what this is about.

I just realized at the end of the ep when they sent Vincent's body back to the UK that the first really major confirmation Bones and Booth's relationship had changed was when she hesitated to take Booth's arm for a split second, because they were in that super early phase of a relationship where you don't want to talk about it to anyone except like Angela (I think all of us have an Angela in our lives that if we don't tell her about it, it simply didn't happen) and also Vincent's death. So in that second of reaching, she paused to decide if this would be evidence, realized that no, because she took Booth's arm all the time, did the deed, then looked up at him assuming she was looking at him the same as she always did (she really wasn't) and completely didn't care he was not looking at her the same way he did before they'd done the sex.

The last ep of the season is funny because that same thing keeps happening and Bones was kind of right; no one noticed.

(It's also funny because I love Buck and Wanda.)

In other news, I acquired Jupiter Ascending for my first watch since the theatre and good God this movie is fun. I also got Pride & Prejuidce & Zombies and so recommend it right now

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That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
Wow. That was scary. Lex is like Jesus in the desert.
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Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
Jenn: Because you are an addict.
Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
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silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
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I am fond of this show and that's even before you discover that there are so many stealth hotasses on the show. I mean, David B, Michael Grant Terry and a lot of the squints are a given but who would've thought that TJ Thyne had a pecs for days underneath his lab coat? And don't talk to me about Sweets in his thrash metal costume? Yum.

Sorry, I just caught a Bones ep recently and I've been a little reminisce-y about it lol

Bones is my current go-to when I'm in a mood. I just love this entire goddamn cast.

Which even when it annoys me, I like that about her. I literally cannot think of another female character who has this much sheer confidence that simply doesn't even dent, much less break.

That is kind of lovely. And that the show never really tried to posit that Bones confidence wasn't deserved -- her people skills might be lacking, but the show always recognises that she is exactly as smart as she was first presented to us and that she's the one you really want on your side.

In other news, I acquired Jupiter Ascending for my first watch since the theatre and good God this movie is fun.

Yes, yes, it is.

That is kind of lovely. And that the show never really tried to posit that Bones confidence wasn't deserved -- her people skills might be lacking, but the show always recognises that she is exactly as smart as she was first presented to us and that she's the one you really want on your side.

Pretty much. Honestly, I also loved her confident approach to things she objectively wasn't good at (aka dancing). She just did not care; she went for it, loved it, thought she was great at it, and damn I want that attitude so badly.

Jupiter just gets better the more you watch.

OOoh, thanks for the movie recs! I was so curious about *both* of them!

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