tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15114892.post7424554574297253766..comments2024-02-06T08:48:37.748-05:00Comments on Pass The Remote: The Feelings in the FinaleTVFanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03077226156307117107noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15114892.post-71881198761399138192009-05-17T13:13:00.000-04:002009-05-17T13:13:00.000-04:00I wasn't exactly commenting on if the fantasy epis...I wasn't exactly commenting on if the fantasy episode would have worked better mid-season instead of as the season finale, but I agree that would have been much better. But I consider this fantasy episode pretty much a waste of time no matter when it played. It just wouldn’t have been as much of a pain if it wasn’t the season ender.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15114892.post-7127764738892151242009-05-15T15:00:00.000-04:002009-05-15T15:00:00.000-04:00From the start I assumed dream sequence. Then we ...From the start I assumed dream sequence. Then we got the bright white light which confirmed it. Well that's the end of the dreamy bit (thanks anyway Emily ;-) ) and now to some sort of reality. But he's in bed with... Brennan? Now I'm confused!<br /><br />And then Cam turns up and appears not to know Booth! WTF?<br /><br />Cold Case did a pretty good job with the whole "dream" thing. I didn't feel that I'd just been duped for the previous 40 minutes before being told the truth. I felt that I'd been shown the truth, albeit from a slightly different perspective.<br /><br />House, however, came very close to really p-ing me off. Not only did it suggest that the finale was largely untrue, but it nearly wiped out the previous episode too! (Stepping out the shower and resetting everything is only OK if it is the right person stepping from said shower :-) ) I think it was a bit of a mix of the two: hallucination altered reality and complete fantasy.<br /><br />Bones went with complete, and obvious, fantasy so at least you could take it as that and not worry how it fitted in. If I'd known that we'd been told the "hook up" was not going to be a dream etc. then I'd probably feel more duped.<br /><br /><br />For me the whole thing was Booth's dream. However, on reading you critique TVFan, with the reference to Tempie's writing at the end I find myself not so sure. But I'm still leaning towards them being separate. Booth had a vivid dream, woke up from the coma, said it felt so real but had no memory of it. I often can't remember dreams moments after waking up, and the only brain surgery I need is having one installed :-)<br /><br />Perhaps the dream happened during surgery, working on the brain can cause odd effects in the patient, and it was only we he came out of the coma days later that he could relate it.<br /><br />As for the fantasy itself: I could take it or leave it. I guess it was fun for them to play up the some of the character traits: Sweets as a barman "practically a psychologist" etc.<br /><br />I agree with John (assuming this is what he meant) that this idea would probably have been better done mid-season. Often they throw in odd ones that are fun but have no real bearing on the larger story arcs. This was one of those.<br /><br /><br />I still think that Gordon Gordon's comment about who feels what was meant that Booth struggles and Brennan's oblivious. We saw Brennan straighten Booth's tie (or something like that) at the time and Booth was the one that looked uncomfortable with the intimacy of the gesture.<br /><br /><br />Roll on season 5. Will Booth's amnesia last more than an episode. Will Brennan go ahead with the pregnancy? Is show looking for donors? Delivery included of course :-o<br /><br /><br />RichE.RichEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15114892.post-90863964331223694762009-05-15T13:02:00.000-04:002009-05-15T13:02:00.000-04:00I didn't care for this episode at all. In general...I didn't care for this episode at all. In general I am not a big fan of fantasy/dream/coma episodes and this was no exception.<br /><br />Even if we knew whose make belive this was (Booth's or Brennan's) that bit if information would not make up for a whole episode basically wasted and not a new one for months.Johnnoreply@blogger.com