Bones and the Renaissance collide in my head

[icepixie]

So I was thinking about how this show is apparently into symbolic names--"Joy" becoming "Temperance," and the joyful baby exuberance becoming the cool calmness of our favorite anthropologist; Dr. Good Man--and suddenly wondered if they're attempting to imply something with "Sully." 'Cause that would be kind of sad. He didn't sully anyone!

(Of course, I could be barking up the wrong tree. If we applied this same kind of interpretation to Seeley Booth's name, all we'd get is mattresses and diners, or possibly telephones, only one of which might in any way reflect on his character. And the others don't really lend themselves to that kind of analysis either, unless one were to make a math connection with Zack Addy.)

(Oh, and this reminds me of another question: how did Brennan's parents get around the whole the-extended-family-would-NOT-be-named-Brennan thing? Insist that both parents were only children and all the grandparents were dead? Were other Keenan folks criminals as well? Argh, show, your logic holes could have trucks driven through them.)

Also, I keep trying to make some kind of connection between Brennan and Book Two of The Faerie Queene, which is the book about Guyon, Knight of Temperance. Buuut I have a feeling Hart Hanson & Co. would not have a clue what I'm talking about, so never mind. (Although if someone wanted to do a reinterpretation of the Bower of Blisse, that would be both awesome and hilarious. There's a lot of violent crime in that book they could draw from for plots, actually...)

...Okay, I have obviously been working on my paper for way. too. long. (Three pages, though!) I'm going to bed.

Comments

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Huh, I never thought about the names like that.

IIRC, they told the kids that all extended family was dead: no aunts or uncles and the grandparents had died. It happens. I'm more miffed about how Angela pulls pixel data out of nowhere much of the time. ;)

[serendipityxxi.livejournal.com]

Actually Seeley means Happy or Blessed and Booth means dwelling place. And no I didn't just know that off the top of my head *G* I read it in fic but it turns out to be true :) So really Booth is a Happy Home which fits well with his character and the names are unusual enough I'd be willing to believe this was purposely done esp since they already had a lead male in the Kathy Reichs books who's named Andrew Ryan that they could've used. Brennan means 'tear' or 'sorrow' while Keenan just means 'ancient'.


I never made the math connection for Addy *giggles*

[icepixie]

Actually Seeley means Happy or Blessed

And mattress.

So really Booth is a Happy Home

Awww.

which fits well with his character and the names are unusual enough I'd be willing to believe this was purposely done esp since they already had a lead male in the Kathy Reichs books who's named Andrew Ryan that they could've used.

Hrm. That's awfully deep and obscure for this show, though, especially at the beginning of things. Am I really prepared to give them that kind of credit? ;)

Brennan means 'tear' or 'sorrow'

*is bludgeoned with anvils*

while Keenan just means 'ancient'.

Or "old name," perhaps? Maybe I can give them credit for obscurity in Booth's name...

I never made the math connection for Addy *giggles*

He should marry a woman whose last name is related to "subtraction."

[serendipityxxi.livejournal.com]

That's our Bones it's anvillicious but we love it anyway :)

Good thought on 'old name'

heeheehee like someone named Menos or something *G* So she'd be Mrs. Addy-Menos *L*

[icepixie]

Huh, I never thought about the names like that.

Really? It hit me over the head rather like a bludgeon at the end of S1.

IIRC, they told the kids that all extended family was dead: no aunts or uncles and the grandparents had died. It happens.

I figured that was what had happened. Maybe they actually say it sometime later.

I'm more miffed about how Angela pulls pixel data out of nowhere much of the time. ;)

LA LA LA MAGICAL SKIENCE LA LA LA!

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

"Joy" becoming "Temperance," and the joyful baby exuberance becoming the cool calmness of our favorite anthropologist

And book!Temperance is... an alcoholic. Of course she is. *facepalm*

[icepixie]

What else would she be?

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Good thing Booth isn't in the books, or else his first name wouldn't be Seeley, it would be Iamtotallynotadegenerategambler. (from the Latin.)

Also, I have yet to mention that your icon is teh cute. (Wong Fu's come baaaaaaack!)

You know, it's established that they still like asian food in the second season, so... I can only assume that Sid torched the place for the insurance money? All I want is a little throw-away continuity, people! Just a line is all I ask!

[icepixie]

Good thing Booth isn't in the books, or else his first name wouldn't be Seeley, it would be Iamtotallynotadegenerategambler. (from the Latin.)

Nongamblearius? "Gamby" for short?

Also, I have yet to mention that your icon is teh cute.

Heee.

(Wong Fu's come baaaaaaack!)

The diner suuuuucks! Although this publicity shot is actually from the third season, so maybe they go back to it? We can only hope!

You know, it's established that they still like asian food in the second season, so... I can only assume that Sid torched the place for the insurance money? All I want is a little throw-away continuity, people! Just a line is all I ask!

Oh, that's brilliant. Of course he did that. And they should totally mention it.

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

"Gamby" for short?

But only his close friends would call him that.

Although this publicity shot is actually from the third season, so maybe they go back to it? We can only hope!

Hope!!

Oh, that's brilliant. Of course he did that. And they should totally mention it.

WHY WAS THERE NOT A WORD ON THE SUBJECT?? Everybody was all, "OF COURSE we love the diner! Has there ever been another restaurant in our canon? NOT THAT WE CAN THINK OF!"

[icepixie]

WHY WAS THERE NOT A WORD ON THE SUBJECT?? Everybody was all, "OF COURSE we love the diner! Has there ever been another restaurant in our canon? NOT THAT WE CAN THINK OF!"

*hatez on the diner*