You're A Wolf Boy, Get Out Of This Town

[redbrunja]

When I was watching Bones, 4x21 Mayhem on a Cross, I realized something.

Tragic backstory? Totally one of my bulletproof kinks. To give context, I kinda hate Sweets, and even after he's grown on me a little bit, I hate that he's in the credits. Mom actually makes me skip the part of the credits he's in. Yet in this episode, I actually liked him! I know it was on the strength of those scars and his traumatic past. And that ending scene with Booth and Bones and Sweets, where Brennan goes, "My foster parents locked me in the trunk of a car for two days when I broke a dish. I was a very clumsy child."

Just... the line delivery. And all the wealth of information in her being clumsy. Oh, Brennan.

And then if that wasn't enough angst-porn, we have Booth talking about being suicidal in his terse, tense way, to put the icing on the cake.

*guh*

And the way Booth was so concerned about Brennan? *wibble*

So basically, even as this episode reaffirmed that Gordon>Sweets to infinity (regardless of how shockingly unprofessional it was to tell Brennan and Booth the things he did about Sweets), it actually made me really like Sweets at the same time.

And to totally switch gears,

Shipuuden 114:  what the hell? wrong way to try to give Orocihimaru humanity, using Newaki, considering what he says to Tsunade right after the anime cuts away, which was basically 'LET ME JUST TWIST THE KNIFE, M'KAY BY REMINDING YOU OF THE FACT THAT HE NEWAKI DIED ON HIS BIRTHDAY.'

ANKO! She looks like such a tomboy, which totally fits. Damn, this has just been the week of 'giving attention to Naruto characters redbrunja loves.'

Wow, Itachi was a hot little elite baby-ninja, wasn't he? /feels like a total pedo. But not as much a pedo as Orochimaru and his tongue.

Still, Anko and Itachi in the same episode? As close to canon as it gets ^_^
The Transfer Jutsu is really gross, I just have to say.

Who's hand is that on Kabuto's table?

Okay, this episode? Worth it for the thirty seconds of Anko badassery at the end.

Comments

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Still, Anko and Itachi in the same episode? As close to canon as it gets

Precisely. \o/

I believe that's Orochimaru's hand on Kabuto's table. You know, the one Itachi chopped off when Oro tried to snakeraep him or whatever that was.

[amaiko.livejournal.com]

I believe that's Orochimaru's hand on Kabuto's table. You know, the one Itachi chopped off when Oro tried to snakeraep him or whatever that was.

Yup yup. That hand's also been the focus of at least two (that I can think of) DRAMATIC & IMPORTANT closeups and I think it was even mentioned that the ring was something very important to Orochimaru.

Of course the hand hasn't been seen or mentioned in two years, it looks like Oro's gone for good, so I doubt it'll return and the whole thing with the Akatsuki ring significance seems to have vanished into the ether like so much of pre-timeskip Naruto's characters & plots...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

.....I had totally forgotten that Orochimaru lost a hand. Did he grow another one, then? *confused*

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

...Apparently so? I think someone got confused between lizard and snake, at some point.

That or when he got a new body he got a new hand? I don't even know anymore. *sigh*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Either one is possible.

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Two words for Shippuuden 114:

1. ANKO!!!!!!!!!!
2. ITACHI!!!!!!!!!

They are so effing canon, I don't care.

Wow, Itachi was a hot little elite baby-ninja, wasn't he? /feels like a total pedo. But not as much a pedo as Orochimaru and his tongue.

I just had a long conversation about this in tsukara's journal; basically, we agreed that Itachi possesses the ability to turn everybody around him into a pedophile, whether he wants to or not. [/reason number 95 that Itachi pwns everything]

Also, word on Anko badassery. I was so effing happy.

And even if you hate Sasuke's guts, which I know you do, you have to admit that his EPIC POUTING FACE was hilarious. Oh, Sasuke. If you didn't want to wear the stupid kimono, you shouldn't have joined Hidden Sound. You saw enough of Oro's people to determine that none of them have any fashion sense whatsoever.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

basically, we agreed that Itachi possesses the ability to turn everybody around him into a pedophile, whether he wants to or not.

Which just explains so much about Itachi himself, right there.

And even if you hate Sasuke's guts, which I know you do, you have to admit that his EPIC POUTING FACE was hilarious.

Honestly? Until he turned his head, I thought he was Anko and I was like, 'oh we get sexy wrong biting backstory with Orochimaru now?'

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

...It isn't his fault he's fabulous. 8|

I'm just so very happy we got Anko. I really am.