bones: more news (or just anticipation?) for the 100th!

hey, they can still get a little closer. // fox promotional photo

I think I’ve made it exceedingly clear where I stand on my 100th episode predictions.

In fact, it’s almost dangerous how much I think Booth and Brennan made out back in the day.  And not just because there’s audio evidence of that time I cried after last year’s season finale was SO EFFING TERRIBLE and the exact opposite of what I was convinced ABSOLUTELY ONE HUNDRED PERCENT HAD TO HAPPEN.  And then it didn’t and I cried.

And I don’t like to do that, because, come on, it’s Bones.

I was watching “Two Bodies in the Lab” yesterday, a season one episode where Brennan talks about how sometimes, she meets men, and sometimes, she sleeps with them, and I was like, THIS IS SO GREAT BECAUSE YOU MADE OUT WITH THAT ONE RIGHT THERE.  And that’s bad, because they probably didn’t, because for someone who enjoys her night job as a serial television expert, I’m not that good at it a lot of the time.

ANYWAY. This morning was Bones‘s Television Critics Association event, and plenty more juicy tidbits came out.  Well, I’m not so sure they’re juicy as much as they’re just incredibly confusing.  Spoilers and speculation after the jump.

According to EW’s Michael Ausiello:

In possibly related news, Nathan reveals Booth and Brennan’s relationship will take a radical turn following the show’s 100th episode on April 8. “After the 100th episode, they will reassess and reexamine their relationship,” he reveals. “They’re going to be going off on a different trajectory than we have been seeing this season.

“For most of this season we’ve seen Booth struggling with his feelings for Brennan,” Nathan elaborates. “And I think after the 100th, they might be a bit more resolved. We’ll start off in a new direction for both of them.”

Might that new direction involve the pair consummating their relationship for real? “I can’t see that happening this season,” he says. “I think their relationship is going to take a far more interesting turn. I think it’ll be much more interesting than just consummating the relationship. It’ll stir everyone up a lot more.”

Okay, so … they’re off in a new direction, but one that doesn’t lead to sex?  Huh?

And Emily Deschanel told Fancast’s Matt Mitovich:

[The 100th] sheds new light on the relationship between Booth and Bones and kind of changes it forever. Just like [Booth's brain surgery storyline] did, but this even more so.

Okay, so, new direction, new light … but no sex?

Now, what I want to see is this: The episode ends with Booth and Brennan confessing to Sweets that, yeah, there was that one time that they made out big time.  Brennan explains that they agreed it was a bad idea and decided to forget it ever happened.  And Sweets asks them, “So did you? Forget it ever happened?” and Booth and Bones look at each other, and you KNOW, there’s no way they ever forgot it, and Booth says, “No. Did you?” and she says, “No.”  And now it’s like, WELL, OKAY THEN.

But I almost wonder if it’s possible that what’ll actually happen is far less romantic.  Could it be that Booth and Brennan’s look backward reminds them of why they didn’t like each other to begin with–that the 100th could represent the beginning of a dark period for the couple?  It’s definitely not out of the question, I don’t think, although it would be some pretty serious back-pedaling.  I remember at the beginning of the season, David Boreanaz was doing a bunch of interviews, and he kept talking about how, with the brain tumor, he had to be sure that he really loved her, and then the time would come when he’d realize that, hey, he actually didn’t love her, after all.  And everyone rolled their eyes at him, because COME ON, IT’S BOOTH AND BONES AND OF COURSE HE LOVES HER.  But is it possible?  Yes.

Then there’s this whole business about Stephen Nathan saying that two characters are gonna get married.  Coupled with that tease that somebody finds a pregnancy test in this week’s episode, I have to wonder if there’s not some shotgun wedding business going down.  Although all of that speculation has been largely centered around Angela, and she already got a wedding on this show, so I doubt they’d go there.  It could be anyone, really.