Clearly, Booth is tapping into resources he used to get through similar, and worse, beatings in the past.
And there is always the aversion against the tormentors making it easier to stand.
As yet we still have no clue of Booth's relationship with his own father.
So watching this for the first time we might see it as Booth having a good relationship with his father and wanting that for Brennan too. The revelations in later episodes, of course, put what he says here in a different light (I can't help wonder how much they had decided about Booth's family at this point.)
This is one of the biggest disagreements he has with Bones and he is definitely hurt by her views.
Because Brennan is important to him, it really matters to him what she thinks. They disagree on a lot of things, but she being dismissive about something that has played such an important part of his life, something that together with Booth the FBI agent and Booth the soldier makes him who he is and she is in a way dismissing him.
Booth's heart lies with his job, whatever the cost.
He will conform, if needs be, for that (and as we have seen there is room for his quiet rebellion of crazy socks and belt buckles.)
Looking forward to your observations of S3 where Booth has reason to question his decision to advise Zack about Iraq.
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Clearly, Booth is tapping into resources he used to get through similar, and worse, beatings in the past.
And there is always the aversion against the tormentors making it easier to stand.
As yet we still have no clue of Booth's relationship with his own father.
So watching this for the first time we might see it as Booth having a good relationship with his father and wanting that for Brennan too. The revelations in later episodes, of course, put what he says here in a different light (I can't help wonder how much they had decided about Booth's family at this point.)
This is one of the biggest disagreements he has with Bones and he is definitely hurt by her views.
Because Brennan is important to him, it really matters to him what she thinks. They disagree on a lot of things, but she being dismissive about something that has played such an important part of his life, something that together with Booth the FBI agent and Booth the soldier makes him who he is and she is in a way dismissing him.
Booth's heart lies with his job, whatever the cost.
He will conform, if needs be, for that (and as we have seen there is room for his quiet rebellion of crazy socks and belt buckles.)
Looking forward to your observations of S3 where Booth has reason to question his decision to advise Zack about Iraq.