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The temperature was 11C this morning and so I went to the doctor's without a hat on.Let us hope I do not pay for such clout casting later. I have fed already. The spaghetti bolognese I made yesterday was so delish I couldn't wait until this evening to eat the rest and so it is in my tummeh nao.
Time to complete what we learn about Booth in Season 2. So let's head to the roundup.
A BOOTH FOR ALL SEASONS
BRENNAN: Booth is tough.
BOOTH IN SEASON 2 - You put on that macho front, but inside you understand.
We've had hearsay evidence, x-rays and a bare knuckle fight to suggest that Booth is tough, but we have to wait for The Killer in The Concrete to get actual evidence of just how tough he is. Initially, the signs are not promising because he turns up in Baltimore with toothache and an aversion to doing something about it. Brennan divines he is afraid of dentists and Booth, never actually denies it. In fact, he seems relieved when the tooth gets knocked out by Ice Pick
However, things get much more serious when he falls into the hands of small time mobster Gallagher. I'll look at Booth's attitude to certain types of criminals in a minute. First the hard stuff. He tells Hugh Kennedy (Ice Pick) he is the first man to get the drop on him in 10 years, which sounds true to me and may be a clue also to his length of service with the FBI. Having got Booth trussed up in a carpet and with a towel stuffed in his mouth, he leaves him for the cleaner to find. Unfortunately, Gallagher finds him first and is able to knock Booth out for a second time thanks to his being trussed up like a turkey.
He wants to know if Booth saw Hugh Kennedy and so has his henchman, Lightner, torture Booth to find out the truth. Characteristically, Booth is stony in his silence.
Booth is tied to a chair and Gallagher hits him across the face. It seems like Booth has been beaten up quite a bit.
LIGHTNER: Perhaps he didn't see Kennedy.
GALLAGHER: Yeah? Now how'd you come to that thought?
LIGHTNER: Well, Kennedy would've have left him with an ice pick protruding from his head.
GALLAGHER: Just one simple question, big dog. Did you see Kennedy?
(Booth says nothing)
LIGHTNER: We could get our own ice pick, make it look like Kennedy killed him.
GALLAGHER: You know we can't let you live, right?
LIGHTNER: You've been struck and restrained. Technically, kidnapping a federal agent is as bad as murdering him these days. (to Gallagher) How would you like to kill him?
GALLAGHER: First I gotta know for sure if Kennedy's dead or alive.
BOOTH: (sarcastically) Good luck with that one, big dog.
GALLAGHER: Big dog.
LIGHTNER: Oh, I suppose we could do that thing that McKenna used to do. But I'd need a blow torch and a sharpened screwdriver.
GALLAGHER: Just tell us.
BOOTH: (quietly) Woof.
(Lightner pulls a picture out of Booth's wallet and hands it to Gallagher.)
LIGHTNER: Ah.
GALLAGHER: Oh, cute. Must be his kid, huh. (Booth remains stoic. Gallagher punches him in the face again.) Head like an anvil. I hurt my hand. All right. (he holds up the picture of Parker) Gonna let you take a look at your sweet boy. Consign his face into your memory and then I'm gonna ask you which one of your eyes you like best.
Booth head butts Gallagher – knocking him to the ground and bloodying his nose. Lightner kicks the chair, that Booth is tied to, over and starts kicking him in the stomach. Repeatedly. Booth does not make a sound.
Clearly, Booth is tapping into resources he used to get through similar, and worse, beatings in the past. It makes me wonder how far that courage in the face of violence goes back. As far as his father?
Further evidence of this stoicism is found when Lightner does as threatened and uses a white hot screwdriver rammed into his leg.
See the smoke? Not a sound does he make.
Indeed, it is at this point Brennan and her dad arrive and Booth manages to knock Lightner away who incidentally stabs himself in the stomach with the screwdriver and ends up on the ground himself. His first words?
Max Keenan, you're under arrest.
Ever professional, Booth seems indifferent to his personal safety as long as he is doing his job. Even in the aftermath he downplays the situation he was in.
BRENNAN: Why didn't you just – just tell them about Kennedy?
BOOTH: Well, ya know, I needed to give you time to find me. (he looks up at her) Ah, I've been tortured worse. So, uh, you hear anything from your old man?
As usual, his thoughts are about others, not himself. The other aspect that is returned to after this is Booth's attitude to Brennan's father. As yet we still have no clue of Booth's relationship with his own father. Quite the reverse as he applies what he would do in Brennan's situation.
BOOTH: So, did you talk to your dad at all before you called the cops?
BRENNAN: No. Why would I?
BOOTH: Well, I mean, I haven't seen my dad in a long time and if I had the opportunity to talk – ow, god. (he touches his cheek)
BRENNAN: Go to a dentist.
I wonder what he would say to him.
Later he continues to project himself onto Brennan's situation.
BRENNAN: Next time he shows up, what do I do? Do I call you? Do I knock him on the head? What's my obligation?
BOOTH: Well, if I were you, Bones, I'd wanna know what he has to tell you about your mother, but, uh, that's just me.
While Booth knows he has to arrest Max, and he does just that in the season finale, it is clear that though he doesn't exactly admire Max Keenan he understands where he is coming from.
BOOTH ON MAX KEENAN In the Old West, he would have been considered a hero.
There have been earlier comments on how Booth and Max feel about each other, but here is how Booth feels in The Killer in the Concrete
BOOTH: You know, I was going through your father's criminal -
BRENNAN: Shhhh!
BOOTH: (quietly) criminal record, and he was right about one thing. All right, he never ended anyone's life who didn't have it comin' to 'em.
BRENNAN: He's a sociopath.
BOOTH: Well, maybe, but at least he aimed in the right direction.
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BOOTH: You know, your father never killed any hard working, tax paying citizens or honest cops. Ow.
BRENNAN: You still think that society should forgive him?
BOOTH: Well, I'm saying, if I have the opportunity to arrest him, I will. But you know who maybe should forgive him? His daughter.
****
BOOTH: He'll be back.
BRENNAN: How do you know?
BOOTH: Max Keenan does not strike me as the kind of guy who, uh, leaves things undone.
Indeed he does come back to tell Brennan about her mother in Stargazer in a Puddle and Booth does arrest him, as much as he knows that will affect his relationship with Bones: the job comes first.
BOOTH THE JOCK
A couple of points to finish with. Tough guy and all round American boy, Booth has another sport up his sleeve in Season 2 which we didn't actually see until Season 3. Player Under Pressure was pulled thanks to the Virginia Tech situation at that time and so we had to wait to learn something about Booth's college days.
BRENNAN: The truth is athletes are basically emotionally arrested in boyhood, acting out childish games as if they have adult importance. The only thing more juvenile are grown adults who watch sports.
BOOTH: Why do you gotta say stuff like that?
BRENNAN: What? You mean the truth?
BOOTH: (He rounds on Brennan.) All right. You know what? I’m a jock. So when you say those, you know, things that you say, what are you saying about me?
BRENNAN: Nothing. You grew out of it.
BOOTH: No, I didn’t, all right? My shoulder crapped out on me. Otherwise, I would have gone all the way with it (Sets the basketball down at Brennan’s feet and feigns shooting a basket before walking away.)
BRENNAN: What?!
BOOTH: You know what, and another thing, all right? I, uh, I fought in a war! So, sports is a, uh, childish substitute? I can live with that. (Walks out the doors of the gymnasium, clearly bothered.)
This is one of the biggest disagreements he has with Bones and he is definitely hurt by her views.
BOOTH: Ahhh. Yo! Colby!
BRENNAN: Yo? (Catches up to Booth.)
BOOTH: Yeah, yo. You know, I’m a little irritated with you. Just leave me alone long enough so I…
BRENNAN: What?
BOOTH: …can get over it?
BRENNAN: Why are you irritated?
BOOTH: Why? Because I love sports. I watch sports. You know, I’m all about sports. You know?
Furthermore, it makes you wonder how Booth's life might have been different if his shoulder hadn't 'crapped out' on him. Was he at College on a sports scholarship? Did he lose it as a result of his injury? Did he join the Army after that and then the FBI? On such things are life changing decisions made.
In the end there is recognition from Brennan, but it was a close run thing.
BOOTH: So, jock mentality…teams…not all bad, huh?
BRENNAN: Why are you telling me this?
BOOTH: You just said we’re all stunted adolescents who take children’s games too seriously.
BRENNAN: I never meant you.
BOOTH: Bones….
BRENNAN: What?
BOOTH: Bones, I’m one of those guys.
BRENNAN: No, you aren’t. You don’t play at being a warrior. You are a warrior. Every day. You’re definitely… a fully developed man. (Smiling.)
BOOTH: (Smiling.) Okay, okay. You leave the tip.
BRENNAN: Even Cutler knew you were lying when you said you treated women like that beneath the bleachers.
BOOTH: Oh, and you believe him?
BRENNAN: Yes, because you still remember that first girl’s name.
So there we have Booth in Season 2. He has been sorely tested by a sociopathic criminal that lamost drove him out of his mind and his job; he has let dribs and drabs of information out and he has grown closer to his colleagues in the Medico Legal Lab. He has reconnected with two old flames, maybe started a spark under a new one and been a friend to Hodgins and even Zack, though that role as advisor on Zack's decision to go to Iraq may come back to haunt him.
He has been jealous, unselfish, angry, compassionate, confused, insightful and blind. Above all he has been brave and unswerving in the belief that his job is the best job in the world. His reaction to the bounty hunter in Liller in the Concrete says it all.
VELESKA: I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping you'd keep me here a while, ask me some dumb ass federal questions, check me out.
BOOTH: How's about I buy you a nice breakfast then?
VELESKA: A guy like you must be going crazy in the FBI.
BOOTH: What kind of guy is that exactly?
VELESKA: I'm a bounty hunter, sport. I read people fast or I die. You are not standard government issue. Take a walk on the wild side. I have more fun, fewer rules and a lotta money.
BOOTH: You know, you make a compelling case
Then he ignores her and answers his phone. Booth's heart lies with his job, whatever the cost.
Stand by for Season 3 revelations.
A signing on the cards from Paris St Germain. Say nothing till it happens.
Also England became the first team in the world to win 8 T20 games in a row. Record breakers. Doesn't seem important though when you see what else is happening in Australia. I cannot imagine an area that big being flooded for so long in such a devastating way. My thoughts are with any readers in OZ land who have been affected.
Time to complete what we learn about Booth in Season 2. So let's head to the roundup.
A BOOTH FOR ALL SEASONS
BRENNAN: Booth is tough.
BOOTH IN SEASON 2 - You put on that macho front, but inside you understand.
We've had hearsay evidence, x-rays and a bare knuckle fight to suggest that Booth is tough, but we have to wait for The Killer in The Concrete to get actual evidence of just how tough he is. Initially, the signs are not promising because he turns up in Baltimore with toothache and an aversion to doing something about it. Brennan divines he is afraid of dentists and Booth, never actually denies it. In fact, he seems relieved when the tooth gets knocked out by Ice Pick
However, things get much more serious when he falls into the hands of small time mobster Gallagher. I'll look at Booth's attitude to certain types of criminals in a minute. First the hard stuff. He tells Hugh Kennedy (Ice Pick) he is the first man to get the drop on him in 10 years, which sounds true to me and may be a clue also to his length of service with the FBI. Having got Booth trussed up in a carpet and with a towel stuffed in his mouth, he leaves him for the cleaner to find. Unfortunately, Gallagher finds him first and is able to knock Booth out for a second time thanks to his being trussed up like a turkey.
He wants to know if Booth saw Hugh Kennedy and so has his henchman, Lightner, torture Booth to find out the truth. Characteristically, Booth is stony in his silence.
Booth is tied to a chair and Gallagher hits him across the face. It seems like Booth has been beaten up quite a bit.
LIGHTNER: Perhaps he didn't see Kennedy.
GALLAGHER: Yeah? Now how'd you come to that thought?
LIGHTNER: Well, Kennedy would've have left him with an ice pick protruding from his head.
GALLAGHER: Just one simple question, big dog. Did you see Kennedy?
(Booth says nothing)
LIGHTNER: We could get our own ice pick, make it look like Kennedy killed him.
GALLAGHER: You know we can't let you live, right?
LIGHTNER: You've been struck and restrained. Technically, kidnapping a federal agent is as bad as murdering him these days. (to Gallagher) How would you like to kill him?
GALLAGHER: First I gotta know for sure if Kennedy's dead or alive.
BOOTH: (sarcastically) Good luck with that one, big dog.
GALLAGHER: Big dog.
LIGHTNER: Oh, I suppose we could do that thing that McKenna used to do. But I'd need a blow torch and a sharpened screwdriver.
GALLAGHER: Just tell us.
BOOTH: (quietly) Woof.
(Lightner pulls a picture out of Booth's wallet and hands it to Gallagher.)
LIGHTNER: Ah.
GALLAGHER: Oh, cute. Must be his kid, huh. (Booth remains stoic. Gallagher punches him in the face again.) Head like an anvil. I hurt my hand. All right. (he holds up the picture of Parker) Gonna let you take a look at your sweet boy. Consign his face into your memory and then I'm gonna ask you which one of your eyes you like best.
Booth head butts Gallagher – knocking him to the ground and bloodying his nose. Lightner kicks the chair, that Booth is tied to, over and starts kicking him in the stomach. Repeatedly. Booth does not make a sound.
Clearly, Booth is tapping into resources he used to get through similar, and worse, beatings in the past. It makes me wonder how far that courage in the face of violence goes back. As far as his father?
Further evidence of this stoicism is found when Lightner does as threatened and uses a white hot screwdriver rammed into his leg.
See the smoke? Not a sound does he make.
Indeed, it is at this point Brennan and her dad arrive and Booth manages to knock Lightner away who incidentally stabs himself in the stomach with the screwdriver and ends up on the ground himself. His first words?
Max Keenan, you're under arrest.
Ever professional, Booth seems indifferent to his personal safety as long as he is doing his job. Even in the aftermath he downplays the situation he was in.
BRENNAN: Why didn't you just – just tell them about Kennedy?
BOOTH: Well, ya know, I needed to give you time to find me. (he looks up at her) Ah, I've been tortured worse. So, uh, you hear anything from your old man?
As usual, his thoughts are about others, not himself. The other aspect that is returned to after this is Booth's attitude to Brennan's father. As yet we still have no clue of Booth's relationship with his own father. Quite the reverse as he applies what he would do in Brennan's situation.
BRENNAN: No. Why would I?
BOOTH: Well, I mean, I haven't seen my dad in a long time and if I had the opportunity to talk – ow, god. (he touches his cheek)
BRENNAN: Go to a dentist.
I wonder what he would say to him.
Later he continues to project himself onto Brennan's situation.
BRENNAN: Next time he shows up, what do I do? Do I call you? Do I knock him on the head? What's my obligation?
BOOTH: Well, if I were you, Bones, I'd wanna know what he has to tell you about your mother, but, uh, that's just me.
While Booth knows he has to arrest Max, and he does just that in the season finale, it is clear that though he doesn't exactly admire Max Keenan he understands where he is coming from.
BOOTH ON MAX KEENAN In the Old West, he would have been considered a hero.
There have been earlier comments on how Booth and Max feel about each other, but here is how Booth feels in The Killer in the Concrete
BOOTH: You know, I was going through your father's criminal -
BRENNAN: Shhhh!
BOOTH: (quietly) criminal record, and he was right about one thing. All right, he never ended anyone's life who didn't have it comin' to 'em.
BRENNAN: He's a sociopath.
BOOTH: Well, maybe, but at least he aimed in the right direction.
****
BOOTH: You know, your father never killed any hard working, tax paying citizens or honest cops. Ow.
BRENNAN: You still think that society should forgive him?
BOOTH: Well, I'm saying, if I have the opportunity to arrest him, I will. But you know who maybe should forgive him? His daughter.
****
BOOTH: He'll be back.
BRENNAN: How do you know?
BOOTH: Max Keenan does not strike me as the kind of guy who, uh, leaves things undone.
Indeed he does come back to tell Brennan about her mother in Stargazer in a Puddle and Booth does arrest him, as much as he knows that will affect his relationship with Bones: the job comes first.
BOOTH THE JOCK
A couple of points to finish with. Tough guy and all round American boy, Booth has another sport up his sleeve in Season 2 which we didn't actually see until Season 3. Player Under Pressure was pulled thanks to the Virginia Tech situation at that time and so we had to wait to learn something about Booth's college days.
Booth played basketball in college. Seriously. Of course his credentials extend further back than that.
BOOTH: Oh, hey. Y’know, last time I was under the bleachers, I was, uh, getting ready to smoke a cigarette and make out with Vanessa Taylor.
(Brennan pulls on some gloves.)
BRENNAN: I didn’t know you smoked.
BOOTH: Eighth grade, Bones. Huh? C’mon, didn’t you ever get naughty with a jock under the bleachers?
BRENNAN: Wait. You were a jock?
BOOTH: Well, you know you had to be one if you wanted to make out with Vanessa Taylor.
8th grade jinks aside. Booth was all about basketball and knew how college basketball works.
BOOTH: Yeah well sure, because he paid the rent and made her brother a star. But, you know, he’s got a whole other agenda.
BRENNAN: How do you know?
BOOTH: ‘Cause, I was a college athlete. Guys like that, they’re always buzzin’ around campus.
BRENNAN: Why?
BOOTH: Why? Cause there’s millions of dollars at stake.
BRENNAN: For bouncing a ball?
BOOTH: Yeah, all that bouncing, you know, translates into dollars. From TV rights, revenue shares, uh, tournament fees.
BRENNAN: Well, I don’t understand what’s interesting about it.
BOOTH: Well, unlike you, most people enjoy a pastime that, uh, takes them out of their head.
BRENNAN: Takes them out of their head, like drugs and alcohol.
Booth is annoyed at this reading of his sport. Brennan really doesn't get this aspect of Booth (although she did support Sully at his basketball game) and continues to denigrate sport as a suitable activity for a grown man.
BRENNAN: Sports should not have such a priority in the University.
BOOTH: All right, you know what? That’s crazy.
BRENNAN: No, anthropologically speaking, sports are a way for boys to practise their battle skills.
BOOTH: Yeah, okay, so you want to just focus straight up, get up on your toes and just sluff… (Shoots and makes the basket.)
BOOTH: Oh, hey. Y’know, last time I was under the bleachers, I was, uh, getting ready to smoke a cigarette and make out with Vanessa Taylor.
(Brennan pulls on some gloves.)
BRENNAN: I didn’t know you smoked.
BOOTH: Eighth grade, Bones. Huh? C’mon, didn’t you ever get naughty with a jock under the bleachers?
BRENNAN: Wait. You were a jock?
BOOTH: Well, you know you had to be one if you wanted to make out with Vanessa Taylor.
8th grade jinks aside. Booth was all about basketball and knew how college basketball works.
BOOTH: Yeah well sure, because he paid the rent and made her brother a star. But, you know, he’s got a whole other agenda.
BRENNAN: How do you know?
BOOTH: ‘Cause, I was a college athlete. Guys like that, they’re always buzzin’ around campus.
BRENNAN: Why?
BOOTH: Why? Cause there’s millions of dollars at stake.
BRENNAN: For bouncing a ball?
BOOTH: Yeah, all that bouncing, you know, translates into dollars. From TV rights, revenue shares, uh, tournament fees.
BRENNAN: Well, I don’t understand what’s interesting about it.
BOOTH: Well, unlike you, most people enjoy a pastime that, uh, takes them out of their head.
BRENNAN: Takes them out of their head, like drugs and alcohol.
Booth is annoyed at this reading of his sport. Brennan really doesn't get this aspect of Booth (although she did support Sully at his basketball game) and continues to denigrate sport as a suitable activity for a grown man.
BRENNAN: Sports should not have such a priority in the University.
BOOTH: All right, you know what? That’s crazy.
BRENNAN: No, anthropologically speaking, sports are a way for boys to practise their battle skills.
BOOTH: Yeah, okay, so you want to just focus straight up, get up on your toes and just sluff… (Shoots and makes the basket.)
BRENNAN: The truth is athletes are basically emotionally arrested in boyhood, acting out childish games as if they have adult importance. The only thing more juvenile are grown adults who watch sports.
BOOTH: Why do you gotta say stuff like that?
BRENNAN: What? You mean the truth?
BOOTH: (He rounds on Brennan.) All right. You know what? I’m a jock. So when you say those, you know, things that you say, what are you saying about me?
BRENNAN: Nothing. You grew out of it.
BOOTH: No, I didn’t, all right? My shoulder crapped out on me. Otherwise, I would have gone all the way with it (Sets the basketball down at Brennan’s feet and feigns shooting a basket before walking away.)
BRENNAN: What?!
BOOTH: You know what, and another thing, all right? I, uh, I fought in a war! So, sports is a, uh, childish substitute? I can live with that. (Walks out the doors of the gymnasium, clearly bothered.)
This is one of the biggest disagreements he has with Bones and he is definitely hurt by her views.
BOOTH: Ahhh. Yo! Colby!
BRENNAN: Yo? (Catches up to Booth.)
BOOTH: Yeah, yo. You know, I’m a little irritated with you. Just leave me alone long enough so I…
BRENNAN: What?
BOOTH: …can get over it?
BRENNAN: Why are you irritated?
BOOTH: Why? Because I love sports. I watch sports. You know, I’m all about sports. You know?
Furthermore, it makes you wonder how Booth's life might have been different if his shoulder hadn't 'crapped out' on him. Was he at College on a sports scholarship? Did he lose it as a result of his injury? Did he join the Army after that and then the FBI? On such things are life changing decisions made.
In the end there is recognition from Brennan, but it was a close run thing.
BOOTH: So, jock mentality…teams…not all bad, huh?
BRENNAN: Why are you telling me this?
BOOTH: You just said we’re all stunted adolescents who take children’s games too seriously.
BRENNAN: I never meant you.
BOOTH: Bones….
BRENNAN: What?
BOOTH: Bones, I’m one of those guys.
BRENNAN: No, you aren’t. You don’t play at being a warrior. You are a warrior. Every day. You’re definitely… a fully developed man. (Smiling.)
BOOTH: (Smiling.) Okay, okay. You leave the tip.
BRENNAN: Even Cutler knew you were lying when you said you treated women like that beneath the bleachers.
BOOTH: Oh, and you believe him?
BRENNAN: Yes, because you still remember that first girl’s name.
So there we have Booth in Season 2. He has been sorely tested by a sociopathic criminal that lamost drove him out of his mind and his job; he has let dribs and drabs of information out and he has grown closer to his colleagues in the Medico Legal Lab. He has reconnected with two old flames, maybe started a spark under a new one and been a friend to Hodgins and even Zack, though that role as advisor on Zack's decision to go to Iraq may come back to haunt him.
He has been jealous, unselfish, angry, compassionate, confused, insightful and blind. Above all he has been brave and unswerving in the belief that his job is the best job in the world. His reaction to the bounty hunter in Liller in the Concrete says it all.
VELESKA: I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping you'd keep me here a while, ask me some dumb ass federal questions, check me out.
BOOTH: How's about I buy you a nice breakfast then?
VELESKA: A guy like you must be going crazy in the FBI.
BOOTH: What kind of guy is that exactly?
VELESKA: I'm a bounty hunter, sport. I read people fast or I die. You are not standard government issue. Take a walk on the wild side. I have more fun, fewer rules and a lotta money.
BOOTH: You know, you make a compelling case
Then he ignores her and answers his phone. Booth's heart lies with his job, whatever the cost.
Stand by for Season 3 revelations.
A signing on the cards from Paris St Germain. Say nothing till it happens.
Also England became the first team in the world to win 8 T20 games in a row. Record breakers. Doesn't seem important though when you see what else is happening in Australia. I cannot imagine an area that big being flooded for so long in such a devastating way. My thoughts are with any readers in OZ land who have been affected.
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ITA.
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I am about to start viewing Season 3 where once again the focus is mostly elsewhere, even when he gets shot!
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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.
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Also, Brennan does tend to dismiss things that are important to Booth: religion, sport, family, love. He really has his work cut out to keep going with her as long as he does.
Yes, Booth and the removal of Zack does have repercussions!
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Booth may grumble about "squints", but from the beginning he is anything but dismissive about the thing that is important to Brennan and her colleagues, science. He defended her to Cullen, tells Kenton how great her abilities are etc.
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That is very true; he is so proud of her, which is why I get annoyed when she is so grudging in return. I know she finds it hard to acknowledge others abilities in words, but sometimes she goes too far the other way in her 'I am always right' attitude, particularly in the early seasons.
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Your Lady of Shalott icon made me think of a scene in Anne of Green Gables. I've deliberately kept today free to catch up and clean, finish books and bake. I bet it's going to end with me watching Anne instead. Thanks a bunch ;)
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Season 3 viewing started yesterday with some useful insights already from The skull in the windshield. My cogitating is begun!
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As always? Dead on, insightful... and yah. I love reading about Our Man Booth.
He has been jealous, unselfish, angry, compassionate, confused, insightful and blind. Above all he has been brave and unswerving in the belief that his job is the best job in the world
I too must quote this because it sums him up perfectly.
Thanks so much for doing these honey. Even when it takes me 677565 years to respond? Know that I always read them. Yes, I'm now going back thru your LJ to drool. Hugs.
(and YES... whats happenening in Aus? Is horrifying... )
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I have to say that I was really hacked off with Brennan during her diatribe in 'Player under Pressure' I'm not surprised Booth was pissed at her, and I'm glad he told her exactly how he felt about it. During the early years she was far too fond of spouting her beliefs at him without any thought or care about how offensive she was being. Booth's tolerance was epic most of the time.
Another wonderfully thoughtful and thought-provoking post, Mis.
Thank you.
Rosie xx
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Yes, Brennan's 'holier than thou' (bad pun) act in these early seasons really used to annoy me because she gave no thought to the way Booth might react, even when he told her. She never apologised and even telling Wyatt that she wanted to see like Booth was, in a way, a sign that she wanted to do things without him, even though she denied it. I have always admired how it took 5 years for Booth to eventually try to move on. (Not that he should!)