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My internet decided to start working today so I was able to acquire a bunch of episodes, either dl or streaming, and finished season 2. Jack & Angela at the end of 2x21 were absolutely precious. Also, I love the prosecutor who's on as a recurring character. She rocks.

The last shot of them at the end of this episode is adorable---graphically, it makes me think of the end of Pride & Prejudice.

Booth: You know I love this place, I love it. I love this country. You know I tell you something: if I was working law enforcement back in the day when they threw all that tea, alright, in the harbor—I’m good, I’m good. I would have rounded everybody up and we’d still be English.

This quote was a revelation to me, because it showed me at last what other character Booth reminds me of in fiction: Commader Sam Vimes of Terry Pratchett's Discworld. A little younger, but just as jaded. Loves his country, loves his city, loves being a cop, loves his quirky team of people. A guy who works, as Stephen Colbert might say, "from the gut." Truth, justice, reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg. Booth is certainly hard-boiled, even if he's only 35.

I don't know why I always want to compare fictional characters to other fictional characters, but there you go. In terms of roles the easiest comparison for Booth is Special Agent Fox Mulder, of course, being the emotion-driven, justice-seeking, bleeding-heart and anger-burdened FBI agent, who is paired with the logical, sexy, sometimes cold-seeming, sometimes red-hared scientist lady, who share joking repartee and secret puppy-dog eyes of longing and desire. IT IS A PROVEN COMBINATION! AS PROVED BY....BY BONES HAVING REACHED FOUR SEASONS ALREADY. I predict this same combo (emotive g-man + red haired scientist lady) will be recreated in yet another show within two years after the end of this show. Clearly, fox needs to only hire ginger-haired women and tall, brown-haired, generically handsome men. And black guys with cool gravelly voices. (What happened to Dr. Holland or whatever, anyway? I liked him. I want a PHD so he'll talk to me.)

All that being said, while the Mulder comparisons are easy, they are mostly superficial stuff. Job, appearance, attitude. In terms of all the gushy inner character motivations, Booth and Mulder are pretty different, and so a better comparison is needed. Which made me think, at last, of...VIMES! Vimes, whom I also love. Vimes who loves his city, loves his people, loves his son, loves being a copper. Vimes who desperately needs Stephen Fry to be his therapist, but gets by without him anyway. Booth, like Vimes, will arrest anyone if he thinks that person deserves arresting, and he's not afraid to arrest his boss as easily as the guy on the street corner. They also both have the killer instinct and just enough darkness inside them to help them understand why its important for the darkness to stay inside. I love them!

P.S. Bones has killed my NaNoWriMo. Killed it deader than a serial killer being chucked off a balcony dead. All those gorgeous peeps who were hoping to read bits of it as I posted them may direct their blame at