Bodie seems very insecure about himself and his social competence! He does a bit - or maybe he knows that he's putting on an act about being "too tough for the SAS" and so on - that it's all image. I think we were told early on that the other recruits are rather conflicted by him - they don't know if he's really one of them, or part of CI5 sent to test them even further, or what. And if you can't trust someone to be "one of you", then you treat them like an outsider, and Bodie must pick up on that and then almost encourage it by being defensive and acting even more tough...
(And just to go back to our previous discussion, it makes Bodie less-Bodie to me, because we see him being really friendly with everyone in the eps!)
I can't understand these thoughts about '...have been mostly for his own good'. I wonder if Cowley and Murphy made him start thinking about it - it might not be entirely true, but leaving McCabe behind so that he could win was pretty awful, and Cowley just told him off for abandoning his partner in the other race, so maybe he's extra-conscious around other people right now. Especially since he's been somewhat abandoned (as he sees it) by Cowley and Murphy now...
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Date: 2019-04-17 10:09 pm (UTC)He does a bit - or maybe he knows that he's putting on an act about being "too tough for the SAS" and so on - that it's all image. I think we were told early on that the other recruits are rather conflicted by him - they don't know if he's really one of them, or part of CI5 sent to test them even further, or what. And if you can't trust someone to be "one of you", then you treat them like an outsider, and Bodie must pick up on that and then almost encourage it by being defensive and acting even more tough...
(And just to go back to our previous discussion, it makes Bodie less-Bodie to me, because we see him being really friendly with everyone in the eps!)
I can't understand these thoughts about '...have been mostly for his own good'.
I wonder if Cowley and Murphy made him start thinking about it - it might not be entirely true, but leaving McCabe behind so that he could win was pretty awful, and Cowley just told him off for abandoning his partner in the other race, so maybe he's extra-conscious around other people right now. Especially since he's been somewhat abandoned (as he sees it) by Cowley and Murphy now...