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[Bones]

her job is one of the coolest thing ever on that show tbh

Well, have you seen Lucy Liu on Elementary? She's pretty great*, and her job's real.

*Although to me Angela's pretty great too, so my judgment may not align with yours.

There actually are people who try to make models of faces for remains that are too degraded to properly identify. Although they're usually not so pretty, but this is TV, so of course the deceased are pretty. Anyway, the reason is because putting an algorithm into a computer to have it spit out a likeness isn't as good as having a person look at it.

This. She has a job that more-or-less exists.

Sometimes she does the most ridiculous crap with that magic computer of hers. I keep thinking her degree was in Art Therapy or something, but apparently it's Theoretical Computer Science with a minor in Wizardry. I get if she were a sculptor of dead faces, people actually do that. But they give her a charred kernel of corn and she scans the thing and it comes up with a guy's body and life history and exact trajectory of the bullet that killed him, LOL.

I like her as a character, though. She's sassy and confident and she has a good sense of humor.

I read somewhere that the best way to approach the "science" in Bones is to assume it's like science fiction from the not-so-distant future. Because, yeah. Some (most) of the stuff she does is ridiculously implausible, more so than most forensic science on other shows and those are going pretty far afield of reality already.

In an interview Kathy Reichs said that the technology they use on the show is real, it's just horribly expensive and hard to get. I suspect it still pushes the bounds of plausibility in some of the ways they use it, but think of it as the Jeffersonian having an unlimited budget.

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As mentioned, it is a real job, just as with most science-y stuff on TV it's made to look far more hi-tech with outcomes more elaborate than the stuff they normally get.

I don't recall if they ever did it on the show, but I saw a doc on a real person with the job and they worked directly on the skulls using clay to reconstruct a face.

I love Angela.

I think she's sweet, and vivacious, and I love how everything comes naturally to her, and she doesn't make a big deal of stuff (compared to other characters who are similar).

But to be fair, I feel like Bones in general does disservice to its characters. I hate how they made childfree Bones into Momzilla, how Booth dumped Hannah for not wanting to marry him (but was okay with Bones not being the marrying kind),how Sweets is shown to be incompetent even while he's not (and how Daisy is basically a caricature of herself) and let's not even mention what the did to Zach. Angela has suffered too, but I think compared to some other characters she's still doing well. The only things tat bugs me is the somewhat caricaturist portrayal of her father and their relationship.

As for her job: it might not be real, but I sort of wish it was.

It's a real job. It's just not as glamorous as TV makes it seem.

The same is true for all jobs, though.

Brennan is momzilla? Brennan who takes her job very seriously is momzilla? I don't see it, sry.

Have you even seen the episodes after she gave birth?

You can take your job seriously and still be a momzilla. She is totally controlling about the baby. She basically terrorized the people at the daycare center up to the point where they would refuse to take her child. She kicks her own dad out because he forgot his cell phone and didn't pick up the very minute she was checking up on him and the baby. Yeah, sorry, that woman went batshit insane after spawning. It's completely disproportionate behavior.

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Holy shit but she totally turned into momzilla and helicopter parent supreme last season. I almost rage quit the show over it. For one thing, it seemed so incredibly out of character (I'm going to chalk it up now to some kind of hormonal thing), for another it was obnoxious beyond all belief, and third and most importantly it hogged the show.

Brennen literally couldn't say a complete sentence some episodes without including her daughter in it somehow. And we are talking about discussing her job. Somehow or other some ridiculously trivial detail of her infant daughters life crept into everything. She couldn't go through a single day of work without checking on her precious child 10 times and taking pictures of the babies poop. No one was good enough for her Christine. She had the best of everything, except for giving birth in the manger episode which was... God I don't even know. Poor Booth just kind of stood back shell shocked and tried desperately to keep on her good side all season long.

It was awful.

Thankfully this season they backed the shit up on that. Christine shows up for maybe a minute or two here and there, but never in the middle of a case anymore. Brennen's back to being competent at her job again. As, thank god, it should be.

I would argue (at least from what I've seen) that Sweets isn't shown to be incompetent. At least, that's not the impression I got. Booth and Bones don't take him seriously, because Bones doesn't believe in the merits of psychology (as an entirely analytical person) and Booth doesn't take him seriously because he's a young. So even though he is good at his job and has proven time and again that he's valuable and perfectly competent, those two just brush off his expertise because of their own biases and character flaws. It was only when they found out about his abuse that they realized they were being hurtful and started trying to include him.

I kind of started to hate her around the time I realized how vain and convinced of her own importance in other people's lives she really was. I can't remember the exact episode, but she was talking about the woman she used to date, and how she basically broke the poor girl's heart because she was so amazing and awesome and beautiful and wonderful.

I might be exaggerating, but only a little. She did say something about how she ruined the other woman's life by breaking up with her.

It just really turned me off her character, and I loved her before then. I mean.... really, Angela? Her life is ruined because you broke up with her? Right.

Yeah that episode had the same effect on me. I was annoyed with her for a while and then that episode pushed everything into the dislike zone.

I thought the vacation episode where she and Hodges broke up was stupid and contrived, and the way they dragged it out was worse. Bad writing.

Digital reconstruction is a real (and very difficult) job - it's more done in scientific fields than crime-fighting IRL. She would really need those art and computing skills.

This.

Also, like many crime shows, Bones tends to take several smaller and less-glamorous CJ careers and combine them into one giant force for awesome.

Often characters like Angela or Garcia on Criminal Minds do work that in a real job would be assigned to multiple people: a crime analyst, a computer forensics specialist, a geographic profiler, etc.

Shows don't have permanent cast members doing these jobs because a) not super glamorous and b) you may not need one for every single case. So when they do need to make a map of where the offender may live or coordinate data on several cases with similar MOs or crack into someone's damaged harddrive... they just give that assignment to a character who already exists and does a somewhat similar job.

I came here basically to say this. If you ignore the science-fantasy happening in ALL aspects of Bones, but most emphatically around Angela And her Magical Computer Of Making Intensely Boring Things Visually Interesting, her job is not only very real, but incredibly demanding.

I went through a hardcore (CSI-induced) forensic science kick in my late teens, and I have a near-worshipful respect for the people who can manage to do these things in real life, because not only is it often soul-crushingly depressing to be working with dead bodies/crime victims day in and day out, it's also incredibly demanding, and not terribly lucrative.

I read an article about one of the people who helped identify bodies in a mass grave of US soldiers from the Pacific theater and tiny Army Brat me sort of was curled up in a corner crying for a while. Shit is so intense.

....she's idiotic? Bullshit.

Well, there are a few others to choose from, if you’d rather.

The Mentalist - Kimball Cho (Tim Kang) is a CBI Agent .
Hawaii Five-0 - Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park) and Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) are both on the Five-0 task force. Plus, Max Bergman (Masi Oka) is a coroner.
Go On - Yolanda (Suzy Nakamura) is an anesthesiologist – not that there’s been a whole lot of focus on her job.
Elementary - Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) is an ex-surgeon who is a sober companion.

There’s also Glee, Grey’s Anatomy, and Nikita.

I kind of hate myself for this, but I always notice the asian-americans on these shows and immediately think, "Yay token asian!" I'm not sure why it makes me so happy. I could hate their personality and still I'll feel slightly happy about being represented in some way.

She's mixed, half Chinese, half Irish.

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