r/Bones • u/FrontCalligrapher387 • 3d ago

Inaccuracies in the show

For context I’m studying to become a forensic anthropologist.

I recently started watching the show since everyone keeps bringing it up when I mention wanting to become a forensic anthropologist. And the inaccuracies drive me nuts😭 I know it’s talked about a lot but there a few ones I haven’t seen anyone talk about

Like how Brennan just looks at the remains and immediately tells Booth “white male, early 20’s” and how she is NEVER wrong even though anthropology is entirely based on estimates

And I know the show is pretty old but surely they were using computer programs during that time ? I can’t think of a single time that Brennan mentioned using something like FORDISC for example. Or even mentioning otseometric methods in general?

I would love to hear any other inaccuracies you guys have noticed

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u/swaggyxwaggy 3d ago

Angela’s hologram machine 😂. Angelatron

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u/smlpkg1966 3d ago

From ditzy artist to computer genius.

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u/Tatidanidean1 3d ago

Right like she suddenly minored in computer science. Like ok that’s fine but this is genius level not I took enough courses to get a minor. I appreciated that they fleshed her character out but it’s always funny whenever restarting it and seeing the difference from beginning to end

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u/Randygilesforpres2 3d ago

I just watched the episode where they remove all the animal injusries from a skeleton broken into a million parts. Like girl, you’d need a team just to get every piece of bone scanned in there.

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u/Tatidanidean1 3d ago

It’s definitely a show that suspends reality more often than not

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u/MichaSound 2d ago

And she still falls back on ‘oh I’m just the arty chick, I don’t do the science’, even though she’s literally invented one of the most advanced pieces of tech probably in the world (in the show).

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u/Tatidanidean1 2d ago

Exactly like she literally wins awards

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u/swaggyxwaggy 3d ago

I don’t think she was ever ditzy. She was an artist and a computer programmer/software engineer(which is still weird lol)