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So I'm rewatching Bones again for like the millionth time this month and I just finished season 9 episode 11. Now I want to preface this by saying I love Booth, but the way he is portrayed in this specific episode is so frustrating!

The episode is great for Brennan it shows her incredible growth and empathy as she connects with Professor Watters over their shared way of processing grief through logic and work. But it feels like the writers really did Booth a disservice here.

After 9.5 years of being Brennan’s "translator" and living in the world of the Squints, it feels like a total regression for him to be so judgmental of the Professor. He goes into "macho" mode and treats the guy’s lack of outward emotion as a sign of guilt.

What makes it even harder to swallow is that Booth is a father with a daughter of his own. You would think he’d recognize another father’s pain, even if it doesn't look "traditional." Booth himself is a guy who tries to keep his emotions locked inside; he only shows his vulnerability to a very small circle. He should know better than anyone that "quiet" doesn't mean "unfeeling."

The hypocrisy is what really stings: Booth is the first person to defend Brennan when people call her cold or underling.

And if anyone were to treat Brennan the same way he treated professor Watters he’d be the first person to put them through a wall for disrespecting her.

Yet, he turns around and calls the Professor a "freakazoid" just because the man used physics as a life raft to stay afloat after his daughter's death.

It feels like the writers forced Booth into this "tough guy" box just to create tension, but it ends up making him look like a bully to a grieving father. After nearly a decade, you’d think Booth would have more "radar" for people who are just like the woman he loves.

Does anyone else feel like the writing for Booth in this episode was just... off? It’s a great Brennan episode, but a really tough one for Booth fans.

As I've started rewatching the series for like the 10th time this month I started wondering something throughout the series we see Brennan, Booth, Cam, Hodgins, Angela, Zack and the squinterns become a found family who would either kill or die for each other to varying degrees. But I don't know if we ever saw how everyone at the FBI field office beside from Booth feels about Brennan personally.

I know that in the beginning Booth's boss Cullen didn't like Brennan but that was in the first season. I think after 12 years of helping Booth solve the unsolvable cases which would make the FBI look really good in the public eye that everyone in the DC field office would at least respect Brennan's unique brand of genius. And then when she and Booth officially got together and had Christine that they'd think of her as part of the FBI family especially after she and Booth got married. But what do you guys think how do the other agents at the Hoover building feel about Brennan?

Now I think it's safe to assume that we all know that Brennan hates psychology ahe even calls it a soft science. But I was wondering what's her opinion on sociology since in the real world it is very closely related to anthropology? Some would even say that they are sister discipline since they both deal with human societies and groups. Anthropology is the study of humans while sociology is the study of society which is compromised of humans. So what do you guys think would be Brennan's view of sociology given how closely related to her own anthropologist profession?