I'm always complaining about this!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I saw it like you did and I saw it as the "inner child" connection. BUT I lean toward your opinion because "Bones" would never allow herself to look clownish. In the "reality" of her personality, she would compromise and do the show, but she would make sure she didn't come off like a fool. In older episodes, there was one where she was caring for a baby. She is quite capable of reaching into her inner child already and did a fine job communicating with the baby. I think they went backward in her detachment from normal behavior (would that be the phrase I'm looking for?) in this whole season as well.