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Booth is finally able to say that he loves Brennan. But...

After four years of everyone knowing it - I mean, the whole office and especially Sweets...Now they are saying that he may not really love her? That confused me!

I understand why the writers had such a hard time actually putting these two together. That's what's keeping the show alive. Fans come back watching just for that reason. I've watched many shows (Who's the Boss comes to mind) where the show simply goes away once our need for the romance to come actually happens. It's sort of like - there's nothing left.

But...and here's the spoiler...I think the show was great once they got together up to a point. Once they were married, the writer's/directors/whoever seemed to say "old married couple - we no longer have to show them in love. That was unfortunate.

I believe that this episode is the only episode in all the eleven seasons where Booth actually uses a term of endearment for Brennan. In all the time they are together as a couple, you never hear "Honey, Sweetheart, Baby..." Here, as he holds Brennan while she's bleeding, he calls her "Baby." That's disappointing that Bones is his affectionate word for her even after they are married...

The ending was a big disappointment. Booth chickened out and changed what he was going to say. I was very disappointed in the man!

Even after the awful space-filling episode at the end of the last season, the first episode was truly a huge disappointment.

Booth is not in a coma any more, but he's not quite himself. Bones did not visit him in the hospital like you'd expect but went away to Guatemala to deal with bones instead. These two things as such, are very much in character but the consequence of a really bad idea, the brain tumor. As a medical fiction, it should stick much closer to facts about brain damage and operations etc.

So Booth thinks he's in love with Brennan and wants to tell her - Cam and Sweets have the common sense to remind him that if the feeling's not real, it'll break Brennan forever. They meet a psychic (through Angela) who leads them to a mass grave and a rather interesting story about a determined sociopath, wanting to get rich at any price. Cyndi Lauper is rather good although her facial expressions are somewhat limited - but that's what you get when you don't want wrinkles.

What I liked in the episode that they couldn't prove the murder - they charged the guy with a number of other crimes that will put him to jail "for a 100 years". Otherwise, one of the worst episodes, the writers seem to really struggle as how to bring these two together and didn't come up with any good ideas.

I find all the episodes featuring Avalon a bit irritating. Bones is normally an interesting interplay between the hard science and Booth's emotional intelligence / people skills, with a hint of psychology from Sweets - which both main characters reject for being in between the two. When they throw in the bits of 'but maybe this psychic is real' it feels like a different show.

This one adds on top of that a really annoying scene where Brennan - who we've previously seen kicking 7 bells out of hardened criminals - is suddenly helpless and terrified in the face of a doctor. Plus all the stuff about Booth's selective loss of memories and personality traits and it just feels like too much nonsense - and not the fun kind.

Feels to me like they let a bunch of new people, who hadn't watched much of the show before, write an episode.