The Pain in the Heart

Dumbest, laziest season finale. Very disappointed.

The serial killer Gormagon is apparently back, and strange things start happening in the lab. A human mandible is sent to Brennan, and the skeleton into which it fits then disappears completely. An explosion in the lab leaves Zach with 3rd degree burns, and suspicion falls on Hodgins as the possible apprentice to the notorious serial killer. Meanwhile, Booth fakes his own death to catch an elusive killer, but doesn't tell Brennan. She is furious with him, of course. It turns out Booth wanted to let Brennan know, but it was left up to the staff psychiatrist to inform her, and he chose not to. A strange, sort of disconnected episode. The usual humor is sorely missing.

It has only been within the last year I have really gotten into Bones, thanks to Netflix. Although I personally think that Criminal Minds is a far superior procedural the one thing I love about Bones are the characters. They are so tight knit, very much into their jobs, a little socially inept but I like that about them.

That is what makes this episode so hard to take. I kept waiting for someone to wake up or for someone to reveal that it was a deep government under cover operation and that dear, sweet Zack couldn't possibly be responsible for something so awful...and so stupid!!

I would really like to get those 45 minutes back and I would like to get my memories of the wonderful Bones team, working in the lab, bringing bad guys to justice.

Couldn't there have been a graceful way to let the actor go without tainting his previous work?

The whole episode was shameful, tacky and just plain didn't make sense.

This episode was despicable in every way, 100 of which are enumerated at TV.com, which can easily be found by Google search by those interested.

Hanson cynically revels in reactions like "shocking," "unpredictable" in his TV Guide interview.

I found the writing of this episode a cheap, expedient failure of creativity, the denouement anticlimactic and hollow. It was insulting to fans of the program. I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy this show again. Plotting and story have frequently been juvenile and predictable throughout the series but the characters and relationships have consistently been compelling to me. However, the failure of this episode is irredeemable.