Bones: I can't believe they are dragging the Pellant storyline on for another season.

Bones: I can't believe they are dragging the Pellant storyline on for another season.

Preach it, sister. If it hadn't been the season finale, I was tempted to skip the episode when I saw they were bringing him back.

I haven't watched Bones in a ocuple of years.

I haven't watched Bones in a ocuple of years.

I didn't watch much of this season because there were conflicts with DVRing it, but then there wasn't toward the end of the season. So, I decided to see how they were going to wrap up the Pellant thing, only to find out they didn't. Even Hodgins and Angela aren't good enough reasons to keep watching this show.

They're going to pair-off everyone in that lab, aren't they?

They're going to pair-off everyone in that lab, aren't they?

They haven't already?

Nothing worse than sitting down, looking forward to a new episode, and BAM.

Based on the preview I was fully expecting a clip show. And based on the premise I fully expected this to be the episode in which Beckett finally said those three little words.

I still maintain they can be done well--Andromeda pulled off a doozy. It's not the format, it's the choices.

I've seen decent ones and really, really awful ones (I'm looking at you, SG-1). The Castle one was basically okay fan-fic mixed with decent fan-vids.

Andromeda's angle, the episode that justified the series' existence, even though Sorbo was onscreen, was an alternate timeline, where the man who had betrayed him to spur the series didn't die, but Dylan, Sorbo's character had. So he took on the mission Dylan did in the main timeline out of a sense of culpability.

This meant that every flashback was filtered through the AU premise, and all of them meant something different now--a fascinating story which made me want to watch all those episodes again, and think about what they would have been like with that change in captaincy.

Since Sorbo was still the lead in them, though, I didn't. But it was a brilliant move, and I doff my cap to Stentz and Hewitt Wolfe for it, going so far as to tell Zack so (I don't remember if that was TT or just IO9--I always bring this up when the topic arises, and he happened to read me doing so at least once).

I haven't actually finished watching this Castle yet. Although I like them together, I feel Katic's acting is weaker portraying this particular emotional vulnerability and openness. Which is a damned shame--she's more than good at being a kick assed cop (in inappropriate shoes) and an angry and wounded Iniga Montoyette. So I find myself delegating it to last -1 (H50 is last) when catching up on the night's TV.

I got tired of Castle when it became all about Beckett's Mom. I'm also tired of the "I am driven by this great unsolved tragedy in my past!" thing. I don't watch Grimm that often, but I like the "I was just a normal guy till this weird thing popped up" premise. The bad things occur as part of the story.

Adding to the Castle problem for me was when they started the romance. The inevitable "wacky" misunderstandings annoy me.

I was trying to work out if it's all about her mother now, but I realise I can't judge that, because I don't know what trips the switch for that.

I did kind of like that last week's wacky relationship misunderstanding wasn't a misunderstanding (and therefore not wacky), but then turned out to be irritated that Castle was right and Beckett so passive.

And, Jesus, the way they described unwanted touching this week made their foreplay sound like harassment. Way to take the bloom off the rose, guys!