TV - Bones - 5/14/2009

Oh dear. Bones, Bones, Bones. What have you done? That was almost a comically awful hour of television. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything amusing about it. It was just awful.

For those who don't watch the show, I'll give a very short recap. Bones is about a female forensic anthropologist, nicknamed Bones (who is also a bestselling author) who helps a male FBI agent named Booth solve crimes. There has now been four seasons of sexual tension leading up to the two of them FINALLY relieving that tension in tonight's season finale. Or at least, that's what was promised.

For the last few months, the creators, stars and the Ausiello Files have assured we viewers that Bones and Booth would in fact do the deed in tonight's episode and that it would be neither a dream, nor a hallucination. But they held back from completely stating that it would be 100% real.

In last week's episode, it came out that Booth has a brain tumor which is causing him to have hallucinations, including seeing Stewie from Family Guy. That, in and of itself, was almost enough to jump the shark. But I thought they made it work. It tied in with previous episodes where Booth had seen a ghost of an old army buddy. So, I stayed on board.

But tonight. Oh tonight. The entire episode was one of two things. From the ending, it wasn't clear which, but it was either going on inside Booth's head while he was in a post-op coma, or it was a book that Bones was working on, but ended up deleting. In the episode, Booth and Bones are married and they own a night club where all of the people who usually work with them solving crimes, also worked. Kind of a Wizard of Oz type thing.

As if that wasn't bad enough. Booth wakes up at the end of the episode, and Bones is in the hopsital room. She tells him that the operation was a success, but that he had a reaction to the anesthetic. Then he looks up at her and says, "Who are you?"

REALLY?! Amnesia!? You just had an alternate universe episode on a non-supernatural show, and now you're giving one of your main characters amnesia. As I tweeted earlier today, this was the biggest shark jumping since Fonzie actually jumped over a shark.

Huge, huge disappointment.