Bones
This year's season of Bones was all about relationships as well. Actually what makes crime dramas and procedural shows work is when you get to know the main characters well enough to care about their relationships. Then all the cases they work on just become filler in between the on-going story of these characters...how they evolve and grow over time. Soap-opera-ish? Maybe...but with better camera work, less melodrama and better filler material.
Bones and Booth made decisions to make rather large changes for the next year of their lives in this season finale: Bones will be headed off to some Polynesian(?) locale for study of some major archeological find and Booth will be rejoining the army to train people to hunt down and eliminate the bad guys in Afghanistan. In their eyes, the desperate longing to be close to each other is always there, but Dr. Brennan cannot get to the point of making a romantic attachment and Agent Booth can't seem to live without it. They both figure out that what they need for themselves (and for each other?) is some time and distance to get a little perspective on things.
During that year Dr. Sweet's lady/fiancee will be working around the world with Dr. Brennan. He calls off their engagement and encourages her not to wait for him. Angela and Hodgins, though, decide to take the year off and live in Paris while their bosses are away.
I know the show will return sometime in September or October, but the way they played this thing out really seemed like we were saying goodbye to friends for a year or more. It was emotionally stretching and well-played by all.
What I hope for in next year's season is a triumphant return by all parties involved (except for maybe Dr. Sweet's Daisy--she's pretty annoying at times), but some real change...after all, that's what we were promised with this season's finale. If things end up the same by the end of the first episode of next season, it will feel like a bit of a cheat.
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