what we call the beginning is often the end

[daygloparker]

I love that it is I started this at 7:30am on my day off, and I am awake but it doesn't matter because I do not have to go to work. I do not have to check work email, or feel guilty for making coffee and watching Dawson's Creek reruns instead of checking work email or ANYTHING- and- oh. Okay. Fine. Let's... talk about the elephant in the room.

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[boofadil]

I was telling someone that none of the season finales that I've watched so far have actually made me NEED to watch next season. And to me, that's the point of a season finale. *shrug*

[daygloparker]

RIGHT?! I mean. I'm having my own personal TV angst - like 75% of what I normally watch is going away forever in the next, oh well actually 72 hours. Next fall, I think I have this, and Community, Spooks, and... um. Yup, that is about it. Everything is underwhelming me! Am I too invested? Am I expecting too much? I don't think so. I don't know. Maybe the universe is trying to tell me to go outside or something.

[boofadil]

What shows are going away for you? That's a sad percentage.

And we're probably too invested but at this point I don't imagine we're ever going to be able to relate to tv shows like everyone else does. Invested is our only way.

Also, icon awww.

[daygloparker]

That was a horrible exaggeration, it's actually just LOST and Ashes to Ashes, but I realized I don't actually watch a lot! I mean - I tune into lots and lots of programs. I really only care about three or four. But when you consider that as of this weekend, my top shows were thus two previously mentioned + Bones? FEELINGS. LOTS OF DISAPPOINTED FEELINGS.

I keep trying to cast different shows as my abusive boyfriend relationship show, but really, I think it's the genre as a whole. IT WILL KEEP HITTING ME WHEN I'M DOWN. I come back every time, dammit.

[anr]

*pokes half-baked fic thoughts*

A lot of what you've said here makes sense to me (read: the missing apartment scene where she admits that she doesn't want him to go, and he admits ditto, and then they both backpedal horribly, but still promise one year only at the airport) but mainly the part of WHAT WAS THE SEASON FOR?? I mean, I get character building, et al, but at some point the building has to realise that if it grows any higher and it'll fall over a shark, you know?

But I... liked it all anyway? I think?

*confused/sigh*

My hope for next season is that we open on them reuniting with no words or pretence or anything other than major-you're back-kissing. And then we just take it from there -- season o' dating. I could live with that.

(And, yeah, IDEK what's up with the Sweets/Daisy thing. That made NO sense to me. No, rly, wha?)

[daygloparker]

(Y'all just love me for my fic brain, DON'T YOU.)

That missing scene is what's gnawing the most at me. I NEEDED IT, SO MUCH. Because I can GUESS why Booth was reluctant to say yes to the Army and I could GUESS why Brennan was so torn between wanting to go to Indonesia versus not - I wanted them to show me! Show! Me! For a long time, show has taken Brennan's "rational" view of the world at face value, and just when I thought that finally via the 100th episode we were going to get to challenge that? Nope. Not so much. That work is still largely going on in my head. I mean, sure - I'm smart enough to draw my own conclusions and refer back to the 100th, BUT YEAH. I needed it.

AND YEAH. DESPITE THAT, I THINK I LIKED IT, TOO. WHICH IS THE MOST FRUSTRATING THING OF ALL.

So much insta-kissing. So much a season of dating. Then again, I have never, ever, ever understood the idea that adding the clause "and then they left to have sex" was somehow detrimental to an on-screen depiction of a relationship, and apparently our lot are CRAZY PEOPLE.

[waja2wajb]

Um basically after Brennan agrees to meet him at the coffee cart one year from today, Booth totally should have said 'I'm going to kiss you then' and Brennan's response is 'I know.'

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? Right? Damn this SHOW
FEELINGS. Basically I can't process them

[forthesky]

I'm mostly frustrated that BOOTH AND BRENNAN DECIDE TO GIVE THIS A CHANCE is apparently next season's journey rather than this season's resolutionYES, THIS, EXACTLY THIS. I'm actually ... not particularly unhappy with the episode at all, but this was the thing that I'm having problems with. HH was going on about there being a shitload of ~payoff~ for the 100th episode in the finale, and I'm just not seeing that at all. I really am concerned that Hart is going to be one of those "let's hook them up in the last episode ever!" types, too. This season gave me hope that maybe that wouldn't be the case, but I am still fretting over it. (AND ON THAT NOTE, I AM SICK OF HEARING ABOUT THE FUCKING MOONLIGHTING CURSE GODDAMN IT

[daygloparker]

I AM TOTALLY GAME FOR THE TIME-JUMP, I AM ACTUALLY GAMER THAN GAME. Basically because, let's face it, can Angela come back knocked up? A Hodgins-Montenegro baby conceived in Paris?! COME ON NOW. Come on.

I don't think HH is a "hook up in the last episode!" type. Which, thank god because that is the worst model for television ever invented. All of his and Emily's comments to various media outlets lately speculating whether Booth and Brennan should be in a serious relationship next season - they all make so much more sense now, I suppose. I'm just... I guess I'm just hoping the show has the balls to dwell in the grey area between dating and not-dating? There is this weird unrealistic TV thing going on where suddenly when two character hook up, OH MY GOD ALL THEIR POSSIBLE DRAMA IS COMPLETELY RESOLVED. R- ...really? TMI personal alert, I can tell you that behavior usually ramps the drama up to 11, rather than the other way around. So-. Yeah

[forthesky]

GOD I READ SOMETHING ELSE SUGGESTING ANGELA COMES BACK PREGNANT, AND I AM 110% BEHIND THAT. That would be amazing!

And exactly, especially with Booth and Brennan. Brennan would never be like "oh okay, we're dating now, I'M OVER ALL MY ISSUES." I think it will be fascinating to watch Booth break all her walls down, and if it's done properly, it should definitely not be instantaneous. I can just think of so many amazing ways they could develop that storyline. And I heard those interviews too, but at the same time I heard similar things about this season, and I just ... don't trust that it's going to happen any time soon. I love the UST, but it's rapidly reaching a point of unrealism. Especially after this year apart thing. JUST HAVE THE BALLS TO DO IT, HH. PLEASE.

I will be so devastated if I'm underwhelmed, and it's a situation where I feel I could easily be so. I've taken on three shows at once to distract myself and hopefully it works to some extent!

[daygloparker]

BECAUSE IT WOULD BE THE GREATEST. Imagine the crisis of surrogate parenting when they ask Booth and Brennan to be godparents.

I hope one of those shows is the collected canons of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes...

[georgley]

I feel like I need to readjust my thinking with this episode because I was so sure that this was it and Booth/Brennan was finally going to happen. To find out that we have to wait is disappointing.

I get Brennan's reason's for leaving and I think she's been struggling since the 100th but I do wish that Booth leaving had been explored more.

I think the Sweets/Daisy thing was because Carla Gallo was in a pilot. It wasn't picked up so I assume that Daisy will be back next season.

[georgley]

Oh, forgot to mention how much I loved the conversation between Brennan and Angela. To hear her basically admit that she is in love with Booth and terrified of it was great.

[daygloparker]

YEEEEESSSSSS. When she mentions how despite what Booth might have said, it FELT like he meant the other thing - holy crap on a cracker, who is this woman except a very changed, almost fully realized Temperance Brennan?! So I kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting for this episode to stop playing chicken with the tension between them and- ...then it didn't? Honestly, if I didn't already read after the fact that they're going hardcore for the time jump (WHICH - THAT'S TOTALLY COOL), I would have out and out expected the cliffhanger resolution to be "five seconds later, they both turn around to run and make out."

Which.

THAT STILL BETTER HAPPEN FIVE SECONDS INTO THE FIRST EPISODE OF SEASON SIX. JUST SAYING.