Bones fall finale

This article is the beginning of my television reviewing career. After much deliberating over whether I am going to write this article - lots of info crammed into one episode - my desire to write it has won over.

I have rarely been disappointed with an episode of Bones which airs on Tuesdays on Fox and Global. The fall finale was no exception. Aside from ending the season a little early (writers' strike?), the Christmas themed final show had all the usual witty banter, interesting plot and funny flirtations we've come to expect and love. The Booth Bones kiss arrives albeit disguised as blackmail; and Bones finally gets to spend Christmas with her father and brother however crisis provoking.

The episode opens with a dead santa found by department store elves and the rest of the show has the Jeffersonian team trying to solve the crime of who killed Santa and speculating whether the dead body is the real Santa, because in true Bones spirit, all the evidence leads the squints to believe that he might be the real Santa: Jack finds touches of clay residue (Santa smokes a clay pipe), Cam discovers his legal name to be Christopher Kringle.

Bones and Booth discuss the Santa myth in both anthropological and sentimental ways while following their leads which lead them first to a toy store which has Booth very excited and squealing with delight; the scene is very festive and counterbalances their cynicism which has cut into Booth's usual belief in Christmas (Rebecca, his ex-wife, has Parker for the holiday), and
Bones's father and brother are in jail - she usually goes somewhere with lots of new skeletons, this year it's supposed to be Peru to examine a new pyramid.

Meanwhile, Tempe's dad wants them all to spend Christmas together which provokes a bit of a crisis for Bones and a challenge. But a solution is found: ask Caroline if she can arrange a conjugal visit trailor for them. She will on one condition: Bones and Booth have to kiss under the mistletoe. Why? Bones asks. Because it will amuse me, Caroline replies. Because I am feeling puckish, she continues. It was amusing. We've been waiting for this kiss and the writers came up with a way to make them kiss without killing the romantic suspence just yet - we still have questions whether these two are going to get together - although it is clear they care for each other. Naturally, they act awkward after the smooch - all, I've got this to do, I've got that to do.

The evidence leads them to a Santa temp agency where they must dust the Santas' bells and sniff their butts which leads Booth to declare that it is officially the worst Christmas ever. A bad Santa is apprehended and is surrounded by a gang of jolly men ominously singing Santa Claus is Coming To Town.

Parker finds his way to the FBI and Booth gets to spend Christmas with him and Bones spends it with her family in the trailor. Parker and Booth light up a tree for her outside the trailor.
It ends with them smiling at each other.

Tis the season!