Three Finales

The Bones season has been over for a couple weeks. At the beginning of the season I was pretty sure that this was would be the last season. Then suddenly about the middle of the middle of the season the episodes were better than they'd been for years, the ratings stayed up and it's surprisingly going to be back. The season finales on Bones, though, are something else. The year to year plot has changed over time, but the finale still basically boils down to someone or something trying to ruin or at least change their personal lives so much that the team will break up. ( Spoilers )

Castle has been uniformly good over the years, but the last few episodes this season have me wondering. Castle has never been bashful about stealing ideas especially ones that have passed through Bones. But generally the writing has been of such a level that it didn't matter much. The second to last episode this year, however was a feeble flashback episode, something that used to be common when a TV season had more episodes and which had thankfully more or less disappeared from TV in recent decades. The finale was pretty strange. ( spoilers )

Arrow's finale thankfully didn't follow the pattern of the other two. I'm not sure whether it was good or just weird. ( Spoilers )