Though I liked most of the characters it got really stale. Some of it was Bones, the character, never progressing toward more "human." A lot of it was repeating story lines. Given the number of years Bones lasted you'd expect story lines to be reused, but it got really unpleasant for me about season seven. Have a story for the umpteenth time where Bones finally learns some important lesson about dealing with real people, then seems to forget it in the next episode... Get a super-intelligent serial killer, who is always three steps ahead of the team never needing to worry about having enough money for their schemes. Keep bringing them back for more episodes over and over, killing them off when the actor perhaps got a job somewhere else. Then start a new serial killer arc a dozen episodes later... I think it was the beginning of season nine, they killed off Dr. Sweets, which was pretty much the last straw for me. I wasn't even that big a fan of Sweets, but they'd used a plot nearly killing him off in season seven. John Francis Daley wanted to leave to direct a movie? Reassign Sweets to Milwaukee or Portland. Have an episode for a send off for him and Daisy. Not that tough. And given the series lasted three more years they could bring them back for an episode sometime.
You're right about Fillion and Katic hating each other, but the reason seems to have been Fillion's bad verbal behavior between takes, and Katic eventually refusing to put up with it. Having to choose between the two, the suits were always going to pick Fillion. But for the fans it was never going to be one or the other. Either both or none made the only sense. Given that the show went out when it wasn't stale, it was just as well.
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Though I liked most of the characters it got really stale. Some of it was Bones, the character, never progressing toward more "human." A lot of it was repeating story lines. Given the number of years Bones lasted you'd expect story lines to be reused, but it got really unpleasant for me about season seven. Have a story for the umpteenth time where Bones finally learns some important lesson about dealing with real people, then seems to forget it in the next episode... Get a super-intelligent serial killer, who is always three steps ahead of the team never needing to worry about having enough money for their schemes. Keep bringing them back for more episodes over and over, killing them off when the actor perhaps got a job somewhere else. Then start a new serial killer arc a dozen episodes later... I think it was the beginning of season nine, they killed off Dr. Sweets, which was pretty much the last straw for me. I wasn't even that big a fan of Sweets, but they'd used a plot nearly killing him off in season seven. John Francis Daley wanted to leave to direct a movie? Reassign Sweets to Milwaukee or Portland. Have an episode for a send off for him and Daisy. Not that tough. And given the series lasted three more years they could bring them back for an episode sometime.
You're right about Fillion and Katic hating each other, but the reason seems to have been Fillion's bad verbal behavior between takes, and Katic eventually refusing to put up with it. Having to choose between the two, the suits were always going to pick Fillion. But for the fans it was never going to be one or the other. Either both or none made the only sense. Given that the show went out when it wasn't stale, it was just as well.