I wasn't aware that Bones started getting bad this early. It's still enjoyable enough at this point, but there is a clear decline to the previous two seasons. A lot of the episodes are quite boring and/or transparently preachy, the character side plots feel forced and Booth is especially unbearable now.
Review by FinFanBlockedParentSpoilers2018-08-02T14:21:15Z— updated 2018-08-05T18:13:50Z
The third season of Bones was cut short due to the strike and I think it hurt them. More later. Overall it was still a great year but there where things I did not like. The positives first.
They added another character with Dr Lance Sweets, played by John Francis Daley. At first I found him annoying and not really likeable. I would have loved to have Stephen Fry as Dr. Wyatt as a regular but in retrospect I guess that was a pipedream. Anyway, in the long run Dr Sweets complemented the characters of Booth and Bones rather well and he was kind of the missing part to a pair already there. I hope this is comprehensible.
What else ? Of course there was the first kiss between our main protagonists (look for the extended scene of that kiss, it is on the DVD) and seeing Brennan and Baby Andy was another highlight. After those it was hard finding arguments any longer that there is nothing going on.
So what didn't I like? First the way Max Kennan got off scot-free. Just didn't felt right. And now comes the part where I think the strike hurt the show. Maybe I am reaching but it felt pretty rushed towards the end. That psycho-stalker that shot Booth was a good storyline that felt cut short. Could have been an entire episode with maybe Brennan getting kidnapped or something like that. And that whole thing with the funeral - yeah, right. That was a bit lame.
And the elephant in the room - Gormogon. They underlying plot of season 3. That turned out to be a bit dissapointing. Not because they took Zach to be the apprentice. Fun fact: You can clearly identify him when he kills the guy in his closet. Try going frame by frame. Cleary I did not see this when watching it on TV. No, I think they already knew at the start of that story, that one of the main characters was to be the apprentice. But that whole finale of season 3 was anticlimatic. It resolved too fast. Althought at this point I don't know how, or if, there was further developement of that plot - I just can't remember.
All in all I give this season either a really good 8 or a very weak 9. It is somewhere inbewteen. I had my share of laughs and emotinal moments in this season as well.