I agree that there is a difference this year and not in a good way. There are too many distractions, too many different plots and they all seem far fetched...like last night's episode. Now that one of the distractions is out of the way...their wedding...maybe I will watch it a little longer. What about development of the other characters, like whatever happened to Kevin's wife and baby...and why not let Lanie and Javier get married? Why not a boyfriend for Alexis, or have her be more involved in crime solving? Yeah, I stopped watching "Bones" for this very reason...Plots, all of them, got stale.