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{Possible spoilers} I quite enjoyed this episode, once I got past the "What's going on?" aspect. The idea of "The Lab" as a night club was a laugh and it was fun seeing all the characters' similarities and differences from their usual roles, especially Grayson "Did I mention he smells like a spring day after the rain?" Borasa as a gang-banger. I got a kick out of the usually buttoned-down Booth walking around half naked or with his shirt open all the time. And Hodgins looked great in that trench coat, talking like some '40s noir novelist. The call-backs to previous plot points was amusing and the music was fun -- who knew Sweets could sing? I wonder who on the production team is a BIG Motley Crue fan? Although it added to the episode, I really want say to those who want to push the Booth/Brennan romance angle, remember "Rhoda?" And "Moonlighting?" Don't mess with a winner!

**Contains Spoilers, if you haven't seen season 3, or all of four**

Gotta admit, I've loved David from the very beginning of Buffy (heck, I even own Valentine), and I think everyone does an amazing job on the show!

Now, to my favorite quote: From Sweets "We are Gormagon! Everyone thinks that I am Gormagon, but that's the name of the band!" Sweets was a popular theory for Gormagon, new, strange, and looked a little like the guy that killed, well the guy in his coat closet (I forgot which one he was).

The rest of the episode? Awesome. It was obviously not real, I didn't need the ending to tell me that. But it was FUN.

After all Booth did have tumor, and did have surgery.

And, it's a great reminder that season 5 is coming!

Fans who are so negative about the season finale are really starting to annoy me. I would've thought that after watching Bones for so long, fans would've learned to "see behind what you see" - analyze the episodes.

While, yes, I did expect something else from the season finale and yes, I did throw a tantrum after the episode was done, but when I calmed down I watched the episode again and came to realize that this was what I wanted.

I began "reading" between the lines and I now understand that Booth's "dream" is Brennan's story. I believe that while Booth was in a coma, Brennan could have been reading her story aloud. So, what she was writing put images in Booth's head and he saw what she wrote, which I think is really beautiful.

About the first scene, some people think it's a "flash forward" - because of the alarm clocks in the two first scenes (one of them is a military clock and the other isn't) - and therefore we were NOT lied to. The scene was real - in the future. If it wasn't a "flash forward", but from Brennan's story it shows that Brennan wants to hear him say that he loves her and she wants to make love to him. That's the huge change she's made within the past four years of knowing Booth.

Now, about the very last scene, when Booth awoke from his coma... Pretty much everyone thinks Booth really has amnesia and they can't think of other scenarios. Hart Hanson says "Booth's problem isn't remember WHO Brennan is, but WHICH Brennan she is." So, come on people! Understand the season finale. Be positive and think of other scenarios in stead of just thinking "oh, great. Booth has amnesia and now we have to wait another four years before they get together" - it ain't so! They going to get together, you just need to have patience! Have faith! Believe in Hart Hanson! He's a terrific writer and he's a genius! If I could write half as good as him, I would be extremely happy!

I absolutely love this episode of Bones. I love how the episode ends with the story being told separately through Bones and her writing and through Booth and his dream.

I loved seeing all the squinterns together! I was especially happy they brought Zach back for this episode, as well as Caroline, Max, and a few other familiar faces!

Although I missed the first few minutes of the season finale, I simply loved every minute I did see. I thought the story was fun, it was great seeing old characters make comebacks, and I literally cried "No!" aloud to the TV when Bones hit the delete button. The last conversation made the whole thing plausible for me, and I think it was wonderful. I am a little worried about that final "Who are you?", but if any group of writers can make it work, it is this group. As for someone who commented that it is David who makes the show work -- this is a tight ensemble. You can't really pluck anyone out without consequences (I still miss Zach) and the chemistry between Brennan and Booth is what makes the show good enough that I watch the same reruns over and over every afternoon on TNT.

I will admit, when I first saw this episode, I hated it. Well, sort of. I hated that we weren't seeing what was going on in the real world and we had to travel a bunny trail in the meantime. But since then, I've seen what happened after, and then I went back to this episode and watched it again. Needless to say, I liked it much better the second time.

Here's the thing: they should have made this an episode in season 5. Had they woken up Booth and done the whole "Booth had a dream he was married to Brennan and got all confused for several weeks" thing without showing us the dream, we would have been wondering: What happened in that dream? Why were the clothes awesome? What is this other life that Booth fell in love with, only to awaken to the sheer disappointment that Brennan is not expressing her undying love for him? By the time we saw the dream episode, we would have been chomping at the bit to find out what happened in coma-world. Which brings me to my main point: This is one of my favorite episodes. As a stand-alone, it has an interesting plot line, a satisfying ending for the mere fact that we know it's one of the characters already introduced, and a love story. We can take this episode by itself and be satisfied with a job well done.

And when we add the context of the real-life Bones situation, we can love it more. It's a window into the heads of our two main characters; Brennan, who wrote the story, clearly pictures another life with the man she loves and what it would be like if she didn't see death every day. Booth, who dreams it, imagines what would happen if he acted on his own feelings and falls in love with the result.

So, maybe you'll hate this episode when you see it at the end of the fourth season, but I suggest that you go back, when all is said and done, and watch it again. See if you don't fall in love with it too.

I have been a fan of Bones since its arrival in 2005 (fan of David Boreanaz since "Buffy" inception). For the season 4 finale, I knew as soon as they mentioned Bones and Booth getting together that it was fantasy, something from Booth's mind while under the knife. And to use the "lost memory" that has been played out thousands of times in season endings - boo to both writers and producers. You should know better. From a long-time fan of David Boreanaz, better come up with a spectacular 5th season, or end it and let him start something else - he's the reason it has lasted as long as it has. With shows based on realistic crime solving writing, nothing is worse than taking it to the "fantasy" realm when fans knows that this would never happen, at least not yet. They did this to another favorite a few years back, "Dark Angel," having the two main characters sleep together in someone's mind (not real) and the show ended in 2 seasons.

This episode was for me easily the best episode of Bones to date. The start was slightly shocking and I instantly presumed that it was after the operation but once he opened the door it was obvious what was going on. There is nothing wrong with a dream episode, as stated in other comments, especially if it is clearly shown to be a dream, as done here. This episode gives us a great insight to how the two would actually act as a couple which is sure to happen in a following series, even though I do have my dough's as to how the will be able to continue the show long after that happens as the anticipation and complex relationship between them is one of the main drawing features. The only thing that was slightly worrying for me was the last line of "who are you" but after watching the trailer for season 5 and what Hart Hanson has said my fears have been quelled. Bring on the next season.

I think this is a great show. I just discovered it in June or July this year. My husband acquired all four seasons and we just finished watching them this past Sunday. Just in time for the new season. Everybody knows Booth and Bones will get together. I want to know if Hodgins and Angela are going to patch things up? This was a great way to end the season. I have a serious love/hate relationship with cliffhangers. I love 'em, but I hate that you always have to wait (forever) for the new season (except this one for me). I have a question though. Was this "story" taken from an earlier episode of "Bones" or did I see this on a different show? I'd swear it was "Bones", but I can't find anything in the episode guide that sounds like this.

I hate a story or movie that is based on a dream or drug induced imaginings. This whole episode made no sense what-so-ever. I felt I wasted 45 minutes of my life trying to understand what is going on. Nothing was going on is the simple truth. No, please don't repeat this trash. I made the same comment about an episode of Terminator that was based on a drug induced dream. When we were kids at school the English teacher told us, never end a story with: "and then I woke up!" Fiction is good, but fiction of fiction is no good at all. I agree it would have been a great idea to enable Bones and Boothe to "get together". But let's make it a real event, not a stupid 4 day "wet" dream!

I probably think about this episode 829 times a day. It is so perfectly done from the voice over story telling, to the setting, to the twist ending. Seeing all of the characters as their alternate universe selves is a blast and the surprise in the end with AU Brennan being pregnant gets me EVERY. TIME. I think the whole dream sequence being a story Brennan is reading to Booth in his coma is a perfect metaphor for their connection. The writers of the show expertly draw out this romance in a slow burn over so many seasons that it is as impressive as it is frustrating. I could live in this alternate universe forever.

P. S. Hi The Bones Booth!

I get what the writers were going for, but it didn't work. It was so odd compared to the way this show typically goes. I got annoyed and didn't pay a ton of attention, but just wanted to see the end to see if it was a Dream state of Booth while in surgery for a brain tumor.

I just re-watched this episode. I couldn't help but laugh at the memory of my younger self watching this for the first time and losing my mind with anger at the blatant bait and switch with Brennan and Booth.

Now older and a lot wiser when I watch this episode I see just how weak it is.

Sure having all the squints play different characters and Brennan and Booth being married is fun. But the plot is VERY week. And bringing Gormogon into it was a cheap plot. As was the 7 min music video at the end.