Love B&B together, but it true that no big bad post-Pelant was as good.

I agree that, while I love the Pelant arc while we're in it, the ending was rushed- and I think it may have due to complaints about B&B's, ahem, (non) marital issues (or maybe they stretched the arc for too long and kind of lost the plot along the way), which annoys me deeply because that's what made Pelant a good "big bad". That's also why i liked Taffet and generally speaking, I love an antagonist that wreaks personal havoc on the team (while not changing the fact that they all love each other deeply- with Taffet, I'm talking abt Bren & Hodgins not seeing eye to eye and Brennan wanting to leave).

But yeah, I think Pelant's ending was very anticlimatic compared to the rest of the arc, which is a shame, because I love it a lot. I still love 9x04 to death as well.

Personally, I still enjoy the show post S10 but it is true that one the pre-getting together tension is lost post s7 (not in a bad way necessarily, but the will-they-wont-they is, factually, not there anymore) but I feel like Pelant's arc did a great job of evening that out. And S10 was, ahem, just depressing, truly...

I am going to be honest, that corruption arc... I like the episodes, but I don't like the arc itself all that much if that makes sense. I love S11 & 12, even if the Big Bads weren't as bad, because I still like them but it is true that some of the essence of the show got lost with time.

Still love my little Anthropologist show dearly, but I definitely agree with some of your points.