synchronous code fails with .only

willFail.js

var chai = require('chai');
var expect = chai.expect;

describe('Landing Page', function() {
  beforeEach(function () {
    browser.url('http://webdriver.io.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/');
  });

  it.only('should have the right title', function () {
    var title = browser.getTitle();
    console.log(title); // returns { state: 'pending' }
  });
});

willPass.js

var chai = require('chai');
var expect = chai.expect;

describe('Landing Page', function() {
  beforeEach(function () {
    browser.url('http://webdriver.io.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/');
  });

  it('should have the right title', function () {
    var title = browser.getTitle();
    console.log(title); // returns 'WebdriverIO - Selenium 2.0 javascript bindings for nodejs'
  });
});