First off, I don't care about ANY pairing one way or the other, but this notion that CSi is suddenly slipping into "soap opera territory" is RIDICULOUS. I watched soap operas as a teenager, so I'm very much aware of what they contain, and what shows up JUST as much in soap operas is family drama. Have all of you forgotten just how much focus Catherine got a couple of years ago, about her daughter, ex-husband, and father? There were two or three episodes in which that WAS the storyline! "Who's my father? Oh no, it's him. Wait, did he kill someone? Uh oh, my ex-husband endangered my child. Wait, where's my child? Is my ex-husband dead?!"
Honestly, you can add up all the subtle little nuances between Grissom and Sara and it doesn't even COMPARE to the personal drama Catherine's gotten. If you want to criticize them for delving into character lives/romances/problems, you're going to have to attack Catherine's massive family drama, Warrick's gambling addiction/marriage storyline and Nick's prostitute drama.
Honestly, what are you guys so upset about? They've had, what, a few hints/subtleties a season? For SIX SEASONS? And now you're upset they're LOOKING at each other? Aside from the X-Files, I can't think of a show that went any SLOWER than this with a romantic attraction. This is NOWHERE near the OC. This is NOWHERE near a soap opera. There's been no sex in SIX SEASONS! No kissing! NOTHING. Soap opera-esqe would have been Sara getting pregnant and not knowing if the father was Grissom or the EMT, then hiding the pregnancy at work, only to have a miscarriage and Grissom cry over losing a baby he knew he never had.
I just cannot understand this vehement attack on PEOPLE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. That happens in EVERY SINGLE TELEVISION SHOW IN EXISTENCE. EVERY ONE. If that's the criteria for being a "soap opera," every CBS, NBC and ABC drama is guilty, guilty, guilty.
Get over it, honestly. If you can't handle people glancing at one another out of attraction, you need to stick to Forensic Files on the Discovery Channel. God forbid people at work actually have, you know, lives, beyond cases?
