CSI_Ali said: Well, if you ask me, Grey's Anatomy isn't a great show. I enjoy it at times, but it's more about over-the-top soapy relationship storylines as opposed to good drama with unique and interesting characters. A show set in a hospital should never focus more on who's hooking up with who as opposed to actual medical mysteries/treatments etc. Sometimes it just feels like an afterthought that they work in a hospital. Really, it's a completely different style to the CSI programming.
Grey's probably won because there's a big buzz about it at the moment. Everywhere on TV is talking about Patrick Dempsey and making everything into a 'Mc'-isms. Buzzes go in fits and starts, eventually it will wear off and go on to something else, and that's when you see if a show can pass the test of time.
I'm not saying shows shouldn't have relationships because it's a very important factor, but you need to have a great balance between it, good characters and what the show is actually about in the forefront (I.E. the forensics). If you want to just do flat out relationship drama, create something like Desperate Housewives. I'd much rather take Gregory House and Gil Grissom over Mc. Steamy, and CSI/House over Grey's any day of the week.
But that's just my opinion, no offence to anybody here who likes it.