Re: CSI Ratings versus Grey's Anatomy
Wouldn't you consider that as a fact, as it's coming from the showrunner herself?
It is opinion that it has *become* the Grissom and Sara show.
Let me ask you this: what show in TV history has revealed a couple and not had them kiss 19 episodes after it is revealed? Or shown them in bed together? In the shower? In the bath? At a restaurant? On a date?
My point is that they have shown us little glimpses, but those glimpses have never been particularly long or involved scenes. Arguably the most "GSR-centric" scene was the shaving one, and that lasted 25 seconds.
25 seconds out of a 44 minute show.
They don't work together in the episode, and there is only a head-tilt earlier from Sara that in any way implies Grissom, when Warrick asks her about her current choice in men.
A "Grissom and Sara Show" would mean that every episode had some big or at least longer than 25-second clip with them. What it feels like right now, from my perspective, is that they're doing the littlest amount that they can given the fact that they are addressing a relationship between two lead characters.
And I think that the problem with continually arguing that GSR caused the ratings fall, or that it's taking over the show, is that there are so many people here on this board who are against it. And yet... they still watch. Not only that, but another leading theory was that it was only the "younger viewers" who wanted to see GSR, and in actuality it's the younger viewers who turned to GA instead. The older viewers have, for the most part, stayed.
So if the people who really hate it are still watching, and the younger audience that the people who hated it claimed were the only ones interested are NOT watching, doesn't it seem likely that GSR had less to do with it than Grey's? Otherwise, 19-49 numbers should be up compared to 25-54s and the antis should have stopped watching the show.
