CBS Must Have Lost Their Writer's

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Anyone else ticked off about the CBS finales? After about 7 years away, I was lured back to TV with CSI then CSI Miami, CSI NY, NCIS and ended up adding Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Without a Trace.

We suffered through the writer's strike, watching reruns of last season over and over. We finally got a shortened season and what did we get for our suffering? To begin with some really crappy jump the shark type writing on CSI. The whole Grissom/Sarah has sucked from the beginning. I watch these shows to see a mystery, to be intrigued by interesting forensics and clues and then to find out who did it. I could care less about the detectives except that I do like them and kind of want them to stay around but I am not big on wanting to know their personal lives. Sort of like Poirot, it is nice to have a few quirks added in but I don't want to see a love life evolve. Stick to the story you are there to tell. (Talk about jumping the shark, a few years ago the opening love scene with panting and popping neck veins on Without a Trace was way too much.)

Anyway, over the last week I have suddenly been sucked back to the 80's and will be walking around all summer saying "who shot J.R.?" I don't watch any of the ABC shows because I refuse to be held hostage by continuing story type soap operas. Lost and Desperate Housewives are nothing more than soap operas with faster writers than the daytime series. Evidently the CBS writers hung out with the ABC writers and ended their seasons with cliffhangers. The only other possibility is they forgot how to write an ending. Either way I resent being the butt of their tired tricks to substitute a lack of skills or a lack of negotiated contracts with no endings to the shows.

So over it.........