An alternative perspective

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EDIT: This is a post for people to talk about WHY THEY WILL STILL WATCH. This isn't for people to reinterate sexism, why CBS sucks, etc. Please keep that in consideration!

I want to try something, and I'm sure it might not go over well. Mods...use your powers if you feel it right. But I think we need this here.

There are some of us, while sad AJ is leaving, who aren't going to stop watching the show. We may have thought some of the protests went too far. We may be excited for the change in team chemistry. Basically, we're gonna give it a shot.

We're also afraid that however calm and articulate we are, we'll be seen as flamers or we'll be flamed. I thought this could be the post for those of us who need to get this off our chests. Need to vent in another direction.

Feel free to be anon. I'd urge nobody to slam other fans, just talk about what they hope for season 6, why they aren't going to stop watching, etc. I don't want ANYONE ON ANY SIDE to feel insulted.

Whadda ya think?

EDIT: This is a 'Why I will watch' thread, not yet another place for people to state 'why they won't watch.'

Comments

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First let me say that I love both AJ and Paget and their respective characters, but I love this show as a whole even more. For a while now I've been thinking that the quality of the show was being put in jeopardy simply because of an excess in characters that share roughly the same role. What I mean is you could take the better part of any character's dialogue and interchange it with that of somebody else's and nobody would notice (with the exception of Garcia's dialogue). I'm not sure if I'm explaining this right, but what I mean is that for the most part the dialogue lacks character. It's like the writers went 'one line for him, one line for her, one line for him,....' and so on. For that reason I'm not entirely put off by the fact that there's going to be one less character for now.

I am scared about the new character they have planned - I don't want a one dimensional character like the one from the spin-off. But I was scared about the same things when Elle left -and we ended up with Prentiss - and when Gideon left - and we ended up with Rossi. I think we need to have faith in the writers and the cast. Aside from the spin-off they haven't let us down yet. This is an amazing cast and crew who seems to be exceptionally friendly and accommodating when it comes to their fans and I think we need to remember that this show is also their bread and butter at the moment. I think the remaining cast and crew deserves our continuing support.