lol you seem to be forgetting that both Paget and AJ, who were both LOVED in for about 5 seasons, where unceremoniously axed for budgetary reasons. Their situations were not, like Nichols, a case of "well ppl didn't like their characters so they got cut, that's just the way it is".

People loved their characters as much as anyone else's. By your logic, if they were going to cut the characters who were the least loved in season 5, Rossi would have got the cut. What your saying is such bullshit.