I'll just get right to it

So, this is basically a blog for me to rant/celebrate/be nerdy about my favorite TV-shows, websites, books, artists and so on and so forth. But today I thought I'd start with a rant. It will probably not be the last, so if you mind people ranting, you should probably leave now. This rant has actually been building up inside me for the last couple of weeks, or since some of my favorite shows went back on air. This is actually what I've been asking myself since then, with almost every episode:

Why is it that all my favorite crime solving series are turning into soap operas?
Like, siriusly. The prime example of this is Bones, which is very sad as it's one of my favorites when it comes to these type of shows. But Criminal Minds is an offender, too, and House to an extent, when though it pulls it of much, much better than the other. (And yes, I do count House as a crime solving drama, because it's the same premise, only the bad guy is some decease. Compare House to other Hospital shows, like Grey's Anatomy or Scrubs, and you'll see that you can't bundle them up together, just because they have a common setting.)

But back to what I was saying, since when did the relationships of these shows become more important than the actual crimes? Since when is it acceptable to have a lousy plot, as long as you throw in as much fluff as possible? Well, for Bones it started in beginning of the third season, got better towards the middle and is now getting worse again. I have another theory on that, but that's for another day (perhaps tomorrow).
Maybe I should explain myself, I feel I haven't really done that. What is it that I'm so mad about? It's the fact that in most of my favorite shows that should be about good guys catching bad guys, interesting mysteries and surprising plots, have lately revolved around one thing, and one thing only, making the other aspects of the show suffer. And that thing is relationships. More specifically of the romantic kind. I'll use Bones as an example. In season one, it was all good. There was an obvious connection between Booth and Brennan, but there was still a focus on the crime solving. In season two, their relationship developed, and got a little more screen time, an a new couple was introduced, namely Angela and Hodgins. But it was a good balance, most of the time. In season three, there was Gormogon arc, admittedly, but besides from those episode, and especially those in the end of the season, the cases where bad. They didn't get enough attention, and therefore felt rushed. And what's more Brennan began using all that time she previously spent in the lab, with Booth! Meaning more fluffy romance shots, and less and less actual science used in solving the cases. I might be over-reacting here, but you know since it's the entire premis of the show, I'm thinking she should at least focus a little bit on it. And then there's season four. My my. Where to start? None of the episodes where any good, except maybe for 405 (but that's mainly because Zach returned, disproving my suspicions that they made Zach into Gormogon just to get rid of him). Season four just took everything I disliked about season three (too much romance, rushed cases, not enough science to solve the cases...) and made it more so. And I'm really hoping they'll turn it around, but as the same time I'm a pessimist, so I'm sort of thinking that thet won't.

It's not that I don't like romance. And I mean that. I watch Grey's Anatomy for crying out loud. I'm a rabid shipper. I like both Angela/Hodgins and Booth/Brennan. But it's just too much of it now, and it makes those moments that I used to love, the fluffy romantic moments, it makes them worth less. Bones would be no fun without these relationships. But I miss the really good plots. And the non-romantical relationships. You can't just take everything the fans like and put is together, that doesn't make a good show. Balance does.