As someone who has watched the show since day one (when it was on Fridays at 9 p.m. after the remake of "The Fugitive") and never missed an episode, it is a big loss to the show. He was the glue that held the show together and it will take a while for the show to recover.
But, I am not going to jump ship and stop watching. Why? Because of the way they handled Grissom's exit. On most other shows they come up with some lame reason for a character to leave (or die) or just not explain it at all. The producers made sure to make the first part of this season all about Grissom and building toward his exit.
The producers might have planned the exit for a couple of months, but if you look at the entire run of the show the exit for the character has been building since episode one.
- Remember in the pilot, the brand new Crime Scene Investigator Holly Gribbs was murdered on her first case. Grissom had to deal with that.
- Nick Stokes was kidnapped and buried alive, while Grissom tried to save him.
- Sarah Sidle (Grissom's girlfriend) kidnapped and left for dead.
- Warrick Brown murdered, Grissom always looked out for Brown (even saving his job a couple of times.).
- Greg Sanders, who almost died twice. Once beaten by a gang of thugs and the other time blown up in the lab.
- A "relationship" of sorts with Lady Heather, a dominatrix, who Grissom had a connection with. For many episodes he had to help her through some really horrible things.
- Murders who became his arch-nemesises of sorts and proved to be on the same level or higher than Grissom. Good examples include "The Wet Paint Killer," Paul Millander (who fooled Grissom in the pilot episode and two more after that.) and, of course, the "Minature Killer" who was responsible for Sidel's kidnapping and lasted 10 episodes!!
Now if all that crap happened to you in your current job, you would have left too! Probably after the first couple. So it makes a lot of sense.
And... SPOILER SPACE!
Grissom got a happy ending with Sarah.
Perfect.
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