[Doogle]

...fortunately I recently took up watching the last eight seasons through library collection.
I never watched originally....but I have noticed the writing seems different, the story lines are not as exciting as the previous 8 seasons...sort of dull to be honest. I’ll watch tonight.

[bgill]

Yeah, they seemed to be doing away with Tony early in the season so I haven’t watched. Definitely didn’t watch the episode with Moo. I will be watching tonight. Extra Special Agent DiNozzo will be missed.

Abby is getting too old for the way out of date goth gig and should have gone into a different fashion direction three seasons ago. Frankly, everyone is showing age.

People complained Bishop wasn’t Ziva but then no one could ever be another Ziva. Bishop’s ok, but the writers should have stuck with the slightly quirky aspects of her character. Instead, she’s just vanilla now.

[PCPOET7]

I am a firm believer in 5-7 seasons. I think the writing suffers after 7 years and would like to see the actors doing something else.

[TomGuy]

the writing seems different, the story lines are not as exciting as the previous 8 seasons

That is a problem with many long-running series. They run out of material and become repetitive.

I was watching an episode of Castle several weeks ago, and wondered -- in how many more episodes will Castle and Becket get kidnapped. [ABC answered that by cancelling Castle.] The same happens with the major characters on Rizolli and Isles. It seems that each major character has to have an episode of them being kidnapped, and 'Jane' has been kidnapped several times. Then, of course, they all seem to have that one old nemesis that recurs.

And how many more ways can Hollywood writers find to display mangled bodies? There are a dozen shows based on that concept.