I watched to the season where they were going to end it a couple years ago. And they had the best viewer #'s ever, so they decided to continue it. So now I feel like they want to ride the show down to the bottom, vs. going out on top. I'm trying to catch back up, but man, it's hard. I just don't enjoy the show much anymore, because it's just the SAME show with slightly different situations. Those characters have hardly changed/grown at all. Like someone else said, the seasons just keep blending together. They'll pull some character from 5 season ago or more & I can't remember what/who they were most of the time, and they've managed to kill off most of the characters I liked.