Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20150928170914/@comment-25926288-20150929125619

Nakis91 wrote: After all this promo :(  The thing is, after a very mediocre Season 3 and an ok Season 4, they might have lost a lot of viewers for Season 5, which so far looks tons better than the last two.  Well, the way you stated it is sort of inaccurate in a way. Season 3 was great and Season 4 was medocre. Not really of my slight bias, but Season 4 had a slight lead because of Frozen but it lost a good chunk after the 4a premiere and dwindeld down all the way thhru consistent 1.7s in 4b.

Writing down all the ratings for season 3 and 4, 4 had an early boost due to Froaen and so you could say the Disney pandering worked but it actually went like this : 4a (avg=2.6) ratings above 3a (avg=2.2) ratings, 3b(avg=2.2) ratings above 4b (avg=1.9). So, Season 3 overall stayed consistent, but season 4 experinced a significant drop. Even more saying is that season 3's range was 1.7 to 2.6 (premiere being the highest) while season 4's range was 1.6 to 3.7 (premiere being the highest).

At the end, season 4 "faired better" in terms of overall average, but it also experienced the largest drop of the demo. But also, Once's typically highest ratings recently for each season was the premiere episode of each season. So, fans might worry about season 5, but I say don't worry because season 5 will likely go the route of season 3 and stay consistent (lower, but consistent) rather than take a plummet like season 4. That will be because of not so much Disney pandering ala Frozen.

So, I expect that this premiere might have been a bit skewed since they spoiled like a fraction of the show with sneak peeks and then some more in that leaked article and then even more since the episode, I believe was leaked, but that wouldn't cause too much change.

So, we'll see how it goes! (Funny tidbit: After every Ariel appearance the ratings when on a downer, lol, but in season 4 it was the opposite, but then again she wasn't advertised to be there XD, not blaming her though).