Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171008010933/@comment-25926288-20171021221947

Meh, I'd try to be an apologist, but that's not me. XD

There are many factors (like the loss of Emma and Hook-prime, the timing and the natural degradation of ratings), but I think those are actually pretty small.

I think how they promoted the show has been bad. I'd even say that season 6-A was promoted better than this one. I'm sure if they stuffed old clips of Elsa and Anna and Jasmine and Aladdin, they'd get more viewers. I'd totally do that (at least with Tiana to some degree).

Before I go on, I think that the ratings would have declined anyway. If we had a soft reboot with the old cast still here, I'd say that we would start a bit higher and declined a little slower, but the reboot part was a necessary thing.

I didn't want to say it due to the "odd" comments I see on social media, but I don't think the idea behind the reboot was strong enough. I also don't think the actors and actresses are strong enough to carry the show. Even with JMO and the old cast, I don't they could do much to uplift the show (just let it die a little slower). If I had any input, I would have made some security by having the strong actors take bigger parts if I could. Robert Carlyle is pretty much in the top brim of the show, yet he gets seen for a couple of seconds here and there. To be fair to the others, I don't think they aren't given the best material to work with either (lol, in the interviews, it didn't seem like anyone knew where the show was going in this season.)

Aside: Having watched Once, Wonderland, Dead of Summer, and this season...I think Adam and Eddy must have switch to slow burn because DOS was like falling off a cliff onto a staircase going up. XD I actually see this season being similar.

I guess if I had an apologist side, Inhumans (inargubaly worse) tanked hardcore. Started at 1.something and it's below Once. Also, Once does decent when factoring Hulu and Netflix and I really don't think ABC really has anything to replace Once with. Perhaps if it's strong enough, they'll give it a half order "next season" while they find a replacement.