Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20170317173209/@comment-26159109-20170317222051

Eskaver wrote: I wouldn't say that ratings will be irrelevant because 8, 9, and 10 could somehow come about.

There's the business aspect as well as the story aspect. Snowing aren't ratings grabbers. But no one else is either. Ratings is a hard aspect to discuss as there are many factors. I'm sure we spent an entire episode with Robin before and it didn't tank because there was no Snow, Belle, or otherwise.

I can't see what they'd do with the current cast of characters, especially if they follow the same character wave they do. Emma has accepted everyone and their dog. She and Hook could be vaguely interesting versions of Snowing, but not much more. Et cetera. Best thing in my opinion would be finding away to unpolarize characters and change the "ship" dynamics because they seem to be the demo killer.

Do you really believe that OUAT could hold a steady 0.9 ratings for 3 years? with the condition that most abc shows do worse? That seems very unlikely.

1. Ratings decrease. People always claim that the show reached its floor and then surprise the ratings go lower. OUAT will probably reach 0.7 sometime during 6B.

2. abc won't produce crappy shows forever. Eventually they will find something that sill do better.

3. The actors won't want to do the show forever, JMO has already stated it.