Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20170317173209/@comment-25926288-20170317223421

Farerb wrote:

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. Nope. Just giving the old hypothetical try. If Once 7 somehow blew the rest out of the waters, it could. Not likely, but it's......yeah, not likely.

1. I don't think Once will go that low. But I'll keep ratings in its thread. It could, but I doubt it.

2. ABC has surprised me on how it hasn't found something to replace Once with. Everything in its spot or around it flops. I'm sure if Once can stay until ABC finds something. It seems 50/50.

3. Well, I'm certain noone wants to stay in the same place forever. That's why in a separate thread, I consider a better approach would separating the next season into its own series which could be a short-lived spinoff rather than treading this worn not-really cash cow.

Most of that's sort of irrelevant to the actors staying. Once's budget seems to be quite high and if their special effects are indicative of it, then they've gotten a better budget for that at least each season. ABC probably will "assert pressure" to decrease main cast and some actors do have other ventures, so I'm sure they coincide.

I see Bobby, Josh, and Ginny going off to do their thing. I see JMo as on the border as Bobby seemed to be a few seasons ago. Lana, Bex, and Colin seem alright and sort of "go with the flow". I think Bex and Emilie should go as well if they aren't given actual substance. Belle has increased prominence, but she's more of a prop for Rumple's story than anything else. Zelena has been reduced to a cameo here and there.

So, I think a short-lived spin-off like thing should occur. Emma, Regina and their extras fade away as others gain dominance. If it fails, well, at least the previous core characters have complete stories and it's no hard end.