Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26443838-20150603124705/@comment-1916997-20150926043016

Eskaver wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Eskaver wrote: NickyHelp wrote: Eskaver wrote: Yes, because clearly Adam and Eddy can thrive on another channel and have coporate sway.

Once is like a slowly sinking ship that depends on the Dsiney connection to thrive.

Shondaland has more sway then Once will have. I meamn, Grey's Anantomy is still on for it's 100th season. That is their cash cow.

Once is more of a fickle balance. If an actor leaves or changes on Once (One of the main ones) then it would all fall apart. Like on Grey, if Hook randomly fell down a well and drowned, I don't see Once staying afloat after that major disturbance.

Once is a low class cash cow compared to Grey.

If ABC wants to cancel Once (which probably won't happen since they don't have anything to replace it with), then that would likely be it for the show. What do you mean by saying " if Hook randomly fell down a well and drowned, I don't see Once staying afloat after that major disturbance"? I mean that Once has a delicate balance (and for some reason you are really hoping Hook dies or something). Nothing more. If there is a major character writeoff, like what happened on Grey's Anatomy, Once wouldn't be able to handle that as werll as Grey's Anatomy. GA is still going strong with a slight decrease, while Once is like maybe half causal, half fandom and then a big chunk of fandom is attached to each character. Once is like a little kid to Grey (11 seasons) and which has more sway.....obviously it would be GA and not Once. Grey's Anatomy has been losing viewers for a long time now. And many people who still watch it were not happy to see their Mer-Der ship go down in (gasoline fueled) flames. I have a feeling this season of Grey's many be its last. But Grey is a slowly dying cash cow. It'll stay for probably a few more seasons, I bet. And as I presented, Grey decide to make a huge move, but I think it won't kill there show, whereas killing of a major character (of a ship) would cripple Once.

Grey has maybe 3 more seasons in at least. I won't be surprised if it goes to 15 seasons. Once.....I love it more than anything and I want it to go for just as long, but I doubt it will. And if so, it would become stagnant. They can only repeat certain plot points a number of times. What next? Another curse? More Amnesia? More randomly powerful witches? Surprise family twist? Emma accepting something? This will only be tolerate for so long before the audience gets tired.

So, Once has 7 seasons in them and maybe even up to 10, if they really stretch it. However, will they get there smoothly......I doubt it. Frozen awas their chance at bringing in a lot of viewers. If Once kept those Season 4 premiere numbers then Once could go on for those ten seasons just fine.But looking at the Wikipedia page with the ratings, it is going down each season (part is TV Viewership) and unlike Lost, Once has like half the viewers but like twice the fragileness. Actually, Once will most likely surpass Lost in episode count, so I would argue it is less fragile that Lost. At the end of this season (if we include the 13 Wonderland episodes) it will be past the number of episodes that Lost had. Lost also never seemed like it knew where it wanted to go, whereas I believe Adam and Eddy know where they want their main characters to end up (as they have stated before). Finally, every show loses viewers the longer it goes on, that isn't a Once problem so much as a people don't stick with serialized things problem. And the problem with serialized things is that once you have fallen behind, you have to play catch up, to understand what is going on.