Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20150928170914/@comment-25926288-20150929133659

Farerb wrote: Eskaver wrote: 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). I agree, season 3's rating were good, I actually thought the show will continue till season 7 back then. Not so much now.

What people don't get is that Frozen was actually one of the reasons the ratings decreased long term. It can be seen either way. It can be seen that Frozen gave a boost in ratings or the way you presented. Going over the demos (yeah, I wrote them all down). I would say that you can really argue that Frozen did provide a boost as 4a was better than all of season 3, except towards the end. 4b is the the place where it reutrned to normal levels and then dropped. So, you can blame Frozen for the massive drop, but also thanks it for boosting the average.

You could also just blame the pretty much least favorite season 4b for the drop in ratings. However, 4b ended higher than it began after a period of the lowest ratings ever. So, it sort of did good in that department, but then again who wouldn't have fun with the season 4 finale.

With season 5a starting so low, I don't there is any more cause than that it was just unlucky. It could follow 4b's schtik of ending higher than it started. It stil is higher than 4x16-4x20 which was the Great Depression of Once's demo. If it really does or did get adjusted by a point, then it would be better than pretty much all of 4b (minus the first two and last two epsiodes).

Hopefully with the upcoming episodes, it increases and the premiere was an anomaly. I'll wait and see next week's episode. According to stats, it atmost decrease by a point or remain the same. That is the trend for the second episode for 3a, 3b and 4b.