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What I expect is the best: Season 5 being the last

What I expect them to do: Ending with Season 7

What they could do with LOST Potential: Season 10.

To me they are likely capable to do whatever they choose. The ratings are stabilizing and are quite low. Ratings don't mean much, but going from like a 3. 4 to a constant 1.7 this season means that it can not sustain a large audience due to its lack of great writing. The acting is great and Once has a sort of established base, but that establish base is small (well, like a few million people, lol) and the CGI may not be as wonderful as ever, so the blame has to be misdirection and writing.

With the suddent drop, it would appear that the solely Frozen fans realized that this wasn't Live action Disney and because it isn't thy left. I always tell the members of the forums "Once =/= Disney (Live Action)" because you'll end up sadly mistaken when you see that though there are nods to it, that's all there will be. Truly, if Once was Live Acction Disney with a slight twist, the ratings would be much higher and there would be more buzz.

The other is the writing. Binge watch Once with a critical lense and pay really close attention to the dialogue and look at the plot structure. It is a bit jarring at times. I never thought the writing was bad or lessser quality until I saw online how people criticized it and I realized they had points. Season 1 writing was grreat, but you can tell that we don't have the same writers. And all them have a particular niche that they fill in. Think of the beauty of Skin Deep and other Season 1 episodes........nice. Take off the shiny acting and costumes and it's done well by Jane Espenson (One of the best writers on Once, if not the best). Now they literally refer back to and reuse dialogue of season one and loop stuff around.

At least post 3a..... 3b  was Alternate Regina, I mean Zelena. Literally taking her lines right out of her mouth. They did things differently, but they also there random surprise twists that reall have gotten old. Every season is surprise relative, surprise villain, Dangerous spell/ Curse/ magical phenomenon, characters looping around.

Well, that was long. Just giving my reasoning behind it ending this next seasson so it doesn't trudge a dead horse across a river of death.