Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33386384-20180418203852/@comment-10663213-20180418211942

CoolDudeAl wrote: Applegirl wrote: Lady Rapunzel wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: To answer the original question posed, I simply think it was just that not enough viewers decided to give this show a chance. Spin-offs already deal with the fact that most of the people who watch them are viewers of the main show, so it was always going to be less people than the amount of viewers for Season 3. On top of that, the show had a bit of a slow start, so by the time we got to the really interesting parts of the show, many viewers had already stopped watching. Sad but true. Do you think the fact that they gave up on recasting Mad Hatter/Jefferson and decided to follow the project without the character changed anything? I'm unsure if Sebastian Stan's unavailability to reprise his OUAT character played a part in whether his character was included in the spinoff or not. In the first episode, Alice and Will go to the Mad Hatter's house but the house was already abandoned, which seemed to give the impression he was gone because the first curse already took him to Storybrooke, so he wouldn't be in Wonderland anyway if that's the timeline the writers were going for. Yep, this is a good point too. If you keep the plot the same, unless Jefferson comes back to Wonderland with Grace (which given his wife died there, why would he?), Jefferson would only show up in certain FBs anyway. He would neither have the Knave and the Rabbit's roles, or be a Rumple-like character