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Lady Rapunzel 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. I think it did, since back when the show was announced (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/once-a-time-mad-hatter-423603) they announced that Sebastian Stan would be recast. Based on this article, the plot seems to have undergone a total overhaul. It wasn't even named Once Upon a Time in Wonderland in that article; maybe they decided on the anthology structure with Alice and Cyrus's love story after changing their mind about a Jefferson-focused spin-off. I'd think the Jefferson-focused spin-off would be in the same vein as his Out of the Past comic. In fact, that may be where his Out of the Past comic came from.