Talk:Red Sky at Morning/@comment-219.90.94.30-20160421084742/@comment-26247132-20160425203007

Again, it comes back to bad writing. In comparison to S1 and S2, S3 episodes are identical in quality to the first four episodes of S1, the ones most people hate. Some people liked them, sure, but it wasn't until the storytelling significantly improved around 1x04/1x05 that people started paying attention. Now, the writing has reverted to cliched, overused tropes again and those same people have stopped paying attention, hence the steep decline in ratings.

No amount of phenomenal acting or directing can make up for bad writing.