Board Thread:Show-Related Questions/@comment-26883549-20171206234802/@comment-13022928-20171215013056

Bonkinhead wrote: JCB95 wrote: You have to wait until season 5 is halfway over. Honestly with the way ratings are it doesn't look good. Since season 5 saw the ratings drop below 100 million viewers, this season would have to draw in a bunch of viewers to save the show. They could keep going, and milk the show until it's dry, but the show would inevitably suffer. First off due to low ratings, the budget would be cut. This means that episodes would be poorly directed, and also cast members would probably have to be let go. If the budget is cut then there won't be enough to pay all the actors, and the main cast would suffer first. This will cause some favorites to be let go first. This could be a reason why there are hints of Octavia possibility dying this season.

I'll say the show is good, but it could be better but 4 going on 5 seasons I don't see it getting better. What the show should have done is expand the world. Don't bring in another spaceship full of prisoners cause that's too repetitive. What they should have done is show other survivors other than the grounders, and scrap the new prisoners. Why did the ratings go down? Did season 3 or 4 affect the series? I thought 4 was great.

I don't think they'll expand the world. I think the Prisoners is a good idea. We get to see more factions with high level technology. The Grounders and Sky People will have to integrate and that'll be interesting. Season 5 will have a lot of mysteries unraveled. Seems like this season will be the battle for who will rebuild society. I don't see them going to other planets in the solar system though but I would like to seem them go beyond the Eastern USA. Why not go to destoryed cities and rebuild? (if there are any left) Season 3 definitely caused the ratings to tank due to a lot of people not liking the ALIE story arc. Also due to the death of Lexa which is ridiculous in my opinion. Season 4 was definitely an improvement, but it didn't do enough due to the fact that ratings plummeted and were below 1 million for the season finale.

I really don't like the idea of the prison ship survivors because it's just recycling the original idea of the show. Survivors from space return to what they think is an unintended earth. They realize that there are survivors and end up at war with the survivors. It's almost the exact same plot of season 1.

I agree though about the traveling to other plants I really don't like that idea keep the show on earth.

The idea of traveling to old cities contradicts your thoughts on them not expanding the world. If they travel to old cities they are expanding the world. I think I'd be cool if we saw survivors living in the ruins of fallen cities. Having established a settlement right in the middle of an old city.