(09-17-2017, 10:27 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: I'm on the fence about whether the show lost viewers because it dropped the seasons-long royals arc in favor of the "war on terror" arc, or because that arc led to the show's most corrupt and amoral regular character winning election to public office.In terms of WotW, S1 is certainly my favorite because of the fairytale premise of the show. What followed after that was too generic by comparison and the longer it remained on air, the quality would drop as is typical of TV shows these days. I didn't stop watching simply because I loved the characters. In the later seasons my preference swung heavily away from the WotW stories towards character driven stories but that never fully materialised. I still miss the show.
Either way, the show lost its escapist fantasy quality and began to look too much like the real world.