Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20150507113846/@comment-1251315-20150509100713

Omnibender wrote: Don't think that the perceived sudden end of this arc has anything to do with poor reaction. I don't know how long it takes to make an episode, from writing, to animation, and recording, but I certainly don't think it's fast enough for poor reaction to have such an effect on changing the story. I don't agree, ratings play a large part in continuing story lines. If the ratings are lower than what they expected, they'll just rewrite things and end it earlier than normal. It's how TV generally works, they don't just keep continuing something that's losing them money, so this is really just them "cutting their losses" as Jizo said and getting back to the story arc quicker than expected.