Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20150507113846/@comment-26372958-20150509110251

SuperSajuuk: 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.

If they only wanted high ratings, they would never make filler arcs and just go on hiatus instead. But the reason they made this arc was to make money, so cutting the arc short doesn't make any sense as they would only loose out on making $$$.