I know I'm totally late to a discovery that pretty much everyone here already made, but Season 3 of FTWD is really good!

I started watching during the dreaded Season 4 purely because I loved ADC in The100, found it intriguing at first but increasingly lame and stupid as the season went on (apologies to anyone that loved S4!) and was about to give up on the show, but then I read some discussion here that previous seasons were much better. So I went back to watch and thought S1 was really promising but then fell kinda flat, S2 a bit better but I skipped a bunch, and now I"m four episodes into S3 and damn! the show is really hitting its stride.

Why did they decide on such a big reboot after S3? Were ratings really down or something? I think it would have been so much better to continue with what the show had been building rather than totally changing the characters/tone/direction like they did in S4. I'm curious if the powers that be ever explained that decision...