User blog comment:UltimateGambit/Recency Bias or Recency Discrimination?/@comment-1150435-20141101061409

Well you have to look at it this way, if viewers set their expectations low for a season, that give the season a chance to get better. You don't want to set high expectations for a season and then be utterly disappointed. It give a new season the benefit of the doubt to be good.