If you are in the IMDb page of Austin & Ally you probably have some level of interest in the show, so I'll skip over its good points that you probably already know and move on to where it fell on its face.
The fact of the matter is our generation will not have a lot of good Disney shows to look back at, it's not the modern perception's fault, but it's Disney unwillingness to experiment with new ideas and invest a good amount of budget in an era where TV Shows are made out to be stretched out movies rather than traditional old shows where storytelling was stale and limited by the amount of location and cinematographic intricacy that you can pull off.
Austin & Ally was set to be a classic during its first two seasons, but once one of the "supposed-to-be-interesting" two characters got knocked out of his contract. In the third season, an EP came out with a song called "Take It From The Top" which eluded to a sequence of events leading to Austin Moon's comeback into the music scene, and that in a big way (since he mostly made Pop Rock music, but this differs completely from anything prior) the problem is, they went on with the lead-up to the Music Factory scenario which made absolutely no sense whatsoever and sounded like a shallow excuse/cover-up to exclude Ally's dad out the cast and ON TOP OF THAT, the central piece of the original pitch no longer had any impact on the narrative, nor on the narration in the least bit : Music.
We were supposed to see Ally rise as a brilliant songwriter, and Austin as this great dancer/instrumentalist/vocalist but somehow, they managed to break it which old leads me to believe there was more in store for him until they got a budget cut... it's usually the most plausible for any show trying to lose its way out the airwaves. The problem is, and however unfair it may be, White Collar for example, made sure you got an incredible last season and a splendid ending to compensate for the show's absence, Austin and Ally on the other hand left no impression, and most viewers were probably left with a feeling of dissatisfaction, as if all their years of waiting and anticipation were turned to dust.
Watch the "dream" sequence of the first episode of Season 3 to understand what I mean. It really looks like scrapped footage from the original concept which would've made it less worse than it already is.
The fact of the matter is our generation will not have a lot of good Disney shows to look back at, it's not the modern perception's fault, but it's Disney unwillingness to experiment with new ideas and invest a good amount of budget in an era where TV Shows are made out to be stretched out movies rather than traditional old shows where storytelling was stale and limited by the amount of location and cinematographic intricacy that you can pull off.
Austin & Ally was set to be a classic during its first two seasons, but once one of the "supposed-to-be-interesting" two characters got knocked out of his contract. In the third season, an EP came out with a song called "Take It From The Top" which eluded to a sequence of events leading to Austin Moon's comeback into the music scene, and that in a big way (since he mostly made Pop Rock music, but this differs completely from anything prior) the problem is, they went on with the lead-up to the Music Factory scenario which made absolutely no sense whatsoever and sounded like a shallow excuse/cover-up to exclude Ally's dad out the cast and ON TOP OF THAT, the central piece of the original pitch no longer had any impact on the narrative, nor on the narration in the least bit : Music.
We were supposed to see Ally rise as a brilliant songwriter, and Austin as this great dancer/instrumentalist/vocalist but somehow, they managed to break it which old leads me to believe there was more in store for him until they got a budget cut... it's usually the most plausible for any show trying to lose its way out the airwaves. The problem is, and however unfair it may be, White Collar for example, made sure you got an incredible last season and a splendid ending to compensate for the show's absence, Austin and Ally on the other hand left no impression, and most viewers were probably left with a feeling of dissatisfaction, as if all their years of waiting and anticipation were turned to dust.
Watch the "dream" sequence of the first episode of Season 3 to understand what I mean. It really looks like scrapped footage from the original concept which would've made it less worse than it already is.