Rob, Happy 90th Birthday to your Grandma...and many, many more of them.
Darlene theladyjedi
Thanks, Darlene. I definitely feel like I've been to the Firelight Festival today.
stracciatella and others -- If you get responses from websites that think that there's no point -- let them know politely that that's *exactly* why the campaign exists. Sure, Amy says she wants to do a movie in a year or two and Lauren is deferring to her, but any letup in pressure will ensure that not even *that* happens. By contrast, keeping up pressure when people were saying there was no point is what got Firefly its theatrical movie capper, Serenity. So there's really no point in saying there's no point.
I have no idea how to politiely tell site owners who have given up that all the precedents for reviving a show mean
"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" or "You do it because it's the right thing to do, not because you have a great fear that it won't ever happen."
If you're dissatisfied with the
series season finale, you keep the pressure on to get a real ending to the show, whether it's a finale season or a 2-hour movie or somewhere in-between. If you want it, if you think it should happen, then the odds don't matter -- you go for it anyway. Especially since so many different precedents have been set -- and in some cases, set *often* -- that the odds aren't nearly as bad as they seem. Moreover, Lauren's deferring to Amy IMO should NOT be taken in a way that means that *WE* should defer to Amy. Lauren is deferring to Amy
creatively which to me, sure, fine, we should all take that as a given (not for granted, just as a given) -- we're talking about something else entirely, which is making sure that a real series-capping storyline is told AT ALL. Thus, it makes no sense to defer to Amy in terms of the calendar, not when she's busy with Jezebel James -- so the pressure to get such a finale storyline, a season or a movie or something in-between, falls on the fans to keep demanding it, not on Amy to decide to do it when she feels like it. (Not a knock on Amy herself, it's a knock on the concept of deferring to Amy in terms of timeframe.)
Sets are cheap -- it doesn't take much money relatively speaking to build sets, interiors and exteriors, that take place in the present -- these aren't spaceships or pirate ships or European villas, it's a contemporary New England township. On exterior sets that won't be torn down. On a series in which any revival would only require the rebuilding of about half the sets (if that) that were used in its most recent season simply due to where the storyline was directed anyway. (Because half the sets were going to have been destroyed at the end of the most recent season anyway, cancellation or not).
IOW, the re-start-up costs for set construction and prop construction are minimal at best. Some pieces that have been sold off (such as the Jeep) can be written around, the absence of one prominent character (Sookie, due to Melissa McCarthy getting another series) can be written around. The reluctance of one of the actors involved in the collapse fo the negotiations to return to the show for a revival could be worked around and moreover, incorporated into the direction of any revival due to the very nature of the show's main storylines and relationships. (Among them: Empty Nest Syndrome.)
IOW, sure, it's okay to *doubt* if the show will be revived for a proper finale -- but if you think that the show calls for an actual finale storyline, a story that's actually convincing as a finale, that is clearly from the outset meant unequivocably as a finale, then forget whether or not you think it's *likely* that you'll get it, you go for it because you want it. THAT is why Jericho was renewed and that is the ONLY reason that Jericho was renewed.
OTOH, if those site owners still won't budge, then they should at least come clean that they think that the season finale was accceptable to them as a series finale and therefore risk alienating their own site readerships. Funny thing about that, though, zap2it's TV Gal, Amy Amatangelo, thought that the Gg season finale made a great series finale and *then* she received a LOT of protests from Gg fans and the result was a mention of the petition in her column two weeks ago. I find it interesting and encouraging that she was open to changing her mind when some have given up.
-- Rob
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