I'm posting this more to say, "Hey! I'm still alive!" than anything else right now. The Petition Project FAQ1) The purpose of this FAQ is to provide information necessary to get as many people as possible to sign the Gilmore Girls Season 8 petition at
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/great8mandate and then to promote the petition as far and as wide as possible.
2) "I Want to See More of our Gilmore Girls, but why Should I Sign This Petition? Amy said she wants to do a 2-hour movie in a year or two, so why Should I Support the Campaign For Season 8?"
The answer is an easy one -- just because Amy says she's interested in doing a Gilmore Girls movie in a year or two doesn't mean that it's going to happen. A GILMORE GIRLS MOVIE HAS NOT BEEN GREENLIT and therefore, promises of one mean nothing until contracts are signed and it begins filming. Promises are NOT good enough. We have to campaign and we have to campaign NOW, for as long as it takes for them to SIGN THE CONTRACTS and begin filming anything from a season 8 of 8-to-13 episodes, a 6-hour miniseries Event (a possible compromise I Just Thunk Up) or even that 2-hour movie that IMO wouldn't be enough onscreen time to tie up all the storylines that were left open (perhaps inadvertently) in the
series season finale.
Sure, Lauren soliciting from the GoldDerby.com chat what the fans there would like to see in a 2-hour movie is an encouraging sign, but again, it's still not set in stone -- she's deferring to Amy saying that she's going to do a 2-hour movie "in a year or two." Lauren may believe that Amy does mean to do a movie in a year or two -- maybe we all do, but once people take for granted that it's supposedly going to happen, it doesn't. The naysayers also should be reminded that the Pretender movies were greenlit after the cancellation of the series but before the final episodes aired and the Stargate direct-to-DVD (D2DVD) movies were greenlit after the cancellation of SG-1 but *long* before the final episodes aired (one or two more episodes have yet to be aired and the D2DVD movies were announced 3-4 months ago) and the upcoming Babylon 5 D2DVD movie being released at the end of July is filming a *decade* after the series ended. So NO ONE should take the promise of a movie for granted no matter how much you might trust the persons talking about it. Movie revivals that are greenlit *after* the final episodes have aired -- the Farscape miniseries, the Serenity movie -- happen *because* of relentless continuing fan support for them, period.
3) So sign the petition already at:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/great8mandate4) Circulate the petition and Mandate link through your email lists, ask your friends to sign the petition, Digg it (more below) and then forward it to other friends
5) Post the link everywhere you can -- on other message boards having to do with Gilmore Girls, more general shows having to do with Television, MBs dealing with Women's Issues and Women's Rights, or any MB where you either know that there are a lot of Gg fans (even if it's not even remotely Gg or TV-related). The further away you get from TV-related sites, the more you should please respect the given MBs' policies on Off-Topic Posts. Some of them don't allow it, some of them DO allow it as long as you start the subject header with the abbreviation OT as in "OT: Please sign the “Save Gilmore Girls Petition." Please only post such OT posts where you are sure they'll be welcome when it's a non-TV related MB.
6) Add the petition link and a link to the most current page of this thread to your siggie on ALL message boards you belong to. ESPECIALLY if it's not a Gg or TV-related MB. Even if you haven't started an OT thread on that MB, including a link in your siggie may (and often does) get noticed by someone on the given MB who likes the show and *then* that invites thread drift that is better served by then creating an OT thread on that group. IOW, including the links in your siggie is a great way to test the waters for how discussing the show in that group might or might not be encouraged. Also, even if no discussion may break out, other posters may follow the link anyway.
7) Encourage everyone who has signed or will sign the petition to Digg the site or otherwise recommend it to various social networking/news exchange websites -- the petition includes as a matter of automatic function links to over a dozen of these sites, including Digg. Digg is easy to register for by clicking on the link at the petition, registering and verifying (which is almost instantaneous after filling out the form and clicking on their verification email) and then clicking on the Digg icon on the petition again, sending you to the Digg site, where you'll click "Digg" right underneath the big Digg rating number on the left. Those of you who have already signed the petition and haven't Digged the petition, please do so.
Digging the petition will help to publicize the petition on Digg, which is among the biggest of these sites and
please recommend to other people you know who have signed the petition to go back and Digg it.
There is no 8. That's the point.
9) Do as much recruiting as you can to have as many people as you can sign the petition. The only thing necessary is that the person(s) have their own email address, so you can have as many people in your family sign the petition as you possibly can as long as they have different email addresses. I would *like* to have somewhere around 10,000 signatures by late July, while I'm on vacation to Southern California for Comic-Con. I'm considering delivering the petition in person to at least the three most pertinent offices (Lauren and Alexis's management teams and Dawn Ostroff.)
10) Get them to start posting here at the mandate after they've signed the petition. They may be scared by the length of this thread -- but just tell them to dive right in because
otherwise I rotate reposting of the various FAQs as reasonably often as I can (yes, that's a threat) in between bouts of eyestrain and migraines
and I'd like to stop that.
-- Rob
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Season 8: Because Rory doesn't look good in a tuxedo. Of *course* Logan had to try to get her out of it as soon as possible! Maybe at the vow renewal reception was a *little* too fast, though.
