As we've all heard, Warner Bros. and The CW recently announced the cancellation of our Girls. In order to show 'the powers that be' that Gilmore fans are truly dedicated and still stand behind season 8, the Great8Mandate Daisy Campaign was born. Taking a cue from our favorite show, the Daisy Campaign will physically deliver bouquets of daisies to important parties involved in the season 8 decision making process in hopes of changing the season 8 tides.
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Please also go into this campaign with eyes wide open. Meaning, this grand gesture probably won't save our Girls. You probably won't receive any kind of thank you from Dawn, Lauren, or Alexis. This is simply our way of trying to persuade the powers that be. Our way of knowing that we did everything possible to save our favorite show.
No offense to those of you who are organizing this campaign, but campaigns of this kind normally only work if a network has decided to cancel a show because of low ratings. Strong indications of support from dedicated fans can sometimes turn that decision around. However, if it's the network who is willing to save the show but the *actors* aren't willing, then audience support is not a relevant factor.
I love the show and hate to see it go but if the actors have turned down numerous offers to continue and have decided they would rather not go forward, all the audience fervor in the world isn't going to save it.
I think we all need to start dedicating our emotional energy to surviving viewing The Last Episode...
Two points:
1) You are working under a grave misconception. The network cancelled the show, not the actors. The actors rejected the most recent offer that the network gave them, but it was the network that walked away from the table. In Lauren's own words, the network walked away from the negotiating table, "because it got too complicated" for them. In fact, the actors still do want to do the show -- the leads just don't want to kill themselves in doing so. Which, btw, was the exact same reason ASP and DP walked away from the show last year. It's not because they don't want to do it, it's because 12-16 hour workdays are ridonkulous by any standard.
Therefore:
2) Nothing fundamental has really changed. The network cancelled the show, not because of low ratings, but that's entirely beside the point. *As with shows with low ratings,* the network cancelled the show. Shows that get cancelled by the network *can* get revived in one form or another *because they have.* And hey, Gg has a bigger audience than any low-rated show that gets cancelled -- #2 in its target demographics for the timeslot across all the networks, #2 among scripted series overall on the entire CW network. Heck, if series with lower viewerships (Farscape), with far less critical acclaim (Roswell) than Gg can get revived in one form or another, then, heck, reviving a popular show that the actors still want to do, that the actors kept trying to work on a deal with the network for that satisfied everybody's concerns, that should be a snap by comparison with other show-saving campaigns.
As far as ratings go, the ratings for Angel were there, the viewers were there (as they are for Gg) and the WB still cancelled it and for all intents and purposes, lost an incredible amount of trust and overall goodwill with its target audience. The CW and its incarnation as The WB before it has had a history of cancelling shows *even when the actors still want to do it and even when the ratings are still high enough to justify keeping it around.*
Yes, The CW is nothing more than The WB with one different letter in the name -- because UPN had no identity of its own whatsoever, while pretty much everything on the network but ANTM and Smackdown were the types of shows that made The WB's name. Even when, like with Veronica Mars and the urban comedies, they originated on UPN.
What I think happened is that The CW walked away from the negotiation table in frustration, not because a reasonable deal couldn't be made with Lauren and Alexis, that would satisfy everybody, but because they had confused themselves so much by trying to throw so many things at Lauren and Alexis that they went into denial, refusing to accept that Lauren and Alexis's demands were primarily dealing with reasonable working hours (and therefore, more generally, reasonable working conditions). Lauren left the door wide open in Michael's interview for The CW to come back to them with an offer that allowed them to have a life outside of the studio.
Or to be Zen or Occam-y about it, you just don't go on at length about what you want if you don't want it anymore. Jeez, dude, Lauren's about as wordy as I am, what the heck do you think that really says about her desire to keep doing the show? (Don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question.)
Finally, I think you need to accept something about us that you don't really accept as of yet -- Namely, we do, in fact, know and accept that the show has been cancelled. The mission is to get it uncancelled. We know and accept that that's an incredibly hard thing to do.
If you don't think it can be done, that the show can't be saved no matter how much you like it or want it to continue, then I sort of wonder why you're posting here. But if you think that it *can* be done or *should* be done no matter what the odds are, then, welcome! You've come to the right place and it's time for you to step up and take on some of the tasks that need to continue to be done, such as the letter-writing campaign, The Daisy Campaigns (either Heidi's Daisy Campaign to pool resources into the dlivery of one large bouquet or my "Operation: Daisy Duke" geared toward do-it-yourselfers and people who don't have PayPal accounts) and, most importantly, to spread the word of the campaign as far and as wide as possible.
We also need people to contact advertisers, who can pressure the network to stop putting on sucky reality shows as this is the prime time, these days immediately before the Upfronts, where we've got the maximum chance to ask advertisers to use their economic power to make the network rethink its poor scheduling decisions. SOMEBODY needs to tell them for once to do the exact opposite of every single one of their instincts, might as well be us, the advertisers or both that tells them.
BTW, thank you, Ameroo, for sharing with us that Lauren and Alexis received your flowers! Hooray! Pretty Stick por vous!
-- Rob
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