“Save Jericho” Petition

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There’s an online petition against the turning down of “Jericho”, CBS’s post-nuclear television drama:<blockquote>To: Sci-Fi Channel

This petition is to the Executives of the Sci-Fi Channel. It is here to protest to the Executives that it will increase there profits by picking up Jericho and increase their ratings!

Sincerely,
The Undersigned</blockquote>So, if you like Jericho and would like to see it back, go there and write your name down.

Link: Sci-Fi Channel to pick up Jericho Petition
 
Wow, a new petition... again. Is it possible, that Jericho is the serie with the most "don't cancle it!!1" petitions? Firefly should have to be rescued like that.
 
C'mon guys, it's not like they're raping a long extablished series or something...
 
The longer this crappy show continue to exist, the more of a retroactive insult to the likes of Firefly (and even to Daybreak and Threshold) it becomes in my eyes. I can't help it.
 
Lexx said:
Wow, a new petition... again. Is it possible, that Jericho is the serie with the most "don't cancle it!!1" petitions? Firefly should have to be rescued like that.
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Indeed. But the quality seems to have been too high.
 
To: Sci-Fi Channel

This petition is to the Executives of the Sci-Fi Channel. It is here to protest to the Executives that it will increase there profits by picking up Jericho and increase their ratings!

Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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They've got a barely 30 word petition with a spelling error in it. Shows great dedication and care.

Plus super wording and totally compeling arguments with totally non-childish reasoning .
 
generalissimofurioso said:
Neamos said:
Has there ever been a online petition that accomplished something?
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Hell no.
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[url=http://www.videobusiness.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6517163 said:
this place[/url]]Ross hopes to keep satisfying consumer demand through 2008 with the release of Duckman, a cult ’90s animated program. An online petition for the series’ DVD bow has garnered more than 7,000 signatures.
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All the news I've seen about this DVD release includes the "7.000 signatures OMG" thing, so that has to be some accomplishment from the 'shitty online-petition' community. (If it's ever released, that is.)

Anyway, didn't Jericho just return? They're shutting it down already?
 
I've never watched the show, but I've seen this done before.

The Farscape show was cut short at a bad time, and the fans got them to do a miniseries. Guess what they do? They mess it up again by killing off Dargo. At this point, I think the fans got a clue that the show's producers were just messing with them all along, to get them to help in getting their show some more time.

As for Jericho, maybe too much blame is being put on Sci-Fi. The show's creators should just suck it up and make an ending already. One they think the fans will like the best. Usually though, they just treat their fans like crap and give them an ending that's like, "What? They killed him/her off?.."

Of course I realize that not all shows are bad to kill off characters just because the actor can't continue to stay with the show...
 
I thought Jericho started out terribly, with way to much character interaction rubbish (post apocalyptic dawsons creek). The 7 episodes of the second season have been good I think, even though it's not really as much about survival as I would like.

If it continues at the same pace, then I would definetely like to see it return.
 
I only watched 4 episodes of the new season, and although good, it no longer feels post apocalyptic. All the conspiracies and 24 inspired whispering doesn't interest me.
 
Maybe they want to cancel it because it was too crappy compared to typical soap opera? You know, get rid of that "nuclear war" crap which didn't allow too many character flips?
 
What If ...

What If ...


'60's sort of phrase:
"What If they declared a war and nobody came."

Consider this:
"What if they aired a show, and nobody watched."

Well not until the DVD's came out, maybe.

I'm not talking about a ban on TV programing.

An Anti-Petition.

Just let "them" know - we - aren't watching TV Senior, on TV Junior --this internet.

Interesting turn of the petition venue.

Suppose shows X,Y,and Z are entertainment we care about.
X,Y,and Z can not perform the earth gravitational escape velocity that all smart money parameters demand. No showing of shows X,Y,and Z.

No show of X,Y, and Z doesn't mean we watch less TV, but that we watch NO TV.

No hooks to get us to show up.

They can try to follow us here and wave lures, but we know if a show has potential, it will most likely die in the traces, canceled in mid season.

'60's example, third season of Star Trek never finished.
I got to watch a documentary of local hero Douglas Mac Arthur so channel could squeeze more out of commercials. Yaahy, already saw it in school, yaahy reruns in prime time FTW.

TV past and future:
"What if they aired a show, and nobody watched."

Then really true, 999 channels and NOTHING is on ...

Now back to the inter-web, which is already in progress ...



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generalissimofurioso said:
Neamos said:
Has there ever been a online petition that accomplished something?
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Hell no.
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Yeah, plenty of times.

It just depends what you're asking. The ones that have a success are those acting for a DVD release of [cult series], because that's cheap to do and interesting to do if you know there's some interest.

Asking a studio to pick back up an expensive series that wasn't making them any money is tougher to do.
 
The last episide that played up here in Canada was touted as the "series finale" and it did a pretty good job of it. The story was all wrapped up, the characters found resolution, etc. There's really no need for it to continue. If they did anything else, it would be more spin off than anything else. It's done, and in my opinion, it ended well, what more do the people who started this petition want?
 
Wait a minute, Season 2 was only seven episodes long? Goddamnit. I left off at S2E5 a couple weeks ago; I thought that there would be plenty more coming.

I'll agree with the Dawson's Creek/24 analogies - but it was still a hell of a lot better than most of the pap on television. Maybe if they'd had the balls to really dig into some issues (instead of playing the polite, safe, middle-road on anything political or religious) it would have done better.

Meh. I'm not going to sign a petition if it has spelling errors; I'll just buy the DVDs.

EDIT: A spelling error, and bad syntax, too. Go team.
 
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