Members bellcurve Posted July 4, 2010 Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 Not a New Yorker, but +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted July 4, 2010 Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 Bellcurve eloquently said so much of what I think and better than I ever could so I'm going to address only a few of these. You're right that fan campaigns have done a lot for a number of shows but these are different situations. The Facebook group to bring Betty White to SNL had more than 500,000 members and FB is a small segment of the viewing audience. Now compare that to the number of real live people who watch soaps. As for Friday Night Lights, I was up to my neck in the Save FNL campaign. Do you have any idea what those people did? The main goal was to show NBC that economic power of the FNL viewing audience. There was a website where you could donate money to send mini footballs to NBC (close to 20,000 of them), but on top of that money was collected to purchase and donate copies of the S1 DVD to the USO to send to troops overseas and money was raised for a number of charities for people dealing with paralysis and also to help pay for the medical and, unfortunately, funeral bills for the real person that the FNL character of Jason Street was modeled on. That fan campaign was run like a business with specific goals, objectives, and tactics and guess what? Not one rally. On to your question, "This is a soap opera board. Why are you so hostile to soaps?" I'm not hostile to soaps, (well only one) but I think that the reason the genre is in such poor shape is because old soaps haven't been allowed to die and be replaced by new soaps. The best news I've heard for soaps in years is the launch of Proper Manors Bottom line, do what you feel you must but it isn't just the suits you need to convince. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted July 4, 2010 Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 I fail to see how a mass of people standing in the streets with shirts and signs is going to compel a business to reverse a huge decision that was made months ago. No offense, but I just don't get it. I saw video from the last rally. Not many people showed up and half the people there were just standing, looking around, looking absolutely frightened. I don't think there's anything that's gonna save the soaps as we know them now, but where was all this outrage when the ratings started to plummet and TPTB resorted to outrageous choices to try to capture a different audience? FNL was never canceled. And a bunch of adults sending bars and bars of soaps to a place of business isn't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ann_SS Posted July 4, 2010 Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 LOL! I think that they were sending powdered soap also which is why CBS thinking anthrax called the FBI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darn Posted July 4, 2010 Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 bellcurve, I'm not gonna quote your entire post (because it's [!@#$%^&*] obnoxious when people do that) but +1 (this too is obnoxious). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted July 4, 2010 Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 If they were actually being replaced with something good it would improve daytime. Being canceled for a soulless and cheap update of LMAD, or Emeril Lagasse, on the other hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Oh, I guess powdered soap is less expensive. Still! I don't have the money to be doing stuff like that. No indeed. If the networks can't respond to a mass of well-written, thought-out, eloquent letters, then I have no desire to do business with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 +1 LMAD is pure s h i t trash of a show!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bellcurve Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 [Judge Judy]Let's not play with each other.[/Judge Judy] Douglas Marland could come back from the dead and create the next boon to the art of soap opera and you would still be saying that. Deal is awful, I completely agree. But you would be saying that about anything that replaces ATWT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MoTheGreat Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 I can't save soaps, who aren't putting in the effect to save themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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