It's (going to be) freaking BIG

[roxybisquaint]

Emails, letters, postcards... Have we made an impact? Are we getting through to Warner Brothers? Are they hearing the united voice of the fans crying out for more Sarah Connor Chronicles? Maybe, but we think it's time to up our game. We think its time to show Warner Brothers that we mean business:

 

We don't have a finished design yet, but we'll be working off this basic concept.

I know what you're thinking. I may not know how you think, but I know what you're thinking about right now. A mobile billboard?! That's got to be expensive! Indeed it is, but not very expensive at all if everyone chips in. All we need is $3500 and surely there are enough true TSCC fans to make it happen. You think I'm kidding? Nope. You think I'm crazy? Could be. But what better way to tell Warner Brothers we want more TSCC than to send a mobile billboard to their headquarters?

Will you join us? Details and a PayPal Donation widget can be found at SaveTheSCC.com. You can also contribute to this fund from right here, right now. And by the way, that widget will be available in my profile until we reach our goal.

Comments

[roxybisquaint.livejournal.com]

Nah. Considering it takes almost $3million to produce a single episode, we wouldn't even make a dent in one. And then what would we do with the money? Hand it to WB? Refund it to everyone because we'd made our point?

[bobmacpharson.livejournal.com]

I specified "pledge" for a reason, although I didn't make it very clear what I meant. What I DID mean was that everyone puts their name, email, and the amount of money they're willing to donate. The money only gets donated if the target threshold is reached.

At this point I'm happy with a 4 episode miniseries or DVD movie. If they were to do that, and rely entirely on DVD sales, they'd only get a few dollars in actual profit per DVD, which means literally 12 million people need to buy one for it to turn a profit. If people donated $20 each, the number of drops down to 600,000 people. Which is still unfeasible, BUT I don't think it's necessary for us to pay for the entire budget, merely for enough of a chunk of it to demonstrate seriousness. If someone had attempted this right after the season finale when the most people were excited, I think a reachable target number of fans would have been about 20,000 people. Assume a medium donation of $20 (I spent $80 on the DVD pre-order and iTunes Season, I suspect $20 is reasonable), then we could have gotten a total of $400,000. And seriously, which do you think is more likely to impress WB - A truck driving around or a check for 400,000 dollars? The check represents not only 20,000 devoted fans but loads more people who are likely to be willing to buy the DVD or watch it on Hulu.

Unfortunately I honestly think it's too late even for that. A lot of fans (like me) have already felt like we've put in a crazy amount of effort that amounted to nothing. But if I were to continue the fight, in would only be in a battle I honestly thought had a shot of accomplishing something.

[roxybisquaint.livejournal.com]

Ah well, I'm sorry you're not excited about this one. I'm way excited. I also think we still have a shot at more TSCC. The DVD doesn't come out until Sept 22, so I'm using that as a marker. If it sales are mediocre then I think our chances may be done. If it sell really well, then WB than all the efforts the fans are putting in could help be a deciding factor for WB to make more.

Some people never give up. Some people always fight.

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

That's how we got Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars.

[roxybisquaint.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I knew nothing of Farscape back then. I think I would've lost my mind. The fans did it for that show and the fans can do it for this show. And by the way, I'm so glad you guys did get Peacekeeper Wars because if I didn't have that to go into when I watched all of Farscape last year, it would've been, um, a lot less fun.