Caprica obsessed fans ignore common sense.
This is just a quick post to share some annoying stupidity. Yes, more annoying and more stupid than that James Callis obsessed woman. If you’re a sci-fi fan you may have read this article, or at least… known about the plan. And can I just say, what a pointless, stupid waste of time.
Lets take out the obsessive fan ‘oh no my shows been cancelled, boo hoo’ crying for a moment and think about this. 2,880 apples sent in protest. Seriously?! So, with poverty, a recession and everything else in the world – the best thing to do with your money is to protest? About a TV show? To all those involved in the fundraising, I have to ask…. instead of sending apples to SyFy, wasting money and food, wouldn’t it be a better use of time to, I don’t know… raise money for charity? Just a thought, you tools.
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Comments
Comment from Barrie Suddery
Time 20.11.2010 at 12:22
Good point. Surely tuning in and watching the remaining episodes (when they’re finally shown) and giving them good ratings will help more than this.
Comment from Vote Adama!
Time 23.11.2010 at 13:10
They axed a potentially great show! Why not try and make them listen to their audience?
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 15:50
Listening to the audience is one thing. Listening to headcases is another.
Comment from The Betty
Time 24.11.2010 at 07:50
I can’t blame them. It’s like the cancellation of Firefly. There was a show that didn’t get to stretch it’s wings and was given the boot too soon. Caprica is just another victim.
Comment from AdmReyes
Time 26.11.2010 at 07:39
Sci Fi fans. This is why we hide.
Comment from iToast
Time 26.11.2010 at 17:03
BSG was a great show. Caprica was just a way to stretch it out and make more money from the concept. Execs need to learn to let things rest in peace and not spoil it by trying to add more and more.
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 15:49
Agreed. There’s this need to build on the old to make a new buck. There are loads of great pitches and concepts out there. But digging up the grave of another show seems to have been the preferred option. When Caprica didn’t work, what was their next move? Blood and Chrome.
Comment from John
Time 28.11.2010 at 09:36
I don’t get these guys at all. Is it hatres towards the cancelation or the Syphalis channell?
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 15:48
The latter, most likely. The “I hate SyFy” nonsense has been going for a while.
Comment from brd332
Time 01.12.2010 at 14:30
Caprica was amazing! One of the best shows on TV in years!!!
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 15:48
I imagine Sanctuary and SGU are on your list too?
Comment from Cram
Time 02.12.2010 at 15:14
What difference does it make to you what people do with their money James? Why don’t you save the money from running a website and give it all to charity? Why don’t you sell all your stuff and donate it? People do what they want to do with their own money and it’s none of your business, you’re just snarking from the sidelines.
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 15:47
Actually, I do. This website funds and supports another company which goes towards several good causes and helps young men and women learn new skills, opening up career options and helping them realise their dreams.
Towards your other comment, the article states…
“The plan was to gather donations and send a heeping pile of apples to the Syfy offices in New York and California as a gesture of disapproval for their decision.”
Then…
“Universal would not let the delivery truck down into their loading dock. The driver did everything he could to get past – including having the NBC Chef come outside – but the guard refused the delivery. Left with no legal options to leave the apples at NBC Universal the apples would go to waste.”
So really, the donation was an accident. A side effect of not getting what they actually wanted to achieve. They were left with no other option. Which is bad mojo.
Comment from Cram
Time 02.12.2010 at 15:17
OMG I just read the article and they are donating the apples to charity so they’re not even going to waste! C’mon James, stop being a jerk. Someone who runs a Picard themed website can surely understand a little something about being passionate about a show.
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 15:53
…also, I’m not big on Next Generation, and Picard is far from my favourite captain, or sci fi character. I just like the domain name.
Comment from Cram
Time 02.12.2010 at 16:31
“…also, I’m not big on Next Generation, and Picard is far from my favourite captain, or sci fi character. I just like the domain name.”
So… okay, fine you’re not such a big fan, kinda weird with the site you run and all being just because you liked the name but it’s a free world. Is you point that you don’t understand being passionate enough about a show to want to protest in an imaginative way, hoping that you might make an impact on the decision makers?
“Actually, I do. This website funds and supports another company which goes towards several good causes and helps young men and women learn new skills, opening up career options and helping them realise their dreams.”
Good for you but your argument was that they were wasting their time, money and food which could be more gainfully employed towards a greater good. My argument is that unless you devote your entire lives to doing acts of charity then there is always more that you could be doing and I disagree with you that making a small donation to try to uncancel a show is something to condemn people for. Most of these people, like yourself, probably donate to charity and try to help their fellow man and are free to spend their time, money and food in whatever way they choose. Your vitriolic attack just seems so over the top.
If you’d researched beyond reading the article and posting snarky comments you’d have seen that the apples are also just one part of the campaign which has involved donations to toys for tots and other charitable acts. The donation to charity was monitored by the groups making these protests and when the apples were refused they organised the donation themselves, it wasn’t an “accident” at all. They were also inspired by the Jericho nuts campaign which resulted in the donation to charity of the nuts and it was assumed because of this that if the company had accepted the delivery it would also be donated. At no point was there a possibility that these apples would be wasted. Took me five minutes to look into that and read the original blogs etc.
I didn’t really want to get into this but I’m just so sick of postings online which have no research or attempt to work out what is going on beyond reading someone else’s story and commenting. Your piece would have been fine for the comments section of that page but to repost as a story without any work at all is just lazy and sad.
You put “Steal my shit and I’ll break yer maws legs..” at the bottom of the page but that’s essentially what you’ve done as you put in no work at all here you’re just putting out a negative article linking directly to a story you disagree with. I don’t expect to see much journalistic effort with online articles but this is pretty low.
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 18:11
It’s not a small donation to try to uncancel a show. Their mission statement above has no bearing on that. Their ‘announcement’ had no moral grounds of being charitable. It was a purely selfish act to get some attention because they wanted to be noticed and show their elitist “We know better, fuck you SyFy” attitude. An attitude which has got silly all over the internet with ubergeeks acting towards the network as if they’re rising up against an oppressive regime.
Two paragraphs barely constitutes over the top. It’s more time than I’d given them in passing conversation, granted. But over the top? Interesting. But if this wasn’t an act of selfish geeky elitist desperation, the classic “Look at me!” syndrome, why not bypass the stupidity and just reserve the mythical urge to donate… to just donate. The theatrics of it all, combined and enhanced with their ‘mission statement’ says it all. The charity part? You can dig into as much of their efforts as you like. It’s not going to change their goal.
As for reposting a story, where is the story reposted? A link, yes. A repost. No workor journalistic effort? Yes, you’re right. I made a comment. There’s no work in that. And this site does contain personal opinions so… I fail to see why I should put any work into something I initially did to pass the time and amuse myself. And I disagree with it, yes. Are you going to suggest the site court martial and airlock me for having an opinion? I believe the appropriate response would be ‘oh noes!’
What else have you done today? Critiqued the artistic merits of someone posting a picture of their cat on LiveJournal?
Comment from lynnie
Time 02.12.2010 at 18:26
“crap time” or whatever you’re called, if you don’t like a post about someone complaining, do you really think wasting your time complaining about the complaining will help?
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 18:40
Good point. I’ve spent more time replying to Crap Time’s comments than I spent reading, pondering, and commenting on the article that started all this! Hah!
Comment from Reverend Helo
Time 02.12.2010 at 18:38
Is Cram the same person who believed James Callis had romantic feelings for them?
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 18:40
…I should check my visitor maps for Finnish IP’s…
James Tyler Reply:
December 2nd, 2010 at 15:51
Exactly. I hear that a lot in reverse – people who dislike shows, yet still watch them. Then they’ll go online and moan about them. But surely if they’re not enjoyingit, they should turn the channel?