SerenityDay: Change the Date? VOTE NOW
POSTED BY: Hera
UPDATED: Monday, May 1, 2006 09:38
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Originally posted by Diz:
While Gossi isn't technically against the effort, neither is he exactly going out of his way to show any kind of support. Whereas B!X is getting a lot of support from Gossi, and good press on whedonesque
I post over on the Serenity.org site and it's huge.
It's the board that Gossi so graciously started after the official movie board the UB, folded.
All the folks who have been around for some time and are influential and also post on Whedonesque are over there.
To have Gossi support this effort and help us promote it over there, would be invaluable.
We would be two.. no maybe with some respect shared between us, three boards of folks joining together to do this thing.
I have seen the ads and the talk re: the Serenity Now/Equality Now campaign over there. It's great and gets lots of attention. It'd sure be nice to have Gossi and his shiny board on our side.
"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal
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This is a great idea... I feel we need time AND we don't have a lot of it. The sooner the better.. This is not about instant gratification, it is about a business model.
The reason Wal-Mart has started to bundle Serenity with COR is because it is coming to the end of its sales cycle... if the largest retailer thinks so, it usually becomes a trend.
An inital wave followed by promos can be ridden into Sept. The numbers we need isn't gonna happen in a day.... and universal has running totals
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U gonna be smart here Riva?!?
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There are a lot of good arguments flowing both ways. but just for the recored my my vote is for the change, to sept 30th. more time to prepare, and to do it as a thank you rather than an attack on universal, and every other point that has been raised, im not going to waste your time by listing them all.
edited ok the long campaign thing is now sounding good. june 23 the start 30th the target.
BUT
Ok, confused much? - erm YES.
Vote is all very well but Someone needs to take charge and make the descion. I'll follow, i want to help, but who am i following?
We need to get together on this.
Disappointed much ?- absolutly YES. 
I have to agree with what follow mal said
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- Don't like this backstabbing, fighting atmosphere. Miss the board being the friendly wonderful place it used to be.
If anything is going to hurt, its all this in fighting. I miss the board being a place where i can come and enjoy reading the threads. the reading now is very depressing as we all split apart.
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From what I can tell this argument seems to be over. We need more support and that will take time. Let's get Kaele's word on this because she chose to be our leader and then go from there.
Two things that we need the most: Time and numbers. Right now we have neither. By Sept. 30 we could have an overwhelming amount of both.
One goal.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, you can't stop the signal.
On September 30, we aim to misbehave.
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Lol, because Kurya posted wrong first, so did I in response... here goes...
I like the campaign plan. We could ALL start a "Serenity Campaign" on June 23rd by supporting Serenity Now/Equality Now (IT'S CHARITY!), then set up summer BBQ Shindigs, collect support on the conventions, rally the troops, plan September 30th to the minute, maybe get some of the cast on board (recording short video messages at a convention to motivate people is not much work for them, and they'll like it, and it will do wonders for morale.). Then we top it off with Serenity Day in September and watch how our buying frenzy combined with spreading the word (and the DVDs) and Christmas sales are gonna do.
The reason "we are gonna make it bigger, so we made a campaign out of it and set Serenity Day as the Grand Finale on Sept 30th" sounds good enough to me to let everyone save face or whatever.
And how could even THEONEANDTRUEALMIGHTYB!X object to that "campaign"-plan? "HIS" event starting off a campaign that spans all of the summer? He'll like it, and he can't complain that we're hijacking anything, because we're coming to him as fellow Browncoats to help Serenity Now/Equality Now and not ask anything in return but his support for the campaign as a whole. If he still objects, I think his own people will start asking questions as to his priorities, if they haven't already. He's not our business, though, Serenity is.
Let's do what's best for Serenity.
I support the "Serenity Summer Campaign"-idea with the SN/EN screenings as the start (as a pure charity event), Serenity Day on Sept. 30th to top it off, and all manners of shiny Shindigs and conventions and missions inbetween.
Come on, people, this is gonna ROCK! There's damage done no matter what we do, and this is the best way to get out of this increasingly unpleasant situation with the best results for everyone.
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://serenityjune23rd.com/
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Well I think that is kaele's intention anyways to fight a long war, but I think she is worried( I cant speak for her, I aint no River:P), that if she talks about a lpong campaign, she may lose the interest of some of the fans. Its not explicit on the webstie, but maybe what she is hoping that if people are all jazzed about june 23rd, she will be betting that people will be jazzed to do promoting and etc throughout the summer and do a super duper charge on Sept 30th. But... then Universal may see that and see it as a tactic of "crazy" fans with money to spend...so maybe buy only on Sept 30th... but then...
oh
Im going in circles... *getting dizzy now...* must sit down.
Anyways.... for what its worth, I say go for both days, a charge to june 23rd and go all out for sept 30th. June 23rd may also prove useful as a test case and see what worked and what didnt, as 11th Hour said.
Some other people have posted good points of forgeting june 23rd. What if sept 30th was claimed...but then someone else(*cough* wont say the name....*cough*), said no thats my day as well I am planning something else footwashing for pedastrians. We will say... but nobody else claimed it, and he might say... yeah well you are all a bunch of foolish crazy people.... will we have to back down again as well b/c someone of "popularity" said we have to back down? That is the big concern about stepping down for june 23rd, and I can honestly understand that.
Prakash
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Originally posted by Agatsu:
Lol, because Kurya posted wrong first, so did I in response to him... here goes...
I like the campaign plan. We could ALL start a "Serenity Campaign" on June 23rd by supporting Serenity Now/Equality Now (IT'S CHARITY!), then set up summer BBQ Shindigs, collect support on the conventions, rally the troops, plan September 30th to the minute, maybe get some of the cast on board (recording short video messages at a convention to motivate people is not much work for them, and they'll like it, and it will do wonders for morale.). Then we top it off with Serenity Day in September and watch how our buying frenzy combined with spreading the word (and the DVDs) and Christmas sales are gonna do.
The reason "we are gonna make it bigger, so we made a campaign out of it and set Serenity Day as the Grand Finale on Sept 30th" sounds good enough to me to let everyone save face or whatever.
And how could even THEONEANDTRUEALMIGHTYB!X object to that "campaign"-plan? "HIS" event starting off a campaign that spans all of the summer? He'll like it, and he can't complain that we're hijacking anything, because we're coming to him as fellow Browncoats to help Serenity Now/Equality Now and not ask anything in return but his support for the campaign as a whole. If he still objects, I think his own people will start asking questions as to his priorities, if they haven't already. He's not our business, though, Serenity is.
Let's do what's best for Serenity.
I support the "Serenity Summer Campaign"-idea with the SN/EN screenings as the start (as a pure charity event), Serenity Day on Sept. 30th to top it off, and all manners of shiny Shindigs and conventions and missions inbetween.
Come on, people, this is gonna ROCK! There's damage done no matter what we do, and this is the best way to get out of this increasingly unpleasant situation with the best results for everyone.
One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://serenityjune23rd.com/
This idea so rocks!! And it stands a chance this way folks. Come on, we can really do this and the fandom can come together with this. A united army can do anything.. we've proven that before.
Let's be mighty again!
"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal
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This idea so rocks!! And it stands a chance this way folks. Come on, we can really do this and the fandom can come together with this. A united army can do anything.. we've proven that before.
Let's be mighty again!
seconded!!!!!!
lets bring on the Serenity Summer campaign!
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Steering clear of June 23rd, except to promote SerenityNow/EqualityNow is our safest bet to preserve unity in the fandom.
There's alot of anger happening right now (I happen to be a little part of that, I admit). But we need to UNITE.
I think we should focus all our efforts on Serenity for Equality Now for June 23rd, and then after that begin the Big Push to Sept 30th, with Serenity Summer.
(And not necessarily on the Charity Showings. 99% of our fanbase is nowhere in a place that's doing a showing. That's why I ignored the whole thing for so long. I can't take an extra day off to go to Portland or to Santa Barbara.)
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hi.
I missed out on all of the backstabbing(gosh darn it I miss out on the fun....)
And arguing and fighting are two different things. I think everyone here(except a few parties...), are interested in this campaign to succeed. I think people on both sides have made good points, its hard to come to a compromise. And to choose ons ide or another. I want sept 30th, but I can see why people want to stick to june 23rd.
So lets have an intermission
So how about some good natured dancing.. .to cheer people up... *turns on some Black Eye peas*
come on lets get the groove on.... un hunh oh yeah.....
*doing Elaine dance from Seinfeld*
*dances some more*
DOnt be afraid join in!
*the funk is here!*
ok enough dancing *turns the music off* Group hug! Ok feel better people???
Prakash
ETA: just saw the posers above me response...Serenity Summer.... like that.. its serene....
or Summer of Serenity!
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