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That wasn't really a very well though out plan was it? We are going to bombard the TV studio with some confectionery, of which there is only 2000 bars available. But then what do you expect from Veronica Mars fans? Not to mention how selfish that is what about all the people who genuinely love the taste of Mars bars who will now have to go without indefinitely because of rabid obsessive TV fiends.

Is this the future? Thanks to the Jericho success are TV studio going to be forever inundated with consumables every time they cancel a show?

The MARS bars are in reference to Veronica MARS, they’re sending marshmallows in reference to the very first episode for the closing voice over of

Let's see now: they pull a popular-with-nerds TV show and then get sent a pile of free chocolate? Oh that's really going to make them put it back online!

Anyway, it worked for Jericho with nuts, and at the end of season two fans hired a plane to fly a banner around the networks office building asking to please renew it and that ended up getting a decent amount of PR and we got a season three.

All it's going to do is make the producers and stuff so fat that they can't use the telephone because their fingers are the size of carrots.

Also, it’s suggested in the letter being sent to the CW with all the candy to donate it to a local charity.


This really could be the CW’s chance to pick up the show with just a couple key returning actors, a new story line and path (Veronica all grown up in the FBI) with just hints every now and then to filling in slight back story for the die hard fans, AND shift the focus from teenage girls to a more general market of male and female teenagers and adults. The show has great writing; you can’t deny that, however, when you target it for young chicks and then can’t seem to suck in anyone else maybe you should change the marketing and not F with the show all the time. Guys don’t really want to sit through three commercials about maxi pads or tampons, cute shirts from American Eagle, and how some new car is designed for women. It’s seriously surprising when you do watch those commercials on the CW just how feminine they all are.

Edit: By the way, this isn’t new with Jericho. Fans have been trying to do anything to show the networks that they actually are out there even if there are only two Nielsen families watching the show! Family Guy was saved on DVD sales, Veronica Mars has had massive fund raiser drives to buy DVDs and donate them to local libraries all over the United States to try to allow more people free access to the show to get involved in it and become fans, they’ve hired airplanes to fly over cities and thank the network and show and ask for it to be renewed and they have carpet bombed cities with flyers pitching the network name and show name into the public eye.


A massive DVD buy out would probably be the best bet for Veronica Mars, and I’m sure the fans could pull something off however, since DVDs lag behind a few months the show is packed up and gone long before the fans can make an impact by having DVD sales skyrocket. We would rather the CW do something (even just a mid season pick up with the NEW format) before the rent out the sound stage to some other show, destroy all the sets, fire all the actors, hire all the actors on other shows, and pull all TV spots and web sites about it. Waiting until upfronts was bad enough, but at one point they even said it might be as late as June 15th (I think, or around there) before they could make up their mind on if the show would return mid season or not. What other show has caused any network so much trouble and thought that they have to wait until AFTER upfronts to set in stone if it’s coming back or not? This is not a clear death, I think they’re just betting on a new show being a gem rather then the new Veronica format being a gem, and that makes us sad.