Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-1635895-20130327030726/@comment-47881-20130413201951

Psypher wrote: I'd be interested in hearing more. You're not going to. I didn't make them myself, but I know about some that were made and I don't want to subject them to second-guessing. And that's beside the point. The point is that those propositions didn't even get a "no", "that's won't work", "that's stupid", "that has some potential". It got nothing, but they get a meeting...

Psypher wrote: I meant things such as, what specifically are they funding? The whole project? Just the production (for VM I believe WB agreed to foot the promo costs if it reached target)? A portion of the production? Were they able to speak to the legal and rights issues (they weren't necessarily talking to the same part of WB VM was, and there's DC and possibly CN to consider too)? Did they have assurances key personnel would be on board? Didn't the VM movie have a script ready to go? Very interesting points. Try to replace "VM" and "Kickstarter" with "YJ" and "SMGO". What did they have to arouse enough interest in the WB to arrange a meeting? "Crowdfunding" sounds pretty vague and non-substantial. What do they want to fund? A season, a mini-series, a direct-to-DVD movie/series? For one show? Both shows? Is it both or nothing? Psypher wrote: What, you think it's strange that a business was more receptive to someone coming up and saying "let us pay you to do something", than a load of letters saying "do this for us and then we'll pay you. Yes, I know it wasn't profitable enough before but we'll do better this time, promise!"? I don't mean to put down the mail camapign, in fact I think it is/was essential to the success of any future endeavour to bring YJ back, including SMGO, but on it's own it didn't have much of a chance of working. A foundation for others to build on. See the preceding reply.

Psypher wrote: What are we being asked to accept exactly? That a new company (*shudder* because we all know there hasn't been a successful new company to emerge in over a century, and certainly not one that capitalises on changes in media production/consumption in the digital age!) was able to arrange a meeting with a major company to discuss reviving two moderately successful shows with active fanbases, in a way similar to one of the most talked about events in the TV biz in years? We're being asked to accept that a novice site that never even got any show beyond the voting stage before, appears within the first week after YJ ends and announces they have a meeting with the WB, and we're supposed to accept it because "what would they have to gain from lying?" Then we're asked to accept that the WB will never acknowledge such a meeting unless the answer is yes. So, if the answer is no, we'll have to take SMGO's word for it and believe that there was a meeting. Yes, forgive my suspicious nature, but that's asking a little too much. And it surprises me that you question a prospect Kickstarter project for YJ and the producers ability to get it there and promote it, but you accept the initiative of an inexperient brand new site so easily.

My main concern is that the fans are getting their hopes up and have them crushed with no factual guarantees that such an effort ever took place. Zodisgod wrote: i dont agree with the kickstarter avenue because thats just a slippery slope. at this rate in a few years everything will be funded by kickstarter if some people had their way. I couldn't agree more. It's a company's duty to know how to market their damn products to reap the benefits from their investments; not fans funding their shows while the company profits from it.