Spent 3 hours trying to get 'The Expanse' back on air by bothering Amazon on Twitter

I was so mad when they canceled it that I sat down and tweeted at Jeff Bezos like 50 times in one night thinking he'd personally read it and greenlight season 7. My roommate came home and caught me rage-typing at 2 AM and just laughed until he choked on his pizza. Anybody else waste a whole evening doing something dumb to try and save a show?

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dylan_bell16d ago

Ha, your roommate choking on pizza is the real plot twist here. I've done similar stuff, but I actually went a different route. I figured out that the real power move isn't bugging the suits, it's finding the actual licensing rights holders. For a lot of shows, it's not the streaming service's call, it's the production company or a studio that owns the IP. I spent a weekend researching who owned the rights to a canceled show I loved, then sent a polite, handwritten letter to their legal department explaining why the show was a goldmine waiting to happen. Nothing came of it, but at least I felt like I was talking to the right people instead of yelling into the void.

grace_white15d ago

Why do you think talking to a legal department in a handwritten letter is a better use of time than actually talking to the people who make the decisions? Don't get me wrong, I respect the effort you put in. But in my experience, those legal departments are buried in paperwork and they get a hundred letters a week from fans exactly like you. They don't read them, they just file them away. The real power move is building a relationship with someone on the outside, like a social media manager or even a writer who worked on the show. They don't have the final say, but they can get the right person to actually pay attention. Your letter probably ended up in a recycling bin before anyone even finished reading the first sentence.