Unfortunately, guys, there’s been a huge drop in numbers on this thing. About 2 hours ago we were almost at 28k and now we’re at 24.5k. From what I gather from the Twitter posts I’ve seen, this is likely because Change.org eliminated fraudulent signatures as well as those with an invalid email address. Change.org should still be notified just in case.
This sucks. We’ve now got a lot of ground to make up. But we will make it up!!! Share it with your friends, family, and if you’re able, contribute a few bucks to get it advertised. Let’s get this done, y’all.
“Knowing isn’t enough. We must apply. Being willing isn’t enough. We must do.” - Angus MacGyver “It doesn’t take the all world.” Actually, in this case it does. There’s a reason the Phoenix team is a team. Together they’re stronger and balance each other out. You never see Mac solving problems on his own, because everyone has an important role. To save our show we simply have to work together. I gathered all the ways we’ve come up with to #SaveMacGyver. If you see something you didn’t do and you can - please do it. If you see something I missed, feel free to tell me. And if you have any more ideas to #SaveMacGyver, I’d be happy to know. Have faith. It might take some time, but it can be done. How do I know? because it’s been done before many times.
How to #SaveMacGyver
· Comment on many tweets as possible of CBS.
· Join the MacGyver week in Twitter that starts on this Sunday (April 25th).
· If you can, send paper clips to this address - 4024 Radford Ave, Studio City, CA 91604.
· If you can, donate money to the fundraiser so we can get a billboard. Also, it would be nice if you can donate to the Cancer research fundraiser.
· Give feedback on the show to CBS. Tell them what the show means to us! When you choose a category, MacGyver is under drama. https://www.cbs.com/showfeedback/
· If you don’t mind, you can create an outlook account and sign the petition with it (you can always delete it afterwards). You can do it at least 10 times until you’re blocked. Then you can do it again the day after.
· You can sign the petition with an email address you get here (you can get one every few hours): https://10minutemail.com/
· Sign the petition with every email address you have. You can use the same email address from different devices and it still counts!
Let’s Save Our Shows - The Ultimate MacGyver/JATP Team-Up!
This post is for fans of my two current favorite shows, both of which are in some kind of danger of not being renewed. Both shows have petitions for renewal, and both shows, though different thematically, are full of amazing representation, have a passionate and talented cast who wants to keep going, and are backed by insanely loyal fans. These shows are, of course, MacGyver and Julie and the Phantoms. Please, please, if you sign one - or both - of these petitions, or if you already have, REBLOG. Liking does nothing. The only way we will be able to get the word out and save our shows is by reblogging, sharing with others!
If you’re not familiar with Julie and the Phantoms, let me catch you up! This show, a Netflix original, is based on a Brazilian TV show called Julia y Los Fantasmos. It’s about a teenage girl, Julie, who quits music after her mom’s death, but when she accidentally summons the ghosts of a band from 1995, these boys - Luke, Alex, and Reggie - help her find her love for music again. It’s crazy, it’s sweet, it’s romantic, it’s heartbreaking, it’s funny, it’s musical, and it has so much heart. But it also has so. much. representation. And you know how much we MacGyver fans love representation!
So Julie is played by the gorgeous and stupidly talented Madison Reyes, a Puerto Rican-American teenager whose voice could level mountains. But not only do we get a Latinx lead, but we also get to see her family - her amazing papá, her brother Carlos, and her tía! Another of the main characters, Alex (the purest and most relatable character on the show IMO) is not only gay, but he gets an actual love interest and he and Willie make the CUTEST INTERRACIAL GAY COUPLE I’ve ever seen! Plus, Julie’s best friend Flynn is black, and the background characters are super diverse as well.
And the other characters - Luke, Reggie, Carrie, Bobby, Nick, Caleb - are all so colorful and interesting, too! It’s just.. perfection. And, well, season 1 premiered 8 months ago and still no peep of a renewal, never mind the fact that the show blew up and also won the Rotten Tomatoes Golden Tomato Award. JATP fans have started a petition to have the show renewed. Please, MacGyver friends, take a couple of seconds out of your day to sign this petition, even if you don’t watch the show yourself, it would mean the world to us! Heck, why not sign and then watch the show? It’s so worth it! :)
If you’re not familiar with MacGyver, it’s a reboot of the campy 80s action show by the same name. It’s about a young man named Angus MacGyver who can make anything out of practically nothing, and has also worked as an expert EOD tech disarming bombs for the army. He now works for a clandestine organization called the Phoenix Foundation, saving the world one gadget at a time with his amazing team of fellow spies! I’ve bragged about how diverse JATP is - now it’s time for me to brag about MacGyver!
To give you a bit of background, recently, one of the lead actors, Lucas Till, who plays MacGyver (you might recognize him from The Hannah Montana Movie), risked his career reporting an abusive showrunner to CBS. The showrunner was fired (though only after Till reported him several times), and the show just THIS SEASON replaced him with a woman of color showrunner, very rare in the television industry, especially in networks like CBS. That’s a HUGE step. The show also just cast a black trans woman as a recurring character (a badass one at that)! CBS gave this black showrunner and black trans woman not even a full season to shine before canceling the show. That does not sit well with us.
So we’ve got Monica, our black female showrunner. Then in our cast we have Parker, the super smart black trans agent with a master’s degree. There’s Riley, whose actress Tristin Mayes is black, Native American, and Creole, who is a super smart and badass hacker. Then there’s Bozer, Mac’s black best friend and biggest supporter - and an amazing character in his own right. There’s Matty, the no-nonsense “mom” of the Team who runs the ops, kicks ass, and takes names, and who also has dwarfism. There’s Desi, a Vietnamese-American badass (I know I keep using that word, but it’s so true!) who protects the team and beats up bad guys. Russ is British, but he’s got Peruvian and Scottish ancestry, which the show plays into!
And this show speaks out about major, important social issues including environmentalism, BLM, and more. And Mac himself is a cinnamon roll of an individual, and his best friend/partner for the first 3.5 seasons, Jack, is one of the most entertaining characters in media. There’s also been a host of other characters on the show, but I went over the main ones. This show is DIVERSE.
Like I said, CBS canceled this show despite its high ratings, many viewers, and passionate fans and cast. CBS is also actively ignoring any campaigns to save the show. So if you would please take a moment, even if you don’t watch the show, to sign this petition, it would mean the world to us MacGyver fans who are so ardently fighting the uphill battle to save our show!
Okay, so, can we do this? Can MacGyver fans take less than a minute out of their day and sign the JATP petition? And can JATP fans take less than a minute out of their day and sign the MacGyver petition? Last I checked, the JAPT petition had over 80k signatures, and the MacGyver petition had nearly 18.5k. Can we band together to save our shows? https://www.change.org/p/cbs-save-macgyver
If you are reading this, it means i really need your help. Whether you are a fan of MacGyver or not, can you please help me to save my current fav show?
It was cancelled abruptly and unexpectedly and as the MacGyver fandom we think the cast&crew and we deserve another season!
It will only take 20 seconds of your time. I would be grateful if you can take the time. Thank you so much!
