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selfieignite · 3 years

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Virtual Meet & Greet with Karen Gillan

I got to speak with Karen Gillan during a virtual meet & greet. I was really nervous.. It went by really quickly and the chat ended immediately when time’s up. But I did ask about Selfie. :)

“Oh, little hearts!”

March 13, 2022 - GalaxyCon Live

Me: Would you happen to know if the Warner Brothers could put Selfie on multiple streaming services like HBO Max, Netflix, Amazon Prime because a lot of fans wanted to rewatch the show?

Karen Gillan: Yes, that actually sounds like a really good idea. I don't know how any of that works. But I think it would be really cool for people to have a way to watch it because I've just never seen such a following for a show that has been off the air for so long. It's incredible that people still love it that much. It's really nice.

Me: I think there are even some people who weren't able to actually finish watching it because they didn't have Hulu, so it would be great if it was on multiple streaming services and like more countries could see it and translate it too.

KG: Yes. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. I'm going to try and make it happen. Here's hoping.

Me: I don't know if you already knew this, but a friend told me that the show is actually quite popular in China.

KG: Really?

Me: Like a lot of fans. Yes. Are you familiar with Weibo?

KG: Yes! I’m on Weibo.

Me: So a lot of people will talk about it almost every day because there's a viral video between you (as Eliza) and John Cho’s character on the show.

KG: Really? Oh my gosh. I had no idea.

Me: There’s even a section about the fandom on Wikipedia.

KG: [laughs] Oh my gosh. I'm gonna have a look at that.

Me: Do you happen to know if a reunion is possible because I know that you've mentioned it in interviews before and John Cho has also mentioned a movie and things like that?

KG: Oh my gosh. A movie would be really, really fun. I don't know if we're gonna do a reunion of any kind, but like if somebody wanted to do it, I would so be there for that. Like I had such a good time making the show and I think we both just loved our characters so much, me and John. And I love working with Emily Kapnek, the creator and writer. So if somebody wanted to do it, I would be there in a heartbeat. I think that would be good.

Me: Maybe another project?

KG: Maybe a different project! That would be good. We could play different characters, but yeah. That would be really fun.

Me: I was thinking maybe a rom-com action film. [laughs]

KG: Oh my gosh. That's such a good idea. Okay, I love all these ideas! Keep them coming. I'm going to go to Emily Kapnek and be like, “The fans have spoken!” [laughs]

Me: I know the show has been off air for a long time, but do you happen to know if there were any like unscripted lines or improvised scenes or any just interesting stories?

KG: I think you know what? We actually didn't improvise that much, which is funny because since then I've become like really, really into improvisation and do it a lot now on any project, but prior to that I just didn't. I kind of stuck to the script. It was like very specifically written and so funny and long monologues for me. And so, I think I just kind of played around with the delivery rather than playing around with the words themselves. Like each time I did it, it would have like a different emotion behind it, but the same words.

Me: Do you know if you have an idea of what Henry and Eliza's married life would be?

KG: Oh my gosh, he would be like super neat and complaining at her for like being a mess for sure and she'd be like, “Lighten up!”

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mikegolvach · 9 years

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An Open Letter For Erika Lawson

(This is with regard to a previous post here :http://tinyurl.com/jvl4p64 - And also, you can still sign the Save Selfie petition here: http://tinyurl.com/mht8ul7 )

After receiving a like (or a fav or whatever it was. I’m a social media dinosaur. I just write a lot ;) from Erika Lawson on my previous post regarding Selfie, I gave it a re-read, and felt that I should add just a little bit more for Erika and for other fans. I’m specifically addressing this to Erika because she’s the person who encouraged me to get in the fight to bring Selfie back.

This is where the open letter begins. Never at the beginning of one of my posts. I’m much too over-explanatory for something like that to ever happen ;)

Dear Erika,

Thanks for liking my post and I was really very touched that you, and so many others, took the time to read it and comment on it. I hope that what I wrote didn’t in any way appear to be an attempt to minimize, or somehow devalue, your efforts and your commitment to getting Selfie back on the air. My post was more personal in nature and I believe in writing what I feel and, sometimes, I can let that get in the way of taking other people’s feelings into consideration.

I just want you to know that I admire you for the effort, hope, belief and courage you put into getting the message out there to as many people as possible and I also hope that you don’t ever stop until you’ve exhausted all avenues you can. I’m a huge believer in anything and everything being possible, so I do still support your mission and hope that it’s successful. I think it’s within the realm of possibility that, at the very least, some sort of special or TV movie could happen that would wrap the show up for you and me and all the other fans.

Given Karen Gillan’s devotion to her fans, I think that she may be willing to reprise her role at some point. She’s been known to accept roles because of (and/or for) her fans in the past. For instance, under the trivia section on ImDB for “Bound For Greatness” it’s noted that she took that role because she had a fan who suffered from Asperger’s syndrome - which the main character in that short film does.

So, even though my post was, overall, about dealing with the loss of something you love, I just wanted to be sure that you knew that I didn’t mean to say that I think you should stop trying to get Selfie back on the air, or that any attempt to do so, at this juncture, was pointless. The post was more of my personal concession to dealing with things if they don’t work out the way we planned. And, there’s no reason to absolutely believe that the Save Selfie campaign won’t be successful in the end. In fact, it may be your overriding belief and commitment to the cause that ends up making it so.

I wish I could sign that petition over and over and over again. And I’ll continue to try and help recruit more signatures as long as you keep the cause alive.

Mostly, I just wanted to say that I appreciate what you’ve done, what you’re doing (and what all the fans are doing) and I hope very deeply that we all do get some closure on the Selfie story. It was a fantastic show that got clipped well before its time, and it deserves to come back or, at least, be given a proper send-off.

Thank you for everything you have done, and will do, to keep the cause alive. You have my gratitude, as I’m sure you have the gratitude of tens of thousands of other fans (and maybe a whole lot more). Don’t ever stop believing that you can be the catalyst for change. It’s people like you that make the world a better place in which to live.

Peace, and best wishes to you,

, Mike

#saveselfie #karengillan #erikalawson

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mynameishazard · 10 years

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Finally biting the bullet and watching the last episodes of #Selfie.

#saveselfie

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pugadaa · 10 years

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Bring #Heliza back!!! 😭😭😭 #selfie #selfieabc #saveselfie Source

#heliza #selfie #selfieabc #saveselfie #henry higgs #eliza dooley #john cho #karen gillan

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mikegolvach · 9 years

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Saving Selfie: Why Things Die And Dealing With The Loss

(Just as a little forward, if you are interested in seeing any more of the former ABC sitcom “Sefie,” you can sign this petition online, thanks to Erika Lawson: http://tinyurl.com/mht8ul7 )

Keeping things in the spirit of this blog, today’s post may run a little long (I like to do my whole week at once) and it’s going to be as much about “Selfie” as it is about dealing with losing things and moving on, so if you just really loved “Selfie” and are looking for a diatribe about how the executives at ABC should all have their heads skewered on stakes, that part of the post is over. That’s not to say that I’m done writing about what happened to that show, but this isn’t going to be a public flogging. That’s almost the exact opposite of the point.

If you’re aware of the show “Selfie,” then you’re probably also aware that it was cancelled just about midway through the run of its first season. 13 episodes were ordered and 8 actually aired before ABC pulled the plug. They were nice enough to, eventually, put the remaining shows up online, but have yet to make the original 8 episodes available to anyone who might want to watch them. The show died an unnatural death and that riled up a lot of fans, including myself.

It just didn’t process for me, initially, because the entire cast was giving stellar performances, the two leads (Karen Gillan and John Cho) are big names and the quality of the writing was superb. Yet, it still got the axe. And, I’m pretty sure the reason why is that too much time was spent, in the initial episodes, developing all of the characters and building a solid foundation for future episodes to build off of. This is actually the part that upset me, because I watched the first episode and it was good. Not great, but good enough to make me want to see it again and see where it was going. There was no instant gratification and I wasn’t sure if things were going to gel later on, but I was still hooked enough to make it to the next episode.

And, to ward off any arguments that are bound to come up, yes, I find Karen Gillan extremely attractive, but that has nothing to do with why I kept on watching the show or why I wish it had gotten a proper ending. The television and movie landscape is littered with gorgeous women, but if they’re not talented and can’t really become their characters and make me feel something other than sexual desire, I’ll forget about them before the credits roll. Karen Gillan actually appears to be a very sweet and down to earth woman with an abundance of genuine dramatic talent who doesn’t seem to have a sense of undue entitlement and even took the time out of her schedule to personally thank Erika Lawson for trying to save Selfie (which is still online here: http://tinyurl.com/mgobz4f ) And please don’t think that, just because the video is only 27 seconds long, it didn’t make Erika’s year, at the very least. No one in the world, movie star or man on the street, is required to be thankful for anything you do for them. It’s indicative of the quality of their character that they do, and I think that for someone as busy as Karen Gillan to take the time to record a personalized message for one of her fans was an unnecessary gesture, which makes it all the more touching, kind and memorable.

Back on point, I believe that character development is what lead to Selfie’s demise. Even though it was doing very well in the ratings (Beating initial first season numbers of shows that were kept and nurtured by their networks, like Breaking Bad), it was set up to fail, in a sense. Firstly, it was set to air just before prime time. Secondly, it wasn’t given a bump, by which I mean they didn’t run it after another already-popular show, which the networks will do when they want to see a show succeed (In my experience, shows that need that kind of bump are generally ill conceived wastes of time and the attention misdirect only works for one episode, maybe two). Thirdly, the writers of the show committed the cardinal sin of not having at least one explosion or shoot-out before the first commercial break. Rather, they focused more on character than story. And that, sadly, has been the death knell of more good television and literature than I can bear to recount.

But, here’s the thing (didn’t I promise I’d get beyond the show, itself, eventually? I wasn’t lying, I just took my time, like Selfie did. And I’m going to take even longer to get to the overarching theme...), the show is over. No one at ABC is ever going to bring it back. Even if they could, they’d have to somehow manage to convince several accomplished actors to stop everything and come on back to a big “maybe” (And I include actresses in the term actors, because the diminutive suffix is really unnecessary in this day and age and it makes it sound as if being a female makes one something less of an artist than a male doing the exact same job). And, for a “maybe,” I don’t think anyone on that show (except for the few cast members who were just getting their wings) really could be expected to drop all the other projects they’ve attached themselves to since the cancellation. By virtue of their own professionally integrity, they would be hard pressed to drop everything else and come back. And consider the main star Karen Gillan. She’s been a huge hit in the UK for a long time and she’s now been in several excellent movies in the US, including “Guardians Of The Galaxy,” for which she’s already secured a guaranteed part in the sequel, and is doing work for HBO films and beginning to direct her own material, as well. So, I’m pretty well convinced that, no matter how many people loved that show, its fate has been sealed and it’s time to just deal with the loss and move on.

And, when you think about it honestly, Selfie was just a television show. It was very well crafted and it made you care (which all good art should do), which is one lamentable thing about its demise. It was also written with the expectation that a second season would be ordered, so the final episode offers no closure, which is another disappointment. But it was just a television show and, being such, you can still enjoy it and your memories of it by watching the episodes on Hulu or taking in and enjoying other works starring members of the cast and, perhaps, find something you love even more in those new discoveries.

Because, even if Selfie had continued, it would have had to have ended eventually. And life isn’t always fair. Sometimes things get cut short and there’s no reasonable explanation. Things get taken from us and we ask why, and there’s no acceptable answer forthcoming.

But when these sorts of things happen, it’s important to accept them. Fight them if you must, up to the point where you’ve hurt yourself as well, but you have to let go eventually. And the easiest way to do that is to find perspective. Compare and contrast the loss of something that might feel real, like your favorite television show (I was actually excited to be home at Tuesday at 7pm CST to watch TV during a time when I’d normally be DVR’ing it), with the loss of something actually real.

In 2010, I lost a friend of mine to an addiction we both shared (His obituary is still online here: http://tinyurl.com/lqpuqa4 ), and, even though we’d grown apart over the years before his death from alcoholism, the Reaper chose to take him and pass on me. For some reason, God, or whomever runs this show, decided to finally give me the strength to stop killing myself around the year 2000 and then went on to cancel my friend’s contract. And, the last time I saw him, we talked for the entire evening and had fun and I remember when we parted ways, I said to him “I’ll see you later, man” and his reply to me was “probably not.” He wasn’t being morbid. He just said it like he was stating a fact. And I suppose, in a way, that was some measure of closure, but I honestly thought I’d see him again someday soon. But he was right, to an extent. I didn’t see him again until he was in a casket. And thinking about him sometimes still hurts, and it hurts more deeply than almost any pain I’ve ever had to endure.

But, he’s gone and what was once a better and brighter world in which he played a part is now an empty stage with an audience of one. Because a part of me is still sitting in that lonely theater, hoping that he’s okay and that I’ll see him again, in some form or fashion, and that he’s happy on the other side and that maybe he’ll find a way to let me know. But, I also realize that, as much as it pains me, I should just be happy for him and let him go. He may have left this world, and left my world, but I like to believe that he went on to a better place and I’m glad that he’s shed his role as my friend here on this earth and gone on to perform in some other venue where he can finally enjoy the peace and calm he never really knew here.

My friend is gone. I can never bring him back. No matter how much I love him or curse the powers that be or rage against the system, he’s gone from this world forever. And I can either let his death define me or allow the wonder and beauty of the life I was blessed with being able to continue experiencing do the same. It took me a while, but I chose to learn to focus on the positive and move forward. I haven’t forgotten him. I never will. But I’ve moved on and accepted that he won’t be returning, and that everything will be okay without him. And that I will see him again. Not exactly the same, but the same, nonetheless.

Life doesn’t always write us perfect endings, and that’s why we turn to fiction; so that we can experience something that makes sense to us. That fulfills a need that real life so very often robs us of. But fiction (television, movies, books) doesn’t always provide that for us. Sometimes it’s on purpose, and sometimes things just don’t work out as planned. And, just like in real life, we sometimes have to accept an ending that isn’t satisfying, that leaves questions unanswered, that makes us wonder why or what if. And, just like in real life, we have to learn to let go, no matter how satisfactory or unsatisfactory the ending, because everything runs its course. Everything dies eventually. And, even when it’s a fiction, it can still hurt, but it’s eminently survivable.

And, to wrap this bipolar post up with a message to other Selfie fans out there, even though the show may never come back and the plot threads may never be resolved, maybe it’s time to make peace with the fact that it’s over and be thankful for the joy it brought you while it was here. You’ll experience (and you may have experienced) much more painful loss in your life and I think (I hope, wish and pray) that you’ll discover that accepting the loss of something or someone you love and moving forward will, eventually, allow you to see where that loss fit perfectly into the grand design of your life and how it will, ultimately, provide you with a much more highly developed sense of what is truly beautiful and pleasurable in your own world and afford you the greater ability to accept even more of that beauty and enjoy it to its fullest.

There’s plenty of “wonderful” left in the world and in your life. Don’t let it become the past before you get the chance to truly and fully enjoy it now. I’ll miss not seeing Selfie any more, and I desperately miss not seeing my friend any more. But, again, everything and everyone dies eventually. Let that thought heal you rather than hurt you whenever you can.

Peace,

#saveselfie #karengillan #death #loss

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