Project Massive (An Attempt to Bring Invader Zim Back)

[nlh0012 39]

For those of you who don't know, project massive is letter writing campaign (I can't think of a better name for it) to try and convince Nickelodeon to put Invader Zim back on the air. This has been in the works for a while now and it's finally going on.

 

Links (because the people who are running it can explain it a lot better than I can):

Project Massive Site

FAQ

Project Massive Facebook Event

 

My status: I have already written my letter and plan on mailing it tomorrow. I'm not sure if this will be successful but it can't hurt to try.

[Rob 5,571]

I doubt this will happen, but Rob will support it. Why? Cartoons these days are hard to look at.

[Sigrun 1,064]

eh, it all depends if the creator want to do it, I mean I read an interview on it and he said that he HATED the fact that he had to interact with other people.

 

http://www.nytimes.c...n-in-exile.html

 

so i doubt that the creator would want to do it.

Edited August 8, 2012 by Sigrun

[nlh0012 39]

Supposedly from what I've heard he's changed his mind (it has been 10 years) I'll try to find something to back up what I'm saying.

Also yeah, cartoons were way better (or at least seem to have more effort put into them) when I was little.

 

Edit: Found something

http://www.questionsleep.com/mindspill/?p=2024

Edited August 8, 2012 by Dragoncat

[Sigrun 1,064]

yeah its not gonna happen dude: http://www.melodrama...and-why-it-prob

 

 

What people don’t know, but probably suspected, was that the ZIM marathon going on at the same time on NICKTOONS was part of a sinister plan to test the waters for a possible ZIM invasion.

 

A part of me hates dispelling that freakishly ugly response in a portion of the fandom that seems to thrive on making up their own reasons for why the show ended, but an entry like this kind of makes not doing so impossible.

 

Then they started re-running the hell out of the show on NICKTOONS where it started getting some decent ratings. Around this time I began getting calls from the network, some old familiar voices, but mostly some new ones, people who either seemed to love ZIM or not quite know what ZIM was but they felt that maybe other people loved it and perhaps that was reason enough to call me and discuss more of it.

 

Now here’s the part that doesn’t quite play into the lunatic agenda of spreading hilarious misinformation: I loved the idea of doing more ZIM stuff!

 

 

Like I said, the show was doing alright on NICKTOONS, getting the 2nd highest ratings of anything on the network, coming in under Avatar, and for a show coming up on a decade old, that’s pretty damned great!

 

That I still keep in touch with people from Nickelodeon is probably one of the more mindblowing bits to people that think I do nothing by firebomb the place anytime I’m near enough to hit it. That the network would even dare call me to talk about more of a show it is supposed to hate is the second such bit.

 

But crazy stuff is sometimes just as crazy as it sounds, and more ZIM is probably too crazy for reality! The weird energy around resurrecting the show (that’s actually how one of the NICK execs referred to it) ebbed a bit in recent months and it looks like it’s not going to happen. Honestly, I’d love working on newer ideas for different shows, but that place in my head that wants to take those old characters to new places and torture the hell out of them just a bit more can’t help be be a bit sad to see the lights dim on that world just a bit. A world in mothballs is what it feels like when these things don’t get to live in more than just reruns.

 

Reasons? The usual…too expensive, and not nearly soul-crushingly bland enough. Okay, I added that last part, but come on…you know that’s part of it!

 

But here’s what IS cool, and not sad in the least: This all came to be because the show simply doesn’t die. It might be wrapped up in packing peanuts and shoved out of the way a bit, hidden even, but like the most determined child on the hunt for its father’s handgun that they KNOW is gonna be a hell of a fun time, the audience just never let the show go, potentially to the aggravation of the network. You guys just don’t shut the hell up about it, and even though there will probably be no new episodes, it made a bunch of executives, people who seriously don’t know what the hell is happening without first polling actual human beings on it first, blink in confusion, irritation and possibly wonder at this old show I came up with to where they actually picked up the phone to discuss breathing just a bit more life into it.

 

We made a pretty cool thing, and then we went away from it, but you guys, you never dropped it, you infected your children with it, and those kids infected their pets with it. I visit my wee nieces and nephews and they talk about it like it’s something that just came out, and they act out episodes and when I’m done screaming at them to shut up, I think about how freaking cool it is to have infiltrated people’s brains in such a way, and I wonder how I can use this to my criminal advantage someday.

 

Okay, so that’s that, for now anyhow. This is all based on information that is still steaming hot, like phone calls just this morning hot, and that’s the gist of it, that new ZIM stuff is likely not going forward. In this world, that never means never, but it’s not the kind of thing anyone should be holding their breath over!

 

I’m glad you guys dug the show, continue to dig the show, and hopefully, when someone has the balls to not just consider more nonsense from me, but to actually make it, you’ll dig that too! If you don’t…I’ll firebomb your ass.

this was done in 2010, just let go of it man...seriously the invader zim fandom is obsessive even the creator of it thinks so, its just pathetic and a bit sad really.

Edited August 8, 2012 by Sigrun

[nlh0012 39]

He thinks it's cool how obsessive the fan base is though.

 

But here’s what IS cool, and not sad in the least: This all came to be because the show simply doesn’t die. It might be wrapped up in packing peanuts and shoved out of the way a bit, hidden even, but like the most determined child on the hunt for its father’s handgun that they KNOW is gonna be a hell of a fun time, the audience just never let the show go, potentially to the aggravation of the network. You guys just don’t shut the hell up about it, and even though there will probably be no new episodes, it made a bunch of executives, people who seriously don’t know what the hell is happening without first polling actual human beings on it first, blink in confusion, irritation and possibly wonder at this old show I came up with to where they actually picked up the phone to discuss breathing just a bit more life into it.

 

We made a pretty cool thing, and then we went away from it, but you guys, you never dropped it, you infected your children with it, and those kids infected their pets with it. I visit my wee nieces and nephews and they talk about it like it’s something that just came out, and they act out episodes and when I’m done screaming at them to shut up, I think about how freaking cool it is to have infiltrated people’s brains in such a way, and I wonder how I can use this to my criminal advantage someday.

 

The blog also proved my point that if given the chance he would do it again.

 

(and I'm really not that obsessive I just wouldn't mind seeing a good show back on the network).

[Sigrun 1,064]

He thinks it's cool how obsessive the fan base is though.

 

But here’s what IS cool, and not sad in the least: This all came to be because the show simply doesn’t die. It might be wrapped up in packing peanuts and shoved out of the way a bit, hidden even, but like the most determined child on the hunt for its father’s handgun that they KNOW is gonna be a hell of a fun time, the audience just never let the show go, potentially to the aggravation of the network. You guys just don’t shut the hell up about it, and even though there will probably be no new episodes, it made a bunch of executives, people who seriously don’t know what the hell is happening without first polling actual human beings on it first, blink in confusion, irritation and possibly wonder at this old show I came up with to where they actually picked up the phone to discuss breathing just a bit more life into it.

 

We made a pretty cool thing, and then we went away from it, but you guys, you never dropped it, you infected your children with it, and those kids infected their pets with it. I visit my wee nieces and nephews and they talk about it like it’s something that just came out, and they act out episodes and when I’m done screaming at them to shut up, I think about how freaking cool it is to have infiltrated people’s brains in such a way, and I wonder how I can use this to my criminal advantage someday.

 

The blog also proved my point that if given the chance he would do it again.

 

(and I'm really not that obsessive I just wouldn't mind seeing a good show back on the network).

 

the thing is he wouldnt, hes glad it might live on but he is annoyed by it at the same time.

 

its an alright show but i wouldnt want it back, fandom is way to obsessive and rude. its one of the most obsessive fandoms i have ever seen. saw a chick stab another chick over a Gir plushie. its even worse than the whole twilight fandom even, and they would rip you to SHREDS literally If you said something bad about their preciously sparkly better-lack-of-a-word-vampire.