Why we need to give Dominion's cast and crew a "breather"

Who here wants to hear from every single person connected to Dominion? Who here felt like it was such a huge part of their lives for the past couple of years?

I'm one of those people. I said in a recent tweet that I thought it likely I'd never experience anything like Dominion again.  I think that's true primarily because of the interaction with a LOT of people connected to the show, but also because of making connections with other fans, some of whom I communicate with very regularly.  They are now pretty dear to me and I worried with the show ending that I'd lose that connection.  Thankfully, that does not appear to be happening any time soon. (Hugs Moaties).



But, let's step back and think for a minute.  For as much as this show impacted us, and we spent time and emotion on it (freely!), this cannot measure IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY, to the involvement of the people who brought this all to life.


For a few people, and Vaun Wilmott is certainly the first example to spring to mind, this experience began three years ago. It is an incredibly complicated process to work with people, get selected to be responsible, wrangle (and wrangle and wrangle) the legal rights, start stocking up on the players that will perform all the functions (yet more wrangling), get permission and funding to make a pilot, wordcraft that pilot, MAKE the pilot, present the pilot and convince the network to let your pilot blossom into an actual show, get people back together, work on set for 5 months to complete the season, struggle with finite amounts of money, sit back and wait for renewal. Rinse and repeat. 

All the while, he was trying to accomplish something that's a little cutting edge, like establishing a twitter presence, contacting people, and being consistently present on social media. Layer onto that persuading members of the cast and crew to participate. Oh, and have a family life. 

That's just VAUN. For many of the actors, this was a BIG DEAL. They invested a lot of time and energy in this and they also were regularly making contact with fans. There are very few shows out there that have anywhere like this level of interaction. So, we fans were spoiled. 
I'm sure that Vaun is exhausted from over two straight years of producing the show. He needs to recharge and to focus on new projects, because he is NOT in control of any decisions that determine if the show is "saved." The reality is that the show is cancelled. He has to look out for himself, and so do the actors. To stay on Twitter, focused on Dominion, makes it hard for him to move on. And, I feel sure it's the same for the actors.

HOW FRUSTRATING!

Imagine that you went into work one day and you were told to clean out your desk and then all the people you tweet with wanted you to keep tweeting about your job you just got fired from and how great it was and how it sucked that you got fired when there was so much more work you could do. Honestly, would you go back to Twitter? Go back knowing that you would receive HUNDREDS of tweets, perhaps thousands, all of the time. Well-meaning tweets, mostly, but all re-opening that wound. Little wonder they all need time to lick their wounds.

So, let's spare some compassion for the folks associated with the show, and understand that they have to move on with their lives and find some closure. If we are VERY EXTRAORDINARILY LUCKY, and Dominion is picked up, then I expect we will hear from them. And as time passes, I expect them to reemerge. But not anytime soon. And, I'm OK with that.