#savesohelpmetodd

[thewickedbohemian]

"Rage", a poem I wrote based on the Emily Dickinson poem "Hope" and some of my positive interpretations of the Rage aspect

(and also kind of emotionally motivated by my struggles to try and get So Help Me Todd saved #savesohelpmetodd #renewsohelpmetodd)

"Rage" is the thing with fire

That's burning deep inside

When justice needs a little push

Or rules need be defied

And though it may not seem like much

When only from one voice

The rage of many joined as one

Can shout above the noise

The fire must be kept alight

And do not stop the song

For it's a call to set things right

Together we are strong

[fandomrelatedshowerthoughts]

Remember how before Ezekiel's real backstory was revealed (albeit somewhat not jiving with how he's talked about in season commentary but that's another issue) there was this whole big theory among the The Librarians fandom that he was Jenkins's kid. Well, if you watch So Help Me Todd (and if you do you should help save it), you'd know that (albeit half-genderbent and with a couple siblings) the relationship between Margaret and Todd Wright is essentially that (that kind of dynamic but they are indeed parent-child)

[thewickedbohemian]

Is it just me or has it been forever since we've had a good urban fantasy/fantasy-procedural/you-get-what-I-mean show on broadcast TV

Maybe that's why I'm both having such weird feelings about The Librarians (from anxiety about some of the potential implications from the spinoff trailer to guilt over taking a break from the fandom even though it was necessary for my mental health) and trying to project from the fantastical subtext (whether or not it's a Librarians AU or crossover as why The Librarians works so well with things is it handles all kinds of fantastical shit as opposed to Warehouse 13 only dealing with Artifacts, Grimm only dealing with Wesen and Supernatural only dealing with stuff either biblical or classic-monster-or-American-cryptid-y) of Brilliant Minds, Tracker (though doesn't that have implied-canon both fantasy and sci-fi stuff as in S2E2 we don't know what the brothers saw wasn't a UFO and in S2E5 that teen witch healer chick saved the life of both Colter and the dad of the guys who kidnapped her), So Help Me Todd (as I'm still fighting for that #savesohelpmetodd) and Elsbeth.

We haven't had a similar sort of urban fantasy investigative-y show on broadcast TV in years (The Librarians: The Next Chapter would have been on CW if they hadn't been dumbasses) and haven't even had any non-reboot-or-sitcom "genre" (fantasy or sci-fi) show on most network channels since Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist ended so I guess I'm just desperate for something to fill the gap

[thewickedbohemian]

Hyperspecific poll for opinions on fandoms (as opposed to the last one I did which was relationship with fandom as a whole)

Which of these fandom-related unpopular opinions of mine do you agree with

The Big Bang Theory and Glee don't deserve half the hate they get

the Tonys has a bias against teen-friendly musicals (DEH was just Tonybait)

Lysandre and Team Flare are the worst villains in Pokemon

Chibnall's non-Timeless-Child-related Doctor Who work was decent quality overall

So Help Me Todd should be picked back up for a S3 and Matlock un-renewed

don't change a HP-associated name of a thing if you're keeping its concept

Eureka's autism representation is more than it seems

Overwatch is not dead, it's just many things need fixing

She-Hulk deserved better

multiple

none of these/not in these fandoms

results

Voting ended onNov 5, 2024

Some explanations

my theory of the Tonys having anti-teen bias is evidenced by snubs of various kinds for shows like Starmites, The Lightning Thief and Be More Chill and Dear Evan Hansen only swept imho despite this because (despite how its own movie would end up turning out) it's kinda the Broadway equivalent of an Oscarbait movie

the thing about changing the HP-related things' names is e.g. the only reason the irl quidditch league or w/e should have changed the sport name to quadball is the adjustment needed for Muggles to play and since in concept and using-house-symbols the sortinghatchats system still shows its HP influence, it shouldn't have dropped house labels

what I mean about the Eureka thing is that I have a theory that due to things like when Eureka was founded, the kind of people it attracts and the endogamy implied by its secrecy, not a lot of people in town know much of anything about Aspergers/"high-functioning" autism/"low-support" autism despite how many people in town would probably test as having it so only a case of autism as severe as pre-time-jump Kevin would register to most Eurekans as autism (and he didn't get cured he just got higher-functioning/lower-support, still doesn't explain how a timeline jump changed that though)

She-Hulk's show not only deserved more seasons but longer ones, think of what it could have got on a network instead of a streaming service

[thewickedbohemian]

If I had a nickel for every 2020s major-network procedural drama-but-not-a-gritty-one where a somewhat-neurodivergent young-ish-adult male protagonist with daddy issues but not the conventional kind gets rescued from a professional failure by the opportunity to work for his very-enneagram-1-esque mom in a work environment that puts him in contact with a lot of strong women (including an old female friend in the sense of old friend not old woman) and a much more straightlaced guy who's a dramatic foil to him to the point of homoerotic sexual tension, I'd have two nickels (or should that be Nichols) which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

Now let's get one of those shows picked the fuck back up and make sure the other show doesn't share its fate of needing to be saved that way

[thewickedbohemian]

Sign the Petition

Renew So Help Me Todd for a 3rd season

Because so help me Todd, we cannot let this end on the reported cliffhanger

[thewickedbohemian]

So part 1 of a documentary on the whole SHMT sitch just dropped, watch and spread it to spread the message as A. I still believe just because Scott Prendergast may be working on another show doesn't mean we still can't fight for this one to come back (and my ideal scenario would be through a Leverage: Redemption crossover with Margaret as the kind of client that'd draw the team back to Portland (and Todd etc. getting in on the con as if Sophie need more neuroweird cats to herd) bonus points if the Watsonian reason why some of the grifting would be infiltrating various points of the legal system is because she knows Harry so he could just be himself but being another kind of lawyer or w/e) as long as so many years don't pass that the actors age out of believability in their roles (as shows have taken long gaps between seasons before as well as retooled themselves with slightly changed titles (so maybe we could sneak a comeback in in a way that makes them think spinoff like how S3 of The Orville was called The Orville: New Horizons)) and B. either way regardless of what happens with SHMT no other show deserves the same fate as it currently has

So keep spreading the message and fighting the good fight (no pun intended)

[thewickedbohemian]

I hate to panic-poll again but

Do you think there's any hope for So Help Me Todd?

Yes

No

Voting ended onAug 22, 2025

Yeah I saw Scott Prendergast's Insta I just wasn't sure how to take that message as I couldn't tell if he was just accepting he had to work on something else because he needed a job or if he'd truly given up (esp. as the latter would mean some part of the message inadvertently as if his ability to imagine the story he'd planned and keep the characters alive in his mind or w/e means he's okay with not doing the show when I didn't think him saying "one way or another, all So Help Me Todd stories will be told" referred to his daydreams any more than it referred to that goddamn article) and I did have some crazy ideas for how to build support if it could come-back-but-take-a-few-years, from him writing the story down in books and then bringing the show back now "based on the best-selling books" to including stealth-implied-crossovers in other CBS shows to make it a franchise

I am not giving up