Bread and Circus

Reposted from Facebook's Save Endgame group"


Time to celebrate the show that has brought us all together while letting the world know we want it back for another season!


To make sure our message is heard, while getting to know each other and share favourite moments, we will spread the party over 2 days and multiple social media formats. 


The most important of all is Twitter, because we can reach old fans, and find new ones, reach out to the media and let cast and crew know we apprecite them. Throughout the day, we can post links to the other venues we will be using, so others can join in on the more personal conversations about Endgame. Look for the page/campaign Twitter handle @SaveEndgame to connect to cast members and each other. 
Our hashtag will be #SaveEndgameNow


Set up a Google+ account if you would like to talk face to face. You can initiate hangouts from Youtube- read here:

http://mashable.com/2011/08/18/watch-with-friends-youtube/


Facebook group- you can chat via the page or group chat:http://www.facebook.com/groups/205695189483671/


On the Village Gamer server: 

http://endgame.villagegamer.net:7001/?channels=save-endgame&uio=MT1mYWxzZSYyPXRydWUmND10cnVlJjk9dHJ1ZSYxMT0yMzYce


Let's use this opportunity to speak up and out and get to know a little more about each other. We all came together for a reason, and that is to SAVE ENDGAME!!

 Posted from a member's post on the Endgame Facebook group:

I'm in the process of setting up a fan meetup, a few hours when Endgame lovers can rendezvous, hang out, talk about our favourite show, etc.

Endgame fans in the Boston area please contact ramekin.redux@gmail.com to express interest and to suggest activities for our meetup, which would probably take place near the end of July. (Ultimate Frisbee on the Boston Commons? :D)

This looks like fun! I might be attending!

Endgame is a show about an agoraphobic Russian grandmaster who solves crimes from the safety of his hotel by applying chess strategy and constructing mental models of his crime scenes and running various what-if scenarios through them.

If you haven't heard of us (and to be quite honest, you probably haven't) the Endgame fan community is trying to get this wonderful show renewed for a second season. The campaign is remarkable because it is international in scope despite the fact that Showcase did not promote or give access to the show anywhere outside of Canada. I had a hell of a time finding it myself, but recently, eastonbunny has uploaded all of the episodes on Youtube. I also have all of them on my hard drive, and you can find them here on tv-links.

If you want to learn more about the show, I've written a pimp for smallfandomfest here at the LJ Endgame community Endgame TV. Or, you could just watch the first ten minutes of the show below, courtesy of eastonbunny.

If you're interested in helping save the show, please consult this post on Endgame TV or contact me! Please help spread the word about this show!

Thanks to tarlanx, I am now thoroughly addicted to Endgame,  a Canadian show about a Russian chess grandmaster who witnessed his fiancee's death while in Vancouver for a chess competition and is now an agoraphobe who lives at the Huxley Hotel. He needs a way to pay his massive hotel bills, so he begins to solve crimes from the safety of the hotel. Because he can't go outside, he applies chess theory to construct mental models of crime scenes and runs various scenarios of what could have happened, often walking into them himself. He amasses a group of 'Baker street irregulars' who go out to crime scenes and report back to him. 

There are so many reasons to love this show. Shawn Doyle as Grandmaster Arkady Balagan is freaking brilliant. He manages to be captivating and clever and infuriating all at once. His body language and delivery really define the eccentricity and genius of the character. The supporting characters are great, and you can really see them start to come together to form a network as you go through the episodes. My favourite character is Alcina, the Guatemalan housekeeper at the Huxley who is brilliant and kind and no-nonsense. Close second is Samuel Besht, a.k.a. the put-upon little graduate student/aspiring chess fanatic who Balagan picks on/reluctantly mentors depending on his mood and the amount of vodka he's had for the day.



I am totally going to be following this series from now on. We Yanks don't really get it here on television, so I'm slightly afraid about Endgame's popularity in America (number of viewers have apparently been decreasing, A-H-H. Don't do this to me again. I'm still getting over Dresden Files and Stargate Atlantis, and at least that had five seasons), hence this post and me telling random people I know about how good the show is. I really hope this show gets another season and goes somewhere. It looks like it has a lot of potential to be amazing.

 Endgame season 1 episodes on TV-Links. We have our sources.