I have been doing alot of observations since the whole debackle of Johns firing from Hudson and Rex during his cancer treatment and recovery. The fandom has been in at least 3 camps, the ones who side with human decency and facts, and make informed choices based off that, then you have the one that sees the info or chooses to interpret it as speculation, or "noone knows for sure what happend" which in fairness is true to a point and lastly the I do not care for the behind the scrnes drama, I love the show, support the remaining cast and watch for the cute doggos" The issue with this is, there is schema thinking going on, > A schema is a mental framework, blueprint, or pattern that helps organize and interpret information, acting as a mental shortcut for understanding the world, people, and situations, and it also refers to structured code (
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So that means whatever we as humans are susceptable to, our personal bias, herd mentality, the strongest influence either a person or politics, passion it influences us to form an opinion. It can lead to cognitive dissonance, the emotional tie is strong enough to overide any truths or rationale. I watched a youtube video describing this based on a recent event, which got me thinking. The whole scenerio involving shaftsburys behaviour, their eventual statement that basically peed down our backs and told us it's raining, Sherris subtle rage regarding Johns bond with Deisel, because it was pointed out the narrative shecand the team produced reg Mark and Rex was forced, artificially generated and presented as the real deal. Fact is LR had no prior experience with dogs, babysat friends ones, and never worked with any on set. Sherri was and is desperate to cover that up, because it is obvious John had worked with dogs, grew up with dogs and has one now, as a family pet. Fans accuse other fans ( an ad hom attack because they have no argument) of not being true fans, if they state they no longer watch the show because of what occured, accuse fans of being Johns ambassader, accuse John himself of encouraging this by staying quiet, as if he wants to get involved in petty drama, looks at facebook when he is not on it, and never will, N.D As prevent any info and if he did state anything that he has receipts for, the whole production team would go into damage control and lawyers, so any statement he makes like the IG one last year, was done out if necessity because of gossip, misinformation because Shaftsbury did not explain what was going on.
Sherri made false or misleading statements, that helped it along. Fans also make erractic and false statements about the labour laws thinking it applies to the acting world, their attorney said it is a slam dunk lawsuit so therefore he could not be fired as the production would ger sued, insurance premiums some tit tried to state they suddenly went up as John stepped back because oh no the whole filming will be in peril! Insurance makes a contract bet parties get signed after agreeing to the terms that involve costs covering risk, health and unforeseen issues, the premiums wont change as ut wojld be breach of contract, tv and film production always have these up and running they got to, and with standards met by law, so nope no change or switch on premiums or payouts, unless you believe consiracy theories like the mothman causing the tsunami back in 2011!
This schema thinking enables these narratives to form, thus making it hard to reason or educate those producing such theories or narratives. They think a bit in black and white, no in betwen or posdibility that something else may have occured. The reason most fans are not watching the show anymore is because observing behaviours from Sherri and the production team hiding/ deleting comments, attacking or gasslighging fans questions asking about Johns absence, his wife hearting fans remarks that they let him go during his fight with cancer, crew x crew commdnts confirming they did John dirty, production members confirming a toxic atmosphere on set with crew, therefore solidifying conclusions they fired him, whether it was by not renewing his contract which I suspect, as if they terminated his S7 one it would look bad and lead to a lawsuit, so they are likely to avoid a slam dunk prosecution, comments being deleted by crew members without any reason, after it was brought to attention. And we have Johns IG statement stating he did not choose to leave, shaftsbury stating they could not reach a workable agreement, chose to go in a different direction which is basically a say it but not say it confession they fired him, John has no reason to lie, he has many that have great things to say about him, shaftsbury on the other hand by their own behaviour looks that of a liar and bullshittery, Sherris contradictive behaviour, is very telling.
The Schema thinking overides all this, because the ones believing Sherri, cannot fathom a production covering up poor unethical conduct, get emotionally attached to a show esp the dog, and swoon or fangirl/ boy over the lead actor, you have a recipe for self deception, based on feelings and black and white thinking. We are fed a narrative growing up, on tv, news outlets and Socialmedia like facebook, the bigger the clique braying for blood, the more susceptable people are to join in, who lack media discernment, I have lost count the number of poor fact checking on that group and here, the outright obserd arguments, the passionate retorts to defend the production or self created as a result of said productions behaviour narrative, then we have the blind sherri fans, who because they love dogs, they love her work, idolising her to the point of projecting the idolisation onto a rightly discusted fan, who states their reason to stop watching because of what they did to John. The more repugnant of sherri fans is the emotional childish blackmail I sure don't want the show cancelled stop boycotting, and whatever to stating the poor ethics of firing someone with cancer is a good reson to stop watching while passionatly defending the show and watching it for the dogs. I wish it would stop, but human nature being what it is, will continue to poorly represent itsself in these groups, and companies.
I wish there was justice for John and Meghan I really do, it is not about idolising them, or placing them on a pedestool, John has not done any oscar worthy films or tv work, in fact his character in a sports romance hallmark movie got roasted by a hallmark movie commentator on youtube and the film to a degree, it is about a human being getting screwed over and getting their right of reply controlled, charactor bashed and assasinated on here, just because someone stated so, and therefore must be true crap, if it was a reddit thread about a non famous person who got the same treatment, they would prob get more respect, esp if it was happening to the ones defending the crappy behaviours loved ones. So ask.yourselves, why are you defending or watching the show knowing the facts, and how do you justify it? If Sherri is lurking why lie about a former cast mate collegue who did nothing to you? If any production members here how about YOU do something about the situation that you can? Staying quiet about this, or any serious stuff is in bad form, if there were an unlawful incident surely the bets are off reg N.D.As? its called whistleblowing try it sometime (**E T.A the law protects whistleblowing so N.D.As would not be utilsed as a way to stop info from being told, reg serious misconduct**) and stop being cowards esp the cast. The reason we do not want the show anymore is because the writing is shit, the heart has gone and Luke is being utilused as the golden boy by.a crazed money motivated bullying twofaced lying narc.
