Whereas; in my experience ratings rarely increase from a show's first season to second overall so fans shouldn't let those lead to a self-defeating loop of "it's doomed so I'm not watching so it's doomed" and especially not blame story decisions they dislike (esp. as I'm 90% convinced that the somewhat-benching of Jacob and Van/demotion of their actors is only a temporary thing to partially accommodate actors' other commitments and partially leave room for new characters in the story to have more space to establish themselves)

Whereas; speaking of said new characters they have expanded upon the reputation this show has already begun to establish for well-written (at least with the new ones relative to their limited screen time so far) diverse characters and even the token white guy of the newbies seems to be a lot more than he appears thus proving both immense story potential and this show's moral about seeing people's humanity

Whereas; given the amounts of shakeups in everything from cast to plot this season ending after it would just reframe those in hindsight as a desperate move by the network and give what could be the next House the same kind of tarnished-by-"terminal-diagnosis" legacy as a show like Pushing Daisies

Whereas; there's a lot more room for the story and characters to grow and experiment and this awesome amount of potential does not deserve to be cut off at the knees

Whereas; in these desperate times we need hopeful shows like this more than ever and in these times more willing to stigmatize mental illness/mental health treatment and care we need shows like Brilliant Minds so we can have more doctors like Dr. Wolf

Whereas; NBC has said it wanted to put more focus into the marketing or w/e for Brilliant Minds when the S2 was announced (which I kinda interpreted in a similar way to ABC making Abbott Elementary a flagship show like it had done with Modern Family) so to abandon it now would feel like a greater betrayal than any that may or may not be occurring in Brilliant Minds's current metaplot

Whereas; the decision to pull it six episodes from S2's finale leaves too many questions unanswered and the satisfying ending NBC promised for S2 isn't likely to answer every fan question or follow up on everything 

Therefore; NBC should reverse its decision and give Brilliant Minds a third season but if it can't/doesn't want to, it should make sure it's shopped around to other networks or even a streaming service that will like was more obviously stated was going to be done for its fellow supposed-focus-marketed-yet-still-betrayed-with-cancellation-after-2-seasons drama The Hunting Party (I have made two other petitions to help this effort anyone who's signed this one should also sign if they haven't, one after hearing about the pulling-summer-move-thing and one after hearing The Hunting Party got cancelled and was going to be shopped)

#RenewBrilliantMinds #BrilliantMindsS3