What I sent to Oprah

POSTED BY: DevonNite
UPDATED: Thursday, December 14, 2006 20:44
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DEVONNITE

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:21 PM

The Oprah Show limits you on the amount of characters you can send in an email so I had to send an abbrev form of the email I sent to G4TV:

There has been a lot of press for the performers behaving badly. i.e. Mel Gibson, Michael Richards and Britney Spears. How about some press for performers giving back to their fans?

There is a TV franchise called "Firefly" and a movie based on the series call "Serenity". Recently there was to be a convention for the fans of the show called FlanventionII, but it was canceled at the last minute, in fact several people were already in transit from as far away as Aus, and the UK, so when the fans came to the hotel, they were greeted with the cancellation of the event. Many local Browncoats(a name from the show) put together an event as best as possible, but then the stars of the Series and movie began to show up on there own. No monetary compensation, just for the love of the franchise and the fans. For the entire weekend, they spent time with the fans, giving autographs and taking pictures and giving back to those who had been faithful to the franchise.
This is a story that should be told. The performers deserve positive publicity for giving back to the fans, unlike so many these days.

Adam Baldwin, Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Christina Hicks, Mark Shepard.

Please show them some love..

It might sound like I have short changed the SoCal Browncoats, but there was limited space. I hope they know how much other fans of the franchise, respect what they were able to pull off. It turned out to be a spectacular event through the hard work and patience and tenacity of the Local Browncoats. Big props to them all

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:34 PM

Now THAT's one shiny idea ya got there ! I don't fancy Oprah too much , but I do know of her power in the 'verse. Might not amount to much, but I'll bet someone along the line get's the good word.

Well done!

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

GLADIATOR32

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:13 PM

Good work, mate, I like your thinking!

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SAMEERTIA

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:17 PM

I do hope you correctected the use of there instead of their before you sent it?

PIRATECAT

Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:17 AM

Is that all you got say, Sweet Baby Jane. Little kid bs ooh you didn't cross your t. Who gives a whoop. Somebody was tryin to do good Jack Ass.
Man tired of the boobs on the internet. FF letter is a good thing. THANK YOU

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

LEEH

Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:07 AM

Great idea!!!

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. . . ."

DEVONNITE

Thursday, December 14, 2006 4:13 AM

I received a notice from The Oprah Show saying that they had gotten the email I sent, but there were no guarantee that they would do anything with it. Atleast I gave it a shot.

I also sent an email to the syndicated "Stephanie Miller Show". I wish a had been able to do more.

RHAEGARTARGARYEN

Thursday, December 14, 2006 4:27 AM

Good work, DevonNite.

My signature...Rhae.

RAVENHAIR

Thursday, December 14, 2006 5:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by DevonNite:
I received a notice from The Oprah Show saying that they had gotten the email I sent, but there were no guarantee that they would do anything with it. Atleast I gave it a shot.

I also sent an email to the syndicated "Stephanie Miller Show". I wish a had been able to do more.

I love Oprah and always thought that she should showcase the phenomenon of Firefly and its fanbase! Thank you for giving it a go - who knows? Maybe Oprah's a Browncoat! (or will become one if she decides to look into it)
*****
Mal:We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough.

SAMEERTIA

Thursday, December 14, 2006 5:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by PirateCat:
Is that all you got say, Sweet Baby Jane. Little kid bs ooh you didn't cross your t. Who gives a whoop. Somebody was tryin to do good Jack Ass.
Man tired of the boobs on the internet. FF letter is a good thing. THANK YOU

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

PirateCat,
You may not comprehend this, but in the professional world, spelling and grammar count.
A letter to Oprah won't mean a thing if her staff that sorts through three thousand emails a day says, "Oh, look, another badly written plea for supporting a fandom" and deletes it.

I agree, the letter is a good thing! If I'm not mistaken, the longer version went to CNN? Or one of the other major news sources? And I responded to that thread saying it was a good thing.

We, as fans trying to bring attention to a cause, cannot make the mistake of tossing out badly spelled, grammatically incorrect go se and expecting the world to stand up and listen.

Well written, well thought out, and grammatically correct writing may be heard amongst the masses of poorly churned chum that hits the newswires every single day. Something that looks like just more chum will be fed to the fish.
Now, if you feel the need to continue to call me names and thrash on me for making an essential suggestion, I suggest you take it to private message, where the rest of these folks don't have to wade through it.

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