Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? (True Adventures in Cult Fandom)

Author:Allyson Beatrice [Beatrice, Allyson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sourcebooks Trade, ISBN-13: 9781402208454
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Tim Minear. December 13, 2002, 1:28:30

a.m. PST

Hey, guys.

First off, wanted to say out loud to all what a brill ad that was in Variety. We were all impressed and moved. Not only was it dang nice, the doing of the thing, but it was really classy and smart.

Okay. Sigh.

We did get word tonight, Fox won’t be order-

ing any new eps. That translates to “cancelled.”

We will finish shooting the ep now in production (I’m directing, in fact Joss came down to the set to break the bad news to cast and crew — we

wrapped early, but are back at it in the am), we’ll finish post on all eps, and Fox says they’re going to somehow air all eps. One expects with giant banner ads over them for Meet My Rich Phoney Sex Date or whatever unreality series they’ve got up their, er, sleeves.

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That morning, I took up a small collection to send flowers over to the set for the crew members who had just found themselves pink-slipped two weeks before Christmas. We were completely deflated for about thirty seconds. When the Rapture comes, you want Kristen and me on your side.

The next day, we made calls to find out if Mutant Enemy was going to shop the show to another network. As it turned out, they were taking their pitch to UPN. So we pulled a U-turn and crashed the campaign through the network’s front door. Kristen posted the new directions before our fandom army had a chance to go AWOL.

Kristen. December 13, 2002, 3:36:31 p.m.

PST

Attention, K-Mart Shoppers . . . I mean,

Buffistas . . .

Okay, we have a direction to point you in. We like to call this direction UPN.

What we need are postcards by the truckload

going to Les Moonves and Dawn Tarnofsky-

Ostroff. You can send any kind of postcards

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you’d like to but we thought it would be a nice touch if the cards had a certain uniformity.

There is now a PDF up at [the Firefly Support site]. It’s an 8.5 x 11 sheet of postcards that feature the Variety ad. You can print the document onto cardstock, cut them into fours and, voila, four handy postcards . . . On the back, let them know how much you enjoyed the show while it

was on FOX, and how eager you are for it to

find a home with UPN. Keep things upbeat and positive, so they’ll know what classy fans Joss and his crew will be bringing to the network!

Some ideas for things to mention: your favorite episode, why the show moves you, why you

think the show has potential, etc.

Our two catchwords now are: VOLUME

and SPEED.

We need a lot of postcards on their desks

really damn fast.

Thanks guys!

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Kristen got a call from Tim Minear’s assistant that week.

We were invited to the set to watch the final episode filming.

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