When fan campaigns go right...
Jul. 22nd, 2010 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluecastleWhen Law and Order: Criminal Intent had their huge cast shakeup earlier this year, the fans went a little nutty. Well, they went a little fluffy, sending jars of marshmallow fluff to the set, and to the USA Network to protest what they saw as a move towards shows and characters with a lighter tone than LO:CI had traditionally had.
[I've since read stuff which talks about the "blue sky filter" USA applies to shows, which cannot be unrelated to USA's handling of their L&O network step-child.]
But after everyone calmed down a bit, there was a group of fans who wanted to do something to let the three actors that were leaving -- Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, and Eric Bogosian -- know how much the fans appreciated their work on the show.
They tried a couple different ideas. But the one that stuck was putting together letters from the fans to the actors, and encasing them in binders like the one Vincent's character always carried on the show.
I only followed these things vaguely. They sort of drifted around on the periphery of my attention, but I just saw a blog post that contained a thank you letter to the fans from Eric Bogosian.
If you are at all interested in the interplay between actors and fans ... it's worth a read. And totally sweet to boot.
[I've since read stuff which talks about the "blue sky filter" USA applies to shows, which cannot be unrelated to USA's handling of their L&O network step-child.]
But after everyone calmed down a bit, there was a group of fans who wanted to do something to let the three actors that were leaving -- Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, and Eric Bogosian -- know how much the fans appreciated their work on the show.
They tried a couple different ideas. But the one that stuck was putting together letters from the fans to the actors, and encasing them in binders like the one Vincent's character always carried on the show.
I only followed these things vaguely. They sort of drifted around on the periphery of my attention, but I just saw a blog post that contained a thank you letter to the fans from Eric Bogosian.
If you are at all interested in the interplay between actors and fans ... it's worth a read. And totally sweet to boot.
