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Delphinios
11-26-2002, 03:30 AM
Okay...at the urgings of a few people from the forum, I'm giving this its own thread. I guess a few of you wanted to use it, and you're more than welcome to do so. I sent it to every human being I could think of...The chances of someone seeing it are better if more than one person use it...so go for it. I have no problems with that. :)

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Birds of Prey is a show about true survivors....not castaways on desert islands, but women who have survived life and lived to tell about it. Barbara Gordon was attacked, shot, and crippled... Helena Kyle was the child of a single parent, and watched her mother die before her eyes... Dinah Lance was abused and misunderstood, abandoned by a her mother in the name of Love itself...

After everything they've been through...these women refuse to be victims. They don't expect the whole world to pity them, and then get angry when it does. They don't live dark, hopeless lives, wallowing in a world of self pity as so many people would. They're survivors. They cried, and pitied themselves for a little while, and then they moved on, stronger because of the pain. They are fighters, heros, the people that built this world and keep it safe for everyone else.

Huntress, Oracle and Dinah don't need fancy Haloween costumes or masks to be heros. They're heros just because they get up every morning and refuse to surrender to the evil that populates this world. They are not Women of Steel...invinicible...alien. They are human beings with weaknesses and fears and emotions like everyone else.

Birds of Prey is more than a show about superheros. This is more than a comicbook. Because, behind the CGI and the fancy fight sequences, stand three women who in a short time have already captured the hearts of almost 4 million people, and who have the potential to capture 40 million more. There is something that connects each one of us the Birds of Prey...even if it is only the strength and triumph of the human spirit.

The world needs heros, now more than ever...but even more than this, we need to know that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, that we can survive, and that even in the darkest cities...there are rays of light...heros...Birds of Prey.


There. Do with it what you will. :)
Bethany

Sxygrrl Huntress
11-26-2002, 05:09 AM
Truly inspiring Bethany - thanks for posting it at the "urgings of a few people" ;)

This is one of the most inspiring things I have read on this forum to date and Bethany, you have really captured the heart of the show - I wish the writers would have paid more attention. But there's still hope....

This article is perfect for the media. Imagine this appearing in your local paper with a great photo of the birds...

I asked Bethany if we could use this to send to our local newspapers to promote the show and she blushed, and said yes. :D

I've reread it several times and it really strikes a chord in me. Perhaps it is how I always felt the show to be but was not allowed the chance to see that on tv. Thank you for writing it, and giving us the chance to use it.

My flyer is for visual promotion but her article would be an excellent way to draw in a new group of viewers. So what do you think? Want to see if your local paper will publish it? Or if a local radio station will use a portion of it on air?

Hey Bethany, if anyone does send it to papers, how do you want the credit line to appear? Full name? Annoymous? Bethany? Delphinios?

Keep up the great promotion everyone!

Angie :)

Lance
11-26-2002, 05:14 AM
I like it, Bethany. You and I and many others understand it, but the writers didn't, and consequently too many viewers didn't either. I've thought from the beginning --- BEFORE the pilot went on the air in October --- that BoP has not been judged fairly for what it is --- too many people have judged it entirely on what it ISN'T.

tvfanatic
11-26-2002, 10:38 AM
Just to let you know last night you posted this before I sent the letter to my contact at Tribune Entertainment and I included this letter because I could not of put things into words any better. You did an amazing job writing that so lets hope my contact likes it as much as the rest of us do. Well done. Keep the hope alive.

TheWraith
11-26-2002, 04:26 PM
Well said, Bethany. You're writing is certainly better than what we got on BoP.

Sxygrrl Huntress
11-11-2003, 04:07 AM
I always loved this article that my pal wrote. I read it on occasion because it really gets to the heart of the show.

I had to bring it up again for those that haven't read it yet.