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Friday, 23 July 2004 17:40:11
This afternoon I'm going down to the convention center to try to register myself and my Wife for Saturday and Sunday. I called their hotline and they said I can do that, hopefully the volunteer I talked to knew what she was talking about! Should save us a lot of aggravation getting in, especially on Saturday. The news on this just kept getting better and better as the con got closer: First: Joss will be there, possibly comic related, possibly Serenity. Second: Yes it will be Serenity related! Third: Some, possibly all of the cast will be there (from Adam) Fourth: Official! All of the cast, plus Joss, plus Chris, plus others will be there. Plus! sneak peak of filming so far! Fifth: Free give-aways at the signing afterward! Sixth: Who knows what could happen? "May you live in interesting times." Most of the time I consider that to be one of the worst curses you can fling at another person, but this weekend I'm actually looking forward to 'interesting times'. :biggrin:
Sunday, 25 July 2004 04:01:38
It's not all that late, but I'm tired so this won't be detailed. Cathy and I arrived at 9:30 and just waltzed right in, since I had gotten our badges the night before. We wandered the huge exhibit area for a while, bought a few things, talked to a few people who saw Cathy's 'A Man Named Jayne' t-shirt, then headed to the balcony at 10:00. We wandered around for about 20 minutes without seeing/recognizing any other Browncoats so we headed to the blood drive room. On our way back UKGirl hailed us and asked who we were. She was the only Browncoat (i.e. from one of the boards) we met today. There is a massive LACK of Firefly swag. In all her shopping all Cathy found was a couple of pictures. She bought one of the whole crew so we at least have something for them to sign. What else did I see? Star Wars panel (we left after 15 minutes), Farscape panel was pretty much the highlight of the day. Sky Captain looks to be a great movie. Quite a few very odd costumes. More, and better, I hope, tomorrow.
Monday, 26 July 2004 21:52:09
I've already posted this in Shiny's con report thread, but wanted it in my blog as well. See link for photos and one short video at the bottom. Huge crowd! Hall 20 can hold 4300 people and I think it was almost completely full by the time Joss and crew came on stage. A fair number of browncoats from one board or another were all in line by 9:30am although the Serenity panel wasn't until 1:00pm. As soon as they opened the hall we rushed in and grabbed the best seats we could. Cathy and I were in row six, with quite a few browncoats in front of us. I basically sat there all morning saving seats while my wife wandered in and out. Some of those panels I had to sit through were just horrid. But I won't name names... Now for the good stuff. Joss walked on and the hall erupted into applause, whistles and cheers, including a standing ovation. It took him a minute or so to regain his composure and for us to quiet down. The first thing he did was show us the TRAILER! Awesome stuff, but I'm not even going to try to talk about it since it was basically all spoilers. Then our BDH's came on stage to another huge ovation. I couldn't take it all in, but at least Sean and Summer seemed fairly overwhelmed by the response. The rest of the panel was a Q&A, most of which I can't remember but there was one section where Joss asked each cast member to explain what they liked the most about their character. He also asked them each to tell what they liked the least about Jewel Here is what I wrote down, at the time about each one. Any errors in these quotes are strictly mine. Gina: I like my gun. It's a very sexy gun. She also liked the fact that her pants had spandex in them. Alan: He gets to be the one who says 'Lets put the guns down and try to avoid violence' (most of the time ) Adam: "What is life without work." Bottom line kind of guy, cut the bull. He started to say 'bullshit', but stopped halfway and asked if he could say that. The crowd responded 'YES'. Nathan: Even in the thick of battle you knew you could always turn to the Captain and know that he has the legs of a dancer. (Honest! That's what he said!) Jewel: Warmth. No beef with anybody on the ship. Relationship with the Captain. Can give him shit without him blowing up at her. Morena: Likes the fact that Inara is so smart and can do pretty much anything. Summer: Gets to walk around barefoot. Summer mentioned early in the series how she wanted River to have a gun, then by episode 10 she has one. She is shooting for the captaincy. Sean: Dislikes his tight pants. Love for his sister. "I love you Summer!" Ron: Humor, conviction, unpredictability. Least like about Jewel: her frequent absence. There was one time where Joss said something like "I didn't tell Adam this from the beginning but Jayne is Firefly's Cordelia". First Adam said, 'Yeah I can see that now", then he said "Who is Cordelia?", so he and Nathan started this long and Hi-larious pantomime where Nathan does the hour-glass outline, then mimes opening a centerfold, at which point Adam say "Oh! Now I remember!" Much laughter in the audience. Someone asked about nicknames other than Captain Tightpants. Morena mentioned that they are always calling her stupid. Nathan said they called Adam Mister Stinkypants. Adam said that got started on burrito day. There was a lot of joking about everyone calling Morena stupid until finally Adam said something about it being easier for a smart actor to act like a dumb person than a stupid actor act like a smart person. At which point Morena stood up and started to walk away but Joss intercepted her and gave her a hug, and escorted her back to her seat. Then he went over to Adam and gave him an inaudible speech. All was done in a spirit of fun! Morena was smiling the whole time. When they were each talking about what plans they had for the future, Gina started with "First I'm going to finish Serenity...." When it was Nathan's turn he said "I'm not leaving Serenity, I'm going to live there." Then he joked about spin-off's he