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FIREFLYGAL

Monday, July 18, 2005 5:09 PM

Did anyone ask spoiler type questions, which would have been unfair to any Browncoat who hasn't made it to the screening yet.

I aim to misbehave!

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THEREUR

Monday, July 18, 2005 6:27 PM

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Originally posted by fireflygal:
Did anyone ask spoiler type questions, which would have been unfair to any Browncoat who hasn't made it to the screening yet.

Nope--no spoilers. I think there would've been a riot.

THEREUR

Monday, July 18, 2005 6:39 PM

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Originally posted by Bleyddyn:
My wife and I were both very busy helping out with the fan table, although not anywhere near as busy as some of the organizers.

The fan table was great looking and seemed to draw larger crowds than any of the other fan tables.
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I worked for a few hours at the fan table too (Hi Bleyddyn!), and I was extremely impressed by the immense amount of work and organization that went into the very professional and attractive fan tables (hundreds of work hours--seriously). A Big Damn Thank You is richly deserved to the crew who put this all together (coordinated through SF Browncoats), and to the many Browncoats from all over the world (literally) who staffed the booth (I only did a few hours, but some were there for a lot longer than that over several days).

The table was hopping on Friday and Saturday. Most folks who came to the table on my shift seemed to be Browncoats already, but I did get to do my best to convert several newbies. Univeral delivered lots of cool swag which was fun to hand out--and BTW, we had some of the best swag in the hall from what I saw. And then Universal issued tickets to a screening Saturday night! (I didn't get to go).

Big News: The charity drive was incredibly successful. I read somewhere else that it raised over TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS for Equality Now!!!

Browncoats Rock is all I can say.
ThereUR (Dawn)

TRACY

Monday, July 18, 2005 6:46 PM

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Originally posted by fireflygal:
Did anyone ask spoiler type questions, which would have been unfair to any Browncoat who hasn't made it to the screening?

Seeing as the hall was pretty much packed with Browncoats, anybody aiming to do so would have been beaten down to a bloody pulp. So, in short, no.

In order to illustrate the thread, because everything's pretty much been said, this is a link to an album with shots from the big screen (you can see Joss very teeny at the podium - it gives you an idea of how far away I was, even though I changed seats three times). Some of the pics are not as shiny as I would have wanted them, but they're funny nonetheless, hence their inclusion. Enjoy!

http://tinyurl.com/8s4h3

Tracy

MAL: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em.
ZOE: Shoot 'em?
MAL: Politely.

THEREUR

Monday, July 18, 2005 7:01 PM

Tracy--

Very nice shots! Thanks for posting them. I'm a mite slower than you, and didn't start shooting the big screens until late in the panel, and my shots well, suck. I love the one of Jewel hugging the kneeling Joss :)

ThereUR

TRACY

Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:22 PM

Crossposting from: Comic Book Resources.com

From: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=5617

CCI, DAY 3 - SERENITY PANEL
by Hannibal Tabu, Staff Writer
Posted: July 19, 2005
The applause was thunderous when fan favorite Joss Whedon took the stage, then introducing the vocal and vicarious cast with a series of questions. "Who's my favorite? Mmm, Morena Baccarin! (walks out to applause) Who do I want to punish? Sean Maher! (walks out to applause) Who am I scared of? Ron Glass ..." and so on, as Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin (wielding an action figure of himself) were introduced. The panel began before the cast started wheedling Whedon about maybe forgetting somebody. "Oh ... who's probably going to kick my *** in a few minutes? Jewel Staite!" The actress stomped out, frowning, as Whedon crossed the stage to bow prostrate before her. She stared angrily for a moment, as the crowd hooted with laughter, and after a moment she came over to hug the still-prostrate director. She walked to her seat and he returned, on his knees, to the podium. Alan Tudyk had a prior commitment and could not attend.

Leaping into the Q&A, Whedon was asked how many special effects were in the film. "Twelve," he replied. "Sixteen? No, we had to cut it to twelve."

"You said we couldn't get paid more because there were only eight," Torres interrupted.

"That's before I replaced you with a CGI beagle," Whedon answered calmly.

The same fan had allegedly stood behind Whedon at a bookstore the night before, waiting for the midnight release of the latest "Harry Potter" novel, so she asked which character was his favorite. "Hermione!" Whedon replied with a kind of "duh" tone.

Whedon answered the next question about the differences in the work based on medium by saying that the film offered a more "epic scale to do lots we couldn't do on the TV show. There were many character threads that I wanted to pursue, that now I can't. Yet. If we're all very good, and they let us do another one, I'll do that. I took the overarching idea I had, that was going to be the first two years of the series, and made that the plot for the movie."

Whedon and the cast then talked about how they handled the transition from small to big screen. "Nervous breakdown?" Whedon asked. "We handled it better than you," Baccarin quipped, which amused both the cast and the crowd.

"The biggest benefit we had was all the time we had for preparation," Baldwin said. "It was all one big long episode, and we all got to fall in love again."

Shifting the mood, Torres said, "The catering was better ... and I'm taller.. You know, on the big screen." The joke fell dead, which made for even bigger laughs, as she looked away nervously.

"The difference for me," Fillion said, "coming from a TV background, you're always saying 'are we taping?' You can't say that to Joss. He keeps saying, 'It's a motion picture film. It's a movie!" Smugly, Fillion concluded, "There's the difference."

Another fan asked how they all liked the movie, and slowly Fillion stood up, clapping stridently. "That was the slow building clap, people," he admonished. "Let's try it again." Again he did the same, with the audience following suit, and Fillion said, "that's better."

"Very Eighties," Whedon offered.

"Seriously ... for those of you who haven't seen the movie, I have good news," Fillion continued. "I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance!" As the crowd howled with laughter, he said, "Oh yeah, I went there."

The next question came from a Norwegian man who "represents a group of roleplayers" who base their game on Whedon's "Angel". "We think you're the best thing since aerosol cheese," the man said, "and wonder if there's anything you can say to these people."

Whedon stroked his newly shaven chin and said, "Let me pass this off -- Sean? What would you say to our roleplaying Norwegian friends?"

Maher stared dumbly and said, "I'm just thinking about aerosol cheese .." Nobody had anything coherent to offer, short o

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