JOSS NOT AT DRAGONCON?!?!?

POSTED BY: BayBreeze1
UPDATED: Thursday, August 4, 2005 04:19
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Tuesday, August 2, 2005 2:43 AM

this is certainly quite the brew-haha
interesting discussion here:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/dragoncon/467032.html
because evidently Universal thinks Joss is going:
http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=too
ls.shownews&news_id=124
and of course Dragoncon refuses to believe he's NOT coming:
http://www.dragoncon.org/index.htm
But Joss himself is very clear that no one cleared this w/him:
http://whedonesque.com/comments/7410#more

sounds to me like someone at Universal signed him up without ever actually getting it on his schedule...
so, any bets?
Will Universal apologize for the mix up (because it sounds like their mistake)?
Will Joss be forced to change his plans?
I'm betting that Dragoncon is feeling very ill-used and caught in the middle.

All my sympathy to the fans who were only going to see Joss!

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LITWOLF689

Tuesday, August 2, 2005 11:50 AM

I wish someone would just come out with an official statment, not just a thread here or a post there. But, until someone does that, Im not gonna pay too much attention to rumors, I like facts. Im just gonna wait til Im at Dragon*Con to see if Joss is there or not. I dont think he will be now, but until then *stuffs ears with tissue paper*

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FREAKIN' SHOW! I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damnit." ~Joss

BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, August 2, 2005 5:19 PM

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As of the last contact on Thursday (7/28/2005) Joss is still planning on attending Dragon Con. Until Universal and Joss tell us otherwise expect him to be there. We will be recontacting Universal and Joss tomorrow.

David Gordon
Dragon*Con
Programming Sr-Director

The above was pulled from this blog:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/dragoncon/467032.html

Guess we are still waiting for official word from Dragon Con on the scheduling snafu.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2005 5:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Quote:
As of the last contact on Thursday (7/28/2005) Joss is still planning on attending Dragon Con. Until Universal and Joss tell us otherwise expect him to be there. We will be recontacting Universal and Joss tomorrow.

David Gordon
Dragon*Con
Programming Sr-Director

The above was pulled from this blog:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/dragoncon/467032.html

Guess we are still waiting for official word from Dragon Con on the scheduling snafu.

this is what I mean by dragoncon being caught in the middle...
they made arrangments with Universal, according to Joss they haven't talked to Joss...
so really dragoncon shouldn't say that 'Joss is planning on coming'
they should say that Universal has assured us that Joss is planning on coming....

Of course I'm just saying what I've gleened from reading different sites.
I am positive that Joss posted the remarks at Whedonesque...
and I am equally positive that dragoncon has a signed contract, but I believe it was signed on Joss' behalf by someone at Universal....

it was pointed out that Universal put Joss down as coming here:
http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=too
ls.shownews&news_id=124
but if you look closely you'll notice that Universal is also advertising that Joss would be at Comic Con in Philly, and we know that that was NOT the case!

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BAYBREEZE1

Wednesday, August 3, 2005 4:36 PM

Unfortunately it is now official. The following link "should" take you to the American Sci Fi Tv programing tract from the Dragon*Con web site. They've updated to say that Joss won't be there.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/6825/itrack.html

I'm still gonna go and I'm sure I'm going to have a GREAT time (I'm even planning my costume now!). But, ya know, kinda really disapointed here. I was just so looking forward to seeing Joss. Oh, well, life, as well as conventions, goes on. I'll get over it and have a blast.

I'll be in my bunk - putting away the picture I had hoped Joss would autograph. Sigh.

CAPTAINCAL

Thursday, August 4, 2005 4:19 AM

Howdy all.

I’m gonna post this one on a couple of boards, so sorry if you’ve seen it before.

It looks like I’ll be heading to DragonCon to see my Little Damn Flan Film on the big screen (which is always such a cool feeling).

http://home.comcast.net/~fosteronfilm/filmfest05j.htm

www.mosquitoverse.com

Which reminds me, I better run over to Hasufel's thread to ask for nametags.

However, we probably won’t get there til late Friday night (it turns out Georgia is REALLY far away), and will likely miss the BDH sit down or any chance to meet them in an autograph line. That’ll include any fancy video apology they may have in tow.
So, the idea that Joss won’t be there all weekend is some disappointing. That was a hand that seriously needed shaking.

Still, there’s a boatload of great stuff to check out. Browncoat events galore. Some of the other films at the festival look simply amazing. I’m also not much of an autograph kind of guy, but getting Margaret Weis to sign my tattered old copy of Dragons of Autumn Twilight would be something else. What 80’s geek didn’t have an affinity for one of the characters from that book?

However, although I know my wardrobe should have one of those PvP-online “Joss Whedon is My Master Now” t-shirts, I’m also a huge believer in a bit of mockery where mockery is due, so… (smirk)

Joss has bust his ass and given his soul to Serenity for as long as he can probably remember. If he’d a came out and said, “look, sorry gang, but I’ve totally neglected my life for this thing and it’s my aunt Ester’s 60th birthday that weekend,” who wouldn’t have understood? Certainly not me.

Though I love Joss more than any other fellow comb-forward receding reddish-head I’ve never met, and I don’t even want to imagine juggling the whole conventions/Universal/fandom/family thing, deciding to go with the plausible deniability response kinda felt like it might have been suggested by the same PR person who told Sinead O’Conner to go ahead and rip up a picture of the pope.

Sure, it’s just a few disappointed fans this time, but next thing you know you’re getting booed off a stage in the arms of Kris Kristofferson.

…Well… it could happen.

Playful jabs aside, if you’re going to be at the con, stop on by the parody films slot and I promise you’ll laugh hard enough to make you forget the absence of our Master for a whole eleven minutes.

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