Premier and After Party report
POSTED BY: DoubleShiny
UPDATED: Saturday, October 8, 2005 11:32
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Sorry to repost this in a different thread, but I've had requests to email it to people who can't find it, so here it is. Report of the London Premier, TRL and after show party.
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Having agreed to go and dance like Joss -puppet -monkeys on MTV, we ended up there at 5pm, queueing behind Blazin' Squad, or some 'youths' who looked like they were their official doubles. This made me feel old, as I kept wanting to tell them to tuck their shirts in. We go inside with a nice researcher lady who explodes the lie of television, and tells us exactly how the 'competition' element of the show is going to run. Basically, we play a game called Serene or Mean where Nathan, Joss and Summer have to guess how we'd react in certain situations. A genius idea on the part of the researchers, as it meant they didn't have to actually know anything about Serenity, past the definition of the word.
Myself, Linzie, Sarah and Dani (we're thinking of forming a girl group) are seated at the Top Table, which is the same as all the others tables, except for a crap cardboard sign which says 'Reserved'. This brings much jealousy from Blazin Squad and their groupies who are forced to stand. Mwahaha! There's a good 45 minutes of clapping rehearsals (it strikes me that if you need to practice clapping, maybe you're not ready to go out by yourself, let alone be in a TV audience), and then Joss, Nathan and Summer are wheeled out to meet host Alex Zane (who has lovely eyes).
After the usual questions of 'what's it like to...', 'how did it feel to...', 'tell us about...' etc., the game begins. The guys guess correctly, then incorrectly, then correctly, then it's me, and Alex Zane tells them that I was in a restaurant and the chef hadn't cooked my steak properly. Was I serene or mean? Summer comments 'you could have been killed!', sweetly unaware that these situations were invented and handed to us on cue cards about an hour ago. They guess wrong, so only two of get the tickets and we have to choose whether or not to 'gamble'. Seeing as we'd already been told that we're all getting the tickets anyway, and that we should gamble for the sake of it, we do. They roll out a ridiculous question about the serial number on the side of a plane in Serenity, which Nathan has to tell us the answer to, and then we win tickets to the Premier, and shock horror, the after show party!
As they're torn back into the green room, the guys stop to give us all higs and kisses which further tormented the members of Blazin Squad. One of them managed a kiss from Summer, and no doubt will write a r'n'b crossover hip hop ballad about that very event. Unfortunately, we still have to sit there clapping like divs until the end of the show. We finally make it down the red carpet at about 7.10. Me, resplendant in my newly dry cleaned white coat, slighlty spoiled by the fact I was hauling a massive black holdall with me, looking like I was trying to dump a body.
After the premier (film, Joss makes joke, we laugh, popcorn was free) we retire to the Moon Under Water, which is the designated Browncoat Shindig venue for the evening. We decide to head off to the party at quarter to eleven, and arriving at Teatro we get those funny looks from security which say 'We don't like you until you have a ticket'.
Teatro is quite a posh and trendy place. I immediately felt out of place, and a little like I was in Shindig, except where Kaylee had a new dress, I have some jeans which look like they belong to a cowhand, and a t-shirt from tesco which cost £4. Amongst the Prada shoes and Armani dresses I feel like I should be scrubbing the toilets rather than hobnobbing, but I dampen that attitude with some free beer, and then some more free beer, and then a little bread thing with a grape on it, and then more beer (free).
Somewhere amidst this hazy cloud of boozery, Nathan and Joss begin to circulate and be nice to people. I talk to Nathan about the fact that I have to teach my first ever class as a trainee teacher the next day,
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You're the best! 
I done have Mtv UK..So thanks!!
Because Dancers are tough,mean...Chicas!! -Summer Glau
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I've heard tell of a DVD of the TRL show, so if I hear any more I'll post it.
www.alantudyk.net- for all your Alan needs!
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