Big Damned Flanvention

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Originally posted by Evilbunnies:

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Originally posted by PsychicRiver:
*Ignores XG*

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."
"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
"I swallowed a bug."

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Another thing you and me have in common, PR.

Oh, congrats on passing your test! What did I tel you, huh? I told you that you would do fine, and you did. You've done the impossible*, and that makes you mighty.


*Well, not impossible, per say, but I had to go with the quote.

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LOL thanks! Im so pleased!

Im gonna talk to my instructor on Saturday and see when she wants me to book my test. I hope that its soon. Cos, lessons are expensive.

Oh, and I wondered if youd remember that.

*Ignores Liz*

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."
"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
"I swallowed a bug."

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I could care less if you "ignore" me. But I doubt you will.

This isn't a convention. It's a totally orchestrated, carefully calculated piece of studio marketing. That's all it is.

Trek conventions used to be put together by a ground swell of SciFi nerds who could care less if the show ever came back into syndication. They just loved the story and the characters. They wanted to be around others who felt the same as they did. They formed up private little clubs via science fiction magazines, and eventually had enough people to throw together a convention. And it grew, and grew, and grew. The enthusiasm among nerd circles was contagious. I know, I was one of them. And the stars who were nobodies in the entertainment industry came of their own free accord. They were never under contractual obligations to mingle with the sheeples. They came because they were loved by their fans.

The "Big Damned Flanvention" is being thrown together by a bunch of marketing execs from the studios and the marketing agents of the "stars". Sad part is, they don't need to do that. There is enough of a ground swell here for it to occur naturally. However, conventions have become nothing more than a contrived piece of marketing these days. A showcase. Notably, revival of "Firefly" does not factor into the "Flanvention".

If it had been organized solely by fans, that would have been it's central thesis.

So, hate me calling it as I see it. If you have the money to blow on an overblown photo op with the "stars", go for it.

I'd much rather hang out in some dank dingy little backwater hall with a bunch of impoverished browncoats then shell out a king's ransom to support a phony photo op. Betcha the "stars" would never show up there. Well... maybe Gina would but the others got their heads in the clouds.

I don't worship Nathan Fillion. I worship Mal. Big difference.

XG

No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.

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Oh, and I wondered if youd remember that.

*Ignores Liz*

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I try not to remember that part of my life. Come on, Matt. You should know better. Wait...there could be a slight possibility of her being here. One can never know.

Mal: Define interesting.
Wash: Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die?
*~*~*
"She understands. She even comprehends. Can she go now?" -Winter of Mosquito

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Terrifying.

That would explain the attitude of someone.

Her new fic is called "Beyond the borders of Sanity."

Too Foxing right!

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."
"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
"I swallowed a bug."

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Originally posted by PsychicRiver:
Terrifying.

That would explain the attitude of someone.

Her new fic is called "Beyond the borders of Sanity."

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Lmao!!

All the money in the world couldn't get me to read that.

Randomness, its a gift.

Mal: Define interesting.
Wash: Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die?
*~*~*
"She understands. She even comprehends. Can she go now?" -Winter of Mosquito

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Xerogravity,

Why do you spend so much energy pointing out the obvious? You must know that we see, and already know about some of the things that you are speaking of; we are not idiots.

Of course a lot of this is being engineered, but in my opinion, its being engineered incorrectly, because the desired outcome isnt happening the way I think it should happen.

You just want people to argue with you thats all. There are guys like you in every forum I go to; they just want to make people mad, and thats what you are attempting to do. You are not enlightening anyone with your negative opinions; all you do is put them on the defensive. All your posts are like that.



Just back away from the table

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Wow. I had no idea that Denise & I had all this corporate and studio help! Cool. That ought to make the Flan even better for you all. LOL

Vicki

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XG - then, eh, don't go. Why complain about it?

To all y'all who will be attendin', I'll be there Saturday and Sunday, alone on the first day, with two friends the second. I'll be hangin' in LA on Friday...so, any tips on what to do in that city for, like, $0...that'd be appreciated =)
-Steve

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