A hug and a sneeze - the Blackpool shinding

POSTED BY: Wren
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WREN

Monday, May 3, 2004 9:21 AM

The following is the ramblings of my shindig trip:

Friday - We arrived at the shindig at midday. The merchandise area was closed. Someone was talking in the hall but we had no idea who he was. (I should point out that while I have watched Buffy I am not a massive fan and could only identify SMG.) The guy who played Xander was doing photos, his pink nail varnish was the talk of the show. I approached a few stewards to ask how things 'worked', but they had no idea either. I then discovered Nathan Fillion was having his picture taken with guests so bought a ticket and waited to be called. We ended up back in the hall where Serenity was showing. Unfortunately, there wasn't a proper sound system so all you got was a mass of very loud sound which hurt your ears. A lot of people left during the first fifteen minutes. The merchandise area finally opened, but there was nothing Firefly related, not even the dvd! Finally it was our turn for the photo. Nathan was lovely. He made a fuss of my kids and gave my four year old daughter a hug. He then introduced the kids to his girlfriend. The rest of the day was geared towards Buffy fans so we left.

Saturday - We went early to listen to Jewel and Summer answer questions. Jewel did most of the talking, these are the answers that I remember them giving:

Jewel said Shindig was her least favourite episode. She hated the dress she had to wear. Everytime she sat down the crew could see her bum. She had really wanted to do the commentary for that episode though.
She would like to do a musical version of Firefly. Gina had a wonderful voice, though Morena could not sing a note. Everyone use to take the mickey out of Morena over her awful voice.
She would have liked to do more action sequances. She was always rather jealous of Gina because of the amount of action she got to do.
Her favourite phrase from the show was 'shiney'.
Alan Tudyk continually messed up his chinese lines.
She really wished Kaylee had kissed Simon.
She had enjoyed working on Dead like me and thought the show and cast were great. However, she had not enjoyed filming the sex scene because the clothes were really uncomfortable and she found the whole scene uncomfortable to do. If she could travel back she wasn't sure she would do the scene. (For those who never saw the show(I thought it was crap) she was dressed in goth gear and had sex with a reaper in a shop cupboard)
Nathan had been the show clown. He use to stand behind the camera and pull faces.
Morena had a sick sense of humor, and was least like her character. To begin with Jewel had been a little intimidated by Morena's beauty.
Sean had a silent laugh and would cry while laughing so, they all had great fun making him laugh.
She had not enjoyed putting on weight. She had eaten cakes and doughnuts non stop before and during the shoot. She was glad to finally lose the weight.
Her husband asked what animal she would most like to be. She said a pony.
Nathan asked who was the best looking, most talented actor on the show. She said he was.
She could not comment on whether the show would return to tv.
She also could not comment on the new movie, though they were planning on a commentary at the start to help new viewers understand what was happening.
She was looking forward to the new movie and getting back together with everyone.

Summer generally agreed with what Jewel said.
She loved the moment in Message when Kaylee held Simon's hand.
She had had a my little pony as a child and had always wished she could be one.
The dance she did in Safe was a polka dance. The combat boots hadn't bothered her. It had been harder to do the Angel ballet because the point shoes were uncomfortable and it was tightly choreographed.
River got her clothes from the rest of the crew and Simon would buy her bits, like the pink dress, when they visited planets.
Her favourite episode was Objects in space when Mal welcomes River back to Serenity. Her worse was Message when they found they were cancelled.

The next session involved

DEBBIEBUK1

Monday, May 3, 2004 10:06 AM

Wren I hope it's okay to add some stuff which I really enjoyed about Fusion.

Jewel said she found the technobabble and the Chinese hard but kept writing them out until it seemed to stay in her head. She is hoping that "Serenity" the film is a big box office hit cos then they should get to do some more. She
didn't enjoy the costume she wore in the "Dead Like me" episode she did it was really uncomfortable. She hated filming the sex scene in that, as well as finding the one in "Out of Gas" difficult.

Summer's least favourite scene to film was her first, in "Serenity" as she was nervous, nearly naked, in the box for a lot of the time and she'd not done much acting before. She also talked about the Angel scene with David Boreanaz and said he was really nice to her.

Summer and Jewell did their stage talks together and Jewell said she hadn't appreciated how much folks outside the US enjoyed Firefly (she thought they'd just be a little group tagged on side a Buffy event) and was going to tell the rest of the team they should have been there.

They were both really lovely and kind to the questioners.

Nathan was great, really funny, but I'll stop here for now so someone else can add more, just mention the wonderful fancy dress team who came as Inara, Atherton Wing, Kaylee and Mal in Shindig, really excellent (and if any of you read this forum, apologies from the intoxicated person in lilac who tried to take your photo and failed.)

YORKY

Monday, May 3, 2004 11:22 AM

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If he had his own space ship he would call it the pneumatic princess.

I think he said Nomadic Princess. The sound system was pretty poor.

Edit - wrong person listed for the quote! (computers hate me)

YORKY

Monday, May 3, 2004 11:43 AM

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We got four more Buffy signatures. Emma Caulfield spotted my two year old daughter in the crowd. She picked her up and sat fussing over her for a few minutes. My daughter loved the attention. Then she sneezed all over Emma!

LOL, I was standing right there! I'd skipped Nick as there was a long queue for him and they'd all taken a break so nobody was signing, so I joined the queue for Emma. Emma came back from the break and then started fussing over the cutest kid ever!

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what did I do during this opportunity to meet the stars. I turned into a gibbering wreck and mumbled complete nonsense.

I know that feeling. Went up for a photo with Summer. Summer said "Hi, I'm Summer" - instead of replying with "Hi, I'm ..." I opted to go for the incoherent mumbling. Smooth. :)

Summer, Jewel and Nathan were absolutely fantastic all weekend. Especially with the signings which must have been really tiring. I saw there were a lot of people like me who only went to the convention for Firefly and ended up at the back of the list of numbers to be called up (due to the late announcement of Firefly guests, hence high registration number), so I'm really glad they got through everyone.

Edit - wrong person listed for the quote! (computers hate me)

YORKY

Monday, May 3, 2004 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by debbiebuk1:
Nathan was great, really funny, but I'll stop here for now so someone else can add more

I missed much of Nathans question session on the Saturday as I had to go get my photo taken with Summer. It's all about priorities ;)

On the Sunday he answered questions for another hour. Someone asked him what his favourite line from the show was, and if he could say it. Nathan composed himself, paused a second, then said... 'huh'. :)

He also had a collection of polaroid photos taken during the filming of the show, and handed them out at random to some of the people asking questions. Lucky people!

ANCIENTONE

Monday, May 3, 2004 1:09 PM

I was very near the front of the hall during Nathans Q & A sessions and it was Pneumatic Princess ;) The reverb in the main hall was poor.

I must admit that although I have seen only 6 eps so far of Firefly (huge BtVS and Angel fans so the obsession is focused around those shows) the Firefly guests were wonderful and Nathan was my personal favourite of the weekend. I loved his 'flipping Jewel the bird' game and apparently he was doing it in some of the Firefly group photo shoots, with Jewel retaliating with grand style at the closing ceremony.

Not enough Firefly photographs available for signing and my only regret was that I was unable to do handpainted portraits of the cast to sign (it is something I do for the BtVS cast). I have pledged to buy the Firefly boxset and search the net for good quality pics so I can do some paintings and post them on my site.

By the way Newbie here so be gentle ;)

JUMPY

Monday, May 3, 2004 1:11 PM

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Originally posted by debbiebuk1:
Summer and Jewell did their stage talks together and Jewell said she hadn't appreciated how much folks outside the US enjoyed Firefly (she thought they'd just be a little group tagged on side a Buffy event) and was going to tell the rest of the team they should have been there. B]

Yup I'm from Australia. I'm pretty sure firefly only got here on dvd in the past two months. I just got it and I'm already obsessed!

Its kinda bad that because it was cancelled we won't probably ever get it on either network tv nor pay tv here. If it does come out again on TV you americans will probably have to make sure it stays alive for awhile (which im certain you will!) before it hits our screens.The only reason I heard of it was on a webcomic I read often. And the only store I could find the dvd in was a tucked away memorabilia/dvd/toy store!

Hopefully the movie will get a lot more international fans watching.

Its also bad that its so difficult to get to one of those things and meet the cast considering where im located!

Ah well I'll be a fan to the REAL end anyway

Mercy is the mark of a great man…*stab*…I guess I'm just a good man…*stab*…Well, I'm alright.

YORKY

Monday, May 3, 2004 1:43 PM

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Originally posted by ancientone:
I was very near the front of the hall during Nathans Q & A sessions and it was Pneumatic Princess ;)

Must be my hearing then, but I'm going to stick with blaming the sound system.

What do you mean by not enough Firefly photos for signing? I thought the selection wasn't bad (3 of Jewel, 3 of Summer, probably more than that of Nathan?) Good job too, having to spend £50 on 5 of them before you could get a full cast photo. Not a cheap weekend :)

Enjoy the rest of the DVD before you get spoiled! I hope you closed your ears when they were talking about specific episodes this weekend. Hey, does Jewel attending the con count as a spoiler for the hundreds of people there who had never watched Serenity?

BROWNCOAT1

Monday, May 3, 2004 1:47 PM

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Originally posted by Wren:
The next talk was by Nathan Fillion and Elizabeth Allen. Nathan said:

Firefly will not be returning to tv in the near future. The agreement with Fox was for the movies only. There was a time specification before it could be brought back to tv. He did not say how long that time period was but other fans kept saying five years (though I have no idea where they got that figure from).

If this is in fact true, it totally blows! Of course it does not make sense when you consider the fact that Universal had Joss rewrite the script to act as a "springboard" for a tv series.

What is this "time specification" and how long is it? It sounds like Fox putting the screws to us again. We are going on two years now without Firefly on the air. That is more than long enough. Fox didn't want the show, so where do they get off keeping it off the air w/ some contractual nonsense.

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Depending on ticket sales the plan was for a trilogy of films.

At least there are plans for more than one movie. I will do my part to drive ticket sales up, as will the rest of us. 2005 seems a long way off now.

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His worst Firefly moment was finding they were cancelled because "it was just so not right and so unfair."

All of us are right there with you Nathan. It was our worst Firefly moment too.

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If he had his own space ship he would call it the pneumatic princess.

Interesting name for a ship.

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He said that there were no curent plans for David Borenza (I can't spell it either) to be in the show.

That conflicts w/ what Morena said in that con a couple of weeks ago. Odd....

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The movie will be a lot darker. It focuses on the reavers. It is set a year (?) after the series ended and something very bad has happened to Mal which makes him a much darker character. Joss has been given full reign to do what he wants. Every character will have been changed by events during the previous year and we will see new sides to them. People who have never seen the show will understand who the characters are.

I hope it is not too much darker. One of the great things about Firefly is that Mal could be serious and deadly when he had to, but generally he was jovial. If he goes all dark and brooding, I hope it is for a good reason. Wonder what besides Inara's leaving has him out of sorts.

Reavers in the movie? Could be cool, so long as Joss does not show them to us. Reavers are creepifying and scary because they are like the boogey man; you never see them.

The other characters are changed? I wonder to what degree and if it is due to the same events that changed Mal.

Joss being in total control puts my mind mostly at ease. I just hope the movie and characters are not too far removed from the crew we know and love.

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Badger and Saffron will not be in the movie. He had really liked the Badger character and was sad to see he wouldn't be playing a part.

I didn't figure we would see YoSafBridg in the movie, but I had thought we might see Badger. Too bad he will not be in the movie.

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Edit: Nearly forgot, they are planning on doing a Serenity shindig next year. They hope to get this shindigs guests back, plus Gina and Morena. One of the staff told me tickets will be limited to 500 and they are currently trying to get Adam Baldwin.

A Serenity shindig would be very shiny! Too bad they will limit the sales to 500. I would make the trip for such an event.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

YORKY

Monday, May 3, 2004 2:05 PM

The cast were all very very careful not to give away any spoilers for the movie, which I am very pleased about. If this thread turns into speculation about the movie, can people not post any current spoilers as I've been avoiding them. Thanks.

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