Dragon Con Report
POSTED BY: ncbrowncoat
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 08:37
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To be fair, there's been new Tolkien more recently than there has been new Firefly/Serenity (at least in their respective original mediums).
I think what we really want is just something new to watch.
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oh, I'm not saying I agreed with the guy, I'm just saying that's the kind of grumblings I heard throughout the weekend and I was using that as an example. Mainly because I remembered it so clearly- especially the part where I sat there quietly because he was bigger and drunker than I was! LOL
and I'm all for the new stuff to watch- Dr Horrible helped, but I'd love to see anything in the Firefly verse again. I will never give up hope! I'll hold! :)
Shiny stuff for not a lot o coin:
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and www.FireflyCargoBay.com
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Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:Quote:Lol, highly ironic considering that Tolkien actually is dead.
Originally posted by earthgirl:
I know that several other fandoms were griping that "the Whedonverse Track is taking over the whole con! They keep giving them the largest rooms and Firefly is dead!" (and actual quote from a tolkien fan next to me)
Does anyone know if there's been any talk of splitting Firefly/Serenity into its own track, separate from the rest of the Whedonverse? I've never been to D*C, but I'm hoping to go next year, so I'm trying to get a handle on how things work out there. Maybe more panels on Firefly, running concurrently with Buffy or Dollhouse tracks, might clear up a bit of the congestion?
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
I don't think that'll happen. The Whedon Verse track staff worked very hard this year and came up with some really good panels that weren't specific to any Whedon show. I didn't get to any because of several reasons (timing really) there were panels on Joss's use of family, the 10 best Whedon deaths.
You might also want to go over to the Whedon Track Live Journal page, and mayve leave some ideas. http://community.livejournal.com/whedontrack_dc/
BTW it used to be called the "Buffy Track" so things have changed.
http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/
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I was fortunate enough to have made it to the Firefly panels on both Friday and Saturday. I couldn't make the Sunday one, but watched it all on DragonCon TV at at the Hyatt. They were all awesome, and definitely worth the wait.
The cool info I got from this year was all of Alan Tudyk's ideas for future Firefly episodes that were never made.
Here are some photos of Browncoats at the DragonCon street parade. It gave me so much pride to see fans walking down the streets of Downtown Atlanta with traffic blocked off and everything!
http://davenelson.smugmug.com/gallery/5872466_Rm8t9#365186566_x4n3B
The link may be subject to change because the photographer adds pictures. But just scroll backwards and forwards and you'll see photos of all Firefly panels, the street parade, and the costume contests.
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Dr. Horrible Karaoke
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Originally posted by earthgirl:
I'd estimate that a good 25% of the crowd was browncoats (judging from the shirts, costumes or lanyards that the people who passed our booth all weekend). I know that several other fandoms were griping that "the Whedonverse Track is taking over the whole con! They keep giving them the largest rooms and Firefly is dead!" (and actual quote from a tolkien fan next to me)
To be fair to everbody concerned, no fandom is dead till all the fans are dead. It's just that Browncoats tend to find as much to enjoy in one another's company *waves to Sister!* as they do in the show/books/movie they happen to be fans of.
Browncoats are shiny that way.
-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
The enjoyment of any good thing is only enhanced by sharing it with others.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=30176
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Thank you, thank you, cts!!!
The other thread which had links is so full
that it won't load on my machine in a usefully
short time.
Great to see the strength of the 76th. I
think there were only two or three in the
first (what year??) D*C photos I looked at.
bun
Frisky Browncoat
That hat makes you look like an idiot
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I had a fantastic time at D*C. I learned my lesson on Friday that waiting in line an hour early won't quite cut it. However, I figured that since all the fans were waiting for the Nathan/Alan panel, none of them would be in the Walk of Fame. Sure enough, I was right, and I was one of the first to meet them when they returned from the Q&A.
Saturday, I got to meet Jewel and Morena, take a photo-op with Nathan and Alan, and attend the first Firefly panel with all 4 members. Same thing for Sunday. Even bought myself one of those Browncoat t-shirts to show my pride to the general public.
I hope a good bit of the cast can return to Dragon*Con in '09. I would just FLIP OUT if Summer Glau could make it 
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