Ok man... who went to the Serenity Squared Con.? AND WHAT WAS IT LIKE???! by Nikknaks

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Ok man... who went to the Serenity Squared Con.? AND WHAT WAS IT LIKE???!

POSTED BY: NIKKNAKS
UPDATED: Thursday, November 24, 2005 07:17
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Sunday, November 20, 2005 1:39 PM

Ok, all you GOD DAMN lucky dudes and dudettes who got to go to the Serenity Squared Convention....
(in very offhand, deadpan sorta way)....what was it like, who did you see, did you have the best freakin' time of your life? (not, that im sayin I think it would have been great 'n all,...just askin...you know...casual like...

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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....Wash

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Sunday, November 20, 2005 1:46 PM

DJKENG

It was fantabulously shiny! Nathan, Jewel, Sean, Summer, and Morena were all present and accounted for. Plus, Christina (Saffron) and Jonathan (Tracey) were there having a blast. Lots of talks ran overtime. Jonny got wasted during his communion of the Church of the 11th Finger and dropped his trousers. Nate made Sean leave the room. Then Sean made Nate leave the room. Oh, gee, this doesn't make any sense... I'll be back to post when I'm more coherent... All the ladies were beautiful! I got pics and autographs and ... wow, I've got to sleep now. Can we post pictures here?

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Sunday, November 20, 2005 1:57 PM

NIKKNAKS

Dude dude dude! YES u can post pictures!!!! GIVE ME BLOOD, GIVE ME SWEAT, GIVE ME GREAT PICS OF THE STARS! (takes deep breath) Yeah...so i think thats cleared up.

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Mmmmmmmmm.....Wash

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Sunday, November 20, 2005 2:31 PM

CHINDI

ok.. haven't you had enough sleep YET!????

(jk) we are all awaiting your little report on the shindig... complete with hard evidence in the form of photos...

Chindi (saying pretty please and all that...)

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Sunday, November 20, 2005 3:07 PM

PHOEBE

I was there!

Okay, the opening ceremony started off perfectly. We were all expecting Summer, Nathan, Jewel, Christina and Sean. So Neil Roberts, the MC, began to introduce the guests. He said something along the lines of "Now, our first guest started off in ballet. [we all assume Summer, naturally] He's one of Joss' hat tricks. [JONATHAN?! IS JONATHAN HEEERE?!]" and Jonathan came out with a typically funny speech. He left, and I can't remember the order, but Christina, Sean and Jewel were introduced as well. Christina seemed really shy, and Sean seemed a little shocked at how many people were there. He had his hand on his chest and said something along the lines of "Oh, man. Can you guys hear that?! That's my heart. I'm... this is... wow." Then Neil said "Our next lady comes from a very classical background. [alarm bells went off. Morena?!]" and of course, on comes MORENA, surprise guest number two, seconds later. Then Nathan and Summer were introduced.

Following that was the meet and greet. It was greeat. I found Matt (PsychicRiver) and was talking to him for a while, when suddenly he was like "Turn around." "What?" "Turn around!" so I did and nearly walked into Sean, he put his hand on my arm to stop me from walking into him, and I was like "... *stares. Long pause.* Hi!" Luckily Matt swooped in and rescued me while I remembered how to speak. (Love ya, Matt!) We talked about nurses and he told me his mother's a nurse and that he thinks nurses are smarter than doctors. Then this guy I was also talking to gave him a stuffed zebra. We talked about more stuff, then I ended up bumping into Christina and discussing... I don't even remember what, I think it might've been heels. Then I bumped into Jonathan at the bar. He introduced himself and I said that I'd seen him last week, and he had a vague, drunken memory of playing video games. Theeeen... I bumped into some girls off another board (is Rach on this board?) and we wandered over to Nathan to present him with an engraved brick that Rach had put in at Sunderland Stadium. Then we came across Morena, talked to her for *ages* about anything and everything. When Morena walked off, Jewel came over to say hi to me and the guy I was talking to (can't for the life of me remember his name, but I think Matt knows him?) and remembered me from Ireland. We were talking about Million Dollar Baby and some other random stuff. Theeen... the Rachels and I had to go find someone. So that was FUN.

Party was... well, party.

Next morning I got up for the 9am photos with Sean, Jewel and Summer. Had one with each of them. They were lovely, of course. And I got to hug Sean! Every girl was walking up and tentatively putting their hands on his shoulder and I was like "... hey! How you doin?" "Great thanks, you?" "Good!" "So, can I hug you for the photo? It'll look great!" "Of course you can!" Then he hugged me... and of course the photographer wasn't ready so we were just stood there for like two minutes chatting. That made my DAY. I came out of there so hyperactive.

The talks I'll go over in another post. The autograph session... the first one I went to was the Summer, Nathan, Jonathan, Neil one. Queued for almost an hour to get in there. I ran through Jonathan and Neil really quickly. Nathan was relatively fast, we had a quick chat at the desk. The Summer queue though, man... it was longer than the entrance queue. She was lovely though, chatting and being very sweet to everyone. Though, she ran over by an hour so decided not to attend the fancy dress competition and got some rest instead. And before the autograph session I bumped into Jonathan in the hallway and ended up talking to him really quite randomly cause he was procrastinating.

The fancy dress competition was incredible! The winners were... a girl in a full sized Serenity costume, a young girl as reaver-slayer River, a troop of Alliance Reaver fighters, and a girl who... well, it's hard to explain. The winner had created a naked Mal, carrying Saffron, in a 'trash' can. It sounds odd but it looked INCREDIBLE.

Party was... party.

Went to the Nathan photo shoot and hugged him. He was kind and funny as in the other three times I saw him. Hee! I sound like a stalker. Then... I napped. I'm ashamed to say I missed the communion that apparently ran over by like an hour. I was wiped. And ill. Someone should fill in the blanks on this part.

The charity auction cracked me up (am I the only one who found Rex Buckland running an auction slightly ironic?). The items for sale as far as I can remmeber are.... Reaver weapon, reaver mask, reaver nose, comm unit, serenity money, blue hand glove, chair back from Firefly... and I forget the rest. The prices went crazy high - around £650 for the reaver mask, I believe? Jonathan had a unique way of trying to get people to bid. He stood on a chair and dropped his jeans. Hell, I think it worked. Then he was crawling in front of the chairs on my row distracting everybody. I don't think Sean and Neil were very happy by the time it was done, he kept encouraging people to bid £1 more than the person before. Eventually Sean introduced a £5 increment rule.

And... sad to say, I missed the closing ceremony. Didn't feel so great again.

Guest talks I'll type up everything I can remember later.

This was like, the best weekend ever :( And it's over *cries softly* MORE! MORE! MORE!

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Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:52 PM

PSYCHOTICBRIDE

Man, I would've stepped over my own Grandmother just to go. I mean partying... with some of the actors of one of my favorite series...

Man, I'm too late for everything. I get into the series too late to have seen it on TV, but also too late to have found out about this and weasel my mom into letting me go. Seriously, how often does anything like this happen?

Oh well. Still happy for you lucky bas- I mean, lucky wonderful people who got to go.

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Sunday, November 20, 2005 11:38 PM

SIMONWHO

They're happy for us? We're obviously not making them jealous enough.

I'll do a longer blog later but I have to mention how great the Serenity gag reel is. "Summer!"

Oh and Sean is able to lay the smackdown on Nathan. Who'd have thunk it?

It goes to show how great it was that, despite me really not being in the best of form, I still had a good time.

Great to meet many of you, apologies for my absence at several fun sounding bits and... well, again, again!

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Monday, November 21, 2005 1:54 AM

DISKA

yes i went!
firstly i wanna say it was great to meet all of you that were there. this was my first ever con and everyone i met was so friendly and didnt turn me away and talked to me loads and that really made my weekend!

the hightlights of my weekend were definitely the talks and q+a sessions. to be honest i hadnt really been that bothered about christina being there but her q+a session was really sweet and interesting. she seemed really nervous at first but then really seemed to get in to it.
my favourite talk was the nathan and summer one. nathan is so quick and funny and kept making fun of summer and teasing her i couldnt stop laughing.
id heard that sean was supposed to be really reserved about cons but he seemed to really get into it and was so damned funny. i wish i could remeber quotes to tell you all.
what really made the crowd make a noise though was when somebody asked the question if any of the cast knew what would happen in terms of plot if another series got made or another film. nathan quickly started bragging that they knew a lot of secrets, they knew books past, they knew inaras secret, they knew stuff about the alliance, they knew what inaras vile in the box was all about. and they laughed and smiled smugly and said they werent gonna tell us any of it cuz thats for joss to do.

the fancy dress parade was amazing. the girl who won dressed up as a naked mal carrying yo-saff-bridge in a dumpster - you NEED to see the photos to get it! it was so sweet as the cast took pictures of all the contestents and genuinly seemed to love it all.

nathan had brought over the serenity gag reel for its first screening which got shown twice on the saturday night. absolutely hi-larious. all i can say is i will never be able to watch the scene where mal says "did you see us fight? no. Trap!" without laughing ever again.

the communiion with jonathon was amazing, he is such a funny and DRUNK guy. i had the smell of whiskey on my forehead all day. hes very sweet and really throws himself into it all.

on the last day summer seemed so damned tired i felt so sorry for her.

i had to miss the closing ceremony though, so i want details from people! gosh im tired

"Dear diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."

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Monday, November 21, 2005 6:30 AM

PSYCHICRIVER

For those of you who missed the closing ceremony, I'd just like to tell you that you missed Nathan snogging Jonathan...Summer nearly crying, and Morena swearing some more.

And yes the gag reel is bloody amazing!!

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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Monday, November 21, 2005 7:45 AM

More...more...more please!!!

I am jealous - so you're all doing a great job makin all of us green - but I'm also happy because if you weren't there, there wouldn't be other ones which I will get to someday!

Until then...may I have some more?

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"See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart."

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Monday, November 21, 2005 8:16 AM

RIVERSGUY

Quote:
Originally posted by diska:

on the last day summer seemed so damned tired i felt so sorry for her.

She was very tired. I was outside making a phone call just as she was leaving. She came over so I hung up straight away (sorry Nicola x) and said goodbye. I asked if she was tired and she said she was, so I had a little chat then I wished her well then hugged her goodbye

She is the nicest person I have met

And she said she loved my "I like Spring but I love Summer" tee shirt

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"The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems."

"Miranda"

The Original Grr Aggh boy

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Monday, November 21, 2005 8:31 AM

CASUALTY

If you missed the closing ceremony you also missed everyone and I mean everyone flipping Nathan the bird for Jewel! Good times. It was the greatest weekend.

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"If nothing we do means anything then the only thing that means anything is what we do"
"Bukkake, Shut up Alison!" Jonny Wallet Tourets.

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Monday, November 21, 2005 8:48 AM

PSYCHICRIVER

Quote:
Originally posted by RiversGuy:

And she said she loved my "I like Spring but I love Summer" tee shirt

That t-shirt was so cool!

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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Monday, November 21, 2005 8:54 AM

RIVERSGUY

Cheers Matt,

I think every one of the BDH's & Neil said how great it was.

Dam chuffed I bought it now

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"The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems."

"Miranda"

The Original Grr Aggh boy

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Monday, November 21, 2005 9:06 AM

MOTHRA

Please post some pictures! Let us live vicariously through you, you lucky bum!

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Monday, November 21, 2005 9:14 AM

PHOEBE

I hugged Sean.

I've been repeating those three words randomly over the last two days.

Sean hugged me.

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Monday, November 21, 2005 9:16 AM

RIVERSGUY

Hey me too Phoebe, he was leaving as Summer was so I got hugs from them both

Seemed like a nice guy

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"The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems."

"Miranda"

The Original Grr Aggh boy

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Monday, November 21, 2005 9:35 AM

HAZE

Im very depressed now. *sigh* Im going to have to work something out the next time something like this comes up. I won’t miss another one.

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Who do you suppose is in there?

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Monday, November 21, 2005 9:54 AM

DISKA

hey phoebe i think you were in the que in front of me for the nathan atograph.

summer seemed so tired bless her, shes just come straight from filming tho and is going straight back to it i think.

i cant believe i missed the closing ceremony!

"Dear diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."

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Monday, November 21, 2005 10:16 AM

PHOEBE

I was? How'd you know it was me?

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Monday, November 21, 2005 10:34 AM

DJKENG

My question should've been: How do you post pictures here?

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Monday, November 21, 2005 1:33 PM

DJKENG

Ok dokey, all 178 pictures from Serenity Squared are now uploaded to this dotphoto album: http://www.dotphoto.com/MemViewAlbum.asp?AID=3041133

If it asks for a username and password, enter divapics for the username and leave the password blank.
Enjoy!

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Monday, November 21, 2005 2:51 PM

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Quote:
Originally posted by Phoebe:
Theeeen... I bumped into some girls off another board (is Rach on this board?) and we wandered over to Nathan to present him with an engraved brick that Rach had put in at Sunderland Stadium.

Yes I am :D *waves* I'm very lurkish here though :D

He loved the brick. He didn't want to bend the certificate so we took it away and gave him it back at the autograph session, when he thanked us again and wrote "Rachael - for the brick, thanks!" on my Mal action figure :D

I also showed Morena a photo of the outside of Sunderland Companion's Club and she was amused and said "What do they DO there?!" to which I do not know the answer, though I have often wondered :D

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Monday, November 21, 2005 3:57 PM

PIFFLE101

WHOA where to start..Um.. For people who dont know there's alot of threads on the Starfury boards, Browncoats board and the OB.

Yeah..its hard for me to keep up!!

Psst..What's BUKKAKE!! mean? (lol) I wanna know!!

(Cant wait for the flan!!)

Ppsst (again) Here's a starfury video:

http://www.starfury.co.uk/video/Movie.wmv

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Because Dancers are tough,mean...Chicas!! -Summer Glau

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Monday, November 21, 2005 4:56 PM

FOLLOWMAL

Piffle101, could you please link me to the Starfury board and the others... I'm so computer illiterate.. I'd appreciate the help.

Thank you!

"I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle." Mal

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Monday, November 21, 2005 5:04 PM

PIFFLE101

OMG! This could take a while..

OB- It's hard to link to, Just do a search with my username - Piffle101 and it should be the first thing that comes up. Back track through the thread.

Browncoats- http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=for
um.viewtopic&t=25639

Starfury- http://www.seanharry.com/forums/index.php?s=b3d192449fe249ada188addd55
24e932&showforum=41

Surf in there. ^^

I think that's all FOR NOW..

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Because Dancers are tough,mean...Chicas!! -Summer Glau

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Monday, November 21, 2005 5:10 PM

FOLLOWMAL

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Kindness.... that is Piffle!

"I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle." Mal

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Monday, November 21, 2005 5:11 PM

EVILBUNNIES

Piff! The vid link doesn't work. It could be just my jacked up computer, but if its not, could you pretty please check to see if its right? Thanks Piffle!

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"Yeah, well its LA. The evil is just probably stuck in traffic" -Cordelia

"There were about 100 people at Shellie's party - ninety-eight of them would walk over my corpse for a piece of free gum." ~ Veronica Mars

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Monday, November 21, 2005 5:13 PM

PIFFLE101

Yeah, it works. For me it just opens up Window Media automatically.

You could enter the link manually to the WMV...

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Because Dancers are tough,mean...Chicas!! -Summer Glau

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Monday, November 21, 2005 5:27 PM

EVILBUNNIES

Nope, not working still. I mean, Media Player opens up and everything, but I get a little popup thing saying "The source filter for this file could not be loaded"

Poopy computer

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"Yeah, well its LA. The evil is just probably stuck in traffic" -Cordelia

"There were about 100 people at Shellie's party - ninety-eight of them would walk over my corpse for a piece of free gum." ~ Veronica Mars

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Monday, November 21, 2005 5:40 PM

PIFFLE101

LOL

Try the thread then:

http://www.seanharry.com/forums/index.php?s=feadc5561d09ae98870b747003
4c6527&showtopic=12049

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Because Dancers are tough,mean...Chicas!! -Summer Glau

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Monday, November 21, 2005 6:07 PM

GIRLEEKAYLEE

I was there!! It was a blast!

I just wanted to thank y'all riendly British people who were sooo nice to the con-virgin. (me!)

I loved the every minute of it - it was worth the trip.

I just made back home and I'm exhausted, so I'll take a nap and bath, and then go to bed. I'll come back tomorrow with some pics hopefully!

Chao!

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Monday, November 21, 2005 6:31 PM

LIMINALOSITY

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
They're happy for us? We're obviously not making them jealous enough.

I'll do a longer blog later but I have to mention how great the Serenity gag reel is. "Summer!"

Jealous, envious, and quite greedy as well.
When you find time for the blog, I'm sure it will be as fabulous and interesting as those you wrote about your brother's wedding.... possibly even more fun.

*goes to check SW's blogs*

Thanks to viral marketing...SERENITY: reopening soon in a theater near you.
Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!

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Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:17 AM

RELFEXIVE

Well, it was, y'know, okay....

HAHAHAHAHAAA!! It was brilliant! Better than the last one, I'd say, for sure.

So many memories... my brain can not contain them all!!

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
"SUMMER!!"
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

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