Random tidbits from my first Dragon Con experience. by TauSetiPrime

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Random tidbits from my first Dragon Con experience.

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UPDATED: Saturday, September 11, 2004 06:32
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Wednesday, September 8, 2004 3:28 PM

Listed here in no discernable order, as I reminisce about the things I saw at the convention!

1. If you are going to have a screening of the lost episodes of Firefly...you dont need to worry about bringing the DVD's.....someone there will have a full set on them.

Im not sure what suprised me more....Adam showing up at the screening and staying around for the majority of the show. Or, the look on random people's faces as they wondered by the room and stood in utter awe of the amount of people watching a cancelled tv show late on a saturday night.

2. A full room of people singing the hero of Canton, in the presence of the actor whose character the song is about, is an amazingly shiny thing. Ive been to concerts that didnt have that energy.

3. Dragon Con planners bumped something out of the larger panel room for the Saturday panel with our BDH's. I heard people were upset about the move, because they didnt feel Firefly deserved the bigger room. These people were not in the panel, obviously.

I attended 2 other panels in this room: one for episode 3 (which turned into a George Lucas ass kissing panel), and a Farscape panel. Neither of these filled the room like the Firefly panels did. Also, the panelists for Farscape, in my meager opinion, didnt belong in the same building as Nathan, Jewel, and Adam. No where near the energy, and certainly not as funny.

4. Ive never really watched Angel or Buffy, so Firefly was my first Joss Whedon experience. Obviously....Im somewhat of a fan. But, I got the opinion that our Firefly guests believe that Joss is some sort of super human. Maybe not a god, but it certainly seemed close. The praise given to the show's creator was closer to idol worship than professional admiration. He must be very shiny indeed.

5. The gag reel from the movie (shown to us by the most gracious Adam Baldwin) has some amazingly funny stuff on it. If this cast was willing to make a comedy based sci fi western......I would be on board! We could call it: Serenity 1 1/2: Weekend at Wash's.

Feel free to add your own...

They didnt call it the dark ages because it was dark.

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Thursday, September 9, 2004 3:35 AM

BROWNCOAT1

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

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Originally posted by TauSetiPrime:
1. If you are going to have a screening of the lost episodes of Firefly...you dont need to worry about bringing the DVD's.....someone there will have a full set on them.

Im not sure what suprised me more....Adam showing up at the screening and staying around for the majority of the show. Or, the look on random people's faces as they wondered by the room and stood in utter awe of the amount of people watching a cancelled tv show late on a saturday night.

I had to laugh when Jeremy found the DVD case empty and he asked if anyone had a DVD set and a dozen hands went up holding DVDs.

Adam showing up for the panel was shiny. That he brought the trailer, gag reel and his slide show made it an evening to be remembered.

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2. A full room of people singing the hero of Canton, in the presence of the actor whose character the song is about, is an amazingly shiny thing. Ive been to concerts that didnt have that energy.

I thought it was great to have a room full of Browncoats singing the Hero of Canton. The looks on the BDHs faces was more than worth the effort. And you are right that most concerts don't have the energy and enthusiasm that the room had that day.

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3. Dragon Con planners bumped something out of the larger panel room for the Saturday panel with our BDH's. I heard people were upset about the move, because they didnt feel Firefly deserved the bigger room. These people were not in the panel, obviously.

I attended 2 other panels in this room: one for episode 3 (which turned into a George Lucas ass kissing panel), and a Farscape panel. Neither of these filled the room like the Firefly panels did. Also, the panelists for Farscape, in my meager opinion, didnt belong in the same building as Nathan, Jewel, and Adam. No where near the energy, and certainly not as funny.

I feel for the people that got bumped, but quite honestly I don't think that whatever they had planned would have packed in the people, and still have to turn people away at the door when the room reached standing room only, as the Firefly panel did that day.

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4. Ive never really watched Angel or Buffy, so Firefly was my first Joss Whedon experience. Obviously....Im somewhat of a fan. But, I got the opinion that our Firefly guests believe that Joss is some sort of super human. Maybe not a god, but it certainly seemed close. The praise given to the show's creator was closer to idol worship than professional admiration. He must be very shiny indeed.

I think it is great that the BDHs think so much of Joss. The feelings conveyed by Nathan, Adam, and Jewel go far beyond the director/actor norm, or even friendship. The respect that the obviously feel for him seems just shy of reverence. I find this interesting and it makes me want to meet Joss myself. I just hope I would not be so overawed that I could not say anything.

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5. The gag reel from the movie (shown to us by the most gracious Adam Baldwin) has some amazingly funny stuff on it. If this cast was willing to make a comedy based sci fi western......I would be on board! We could call it: Serenity 1 1/2: Weekend at Wash's.

The gag reel kept me laughing all the way through, and the Saturday night panel was my second time watching it. Nathan was his usual playful, funny self, but Alan had me in stitches too. Sean, Adam, Gina, and everyone else had their moments. The cast yelling "Summer!" everytime something went wrong made me laugh, especially when Adam kept saying it during the gag reel.

I had to walk out w/ Adam and thank him for bringing the footage and just for showing up at Dragon Con. He is a very kind man and his affection for his fans is readily apparent. When he says that we Browncoats are "part of the family" you know that he means it.

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Feel free to add your own...

I got a kick out of Nathan's antics on the panels. His standing up to check his hair and butt in the hanging monitor screens was priceless.

I liked the bit that Nathan did in his announcer voice when he horribly butchered all of the casts names. Apparently this was a running joke on the set.

One of the funniest panels was on Saturday when the entire audience stood up and flipped Nathan the bird on Jewel's behalf. Their little battle for who can get the best bird off at the other definitely swung into Jewel's camp when hundreds of fans stood up at one time and flipped off Nathan. His reaction was even better......."That's fu**ed up."

The porn name thing was funny too. I don't remember exactly how Nathan & Jewel got on the subject at Sunday's panel, but it was great. I remember that Nathan's porn name (using your 1st pets name as your 1st name and the 1st part of your 1st address as your last name) was "Chip 75". That drew some laughs. Jewel's was "Rainbow" something, but I forgot the last part.

The stormtroopers escorting Nathan off stage at the end of Sunday's panel was great. He is such a ham.

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

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Saturday, September 11, 2004 2:42 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

T'was my 1st DC as well, and checking out the BDM panels was my primary reason for attending. I got to enjoy some fun stuff, but I'm kicking myself for not planning better and sticking around Fri / Sat nights. There is just so much there to see and do, I came ill prepared, to say the least.

The BDH's were awesome. I wasn't sure what to expect, but after Saturdays panel, I was so pumped. I was so glad to see the panels overflow the Continental room(s). Also glad I got there early enough to sit more toward the front and didn't get stuck way in the back. Gonna buy a 4 day badge early for 2005. Hope the rumors of everyone attending pan out. THAT would be ,..well, shiny.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Saturday, September 11, 2004 6:32 AM

THERON

Just FYI, it was David Carradine that got bumped from the Centinieal(sp?) 2 and 3 room to make way for our BDH's. They put him downstairs somewhere in a much smaller meeting room.

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