| serenity screening. |
[May. 26th, 2005|11:00 pm] |
Tonight, we cashed in our preview tickets for Serenity. Carin and I arrived a little under two hours early, to find a significant line already there. A line full of D&D players, long-haired, glasses-wearing folks in their mid-twenties in long trenchcoats and "Blue Sun" shirts who had somehow wrangled tickets for themselves. Carin sang the theme song with a couple of other girls for a TV crew that was covering the event. If I had TV, I'd be watching it, but I suppose she'll have to be cutely famous for someone else.
I'm almost never around fellow dorks, and... well, I feel closeted much of the time, not really hiding the fact that I read Cerebus or truly enjoy solving a good problem with a few lines of Perl, but not broadcasting the fact either. And here I was surrounded by unapologetic dorks. If it had been a Star Trek opening, these people would have been wearing Klingon brow-ridges. I think I envied their purity, a bit. There I was, looking perfectly respectable... perfectly dull. I wonder what it was that got beaten out of me that didn't get beaten out of all of them.
What I will say about the movie---well, I can only speak as a fan, a browncoat, not as someone new to all this, but still---is that it was very, very well fashioned, very well made. I got the sense that everyone involved had honed their craft to be so, so damned good at it, even within the constraints of a television show. When given a much larger budget, and much more time to get everything right, I think the results simply shone. It was a labor of love from everyone involved. Every bit of dialogue sparkled; nothing was wasted. It made me remember Episode III, wherein so much time was wasted getting the plot rolling, and I just wanted to take George Lucas aside, saying "George... the guys all think that, frankly, you should be trying a lot harder."
I was prepared to be very, very forgiving, but I didn't have to be, not in the least.I had never seen anything like it. And I can't wait to go see it again in September.
I also got to see ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pixel again, who I hadn't seen in quite some time, and, well, he's the sort of person I'd expect to see at that sort of thing. Perhaps there shall be future geek communion; he said there's some sort of thing he hosts. |
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