Back from Vancouver, and fried

+0: First and foremost--made it safely back from Vancouver and the Serenity screening! jessicac, mamishka, and I had a delightful time. We had no trouble at the border in either direction, and going into Canada, we weren't asked for our papers at all. On the way home our driver's licenses and birth certificates were deemed acceptable, and moreover, we had a lovely chat with the older gent manning the booth at that hour. Jessica and Meems both gushed at him about the movie when we got him to say he liked science fiction--muahaha!

Picoreview of the trip: FABULOUS. We had fun walking around a bit of Vancouver, the theater was large and spacious, and we had tasty Thai food for dinner. Moreover, our screening was graced by the presence of the cute and charming Jewel Staite, who plays Kaylee! She did a Q&A after the movie was done, and it was chock full of giggleworthy things, including the tale of the oncoming competition between her and Nathan Fillion as to new and creative ways to flip each other the bird. >:)

Picoreview of the movie: DAMN that was good. Go see it. Avoid spoilers at all costs. I WILL be posting a spoiler thread, so if you haven't seen a screening, consider yourselves warned now to NOT look behind the huge lj-cut I will have all over it!

I will also be posting a longer writeup of the trip as soon as my brain comes back online; I'm fried from scattered sleep!

+1: Secondly, greetings to pinkdormouse, now looking at my journal!

+2: I will be offline for the afternoon, as I have been given permission to attend a ship party we're having, but I will be online this evening. So I have to work only half a day today, which is good. See previous commentary re: fried brain.

Serenity filter

fleetfootmike asked to be left out of any filter under which I might post Serenity spoilers. I had not actively planned to make a filter, but that is such a good idea that I'm going to go ahead and do that.

The default for this filter will be that you will NOT, repeat, NOT be included. If you would like to be on my about-to-be-created Serenity filter, please drop a comment on this post!

Serenity Road Trip

This being my spoiler-free description of yesterday's road trip to Vancouver! Spoilers, both for the movie and for Jewel Staite's more spoiler-y Q&A tidbits, will follow in my Serenity-filtered part 2 of this post.

And not that I think I really have to mention this to anyone who currently reads my journal, but just in case--find the Firefly DVDs. Then catch the movie. It was a lot of fun indeed.

( Setting out from Microsoft... )

( Arriving in Vancouver and hanging out before the line... )

( Waiting in line for the movie, and just before the film... )

A pause, in which Anna will NOT elaborate about the movie, which will instead be shunted over to a Serenity-filtered post

( Spoiler-free post-movie Q&A with Jewel Staite... )

( Heading home... )

EDIT 6/25/05 9:10am: Correction of the typo of JOSS Whedon's name, as impishly pointed out to me by mamishka!
EDIT 6/25/05 9:26am: Also added in a mention of Jewel Staite shooting down a rumor about the movie's release date changing.