JOSS WHEDON YOU UNUTTERABLE BASTARD.

Unarguably one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. (Can unarguably and inarguably be used interchangably?) Just amazing. I laughed, I cried (I sobbed for thirty minutes solid), I cheered wildly. And I don’t think anyone would consider it a spoiler if I praised Joss for keeping his promise and having no sound in space. I went in expecting a ramshackle musical score and a barrage of unfinished special effects shots, but the movie seemed polished to me. There were some timing (timering? Where you adjust color and light levels and stuff for printing the film.) issues in some shots, but aside from that, nothing jumped out at me as something that needed to be fixed. Though I bemoan having to wait until late September to see the movie again, I’m so glad that Joss got the extra time to perfect the film.

I won the costume contest for my Zoe outfit. It turned out that it was just the four of us and some random guy that came as Mal that dressed up at all. Well, there were a handful of Blue Sun shirts and the like, but no one else serious. My prize was an autographed copy of Finding Serenity, signed by Jane Espenson. I won another copy of the book in the trivia contest, but traded with Rachel, who had won the Joss Whedon biography, as I had purchased a copy of Finding Serenity when it first came out.

The trivia itself was embarassingly easy; Rachel won her prize for completing the phrase “two by two, ___”, and I got mine for naming Mal’s home planet. And here, when we found out about the trivia contest, Rachel and I were quizzing each other on stuff like “Where is Badger from?”, “Name as many hat-trick actors (and their roles) as you can” and my all-time favourite, “Which two characters are seen using sugar tongs during the course of the series?”

Anyway, I’ll post pictures tomorrow. I’m off to cry myself to sleep now.

ETA: Um, if anyone thinks I’m saying too much, let me know and I’ll edit this entry.