Beam Me Up, Mickey!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

YAY!

I once made up a song about Reavers I think... Let me see if I can find it. *giggle*

Instead of :
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me...

I Wrote:

Take My body, take my soul
Into space to feed is my goal
Hey is that a space ship? C'mere you your ribs I'll strip
Your skin is good with a dip

Take you out to my oven
Tell my captain Dinner's comin'
Burn the flesh and boil the blood
Your screams will come in a flood.

Have hunger deep I be insane
Your nightmare dear dear Jayne
But your hide will look good on me.


If I ever went to a Convention, and could work a She-Reaver costume up I'd want to sing that to Adam Baldwin... He'd probably Freak out Heehee.

Well THAT puts a new prospective on a backyard BBQ!!!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

(in my best Gabby Hays voice)
You tell 'em. Young whipper snappers.

You ain't lived until you are waiting in a line that wraps around the city block, twice for your third viewing of (the first) Star Wars. That long a line ment that it would be at least two showings before you got in. And this is a theatre with a 12,000 capacity (back when they were a single screen to a theatre and so that wait could be upwards or 4 hours BEFORE getting in to the theatre for your showing).

I had finshed school and had a night job so I could stand all day in line.

Randy

used to love movies with Gabby!!!

DID that star wars line thing!! First night, GF and I stood in line for three hours, then they came around counting the line. cut off about 100 people ahead of us as max capacity for number of showing left!! had to go back at noon the next day and got in after only about an hour!! too cool!!!

[Purpura]

Well THAT puts a new prospective on a backyard BBQ!!!

Of course. According to the stuff in the movie Serenity (Based on Joss Whedon's Firefly) Reavers are people that were genetically altered by a gas in a terraformed planet's atmosphere. Some of the people went so pacifistic they forgot to eat and just died in place. Others went super angry/insane and went out into space. The atmospheres in the ships are also virulent with the gas- and that if someone survives an attack by the Reavers, they become a Reaver too and go hunting for flesh. It's not a pretty story... so that's where I'll leave it.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Of course. According to the stuff in the movie Serenity (Based on Joss Whedon's Firefly) Reavers are people that were genetically altered by a gas in a terraformed planet's atmosphere. Some of the people went so pacifistic they forgot to eat and just died in place. Others went super angry/insane and went out into space. The atmospheres in the ships are also virulent with the gas- and that if someone survives an attack by the Reavers, they become a Reaver too and go hunting for flesh. It's not a pretty story... so that's where I'll leave it.

Yep, I saw the movie, and the series!

thats a recurring theme in some SciFi games, books, and such. But still a good story line!

[ktulu]

Star Wars > Star Trek :D:

I liked ST:TNG, the others I did not get into so much. The new ST movie looks interesting though. Sylar as Spock (Heroes fans will get that) should be interesting.

Still, I always liked Star Wars over Star Trek.

[February]

Star Wars > Star Trek :D:

I liked ST:TNG, the others I did not get into so much. The new ST movie looks interesting though. Sylar as Spock (Heroes fans will get that) should be interesting.

Still, I always liked Star Wars over Star Trek.

I know, I don't think Sylar will do well as Spock. I wanted Justin Long to do it (mac from the PC/Mac apple ads) I don't know if he tried out for the part but he has the look and the monotone delivery!

He was in galaxy quest, interestingly enough- when he was a skinny kid he played the one who helped save the ship !

You ain't lived until you are waiting in a line that wraps around the city block, twice for your third viewing of (the first) Star Wars. That long a line ment that it would be at least two showings before you got in. And this is a theatre with a 12,000 capacity (back when they were a single screen to a theatre and so that wait could be upwards or 4 hours BEFORE getting in to the theatre for your showing).

I saw Return of the Jedi at a theater that held about 3000 and the line went all the way down to another theater a ways away that was showing it too! I will never forget it- it was opening night.

My sister had to make the Stupid Moviegoer Quote of the night though when the one Ewok dies fighting the Empire and she says to me "Well they had to kill one or it wouldn't have been realistic."

I remember seeing ROTJ at the dollar theater 9 times that summer- my other sister had just gotten her license and we'd go to the first show of the day then go to the comic store and get SW comics and trading cards.

Good times, good times. Everything was so much simpler then.

Hey, Pirate, go after Lady Ulrike, she was only 2 1/2 when it came out!

I remember my mother reluctantly getting me the first 6 action figures but taking the weapons away I still have Chewie and R2 and luke. Leia's head fell off and Ben Kenobi is missing and presumed eaten by one of the cats we had in the years since.

My brother who is almost 30 STILL has possession of my X-wing fighter- which I never gave him permission to take from my room, I swear I'm going to sneak into his closet one day and steal it back!

[Driver_dylan]

I have found in my travels that working here is much easer after reading Douglas Adams.

[Notatourist]

Met Mr. Adams before he joined the Great Bird...


I'm a fan. I'm a fan who works conventions. I have been in the SCA, which is hell on a theme park job, I love pretty much everything SF and I have far too much stuff in the house that is convention related.

The T-Shirt I found recently says it all. "Geek Orthodox"

[Near Philly]

I haven't been there but my sister and my in laws have both gone and they had a good time. It's not Disney World of course. . .

Thanks 'bru. We decided to go this trip. I consider Las Vegas a theme park with each casino / hotel a different "land".

Since wer'e talking about Star Wars lines I'll add mine. First for all the younger people, we didn't have a ten or twenty plex with small theatres back when Episode IV came out. You had one maybe two screens. But the theatre was huge and ornate. My mother dropped off a friend and I and we got on a looong line. They let the line in for the next show and we are nearing the front, but looks like we won't make it. We come up about 15 people away from getting in. They ask for a party of two, we are the first ones.Yayhhhh ! ! Two singles were closer. They got in instead of us. Boooo ! ! I think it took about three and a half hours to get in.

Milliways, where:
"The things......are also people"

[BRWombat]

Thanks 'bru. We decided to go this trip. I consider Las Vegas a theme park with each casino / hotel a different "land".

Since wer'e talking about Star Wars lines I'll add mine. First for all the younger people, we didn't have a ten or twenty plex with small theatres back when Episode IV came out. You had one maybe two screens. But the theatre was huge and ornate. My mother dropped off a friend and I and we got on a looong line. They let the line in for the next show and we are nearing the front, but looks like we won't make it. We come up about 15 people away from getting in. They ask for a party of two, we are the first ones.Yayhhhh ! ! Two singles were closer. They got in instead of us. Boooo ! ! I think it took about three and a half hours to get in.

Milliways, where:
"The things......are also people"

Ah yes. You're bringing back memories here. Back before pay-per-view, premium channels, DVD or even home video players, it was really an accomplishment to go see the movie more than once or twice. And we did for Star Wars.

When Return of the Jedi came out, a friend snagged tickets to a radio station-sponsored early showing, but we still had to wait in line for a couple of hours. I dressed in a tuxedo, which was a blast. Yeah, I was the only one, but it added to the big premiere feeling for me -- and it got us interviewed on the radio!

The Star Wars connection continues to this day: this past weekend, where I was a sponsor at a church music camp, a kid came up out of the blue and told me I look like "Porkins from Star Wars IV."

Sigh.