Tickets for Serenity!
May. 8th, 2005 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readsalotI got to see Serenity on Thursday night. Wow.
This post will be about the process of getting to see it; the next one will be about the actual event.
For those who don't know, this was a special screening: one late-night show on May 5 in 10 cities across the US. I found out about it when I checked my email on April 27. You see, last June a friend of mine told me about the browncoats fan site, and I signed up with them. (Note: the site gives points to people who get other people to sign up, and with enough points you can get neat swag. So if you want to sign up, please let me refer you. I'm not convinced I'll ever get enough points for anything useful, but I wouldn't mind trying.). I don't usually give my email address to movie studio sites, because I don't really want to get lots of mail about random other movies, but I did want to show support for Serenity, so I did it this time. And I'm very happy that I did, because otherwise I wouldn't have heard about the screening.
What I got was a very funny message from Joss (which you can see if you register at the above-mentioned site and then go to here), with some information about the sneak. I immediately noticed that one of the cities was Boston, and tried the link for buying tickets. It didn't work. (as in, it went to a real place and then the site said that I was trying to do an invalid action). Despair. I checked the forums at the browncoats site, which were composed of people complaining that there was no screening in their city, and people complaining that the screening in their city was sold out, and people complaining that the ticket-buying links didn't work. So at least I wasn't alone. I tried the link a few more times, and it kept not working, and then I called![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theodosia, who works downtown, to see if she wanted to go to the theater and buy tickets. (I work in Lexington, and could not take several hours off that day to go to the theater myself and try to buy tickets myself.) However, she wasn't at her desk, so I left a message. I despaired a little more, and then went back to work.
About an hour later (so it was about 11:30 AM) I tried the link again, and it was working! Yay! So I started working through the purchase process, and thentheodosia called, and expressed total willingness to walk through fire for tickets (or just make her way to the theater), and I kept her on the phone for about 10 minutes while I bought the tickets, so that I'd know whether she had to buy tickets for me or not. I was successful. She tried again not long after I talked to her, and by then the show was sold out. Since I had kept her on the phone for what may well have been the crucial last few minutes, and I didn't have a pre-designated use for one of the four tickets I bought, I let her invite one of her friends, the lovely and charming farwing. I spent the rest of the day bouncing and going "squee!".
This post will be about the process of getting to see it; the next one will be about the actual event.
For those who don't know, this was a special screening: one late-night show on May 5 in 10 cities across the US. I found out about it when I checked my email on April 27. You see, last June a friend of mine told me about the browncoats fan site, and I signed up with them. (Note: the site gives points to people who get other people to sign up, and with enough points you can get neat swag. So if you want to sign up, please let me refer you. I'm not convinced I'll ever get enough points for anything useful, but I wouldn't mind trying.). I don't usually give my email address to movie studio sites, because I don't really want to get lots of mail about random other movies, but I did want to show support for Serenity, so I did it this time. And I'm very happy that I did, because otherwise I wouldn't have heard about the screening.
What I got was a very funny message from Joss (which you can see if you register at the above-mentioned site and then go to here), with some information about the sneak. I immediately noticed that one of the cities was Boston, and tried the link for buying tickets. It didn't work. (as in, it went to a real place and then the site said that I was trying to do an invalid action). Despair. I checked the forums at the browncoats site, which were composed of people complaining that there was no screening in their city, and people complaining that the screening in their city was sold out, and people complaining that the ticket-buying links didn't work. So at least I wasn't alone. I tried the link a few more times, and it kept not working, and then I called
theodosia, who works downtown, to see if she wanted to go to the theater and buy tickets. (I work in Lexington, and could not take several hours off that day to go to the theater myself and try to buy tickets myself.) However, she wasn't at her desk, so I left a message. I despaired a little more, and then went back to work. About an hour later (so it was about 11:30 AM) I tried the link again, and it was working! Yay! So I started working through the purchase process, and then
theodosia called, and expressed total willingness to walk through fire for tickets (or just make her way to the theater), and I kept her on the phone for about 10 minutes while I bought the tickets, so that I'd know whether she had to buy tickets for me or not. I was successful. She tried again not long after I talked to her, and by then the show was sold out. Since I had kept her on the phone for what may well have been the crucial last few minutes, and I didn't have a pre-designated use for one of the four tickets I bought, I let her invite one of her friends, the lovely and charming farwing. I spent the rest of the day bouncing and going "squee!".