bsg preview screening!

[jaina]

Just back from the preview screening of tomorrow's BSG episode, "Eye of Jupiter." They way, way underestimated turnout-- the original line easily had enough people to fill the one theater four times over. We weren't far enough up in line to get into the first screening, since we had to drive up in rush hour traffic and didn't get there till 6:30, but they added a repeat screening at 9 pm and we (myself, sirrogue, jawajames, and Whitney) got into that one easily.

Not going to talk about the episode here, cause damn, it's past midnight, we (and by "we" I mean sirrogue) drove for almost five hours today to see a forty-five minute episode of a TV show that's going to air tomorrow anyway. Why did we do that again? Oh, right, cause it was good fannish fun. :) If you want a SUPER-SPOILERY recap of the episode, head on over to wisteria_'s journal entry here (OMG SPOILERS BEWARE).

But! The really, really cool part was that they had five of the show writers at the screening, including the guy who wrote this particular episode, and they very kindly did a lengthy Q&A afterwards. Mindful of my prior dumbassness when I got to ask Joss a question at the Riverside Serenity screening, I rehearsed my phrasing a whole bunch mentally before I put my hand up. I asked Mark Verheiden, the episode's writer, which scene he'd found hardest to write, and I got a "good question!" response from the writers, which was yay. He said none of them had been particularly hard, but the most fun to write was the scene where Baltar comes back on Galactica and acts like a grade-schooler who's been sent to the principal's office. Lots of other interesting questions too, and some not-so-interesting, and hopefully I can write those up tomorrow when I'm not dead tired. Okay, now I'm going to bed.

Comments

[jawajames.livejournal.com]

so baltar's got this nice big bed.. but no other furniture.. where the heck does he store his clothes when he's out walking around in his bathrobe?

[kay-dee70.livejournal.com]

Yay for asking a good question! If I lived closer to LA I so would have been there. Sounds like the Q&A really made it worth it! Not to mention I'd imagine watching the show in a theater with a bunch of fans would be fun :)

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the Q&A was definitely worth it! I guess I hadn't realized that for the most part, the writers all work in LA, and only make periodic trips up to the set in Vancouver.

Watching with other fans was definitely interesting. There were these odd moments where everyone would laugh, even though it wasn't really funny, I think maybe because it was the only way to express what we were feeling. Like when Kara was talking about marriage being a sacrament, that wasn't so much funny, but we were all giggling like crazy. Oh, and when Kara's Raptor went down, and they cut to commercial break (which for us was just a few seconds of black screen), someone in the front yelled "Oh NO!" and that was pretty hilarious.

Oh, and we decided that the final five Cylons were definitely the five writers who did the Q&A. :)