I have failed...failed in my quest to become a great blog reporter who will have a readership of dozens, thereby allowing me to take a tour of the set of Supernatural without all the nasty restraining orders that would usually follow. Why can't I remember to take my camera anywhere? So, as punishment, you get treated to a Photoshop Theatre re-enactment of the Dr. Horrible charity screening in LA, using Yahoo images.
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gilligan2755 and I went to the charity screening of Dr. Horrible on Halloween night in LA. The most horrifying thing of the night was the traffic. scaperanya did not attend this gala event because she went to an actual party - the audacity of the woman!
So we line up in the huge line outside, wondering about all of the other people who apparently had nothing better to do on Halloween. I was dressed as Amelia Airhead and Gilligan was dressed as a Helping Hands homeless shelter volunteer (aka, no costume). These were our cohorts....
Official lab assistant hooker tally = 22.
Wow. Dr. Horrible gets more action than the Comic Con space hookers. He must have a better dental plan, after all.
We are told repeatedly to hug the wall because they don't want us blocking the flow of traffic.
But we finally get inside, and find that this excursion is tax deductible. Yay!
Alas, no one understood the pure genius of Amelia Airhead, and the concession line was about ten hours long. We were accosted by an angry homeless woman. Gilligan appreciated the irony of the woman getting booted at a charity event to help the poor.
Our first feature....The Guild.
Neither of us was familiar with it. I had known it existed, but that was about it. Actually amusing, but since I don't understand the allure of 6 hour multi-player RPG games, some of it left me wondering about the characters' medication. But that was the point, right?
Then...Dr. Horrible!
It was a sing-along, a bit like Rocky Horror with less lingerie. They sold goodie bags with play along props, but I had purchased my Dr. Horrible button and was tapped out.
But, the best part? After the screening, guess who was there! Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion (Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool)! Fricka'frackin' lack of camera! The Whedon brothers were also present, as was Felicia Day (Penny) and...I'm blanking on her name, but she wrote it and played one of the groupies. Most of them were in the spirit and dressed in costumes. Nathan F. was covered head to toe, most likely to protect him from fangirl recognition. According to sources that Gilligan met, Alan Tudyk was also there, but I did not see him. He came with Nathan F. Perhaps their love may rival Ackles' and Padalecki's one day.
Okay, so there is no doubt that Dr. Horrible is the best musical sing-along blog ever created for the internet ever. And I have to say that having the creators and stars show up - without pay, mind you - really made me respect them. Would Ackles and Padalecki do that? My feeling is no.
Yes, the Dr. Horrible cast has not had the flying fangirl experience as far as I know, and may not be under threats of fangirl cloning, but the fact that these guys were willing to spend a little piece of their holiday for something like this? Just...absolutely awesome.
Don't get me wrong. I know our Supernatural Boys have security concerns, and that they cannot realistically ever do something like this anytime soon (especially with their hours) and that makes me sad because it makes them...less real somehow? Almost to the point where they're just icons and not people who want to help others through this acting thing they do, if that makes any sense whatsoever. Which it doesn't, and makes me sound judgemental and bitchy. I know they did the carefully corralled and security staffed Red Bull soapbox derby so yay! for that, but it just feels different, I suppose. I think it comes down to venue. The movie made the Horrible cast seem like average people using their talents to do what they can to help, whereas the derby was TV stars doing what they can to help.
I suppose I can sum it up by saying that I appreciate what the Dr. Horrible cast agreed to in order to make it more personal - not that they planned it; it was all on Whedonopolis, who didn't gouge us just to see the show.
But in the end, it really doesn't matter how the actors and such do what they do for charity because the money is going where it needs to go to help those who need it. You know, to buy rocket packs so people can fly to the moon and become florists.
Which is really what charity is all about.
- Mood:
tired
Comments
I might have agreed with this comment until the little show Jensen put on at the end of Yellow Fever. He just came to life for me then.
And Jared has such personality in the interviews we do get to see that I feel like I know him. (and I want to squeeze him and hug him)
But I want you to understand the underlying motivation of my comment is pure jealously. That sounds like so much fun. Except the wall part.
But then I go to something like the Dr. Horrible charity screening and the immediacy of it, where the actors are just part of the crowd, affects my common sense. Plus, the pain in my pocketbook from paying oodles of cash to go to the LA SPN Con.... *gah* My accountant wants to create a hit list.
Or that the people at the Dr. Horrible screening are just plain awesome - fans and crew/cast alike.