Friday, September 30, 2005
Definition of Geek
"Going to see a midnight showing of Serenity because its regular release date conflicts with your regular game of Dungeons and Dragons."
For those of you not in the know, "Serenity" is the full length motion picture out cropping of the short lived Firefly television series. The show was a particularly creative piece of science fiction that teamed elements of space adventure and westerns... yeah, I know, not a lot of other people got it either, which is why it was cancelled three episodes into the 13 they filmed. It did, however, have a large fan base, so now its director has a three picture deal so the series can live on, plus you can get all of the original episodes on DVD, naturally.
The movie was pretty good... I'm sure the fans will eat it up. I know the crowd last night cheered its way through it all, even the parts that were a little thin, but hey, rabid fans are like that. I'll defend Blade Runner any day of the week to people who think it's a slow, outdated piece of sci-fi trash, but that argument doesn't come up often anymore.
I won't defend the fact that I play Dungeons and Dragons... much. I only play once a month and this is the first game I've played since high school, so I've been relatively geek free in that area for some time now and only ventured back into it all because a friend of mine wrote the adventure... and my Friday night plans have been kind of thin lately...
By the way, unless you happen to find a really cool geek girl, having geek like tendencies is a real pain to explain away... trust me, you really hope the fact that you've still got comics books at 34 is something they find endearing otherwise your D & D nights multiply with all speed. I have a new friend that is a geek girl, and probably one of the most interesting people I've met in years... of course, hanging out with a geek girl gets you into some pretty funny discussions on who's the bigger geek... outsiders would eat it up I'm sure.
Well... I'm off... need to roll up my character for tonight... sigh...
Jeff @ The Gag
