So, I went to both the knitting thing and the Star Wars midnight showing last night. The knitting thing was fine—there were 5 other girls all making really cool socks or sweaters. They seemed nice and told me about the occasional additional Thursday gatherings they have. The girl I emailed wasn’t among the group, so I didn’t get to meet her. I got a little worried though when I showed up at 7pm and no one was there. The first two people didn’t show up until almost 7:15!

After leaving that, there wasn’t much time before Steve and I were on our way to the Arlington to be there when they opened the doors at around 10:30pm.

We got decent seats in the middle section, and watched as the employees cracked down on “fun” much more than when we saw Episode 1. Any beach balls, toilet paper, balloons, or blowup dolls (yes, someone brought a blowup doll) were confiscated if they were being bounced among the crowd, and anyone caught perpetuating the activities was escorted out of the building. Not sure why they cared so much about balloons and other things that won’t hurt you. Especially when you’ve got a crowd with an hour and a half to kill.

I killed the time by enabling the Bluetooth on my phone and bluejacking people. I created a contact that said “The force is with you” and sent it to all the phones I could find. Apparently someone else had the same idea, because I got sent a message saying “May the force be with you”. Ever since I read about this, I wanted to try it. It works best in a large crowd, where you are anonymous and also have access to a greater number of phones that might have bluetooth. Being that a bunch of geeks were congregated in one place, it’s not surprising that I found over a dozen just in my corner of the theater. Heck, one person even named their phone “Yoda”. I kept telling Steve how exciting this was, but he may have just been humoring me when he agreed. :)

Anyway, as for the movie, I do think it was better than Episodes 1 and 2. Some scenes seemed a little frivolous or sappy, but overall I think the crowd was pleased. One of the characters I knew was going to be making an appearance seemed to only be there just to draw cheers from the masses—as it didn’t really add anything to the immediate story at hand, per se. I won’t elaborate any further so as not to inadvertently give away something you may not know (assuming you’ve even read this far!). Suffice it to say that the movie was enjoyable—perhaps because it is darker than the other 2 prequels and so had a different focus.

So that was my night in a nutshell. Didn’t get to bed until almost 3am, and this morning I made it to work before 9am. I am hard core, yo! :)

Posted at 8:58 AM |

Umm, it’s hard to say. I guess I didn’t really pay that much attention, but I think the girls were fairly well represented.

A lot of them were in pretty good-looking. But then, I supposed SB isn’t always typical of what the other places are like.

4 | Posted by: Jennifer on May 20, 2005 @ 9:16 AM