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You Cannot Be Serious...
Jul. 20th, 2010 02:34 pmSo, while I was only sporadically online over the past couple of days I saw that they finally gave a date and time for "The Daily Show Live," er, George Lucas's appearance at Celebration V (Saturday the 14th, 11 a.m.). I knew it was going to be tricky getting into this thing, but this is ridiculous.
Let's just really low-ball potential attendance at Celebration V with 25,000 people, about two thousand less than Celebration II. Even with "only" 25 grand souls, about 6500 people will be able to see this presentation at all. That includes the main stage where the live interview will take place and all of the other stages being used for overflow. That means AT LEAST 3/4 of attendees will be SOL. If attendance is the same as or higher than Celebration IV, i.e. 34,000+, that makes it even less likely you'll see Papa George in person. Making matters worse is that Lucas is appearing one time only, whereas at Celebration III, he did like two or three appearances.
Here's where it really gets to suck-land. You have to have a bracelet to get into the presentation or the overflow rooms and since 1) they start handing them out at 6 a.m. on Saturday and 2) the official Celebration site's FAQ practically encourages you to camp out overnight, it is obvious that you have start lining up on Friday and stay in line overnight or you will have no prayer at all of getting in on Saturday. Because if you don't, there are 15,000 other a-holes who will. And even if you are fine with pooping in your pants and not showering and risking getting hit by lightning, there's still no guarantee you'll get in. The only people who don't have to wait are those who paid the extra bucks for the VIP packages, which is only fair if you paid that kind of money to go. You know how unenthused I was before about Jon Stewart's presence, but this pretty much sews it up for me. Unless Lucas is handing out bags of money, I'm not going to those lengths for anyone. Eff that noise, as we Gen-Xers used to say.
Here's an idea, Reed Entertainment. Why not let people PREORDER their bracelets??? First come, first serve to the first 6500 people who can hit the click button. Give first priority to Hyperspace members; after all we paid that $15 per annum for no good reason anyway. Set it for 6 p.m. PST so everybody's home from work or school. That way nobody has to camp out overnight or forego other events to get into a line.
But I guess making things easy doesn't make for good press, does it? And I'm afraid that's what they want...a line full of crazy, wet, smelly fans they can show on t.v..
Ah well, who wants to sit in a room full of people who haven't bathed on a hot humid August day anyway?
In other Celebration catastrophes, I hear that the company the con used to set up "official" hotel reservations went belly up. Oops. I'm booked through Hotels.com, whew!
Let's just really low-ball potential attendance at Celebration V with 25,000 people, about two thousand less than Celebration II. Even with "only" 25 grand souls, about 6500 people will be able to see this presentation at all. That includes the main stage where the live interview will take place and all of the other stages being used for overflow. That means AT LEAST 3/4 of attendees will be SOL. If attendance is the same as or higher than Celebration IV, i.e. 34,000+, that makes it even less likely you'll see Papa George in person. Making matters worse is that Lucas is appearing one time only, whereas at Celebration III, he did like two or three appearances.
Here's where it really gets to suck-land. You have to have a bracelet to get into the presentation or the overflow rooms and since 1) they start handing them out at 6 a.m. on Saturday and 2) the official Celebration site's FAQ practically encourages you to camp out overnight, it is obvious that you have start lining up on Friday and stay in line overnight or you will have no prayer at all of getting in on Saturday. Because if you don't, there are 15,000 other a-holes who will. And even if you are fine with pooping in your pants and not showering and risking getting hit by lightning, there's still no guarantee you'll get in. The only people who don't have to wait are those who paid the extra bucks for the VIP packages, which is only fair if you paid that kind of money to go. You know how unenthused I was before about Jon Stewart's presence, but this pretty much sews it up for me. Unless Lucas is handing out bags of money, I'm not going to those lengths for anyone. Eff that noise, as we Gen-Xers used to say.
Here's an idea, Reed Entertainment. Why not let people PREORDER their bracelets??? First come, first serve to the first 6500 people who can hit the click button. Give first priority to Hyperspace members; after all we paid that $15 per annum for no good reason anyway. Set it for 6 p.m. PST so everybody's home from work or school. That way nobody has to camp out overnight or forego other events to get into a line.
But I guess making things easy doesn't make for good press, does it? And I'm afraid that's what they want...a line full of crazy, wet, smelly fans they can show on t.v..
Ah well, who wants to sit in a room full of people who haven't bathed on a hot humid August day anyway?
In other Celebration catastrophes, I hear that the company the con used to set up "official" hotel reservations went belly up. Oops. I'm booked through Hotels.com, whew!
