Chaosbutterfly

So, there I was, 4:30 pm and going down to the lobby to await a ride out to the Alamo Drafthouse… here be possible spoilers, but that depends on your sensibilities.

Jeebus was running into traffic on I-45. That was to be expected, I-45 is awful at the best of times. He had left at 3 something from Texas City, took a short stop at home in Dickinson to change, shower etc. and then got back on the road at around 4 to get to my downtown office on Walker. I think he made it around 5 or so and we hopped on Memorial drive to take it west out of downtown. Much less traffic than I-10 and a much prettier drive. I had to use my phone gps to navigate us to Tink’s place on Tanglewild. He and his wife live in a townhouse out there. Kay’s expecting and couldn’t go, she had a party she was heading too, so it was me, Jeebus, Tink and Sara who went to see the movie. We should have taken Kay anyway, but I will get back to that later.
We got to the theater. It wasn’t all that crowded yet, they open the doors 45 minutes early so you can watch the pre-show, order food and stuff. The theater is pretty laid back on those regards. Alamo Drafthouse started in Austin. There are some 4 or 5 locations there alone, another in San Antonio, I think another in the Rio Grande Valley, and one out of state, in Virginia. Just that have started in Austin should illustrate the crowd this kind of theater caters too. Young collage students. The pre-show doesn’t have any commercials you would normally see today in a theater, it was all amateur fan videos of Trekies, many of the Trek actors in their “post-Star Trek” days of doing bad 70′s music videos and TV appearances. Like William Shatner’s odd dramatic “singing” complete with wide 70′s styled lavender collar and bushy topee. Lenard Nemoy apparently did an odd video with a 70′s psychedelic band and a few other amazing finds that would make Youtube blush. We got our food, and the first of three pitchers of beer and finally the movie started.
Wow. They did get the characters down. The cannon was not all that important apparently, but I guess that’s understandable when you have some sort of chronosynclastic infadibulamized plot going on that messes with the time line. Too bad the Time Lords aren’t around anymore, what’s the universe coming to when you can just destroy worlds and muck about with characters on such a grand scale. It was fun tho. I would say that we could have used a lot less flairy glowy bright lights in the eyes. The action was fast, the characters funny and scarily well casted. The lines were like old refugees from the show made fresh and fun for a new audience. The bad guy was a little boring. He was a little lame, and most the plot seemed like they were just cleaning up his mess more than being threatened by him. They never did clean it up. The time line remains pretty much torn up and well set up for another bunch of sequels.
Aftermath…
We came out of the movie to find out that Kay had been left stranded when her ride was taking a couple of hours too long to get their butts in gear. She had gone home. We stopped by a Marble Slab for ice creme and got her something for her suffering. It was a great night. Next time Kay, come with us!