Back from the red carpet Premiere of Serenity! This will be a quick recap because I need to go to bed, lol.

Got there around 6:30 and got our passes no problem. We went up to the food court area (second floor) to watch the red carpet arrivals. We were right in the front up there. Some older, well-dressed people came up to us and asked if we wanted to hold a sign, as we were right in the background, and it would get us on camera. So they handed us a homemade "Nothing in the 'verse can stop us" sign and walked away. I had a sneaking suspicion they were Unversal peeps, not fans, lol!

The first celeb to arrive on the red carpet was Ron Glass. He was interviewed and then gave a little "Browncoats Rule" speech for all of us. Morena was next, but they never brought her up to be interviewed. Then came Joss. No one seemed to notice him at all at first, which was weird. He was interviewed and then also gave a speech for us, saying, "Thank you," to the fans. I love Joss. Then Nathan came through on the fan side of the line, shaking hands and signing autographs. I thought he was going to miss being interviewed, but they sent him back through the line so he could be interviewed. Sean, Summer and Amy Acker all arrived about that time, and we decided we had better get inside.

We got to walk down the red carpet while Nathan, Adam, Sean, Summer and Joss were all being interviewed, so we got to walk past all of them. The movie was showing in four separate theaters, we were in theater 11, which was all Browncoats.

The movie was even better the second time around, and my friend M., who's a huge Whedon fan, loved it. I also had my husband and son with me, and they had both seen it with me at the screening last month. My husband isn't a genre/sci-fi fan at all, but even he still loved seeing it a second time.

After the movie we walked over to Universal for the after party. There was an open bar, and salads and hamburgers. Much of it was on the "city streets," but there was also an inside area, which was decorated to look like the Companion House. It was packed in there! Adam Baldwin walked in about the same time we did, and he came over to my son to say hi, which was so cool! Actually, he said, "I know you, are you A.J?" and when he said no Adam said, "I know your name, it's.....crap!" So I laughed and said, "No, his name's not crap." Then Adam said he was terrible with names but great with faces, and asked my son his name, and said once again that he "totally remembers him" and thanked him for coming. I <3 Adam!

I also saw Saffron (Christina Hendricks) over by the bar. My god, she's beautiful. I sent my husband and M. over to see here, they couldn't find her, but they did find Morena instead. So they both were very happy, because they had been talking earlier about how gorgeous she is.

My son's highlight was the chocolate fountains; they had three, dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate. Very cool!

Son was tired and cold and getting a bit whiny, so we left around 11:30. Fabulous premiere and I was blown away by Universal's generosity to the fans!

ETA - Wire Image pics of the Premiere

ETA2 - Getty Images pics of the Premiere