Say what you will about the show ...

[apocalypsos]

... but the fandom itself can be awesome.

In case you hadn't already heard, the people who were running the Firefly con being held this weekend cancelled at the last minute. And when I say the last minute, I mean the day before. A week or so ago when they'd admitted they were having difficulties, some fans offered to help only to have the people in charge respond that it was okay and they could handle it. Then -- BOO.

So even though it was last minute (and because a lot of already paid-for stuff was nonrefundable), people came anyway fully expecting it just to be a bunch of fans hanging out.

Then Adam Baldwin showed up, free of charge, just to hang.

Then he made some phone calls.

Then a whole bunch of the other actors showed up.

Oh, FANDOM. *cuddles everybody*

Comments

[hawklaw.livejournal.com]

I get all sentimentally attached to actors who do great stuff like this (i.e. Mark Harmon rescues children from burning car, and can now do no wrong in my eyes).

Adam Baldwin has my television viewing and movie dollars for life.

[thedivinegoat.livejournal.com]

(i.e. Mark Harmon rescues children from burning car, and can now do no wrong in my eyes).

What? What? What? I knew I liked the man, but...

[hawklaw.livejournal.com]

From a news article I found online:

Harmon rescued two teenagers from a burning car in 1996, using a sledgehammer to break the windows and pulling the boys to safety. The car erupted in flames after crashing through a fence and into a tree near Harmon's home in Brentwood. The former UCLA football star, who costarred in the big-screen "Freaky Friday," ran from his house to help -- and rescued the teens before authorities arrived. Harmon declined to comment on the incident, but neighbors and medical personnel agreed the boys owed Mark their lives.