This is the first year in several years I haven’t been in San Diego for Comic Con. I rarely go to the actual convention, but I’m always at my folks house across the bay and it’s a really fun energy during that weekend, if you don’t have to deal with the traffic. Of course, the year I stay home it’s off the rails with amazing. I’ve enjoyed all the news/stories coming out of SDCC, though. One story that made me smile was an epic meeting of two upbeat personalities. The I Love You heard ‘round the world happened on Friday, somewhere outside the San Diego Convention Center, when Lin-Manuel Miranda and Kristen Bell finally met. Presumably, this was the beginning of the encounter:
The sloth reference, for those who don’t know, refers to Kristen’s enthusiasm for sloths and her inability to keep her cool around them.
I’ll admit, I love when celebrity geek out about each other. Somehow it justifies when I do it. But we are talking about two of the most effusive people on the planet, so the lovefest did not stop at a hug, they took this thing wide. First, Lin posted to Twitter:
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen two total strangers scream “I Love You!!” at each other across a crowded room but this is the picture we took right after we did that. @IMKristenBell #SanDiegoComicCon2019 pic.twitter.com/4jCriLD2Be
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) July 19, 2019
To which Kristen responded:
Was I screaming? I thought my SOUL was SINGING! #SanDiegoComicCon2019 https://t.co/Wj32q9aGFS
— Kristen Bell (@IMKristenBell) July 20, 2019
But this wasn’t enough to document the occassion, so they both changed their profile pics on social media:
Next step: matching tattoos. Maybe a sloth waving a Puerto Rican flag?
Lin was at SDCC to promote His Dark Materials (which, if I have not enthusiastically voiced my excitement for this cheesy pulp piece, let me do so now – I am all over this sh-t!) Lin was also promoting Duck Tales and walked the floor and met everyone, as far as I could make out. He had a blast, which is what you should have while you are at Comic Con. It’s meant to be absorbed, not witnessed.
Kristen was promoting both A Good Place, for which the main cast showed up and made everybody cry talking about the end of the show. On Thursday, which was Kristen’s 39th birthday, she was at the Veronica Mars panel. I don’t know if this was an elaborate set up, which, if it was, Kristen deserves more credit as an actor, but Kristen asked Hulu to drop the fourth season at that moment as her birthday gift. And they did. Which was a super cool Comic Con moment, but apparently sent the media covering it into a tailspin. It also unleashed a torrent of spoilers for those of us who didn’t get a chance to watch it so have a care. I’m excited for all the VM guest star appearances, the list of which is apparently endless. Alas – I guess we can deduce Lin is not on that list, given that they only mee last week. Guess I’ll have to invest in VM season five after all, to see Deputy Miranda telling Veronica to stay in her lane. Only he sings it and the episode is a musical, with tap dancing down Pacific Coast Highway.
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I got to see Hamilton on Friday night and it was wonderful! I won tickets through the lottery and ended up on the front row!!! I kept hoping Lin Manuel Miranda would show up as a surprise but he did not.
You know what? I’m a die hard VM fan. Like, absolutely my favorite show, ever. But I have not started the new season. I had the ending spoiled on instagram and now I’m SO salty about it that I just don’t even want to watch it. I am still absolutely devastated over Stranger Things, but I’m prettyyy sure that both series are going to be bringing someone presumed dead back, so I’m tempted to watch anyway. I just need time to get over my ST grief first.
But I seem to remember Dax saying that she’s in love with LMM on his podcast – that he’s basically aware that she is gaga over him haha.
I didn’t enjoy the new season. Not just because of the ending you mention, but because of lots of other reasons. Seeing a snarky, witty teenager make clapbacks at adults who doubt her skill and know-how is interesting. Watching an adult take snark into meanness is not appealing. Sad too, because I always had a soft spot for the show.
I enjoyed it, but Veronica needs to grow.
Darn. I enjoyed the movie, so I suppose as long as it doesn’t veer off too far from that I’ll be happy enough. Lucy2, you give me some hope haha. I’ll give it a couple weeks and give it a shot.
You’re so right, Random! She was the mean/unhinged one in this new iteration. I was late to VM so I dutifully binged the first 3 seasons and the movie, only to be devastated by the complete and utter disaster of the end of S4. Absolutely gutted me. It honestly makes me angry and I can only imagine what it’s done to people who’ve been with these characters for 15 years! Rob Thomas better re-think this if he wants an S5.
Also, in the meantime we need Shonda Rhimes to draft Jason Dohring into her shows. He is the perfect archetype. Oh, and Swole Logan is totally working for me.
I’m also a long-time fan from when it first aired and I didn’t hate the ending. I think it made sense in a way, so don’t be too deterred by it.
Hugs.
Not gonna lie it. Was. Traumatic.
I would geek out too if I met LMM. I think he’s probably one of the most talented people working in the theater/movie world right now. He’s brilliant, and he’s cute, and he’s just so damn NICE. (or he’s really good at faking it.) It’s awesome to see someone who is talented, and NICE, become that successful.
I love Hamilton, and I am super pumped over In The Heights as a movie, I think it’s going to be incredible.
he made a guest appearance on Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing himself, but a jerky/fame-gone-to-my-head/pampered version (likely because EVERYONE knows what a nice guy he really is!), and it was REALLY funny.
Ok, did anyone watching Veronica Mars season 4 hear Veronica Mars say at one point she was 29, or was she saying she was 29 during the movie and now she was 31?
I think Leo says that she’s well into her 30’s.
I forgot to add that James McAvoy looks positively TASTY in that picture with LMM. holy cow, that man is FINE.
@WhatWhat first thing I noticed too! He is so ridiculously sexy. I’m not one to crush on actors; I don’t know why, but I have an embarrassing crush on James McAvoy. Complete with fantasy scenarios of meeting him and having him fall madly in love with middle-aged, mom of 4, me.
Pass. I’m more than done with Kristen Bell. Season 4 Veronica Mars was a sh*tshow. The writing was awful. I am an anti-Scientology person, so I was more than ready for Dohring to leave, but that was written so poorly. And why are people giving Bell as pass about it? She is the star and EP on the show and she acts like she had nothing to do with how it ended. This chica is so fame-horny, she gets off when anyone higher in the star system reacts to her. No one wants to believe that cute, little Kristen Bell can be anything other than peppy and positive.
Dohring seems like a genuinely kind and gentle person who was ready to service the show and his character regardless of what it meant for his own career. I find that admirable, because he clearly wasn’t ready to leave the show or Logan behind despite taking one for the Rob Thomas team here.
Re: his involvement w Scientology I’m not a fan either but it’s never felt like he was a proselytizer, so I don’t think he needs to be dragged for it but I get why people do. There are tons of people way more famous that we somehow give a pass to and he just seems like a working actor trying to make it so I’m like *shrug emoji*
Yeah, as much as we want to believe he isn’t a “proselytizer,” he really is in deep. His family has given $20+ million to the “church.” Tony Ortega (the guru on all things Scientology) has said he worked on recruiting people from Veronica Mars into Scientology (and Capra has confirmed this). He was recently asked on a podcast about his involvement in Scientology, and he told the interviewer that he would “send him materials” about the religion to get him (the interviewer) started. He was on a parade float during the last holiday season promoting Scientology and The Way to Happiness. He’s worked for many years with (accused rapist) Danny Masterson to raise money for CCHR (the anti-psychology part of Scientology). He married a Scientologist. His kids go to a Scientology school (Delphi). Yeah, he’s in deep. Really deep.
yikes Cay! I guess I retract that! $20 million?? no tears for Jason lol
any $cientologist who still belongs to the “church”, and gives ANY money to it, deserves to be dragged for it.
it’s a money-grubbing cult. one that kidnaps and imprisons its members, separates families, uses slave labor, and stalks/harasses members who leave.
as much as has been exposed about this cult, there is NO WAY that these people don’t know what goes on. and yet they still belong, they still give money… DRAG THEM for it.
Aww man, he’s a Scientologist??? Well, there goes another show I won’t watch.
Awww they are the cutest!