Watching previews. My feet, left, Dayna's feet on rightSo last night Dayna (the significantly better 98 percent of my life) and I actually did it and darkened the door of a movie theater. Hell, we actually did the whole dinner and movie date thing we had so prided ourselves in avoiding.
We bought our tickets early in the evening but purchased tickets for a much later show than planned. I think we were both a bit nervous about participating in such a date and were trying to delay the event. We lingered at dinner as long as possible.
But it was kick ass! We had a great time and the movie kicked ass.
Having being born in the late 70's I grew up with the original Star Trek on syndication during day time TV. My dad had all the movies and we watched them over and over. Then my awesome sister, who was a treky (sic?) and I would watch all the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes and related movies like prescribed medication.
It was fun and Dayna, who was never a treky, understood all the cliches and all the characters and their rolls.
(Spoiler Alert)
And the old tired true script of being a new person on landing party meant that character was going to die held true once again. At least this time it was a white guy that was offed. In the old days, if you saw a new face in the background of a landing party you could count the minutes until they were killed to make the story and adventures of the Captain Kirk or Piccard that much more compelling.
So in the end, Star Trek was cool and we survived date night.
However, as fun as it was, we are not going to make dinner and a movie a stable of our date nights. We have opted to save it for rare occasions when there is a film we really want to see and to rather keep our time together active and exploring the world.
PS. I go back to work today! Soon there will be post related to assignments and photo-j observations.
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