Team Dallas True Blood Paleyfest Travelogue: Part three by ObjectDesire

Day 3 Agenda: Warner Brothers VIP Studio Tour, PaleyFest TrueBlood Event,
K24 Diner (TB Fan Meet-up #3)

We sleep in a bit, breakfast again in rooftop garden, and Dallas blogs/twitters.

Warner Brothers VIP Studio Tour: We have reservations for the 11am tour.
We have time to peruse the gift store and have a coffee while waiting for our tour. Our tour guide is a nice young man, Wes Smith. When questioned later in the day, he admits to being an actor and to having an IMdB credit.
The tour is interesting and we see sets for ER (in process of being torn
down) and Cafe Perk set that has been preserved from Friends. We also visit the set of Two and a Half Men which is on hiatus. Everyone from our tour leaves early for a "Fine Dining" experience, and we get tour guide to ourselves for last 20 minutes of tour. We are disappointed to learn that because HBO is currently filming, the tour vehicles are not allowed into the backlot where Merlotte's and "the swamp" are located. These locations are part of the tour when filming is not in progress.

We enjoy an excellent lunch at the Warner Brothers Cafe (BBQ Chicken-OD; Cheeseburger-Noct; Soup/salad-Dallas). Dallas receives a phone call from Sookie who tells folks are already lining up outside the ArcLight Theatre and suggesting we bump out arrival time by 1/2 hour.

We head back to hotel to rest and change for the evening. Dallas blogs/twitters. Because we have increased the amount of time we will be standing in line, last minute shoe choices are made.

ArcLight Theatre/TrueBlood PaleyFest Event: It is a short drive to the theatre from our hotel. We are happy to find that only about 40 folks are in line in front of us when we arrive at 4:30pm. We find @SookieBonTemps in line. The young ladies first in line are Eric fans, run an Eric blog, and arrived at 8am this morning! They are also Dallas blog fans and were at Alex's Bar the night before. Excitement is in the air. We are eventually joined by Robiart, Beadrbob group, Jeweltoo, FangsNRoses, and Dana. News camera crews film up and down the line and stop to interview VampNerd who is near front of line. Sookie spends time in line twittering, trying to find someone local to take the 2 spare tickets we have ended up with. The doors open at 6pm and we score seats on row 5 right side of theatre (excellent seats). Dallas and Beadrbob group have center row 2 seats and FangsNRoses is on front row!

We are treated to a clip from the 70s soap "Dark Shadows" to start the evening. After brief remarks from the moderator, we see a compilation of clips from TB Season 1 and then an exciting clip from Season 2, very exciting and suspenseful. The actors are introduced: Alexander Skarsgaard, Carrie Preston, Nelsan Ellis, Rutina Wesley, Sam Trammel, Ryan Kwanten, Stephen Moyer, and Anna Paquin. They are joined by series creator, Alan Ball. Dallas has several articles about the interviews and Q&A on her blog.Ei Ei from Beadrbob group asks an excellent question. SookieBonTemps tweets throughout the event. Dallas has collected her tweets on her blog.

K24 Diner: After the event is over, we walk a few blocks to this all night diner, found for us by Robiart, for Fan Meet-up #3. We end up with 5 tables of fans, including VampNerd, Sweetwater, Skarlett, FangsNRoses, Jeweltoo, Robiart, SookieBonTemps, Dallas, OD, Nocturnalinnc. We have essentially taken over the front half of the diner. We table hop, have excellent food, share stories from the weekend and the Paleys. We are standing in groups preparing to leave when a handsome man with a pretty girl squeeze through our group to leave. VampNerd suddenly squeals, "Dave Navarro" I follow you on Twitter. She follows him outside and he graciously poses for pics. The most interesting thing is that he was there the entire time we were but everyone was grouped around Dallas (fairy blood? you tell me) and we did not notice him! The wonderful Sweetwater sneakily has picked up the tab and will not accept money from us. Cheers and thanks, Sweetwater!

We say our goodbyes at the diner and make our way back to our hotel--happy, sated, exhausted. We spend the remainder of the evening packing and preparing for a very early departure the next morning. Dallas blogs/twitters.

We have had fun adventures, met interesting TrueBlood fans, and have seen the TrueBlood actors up close and personal. Listen to Dallas' BlogTalkRadio show on Monday, April 20th. All the fans we met at PaleyFest will be calling in to discuss their experiences!

The two part show/ podcasts can be heard here:

http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/2009/04/true-blood-dallas-blogtalk-radio-live.html