It was opening night for Kung Fu Panda 2 and I have to say I really wasn't sure what to think of it yet. I mean I had seen some previews sure, but it really didn't particularly strike my interest yet. In fact I probably wouldn't be standing here in this huge line if it wasn't for the constant nagging of my best friend Emma to come and see this show. Unlike her I didn't really comprehend the big deal about the show, I mean seriously...it's just a cartoon right? It's not like it was real or anything like that (even though Emma seemed to act like it was sometimes). Sometimes it was a little concerning how obsesses my friend was with that show, I mean anyone who even entered her room would know she was a fan. How could thy miss it? Action figures of the main characters as well as all sorts of little KPF trinkets were strewn all throughout the place. Honestly when I first meet her I found it a little creepy that she was such a fanatic over a kids show, or at least to me it felt sort of childish (we were 16 by now so...you know). I managed to shrug that felling off though, Emma was my friend so why fight it right? I had my interests too so it is only fair I don't judge my friend for hers. (As weird as those interests might seem).

It wasn't long before I found out though, that being Emma's friend meant being exposed to KFP...a lot, but I didn't really mind. As I said it is not that I dislike the show, I just don't get into it as much as Emma does. In fact within one month of being her friend she had already got me to watch KFP 1 as well as the KFP Legends of Awesomeness episodes as they came out. In fact even right now I have watched all the current episodes, thanks to Emma who insisted I keep up to date. It is kind of funny about that though, Emma may have been more of a fan of the show than I have ever been, but I think I knew more about the actual show. Emma is one of those people who can get easily distracted even when watching a show that she likes. She tends to forget things and details like minor character names and the actual circumstances that lead up to the situations the characters find themselves in. I on the other hand have a practically photographic memory when it comes to the shows I watch, even the ones I don't particularly fancy I still remembered almost all of the details about. I frequently found myself playing the various plot lines of the episodes of KPF back in my head, remembering exactly what the characters were saying and doing in a single moment in time.

Though I didn't understand it, I found my friends fascination with this show intriguing, so I began to a little research on China (the stories setting) to gain a bit more perspective on the show and its plot line.

I'd even gone as far as to research China in depth, trying to determine what qualities the land and wildlife their possessed different from my own land in the United States. I wasn't really interested on how China was now though, I'm much more of a history buff (besides the setting of the cartoon was certainly not modern). So thus my studies consisted primarily of Ancient China, and if you knew me at all you would know when I study something especially when I find that something exceptionally interesting, my studies tend to be what many others would call...excessive. I really go into depth about the culture, especially things that have stark contrast to my own. I took particular interest in formal and informal socializing and greetings. I noticed that in many situations bowing was necessary to avoid disrespect and thus a very unpleasant possibly even violent consequences. I even learned proper bowing and addressing of royals, nobles, or otherwise people in high standing and places of society. I even when in depth on my research on this subject and even went as far to practice bowing and addressing people in my room. After I had finished that part of my studies I looked up the many contraptions and tools of Ancient China. They would consider these devices modern in their time, but I look at them and feel like I'm back in the stone ages. Don't get me wrong though, the strides China made in that time were quite amazing considering that they were basically isolated from the rest of the world.

We'll anyways back to reality...we are finally at the ticket booth/concession stand, and I just stand there and wait while Emma orders the tickets. As she finishes and hands me my ticket along with my black sunglass like 3D glasses, I step up and order our popcorn and drinks. As soon as we are done Emma eagerly leads to the showing room (pretty much grabbing my hand and pulling me as fast as she could, I feel fortunate she is not very strong or else I would have probably been carried there).

"Come on Ivanna, you don't want to miss the previews do you?" Emma pleaded with me as she dragged me along

"Yes, yes I do." I thought to myself, though I knew better than to say so and thus incur by friends wrath.

Don't get me wrong though she is normally a nice and perfectly sensible person, but when it comes to KFP watch out lol.

So we walk inside and the first thing we see it s one of those boring theater commercials telling you "in case of emergency walk to the nearest exit." And I'm thinking to myself...seriously you practically dragged me in here for this?

"Come on, we want to get good seats don't we." Emma said as she seen my frustration

"Ugh...what I do for this girl...it really is beyond me." I though as we pick our seats in the middle of the fifth row from the screen.

I had to admit that they where good seats though...but that kind of perplexed me too, this was one of the first showings of a proposed block buster...yet we were alone. Seriously we had the entire room to ourselves...in was a little eerie to say the least, but the weirdest part was even though we were the only ones there...I couldn't shake the felling that we were being watched. Well anyways it was probably nothing right...I'm just being paranoid...it wasn't like we were here to see a horror film for crying out loud. So I sat down next to Emma and attempted to push the thought out of my mind, but I should have know better though...these feelings I get...they are rarely meaningless.

Just as I was thinking that though the theater light sudden began to flicker, at that point neither of us was too worried. Despite my friends childish tendencies and my annoying habit of overthinking things, we were both pretty logical people and thus didn't get scared easily by purely circumstantial oddities such as the this. But then again we all have our breaking points.