Anime Thoughts: the Puella Magi Madoka Magica movies

I took some small notice of the news the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica was being turned into two movies in advance of a third new feature, a bit more notice of the movies reaching this side of the Pacific in a traveling road show. That still only provoked idle daydreams of the trip required (even if it shrank a bit every now and then) to see them in advance of a home video release over here, though, but then all of a sudden there was some fresh news that the movies would be crossing to my side of the border in a special two-days rush, and one of the theatres they'd be showing in was the recently built but otherwise ordinary multiplex just a few minutes drive away, where Funimation had brought the first two "Rebuild of Evangelion" movies and where Aniplex of America was following, at least giving us the chance to keep from making too many complaints about "blind buying." Right away, I was thinking ahead to seeing them.
( From then to now )