Serenity : Infinity

[burntcopper]

Serenity : Infinity

Heather gets there, looks at stewarding duties and whimpers. Once again, Ian's taking advantage of his photo lot - the usual amount if you're not staff is two 2-hour sessions over the weekend with 'please feel free to volunteer for extra. please.' Mine and Gemma's : 8:45 - 2:15 saturday, 9:15 - 12:15 sunday. Basically, if he likes you, you're taken advantage of something chronic. Fortunately both days we finished early, but still. Arrgh. Was on photo runner duties - ie, call for next batch of photo tickets throughout the con and be used instead of a tannoy. And now I'm croaking.

Didn't get to go to Nectar's solo talk, and didn't get to go to Jim and Ming's discussion panel, which apparently consisted of chucking the kind of discussion topics we talk of at pubmeets at the crowd - what screwed up Firefly, re-casting in ten years' time, all kinds of interesting stuff. :mutter:

Richard Brooks (Jubal Early and one of the blokes from Good vs Evil to you) is fun, gives good if slightly serious talk if not paired with Jonathan, and likes the dancefloor muchly. We approve. Saturday night, the poor boy turns up, gets to dance for a couple of normal songs, and then Marwen turned on the con stuff. See him watch, bemused and somewhat fascinated (he says it's a spectator sport he'd never even thought of, and not on that scale) and then get down and boogie once it and the full-on cheese that followed it were done. He also got up on stage and sang, which we were dreading - we've been scarred very badly by Andy Hallett - but no, great voice, great stage presence, one song and then back to the boogieing. We approve. And, er, it being his first con, he hasn't caught onto the fact that it is not his job to clean up when Jonathan spills his pint on the dancefloor. Took several of us to try to get it away from him in the first place - PAs, Davey, Neil, me, Richard finally succeeded, and then comes back with napkin and wipes it from the floor using his foot before we get a chance.

Morena spent the weekend being lovely if somewhat serious due to having no Jewel or Nathan to bounce off.

Ellen Muth (Dead Like Me) was interesting, if a bit dopey with flu. And can put both ankles behind her head. And Dead Like Me direct-to-dvd film is in the can! EEEEEEEE! With possible option on new tv series if it does well!Nectar is adorable as usual, parties her little heart out, and was clearly not entirely prepared for Sunday Communion, but it's really not possible... She coped as best as she could, bless her.

Neil Roberts was... Neil Roberts. All hail. Got a new tale out of him that involved dwarves flying into the orchestra pit during panto along with the latest disgusting medical updates. Somehow I think Ellen was a tad overwhelmed. He also partied his little heart out; on saturday he got Swamp Thing by the fourth go-round (having tried it slightly at Duckology and on friday), then stayed on the dancefloor most of the rest of the night plus some sunday. We approve of Neil. And then aided and abetted announcements, opening and closing ceremonies, and sunday communion.

Jonathan Woodward. Oh dear lord. There are few words in the english language to fully describe mr. Woodward. On Friday night, aside from doing his 'more drunk than I actually am' act, he comes back onto the dancefloor later and pulls one girl into really complex swing dancing. See us gape a tad. Saturday, was technically up on time for once for photos (Ellen was the one holding us up due to having to be hauled out of bed), introduced Richard into the process known as talks (with escalation challenge of how bad/fabulous their guest star experience was on Firefly - Jonathan on being shaved and stuck in a box and shunned, Richard musing on the joys of caviar and luxury trailers), danced more each night, and then there was communion with aiding and abetting of Neil and Nectar. Mental scarring of 500 people. Started off in his standard gear of the TV evangelist - cream sports blazer, sweatpants, newspaper bishops mitre, has declared that he is no longer Poop but Pappi, introed us to his new favourite word haribo (and was distributing the rings). And then the bastard started stripping. To reveal a superdad t-shirt, leather chaps and a speedo. Entire audience scarred for life. The bastard. Oh, and when it came to the actual communion, he got several of us in the eye due to liberal anointing of the Glenfiddich. Owwww. Oh, and at the Closing Ceremony, he recited pi to the 50th digit. Sometimes you forget how ridiculously intelligent he is. Just severely ADD.

Other highlights : Pixel as one of the humping engineers, the Starfury Duck Liberation Front, one of the rather shy regulars as a very good Marge Simpson, Ming's pirate act (chinese bloke going 'dvd? dvd?'), me and Narish doing a bad dancing face-off to Britney, Liz disappearing for several hours a few times, the 'More Romo' (Mark Sheppard's character on BSG) photo posing, and Daniel shaking his booty. Also the first couple of eps of Chuck, which I stayed to watch on sunday, and then when Steve asked if he should put on the next one, those who were watching yelled 'GOD YES!'. It is awesome. So very, very awesome and you should watch it and everyone who was in there was busy spreading the word on Sunday evening. (bloke who works at Best Buy as a repair tech gets entirety of NSA database downloaded into his brain. Is assigned NSA agent (Adam Baldwin) undercover as a Best Buy customer service person, and a CIA agent as his girlfriend while they're guarding him. Understand the beauty of Adam Baldwin chasing over cars and then slamming face to the floor of a bloke who stole two computer games.

Comments

[jovieve.livejournal.com]

Bless Jonathan Woodward. I liasoned for him once. He's a lovely man, but it's an endurance sport. *g*

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

not to mention one of his goals in life being to escape his handler.

[mrmrsmith.livejournal.com]

the only pirate I didn't see this weekend is a modern day one - shorts/jeans. t-shirt and wielding an AK47. You think I'm joking?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

yeah, seemed Ming was one of the few to actualy go outside the 'classic' mode. (I think I mentioned to you contemplating turning up in jeans, fleece and utilising a cornish accent as a modern-day smuggler)

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

I did think of that, especially with now having an AK-47 and all...

[gerriparker.livejournal.com]

lol @ Ming's pirate :D he really is king of the $2 costume :D

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

:g: he has mentioned to you his personal all-time fave (of the ones that don't involve guns) that is Jack Hawksmoor from Authority/Stormwatch, right?

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

Slight clarification: I'll cheerfully cop to King of the Low-Effort Costume which is not necessarily the same as a cheap one though e.g. turning up for Blockbuster Movies as a chap from a John Woo movie is low effort - I already have a dark suit and lots of guns. The guns definitely aren't cheap though. However, I suppose you could argue it is low incremental expenditure ;-)

[andromakie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good weekend. Lots of stuff going on. I miss the parties!

[xenaclone.livejournal.com]

1. Neil is [or was, recently] currently in 'Holby City' as a surgeon.

2. JW is like Kenny Everett without the gay. Is going back to 'school' in NY to study something.

3. Adam is beyond awesome in 'Chuck'. Watch out for ep 12. [Chuck vs Undercover Lover]. Casey backstory. Love interest [lucky, ruttin' woman!!], much kissage and AB soaking wet in a tux looking like a wet dream [hah!] on legs. I'm officially In Lurve. [And he's such a honey in RL].

XC