T2. Sarah Connor Chronicles + Chuck.
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burntcopperOh, that was a good con. Very entertaining guests, all the new ones held their own v. well, (Mark Sheppard, Thomas Dekker, Brian Austin Green, Julia Ling, Bonita Fredericy, John Billingsley, Adam Baldwin + a random Brody Hutzler - non-Angel congoers were staring at his photos while the rest of us pointed at his abs and went 'this is why he was a regular, people') everything ran on time, and absolutely no relationship spats or girls crying in the loos. And Jimmy stayed relatively sober. We're wondering precisely who Sean Harry sacrificed to the Elder Gods to achieve this.
Adam and Mark were their usual selves. Fun, Adam toned the republican stuff down a bit for once, and he and Mark discussed Blofeld instead of answering questions. Mark was of course asked within two seconds about kissing Jim Beaver. (dry and a good kisser, apparently. The businessman, on the other hand - so many takes that he was just all sweaty. Eurgh.) And yes, it was his iphone. Entire section of convention who knows Mark : 'Hah! Knew I recognised it!' Bastard made me laugh so much I forgot my question at one point. And him holding court in the bar was hysterical as usual. he's not doing the next season of Leverage due to too much work, but is going 'I've still got Bobby's soul, how do you think Crowley's going to make him earn it back?' And yes, spent part of sunday's signings playing on his ipad. it's also due to him that the costume competition got moved back on Saturday because he pointed out to Sean that he would not be moved from the bar during the England game. Sean announced this. Large cheers.
Brian Austin Green. Good god. DRIBBLE. And can defeat anyone's bad set experience.
Thomas : 'There was this dream sequence with a high-kicking baseball team, then I got lifted into the air like a rockette.'
Brian : '10 years on 90210.'
Thomas : '....You win.'
Apparently he spent the last three years as a producer on it because he was the only one everyone was willing to bring their problems/talk to. He also wants Spongebob Squarepants to be his terminator bodyguard. "Guns in the Sponge. Oh yes." (he doesn't have a 6-year old, honest.)
As his son's in state/public school, he revealed how scary the state of them's got due to the debt California's in. Never mind dropping sports and music programs, they're dropping teachers, janitors, books... and occasionally he gets a call to say that they've run out of paper and is there a way he could donate some for the class? Cue British audience swallowing hard. Talked about how he got into producing, how interesting/how much hard work it is, how they got the Fathom gig at comic-con (apparently it'd dropped out of the studios, Megan Fox is a nut for it, he wandered over post-panel and asked...) Oh, and he's getting together a post-script for the series a la Peacekeeper Wars - either a film or a miniseries. Got the money in place, now got to get the actors and so on in place. Fingers crossed like hell. Terminator nut, got the job as Derek because the casting directors were at the end of their tether for finding someone and started trawling for 'opposite end of what the producers would expect' - audition thursday, filming monday. That's how close they were. And a little peeved that he got this great role and his first scene was crouching naked with a bunch of other men in the middle of the lot.
Thomas Dekker : started weekend off with Jedward hair, which gradually flattened. Got ambushed by Topshop earlier in the week. Slightly arty (likes the David Lynch/Lars von Trier end of cinema) tendencies, but overall funny and somewhat filthy, with a thing for scaring the directors of SCC by doing all rehearsals in sitcom, high drama, or whilst doing a Katharine Hepburn impression. (pretty good impression, too). Him and Lena had to have all their tats covered for the series.
Thomas : 'Well, I've got a couple of things coming up I don't know if I should talk about much... Someone's running - whoa, that's some speed there. Hey, what's your question?'
Me : 'So, how is the Footloose remake going?'
Thomas : 'I hate you.'
Later he did indeed recognise me and thanked me for asking a bunch of questions. And recognised me post close ceremony even though I was wearing a wig. 'You're question girl, right? I'm sure you used to be blonde.' Said this was the first of this type of con he'd been to, and really enjoyed it because everyone was so laid back and cheerful and he got to talk to the fans.
Oh, and there was a running joke in the Connor household that they were all at it. "Move aside, boys, it's Momma's turn with the robot tonight."
Interesting talk on the whole ratings thing - apparently they got very high DVR/rewatch ratings but sadly this was at the time when the networks hadn't even started taking notice of those...
Oh, and since Brian and Thomas are former child actors, it's very obvious which kids are getting pushed into it by their parents. Fortunately the kids they had on were all nuts about acting and far more serious about it than they remember being. And one of them did a great 'do you mind, I'm trying to focus and find my centre' when Lena was asking her if she was okay.
Bonnie and John are mad, mad non-stop duracell bunnies who were running all over the place with microphones, telling silly stories, going off on a double act, singing bits, being utterly filthy as is right and proper... oh, and Bonnie believes that General Beckman is bi. Her evidence is that at one point she was using what's apparently a rather obvious pick-up line on Sarah Walker which had all the audience going '....really?' :notes down:'
Julia Ling is adorable and squees a LOT. Mad manga nut, bounces, wants to do Westerns but generally pouts about the lack of options there, and can actually hold her own against Mark in a panel. We were very impressed. She loved the fact that I could actually swap stories about how unaerodynamic that type of tripod is. "How do you know this?" "Photography student. What you want are the metal ones."
parties ridiculous fun, which included attempting to teach Dan to dance while me and another girl I was hanging around half the weekend wailed 'but you're a kickboxer! How can you not know how to move your hips?' Admittedly it is rather fun when blokes stare when girls do the co-ordinated dance moves - look, we can read cues and mirror very easily. That's about it. Managed to get into a hip-hop/streetdance dance-off twice on Saturday night and OW. Fucking exhausting, because we were both doing it at speed. He had better footwork, I had better hips and bendy. And he managed to injure his thumb when doing a floor drop. :smirk: Second round, I started a tangle-feet thing to even it up. Totally fair in my opinion. And then there was the sunday night Boom Shake the Room rap, where our lot and his mate stared as the two of us did it perfectly and howled 'how do you not know this? It's easy!'
Costumes of the awesome : Lego Terminators from the brothers (who also did Fulcrum agents on Buymoria night). Jimmy in a Patrick Troughton outfit on Time Traveller night. He sauntered up to the pub, we gaped and went '...Fuck, is that *Jimmy*? Boy, you've found your costume.' Can't believe I was the only Amy Pond on that night -and yes, did get a few people recognising the costume. Buymoria was mostly Nerd Herd. Oddly, me and Cathy were the only girls in Orange Orange outfits. interesting. Piracy : corsets? Girls can do corsets.
Terminator: Salvation is deemed universally flawed by even the mad fans of stupid action films. Glee? Everyone simply submits and cheers along to Golddigga.
Adam and Mark were their usual selves. Fun, Adam toned the republican stuff down a bit for once, and he and Mark discussed Blofeld instead of answering questions. Mark was of course asked within two seconds about kissing Jim Beaver. (dry and a good kisser, apparently. The businessman, on the other hand - so many takes that he was just all sweaty. Eurgh.) And yes, it was his iphone. Entire section of convention who knows Mark : 'Hah! Knew I recognised it!' Bastard made me laugh so much I forgot my question at one point. And him holding court in the bar was hysterical as usual. he's not doing the next season of Leverage due to too much work, but is going 'I've still got Bobby's soul, how do you think Crowley's going to make him earn it back?' And yes, spent part of sunday's signings playing on his ipad. it's also due to him that the costume competition got moved back on Saturday because he pointed out to Sean that he would not be moved from the bar during the England game. Sean announced this. Large cheers.
Brian Austin Green. Good god. DRIBBLE. And can defeat anyone's bad set experience.
Thomas : 'There was this dream sequence with a high-kicking baseball team, then I got lifted into the air like a rockette.'
Brian : '10 years on 90210.'
Thomas : '....You win.'
Apparently he spent the last three years as a producer on it because he was the only one everyone was willing to bring their problems/talk to. He also wants Spongebob Squarepants to be his terminator bodyguard. "Guns in the Sponge. Oh yes." (he doesn't have a 6-year old, honest.)
As his son's in state/public school, he revealed how scary the state of them's got due to the debt California's in. Never mind dropping sports and music programs, they're dropping teachers, janitors, books... and occasionally he gets a call to say that they've run out of paper and is there a way he could donate some for the class? Cue British audience swallowing hard. Talked about how he got into producing, how interesting/how much hard work it is, how they got the Fathom gig at comic-con (apparently it'd dropped out of the studios, Megan Fox is a nut for it, he wandered over post-panel and asked...) Oh, and he's getting together a post-script for the series a la Peacekeeper Wars - either a film or a miniseries. Got the money in place, now got to get the actors and so on in place. Fingers crossed like hell. Terminator nut, got the job as Derek because the casting directors were at the end of their tether for finding someone and started trawling for 'opposite end of what the producers would expect' - audition thursday, filming monday. That's how close they were. And a little peeved that he got this great role and his first scene was crouching naked with a bunch of other men in the middle of the lot.
Thomas Dekker : started weekend off with Jedward hair, which gradually flattened. Got ambushed by Topshop earlier in the week. Slightly arty (likes the David Lynch/Lars von Trier end of cinema) tendencies, but overall funny and somewhat filthy, with a thing for scaring the directors of SCC by doing all rehearsals in sitcom, high drama, or whilst doing a Katharine Hepburn impression. (pretty good impression, too). Him and Lena had to have all their tats covered for the series.
Thomas : 'Well, I've got a couple of things coming up I don't know if I should talk about much... Someone's running - whoa, that's some speed there. Hey, what's your question?'
Me : 'So, how is the Footloose remake going?'
Thomas : 'I hate you.'
Later he did indeed recognise me and thanked me for asking a bunch of questions. And recognised me post close ceremony even though I was wearing a wig. 'You're question girl, right? I'm sure you used to be blonde.' Said this was the first of this type of con he'd been to, and really enjoyed it because everyone was so laid back and cheerful and he got to talk to the fans.
Oh, and there was a running joke in the Connor household that they were all at it. "Move aside, boys, it's Momma's turn with the robot tonight."
Interesting talk on the whole ratings thing - apparently they got very high DVR/rewatch ratings but sadly this was at the time when the networks hadn't even started taking notice of those...
Oh, and since Brian and Thomas are former child actors, it's very obvious which kids are getting pushed into it by their parents. Fortunately the kids they had on were all nuts about acting and far more serious about it than they remember being. And one of them did a great 'do you mind, I'm trying to focus and find my centre' when Lena was asking her if she was okay.
Bonnie and John are mad, mad non-stop duracell bunnies who were running all over the place with microphones, telling silly stories, going off on a double act, singing bits, being utterly filthy as is right and proper... oh, and Bonnie believes that General Beckman is bi. Her evidence is that at one point she was using what's apparently a rather obvious pick-up line on Sarah Walker which had all the audience going '....really?' :notes down:'
Julia Ling is adorable and squees a LOT. Mad manga nut, bounces, wants to do Westerns but generally pouts about the lack of options there, and can actually hold her own against Mark in a panel. We were very impressed. She loved the fact that I could actually swap stories about how unaerodynamic that type of tripod is. "How do you know this?" "Photography student. What you want are the metal ones."
parties ridiculous fun, which included attempting to teach Dan to dance while me and another girl I was hanging around half the weekend wailed 'but you're a kickboxer! How can you not know how to move your hips?' Admittedly it is rather fun when blokes stare when girls do the co-ordinated dance moves - look, we can read cues and mirror very easily. That's about it. Managed to get into a hip-hop/streetdance dance-off twice on Saturday night and OW. Fucking exhausting, because we were both doing it at speed. He had better footwork, I had better hips and bendy. And he managed to injure his thumb when doing a floor drop. :smirk: Second round, I started a tangle-feet thing to even it up. Totally fair in my opinion. And then there was the sunday night Boom Shake the Room rap, where our lot and his mate stared as the two of us did it perfectly and howled 'how do you not know this? It's easy!'
Costumes of the awesome : Lego Terminators from the brothers (who also did Fulcrum agents on Buymoria night). Jimmy in a Patrick Troughton outfit on Time Traveller night. He sauntered up to the pub, we gaped and went '...Fuck, is that *Jimmy*? Boy, you've found your costume.' Can't believe I was the only Amy Pond on that night -and yes, did get a few people recognising the costume. Buymoria was mostly Nerd Herd. Oddly, me and Cathy were the only girls in Orange Orange outfits. interesting. Piracy : corsets? Girls can do corsets.
Terminator: Salvation is deemed universally flawed by even the mad fans of stupid action films. Glee? Everyone simply submits and cheers along to Golddigga.
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Date: 2010-06-23 12:31 pm (UTC)What cons (or anyone else reading this) are you doing this year?
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Date: 2010-06-23 06:20 pm (UTC)I'm at True Blood, Vampire Ball, Hallowheden 2.
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Date: 2010-06-23 07:49 pm (UTC)