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I wasn't at Day 2 of the con, so I'll just skip ahead to Day 3.
In keeping with my inability to go to cons without running into people I know anymore, I saw (and got to talk to)![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
asyouleft and daneffew today. This is the third con I've seen daneffew at this year so far.
I also can't go to cons with celebrity guests without randomly running into at least one of those guests outside of a con event. I stopped by the hotel front desk this morning to see if anyone had turned my jacket in to the lost & found, and when I turned around to leave, Gary Jones was in line right behind me. When I came out of the bathroom later in the morning, Joe Flanigan was standing in the hallway not 5 feet away getting briefed by con staff on where he needed to be next.
By the way, thank you, anonymous person, for turning in my jacket to the con lost & found! You'll probably never see this, but I'm saying it anyway to make sure you get the karma points. That jacket is very important to me and I can't believe I lost it in the first place. I think I was just carrying too much stuff on Friday to notice one item was missing from the pile.
The day officially started for me with Joe Flanigan's autograph session. I normally don't do these (in fact, in 25 years of attending cons, I've never done an autograph session), but Joe strikes me as the kind of guy who won't be doing cons indefinitely, especially if he gets another show, so I figured I might as well make the most of what may be the only time I get to see him. I had him sign the notebook I had made at MediaWest. The woman in front of me was so excited to meet him that she was shaking. She'd been a fan of his for 15 years (she told me in line) and the autograph session was a birthday present from her friends. The way Creation works is you give your autograph ticket and your item to a con staff member who then passes the item to the guest, so the con staffer handed over my notebook and Joe signed it while still chatting with the woman in front of me. Then he realized he'd spent my turn talking to her and looked guilty. He asked me if it had really been the cover of the notebook I wanted signed (I think he thought it was an autograph book or something), and I said yes and told him a friend had made the notebook for me. He said "cool," I thanked him for coming, and that was it.
The first guests on stage for the day were Rachel Luttrell and Paul McGillion who were on together. Rachel was freezing in her little tank top, so Paul took off his coat and gave it to her. Paul spent a lot of time picking on her because she has a gift for both setting up straight lines without realizing it and walking right into jokes set up by others without seeing them coming. Paul also spent a lot of time doing impersonations of Joe that managed to sound nothing like Joe but remarkably like Bill Clinton. When they first came out, Paul joked that Joe wasn't there because he was putting product in his hair, then Paul checked over his shoulder to make sure Joe wasn't about to tackle him from behind.
Paul's gift to Rachel when she had her baby was a picture book consisting of photos of him dressed up as Teyla, complete with Rachel's stunt double's fake pregnancy belly, doing various Teyla things like fighting with Ronon (Jason Momoa helped out with the photos).
Paul told a story about A Dog's Breakfast that started with David Hewlett crawling out of a window naked. A couple of fans whistled, and Paul said, "No. Trust me."
One cut scene Paul wishes had made it into the episode (and so do I!) was in "Irresistible" when Sheppard kidnaps Carson to get him away from Lucius. Carson was sobbing about how much he missed Lucius, and of course he was tied up because he was being kidnapped, so he made Joe hold a Kleenex for him while he blew his nose.
Rachel didn't do as much talking as Paul (Paul talks a lot), but a fan did get her to sing a lullaby for us. Even unprepared she has a beautiful voice.
Rachel isn't working on anything right now, but Paul has one episode of Supernatural and two episodes of Sanctuary coming up.
Then it was Joe Flanigan's turn. Have I mentioned that he's ridiculously attractive? Because he is. He was standard amounts of scruffy unshaven (as opposed to the Tom Hanks Cast Away beard he sometimes sports when he's not working).
He's gotten a lot more comfortable doing these Q&A's than he was when he started. He was very chatty. He also says he's hyperactive. He only lasted about thirty seconds in the chair before he ditched it to walk around on stage for the whole hour.
He said that as much as he loved the character archetype of Jim Rockford, he would not be that interested in doing a Rockford Files remake because he thinks that most of the huge spate of remakes that have come out lately haven't been very good.
He would love to do movies, but he says that there are very few decent movie parts being fought over by a huge number of people, and that TPTB in movies don't like to take risks because movies are so expensive to make. That's why you see movies starring the same proven people over and over and over again.
He forgot to turn his cell phone off before his panel and Rachel called him while he was on stage. He didn't take the call, though.
When he was shooting the helicopter scenes for the pilot with Richard Dean Anderson, he handed RDA a rubber band and a paperclip "in case the chopper goes down." Then he discovered that he was not exactly the first person to make a joke like that to RDA who just gave him a 'you, too?' look.
A younger con attendee asked him for his favorite Jason story. Joe caught himself as he started to tell it, thought some more, and decided he couldn't tell any of his favorite Jason stories to someone that young.
My favorite thing ever is when he talks about his kids. They're all as energetic as he is, so when they go to a movie, the kids come home and run around reenacting all the fight scenes, with Joe pitching in because he thinks it's fun too. At least until he hears "Honey? What are you doing?" His wife is apparently a font of infinite patience.
The hour went by way too fast. Joe is funny and articulate and very, very knowledgeable about show business as a business. And I think I may have mentioned something about him being ridiculously attractive. Because he is. I'm just glad I finally got to see him.
In keeping with my inability to go to cons without running into people I know anymore, I saw (and got to talk to)
asyouleft and daneffew today. This is the third con I've seen daneffew at this year so far.I also can't go to cons with celebrity guests without randomly running into at least one of those guests outside of a con event. I stopped by the hotel front desk this morning to see if anyone had turned my jacket in to the lost & found, and when I turned around to leave, Gary Jones was in line right behind me. When I came out of the bathroom later in the morning, Joe Flanigan was standing in the hallway not 5 feet away getting briefed by con staff on where he needed to be next.
By the way, thank you, anonymous person, for turning in my jacket to the con lost & found! You'll probably never see this, but I'm saying it anyway to make sure you get the karma points. That jacket is very important to me and I can't believe I lost it in the first place. I think I was just carrying too much stuff on Friday to notice one item was missing from the pile.
The day officially started for me with Joe Flanigan's autograph session. I normally don't do these (in fact, in 25 years of attending cons, I've never done an autograph session), but Joe strikes me as the kind of guy who won't be doing cons indefinitely, especially if he gets another show, so I figured I might as well make the most of what may be the only time I get to see him. I had him sign the notebook I had made at MediaWest. The woman in front of me was so excited to meet him that she was shaking. She'd been a fan of his for 15 years (she told me in line) and the autograph session was a birthday present from her friends. The way Creation works is you give your autograph ticket and your item to a con staff member who then passes the item to the guest, so the con staffer handed over my notebook and Joe signed it while still chatting with the woman in front of me. Then he realized he'd spent my turn talking to her and looked guilty. He asked me if it had really been the cover of the notebook I wanted signed (I think he thought it was an autograph book or something), and I said yes and told him a friend had made the notebook for me. He said "cool," I thanked him for coming, and that was it.
The first guests on stage for the day were Rachel Luttrell and Paul McGillion who were on together. Rachel was freezing in her little tank top, so Paul took off his coat and gave it to her. Paul spent a lot of time picking on her because she has a gift for both setting up straight lines without realizing it and walking right into jokes set up by others without seeing them coming. Paul also spent a lot of time doing impersonations of Joe that managed to sound nothing like Joe but remarkably like Bill Clinton. When they first came out, Paul joked that Joe wasn't there because he was putting product in his hair, then Paul checked over his shoulder to make sure Joe wasn't about to tackle him from behind.
Paul's gift to Rachel when she had her baby was a picture book consisting of photos of him dressed up as Teyla, complete with Rachel's stunt double's fake pregnancy belly, doing various Teyla things like fighting with Ronon (Jason Momoa helped out with the photos).
Paul told a story about A Dog's Breakfast that started with David Hewlett crawling out of a window naked. A couple of fans whistled, and Paul said, "No. Trust me."
One cut scene Paul wishes had made it into the episode (and so do I!) was in "Irresistible" when Sheppard kidnaps Carson to get him away from Lucius. Carson was sobbing about how much he missed Lucius, and of course he was tied up because he was being kidnapped, so he made Joe hold a Kleenex for him while he blew his nose.
Rachel didn't do as much talking as Paul (Paul talks a lot), but a fan did get her to sing a lullaby for us. Even unprepared she has a beautiful voice.
Rachel isn't working on anything right now, but Paul has one episode of Supernatural and two episodes of Sanctuary coming up.
Then it was Joe Flanigan's turn. Have I mentioned that he's ridiculously attractive? Because he is. He was standard amounts of scruffy unshaven (as opposed to the Tom Hanks Cast Away beard he sometimes sports when he's not working).
He's gotten a lot more comfortable doing these Q&A's than he was when he started. He was very chatty. He also says he's hyperactive. He only lasted about thirty seconds in the chair before he ditched it to walk around on stage for the whole hour.
He said that as much as he loved the character archetype of Jim Rockford, he would not be that interested in doing a Rockford Files remake because he thinks that most of the huge spate of remakes that have come out lately haven't been very good.
He would love to do movies, but he says that there are very few decent movie parts being fought over by a huge number of people, and that TPTB in movies don't like to take risks because movies are so expensive to make. That's why you see movies starring the same proven people over and over and over again.
He forgot to turn his cell phone off before his panel and Rachel called him while he was on stage. He didn't take the call, though.
When he was shooting the helicopter scenes for the pilot with Richard Dean Anderson, he handed RDA a rubber band and a paperclip "in case the chopper goes down." Then he discovered that he was not exactly the first person to make a joke like that to RDA who just gave him a 'you, too?' look.
A younger con attendee asked him for his favorite Jason story. Joe caught himself as he started to tell it, thought some more, and decided he couldn't tell any of his favorite Jason stories to someone that young.
My favorite thing ever is when he talks about his kids. They're all as energetic as he is, so when they go to a movie, the kids come home and run around reenacting all the fight scenes, with Joe pitching in because he thinks it's fun too. At least until he hears "Honey? What are you doing?" His wife is apparently a font of infinite patience.
The hour went by way too fast. Joe is funny and articulate and very, very knowledgeable about show business as a business. And I think I may have mentioned something about him being ridiculously attractive. Because he is. I'm just glad I finally got to see him.
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Date: 2009-08-25 12:09 am (UTC)From: