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I just got back from Jensen and Jared's panels at the Creation con in Chicago. It was exactly what I'd hoped it would be like. The two of them are adorable individually, but together they achieve critical mass on adorableness.
I didn't even decide to go to the con until last night. I've had really bad luck with guests I want to see having to cancel at the last minute, so I waited until I heard on LJ and Yahoo!Groups that Jensen and Jared had actually arrived at the hotel before committing (I only live 10 minutes away from the con hotel). That meant I had to buy my ticket this morning at the door. When I got there at 7:45 a.m., the ticket line stretched down one hall, turned a corner, down another hall, turned a corner, down another hall, turned a corner, down another hall, turned a corner, then went 2/3 of the way up a flight of stairs. I was hoping to get to the front of the line before I retired, but I will say this about Creation--they have registration down to a science. I was out of the line with my wristband on within 20 minutes. \0/
The dealer room looked fairly big until you realized that most of the tables were selling the same things, namely Creation licensed merchandise. There was also some Steve Carlson merchandise (CDs and T-shirts) and some vendors selling things from other fandoms (Buffy, Angel, and Smallville, which are the other fandoms showcased at this con, but other fandoms too). I wasn't going to buy anything, but they debuted some new T-shirts this weekend that were actually nice for a change. I got one of Sam and one of Sam & Dean.
Fan songvids ran in the ballroom right before the Q&A, which I mostly didn't get to see because people kept milling about in the aisles. Gary Berman, one of the founders of Creation Entertainment, warmed up the crowd by asking if everybody had seen Jensen and Jared in the photo ops yet. "Are they even more beautiful in person? I'm attracted to them, in a very manly way." I'm creeped out by you, Gary, in a very fanly way. Gary is a little too 'circus ringmaster' for me.
And now for the part you actually care about: Jensen and Jared each did an individual Q&A for half an hour, followed by half an hour of both of them on stage together. They were giving each other crap right out of the gate.
Jensen
Jensen was wearing a striped button-down shirt and jeans (sorry, no pictures--I didn't bring a camera). The first thing he said after coming on stage following the songvids was, "Why am I always eating?"
Jensen said that stuffing his face with candy in "Tall Tales" was his idea. The script originally called for him to put 3 or 4 pieces of candy in his mouth, but he said he managed to cram about 15 caramels in his mouth for each take. He spat them out between takes, but he said he still had so much sugar in his mouth for so long that his tongue swelled up and his mouth went numb, but he thought the scene was funny, so he's not sorry he did it.
In response to a question about the best sporting event and concert he'd ever been too, he answered the first time he saw the Cowboys play and the first concert he ever went to, Michael Jackson's Thriller tour, which his mom took him to when he was 6.
In order to dump the residue of really emotional scenes, he says he calls friends and family, gets some sleep, and just tries to root himself in his real life.
They don't get much time to learn their lines, so Jensen and Jared ride to work together and run lines in the truck and while they're in make-up.
Ten Inch Hero doesn't have a distributor yet.
Jensen said that if they'd shot Sam's death scene earlier in the series when they didn't know each other very well, he would've had to project someone else onto the scene in order to find the emotion, but now Jared is like a brother to him so he didn't have to imagine anyone else dead to get in the moment for that scene. The entire audience went, "Awwww," at the same time, and Jensen got a little embarrassed. He also joked that Jared lying there dead was some of the best work he's ever done.
He likes to golf, but he doesn't think he's that great at it. He did get a hole-in-one over the summer, though.
He doesn't share Dean's fear of flying. In fact, he's usually asleep before the plane taxis.
He chose the amulet, bracelet, and ring that Dean wears. Before the pilot, when they were still developing the characters, Jensen thought that if Dean'd been hunting his whole life, then he would have "stuff," things he'd accumulated over the years to help him in his job. A wardrobe person let him rummage through a box of accessories, and he chose some things and ran them by Kripke. Kripke said they were fine and he'd figure out a backstory for them later. We're all still waiting.
Jensen said Devour turned out nothing like he thought it would. He saw the movie after it was done and couldn't even recognize some of the plot points from what he remembered shooting. He was really happy to be working with his dad on the movie, though, and each thought they'd been upstaged by the other.
The final question was from "Anonymous." The male voice asked Jensen to respond to the accusation that Jared was better looking, taller, and younger. Yes, it was Jared. Jensen's response was, "You have to ride shotgun."
And then it was Jared's turn.
Jared
Jared was wearing a white button-down shirt and jeans (sorry, no pictures--I didn't bring a camera). He opened up with a pet story. He just had to take Sadie to the vet for a check-up and she got beaten up by a cat in the waiting room. She wasn't hurt, but Sadie is so big that Jared was amused by her getting picked on by a cat 1/10 her size and losing.
Everybody had been introducing themselves by name before asking questions all morning. Jared responded to all of them with, "Hi, I'm Jared." One woman introduced her question with, "Hi, Pam, I'm Jared." Jared actually said, "Hi, Jared," and the room died laughing. He said he'd done it on purpose. When the next questioner came up and introduced herself, Jared said, "Hi, I'm Pam."
The first couple of questioners were unintentionally kind of rude. The first one said she'd gotten in line to ask Jensen a question so she wasn't really prepared for the change in speakers. Jared said, "I can be Jensen," and changed his whole posture and expression and deepened his voice, and did his Jensen impersonation for the question.
The next person said she'd also had her question for Jensen and that he could've answered it better. The room booed at her. She asked about a scene in "Bedtime Stories" where Sam paused in what he was saying and Dean finished the line. She wanted to know if Jared forgot his lines and if Jensen was bailing him out. Jared said no, that the scene had been one long take that had to be timed to start and stop and specific places. It's hard to judge timing when you're walking that far, so sometimes they have to insert unplanned dramatic pauses to slow down, and sometimes they have to talk a lot faster to finish in time. He said they were probably just trying to cram in the last of the dialogue before they hit their mark.
Jared said that Sarah from "Provenance" is his favorite love interest for Sam so far and that he thought the writers had left the door open for her to appear on the show again, so he was hoping maybe she'd be in another episode someday.
Kim Manners choreographed the love scene in "Heart." Jared talked about how awkward it is to shoot love scenes because the actor wants to be all cool and suave, and the director is saying, "You're blocking her light" and "Can you move your head this way a little?," not to mention the fact that you have no clothes on in front of someone you barely know. (He described it as, "Hi, I'm Jared," then pantomimed taking his shirt off). He was also joking about wondering which parts of him were visible on camera and if maybe he should be flexing something to look better.
Jared said that if he could have dinner with anyone in the world, living, dead, or fictional, he would choose his paternal grandfather because he never got to meet him.
Everybody remembers Kim Manners dumping water on Jared and Jensen when they were pretending to climb down into a sewer in "No Exit" from the gag reel, right? There was a reason for that. Jared and Jensen had to spend a day crawling around in a pipe masquerading as a sewer. They were wet, covered in gunk, and their knees were all scuffed up from all the crawling, so when it was over, Jared, Jensen, and two of Jared's friends who were in town picked up Kim Manners and stuffed him in that gunky, wet sewer pipe.
Jared said his most memorable moment working on Supernatural was when he realized the work he was doing was reaching people and they were enjoying it.
You know the debate fandom has been having about the end of "Bad Day at Black Rock" when Dean yells, "Sonuvabitch!," and Sam looks like he's cracking up as he turns away from the camera, and whether that was scripted, or just Jared losing it? Jared just lost it. The "sonuvabitch" was ad-libbed and Jared had thought the take was over, so it caught him by surprise.
Jared loved the face Jensen made when the Winchesters won free food for life at Biggerson's in "Bad Day at Black Rock." He said Jensen looked like he was 6 years old.
When asked what he likes to do to kill time on the set between takes, he said it was really hard to do anything. There's a long wait between takes sometimes, but if he reads a book or plays a videogame or something, there's a chance that he could lose the space he needs to be in as the character, so he mostly just spends time with his dogs or on the phone with Sandy.
Another fan who'd wanted to ask Jensen a question started out with, "I fell in love with him on Dark Angel--" to which Jared interrupted, "Didn't we all?" (Poor Jared was getting a lot of leftover Jensen questions.)
Jared talked a little about whether or not Sam came back 100% Sam. He doesn't know what the writers intend because they haven't told him anything, but he said he's been trying to bring out the Dean in Sam this season.
In answer to a question about whether he keeps in touch with anyone from Gilmore Girls, he said he'd like to, but he doesn't have time. He did say that he'd been following Milo Ventimiglia's work on Heroes and was proud of him.
Someone asked him the most embarrassing thing he'd done and that Jensen had done while drunk. The same question had been asked of Jensen, who claimed to have lots of material but wouldn't answer. Jared said that Jensen has this goofy face he makes sometimes that makes him look like he's 5 or 6 years old that kills Jared every time.
When asked which fictional character he'd like to play in a movie someday, Jared chose Howard Roark from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
Jared said he didn't get to watch Supernatural when it was on because they're usually filming on Thursday nights, but he did admit to having the season pass for it on iTunes.
And then Jensen came back out for a joint Q&A session.
Jensen & Jared
They started giving each other crap immediately. Jensen came back out wearing the same green Sam Winchester T-shirt I'd bought before the panel. He was going on and on about how he'd never had a more comfortable or attractive shirt, and Jared replied that he'd never been more attracted to Jensen's torso. There was much taunting about embarrassing tattoos in embarrassing places that each of them supposedly had (but don't), and Jensen threatened to wear the T-shirt to the airport and onto the plane (he and Jared are traveling together). Jensen also did his impression of Sam's expressions on the shirt design.
Jared immediately asked Jensen the question about "Bedtime Stories" he'd been asked. Jensen shrugged and said they'd just followed the script. Jared looked out at the audience, pumped a fist in the air, and said, "Ha! My answer was so better."
When asked what their favorite roles were and why, Jensen pointed at Jared and said, "Sam, because he gets to work with Jensen Ackles."
Jared's favorite episode at the moment is "The Kids Are Alright" because he was hardly in it, so it was the first episode he's really gotten to see as a regular audience member, which he thought was fun. Jensen's favorite episode is both parts of "All Hell Breaks Loose."
Jared decided that he needed a Dean T-shirt, but no one had one for him. Jensen said he'd left an autographed one for Jared backstage. Jared pumped a fist in the air and yelled, "Ebay!"
By request, they both let go and spoke in their real accents for a while.
Someone requested the "Blue Steel" expression from "Folsom Prison Blues" (and Zoolander). Jared did it, but Jensen wouldn't, even when Jared tried to make him. Then they started joking that there were so many cameras going off taking pictures of the moment that they could do a 360 CGI shot like in The Matrix of Jared's "Blue Steel."
When someone asked Jared if it was fun to play the badass in "Born Under a Bad Sign," Jared replied, "Oh, I'm not playin', sweetheart."
Jared joked that his greatest fear was to wake up to the poster of Jensen that was hanging in the back of the room. Jensen said he could arrange that. Jared's real answer was that his greatest fear was of losing a loved one.
They were both asked why they've never pranked Fredric Lehne (the YED). They said he was just so professional on the set, not like the two of them. Then they said he'd been in the business a lot longer and knew more pranks than they did, and that he was also friends with producer/writer Robert Singer, so they were afraid of the script repercussions ("Sam is buried in cold mud"). They have started messing with Jim Beaver, though. **SPOILER ALERT** There's an upcoming ep where Bobby is unconscious in a hospital bed and they were shooting a close-up of him being unconscious. It was supposed to be very serious, but the whole time, Jared was at the end of the bed playing "this little piggy went to market" with Jim's toes. Jim never cracked, and as soon as the director said, "cut," Jim opened his eyes and yelled, "What's wrong with you?" Jensen said that Jared laughed so hard he fell out of the room. **/SPOILER ALERT**
The last question was who they thought would win in a fight, their characters or Jack Bauer from 24. Jensen's response was, "Isn't Kiefer tiny?" The questioner pointed out that Jack killed someone last season by biting out his throat. Jared said, "Sam can move things with his mind," and pumped a fist in the air.
There was a master sergeant from the U.S. Army special forces on hand to make a presentation. Apparently, seasons 1 & 2 of Supernatural are the most requested DVDs by troops serving in Iraq. Warner Bros. agreed to donate 3,000 copies to them. Jensen and Jared were each presented with a letter from Gen. David H. Petraeus and a special forces coin (the only way to get one is if you become a green beret or are given one by a green beret; they're rarely presented to civilians). The boys were very moved, and Jared asked the room for a round of applause for the troops serving overseas. Jensen and Jared also presented the master sergeant with a season 2 box set of Supernatural and one of Kim Manners's directing scripts (including all of his handwritten directing notes) autographed by everyone under the sun (Jared and Jensen, Kim Manners, Sera Gamble, Katie Cassidy and Lauren Cohen, and I don't even remember who else).
I really wanted to see Jared and Jensen on stage at the same time just once while the show was still in production and they were still close friends, and it was totally worth it. I had a great time.
I didn't even decide to go to the con until last night. I've had really bad luck with guests I want to see having to cancel at the last minute, so I waited until I heard on LJ and Yahoo!Groups that Jensen and Jared had actually arrived at the hotel before committing (I only live 10 minutes away from the con hotel). That meant I had to buy my ticket this morning at the door. When I got there at 7:45 a.m., the ticket line stretched down one hall, turned a corner, down another hall, turned a corner, down another hall, turned a corner, down another hall, turned a corner, then went 2/3 of the way up a flight of stairs. I was hoping to get to the front of the line before I retired, but I will say this about Creation--they have registration down to a science. I was out of the line with my wristband on within 20 minutes. \0/
The dealer room looked fairly big until you realized that most of the tables were selling the same things, namely Creation licensed merchandise. There was also some Steve Carlson merchandise (CDs and T-shirts) and some vendors selling things from other fandoms (Buffy, Angel, and Smallville, which are the other fandoms showcased at this con, but other fandoms too). I wasn't going to buy anything, but they debuted some new T-shirts this weekend that were actually nice for a change. I got one of Sam and one of Sam & Dean.
Fan songvids ran in the ballroom right before the Q&A, which I mostly didn't get to see because people kept milling about in the aisles. Gary Berman, one of the founders of Creation Entertainment, warmed up the crowd by asking if everybody had seen Jensen and Jared in the photo ops yet. "Are they even more beautiful in person? I'm attracted to them, in a very manly way." I'm creeped out by you, Gary, in a very fanly way. Gary is a little too 'circus ringmaster' for me.
And now for the part you actually care about: Jensen and Jared each did an individual Q&A for half an hour, followed by half an hour of both of them on stage together. They were giving each other crap right out of the gate.
Jensen
Jensen was wearing a striped button-down shirt and jeans (sorry, no pictures--I didn't bring a camera). The first thing he said after coming on stage following the songvids was, "Why am I always eating?"
Jensen said that stuffing his face with candy in "Tall Tales" was his idea. The script originally called for him to put 3 or 4 pieces of candy in his mouth, but he said he managed to cram about 15 caramels in his mouth for each take. He spat them out between takes, but he said he still had so much sugar in his mouth for so long that his tongue swelled up and his mouth went numb, but he thought the scene was funny, so he's not sorry he did it.
In response to a question about the best sporting event and concert he'd ever been too, he answered the first time he saw the Cowboys play and the first concert he ever went to, Michael Jackson's Thriller tour, which his mom took him to when he was 6.
In order to dump the residue of really emotional scenes, he says he calls friends and family, gets some sleep, and just tries to root himself in his real life.
They don't get much time to learn their lines, so Jensen and Jared ride to work together and run lines in the truck and while they're in make-up.
Ten Inch Hero doesn't have a distributor yet.
Jensen said that if they'd shot Sam's death scene earlier in the series when they didn't know each other very well, he would've had to project someone else onto the scene in order to find the emotion, but now Jared is like a brother to him so he didn't have to imagine anyone else dead to get in the moment for that scene. The entire audience went, "Awwww," at the same time, and Jensen got a little embarrassed. He also joked that Jared lying there dead was some of the best work he's ever done.
He likes to golf, but he doesn't think he's that great at it. He did get a hole-in-one over the summer, though.
He doesn't share Dean's fear of flying. In fact, he's usually asleep before the plane taxis.
He chose the amulet, bracelet, and ring that Dean wears. Before the pilot, when they were still developing the characters, Jensen thought that if Dean'd been hunting his whole life, then he would have "stuff," things he'd accumulated over the years to help him in his job. A wardrobe person let him rummage through a box of accessories, and he chose some things and ran them by Kripke. Kripke said they were fine and he'd figure out a backstory for them later. We're all still waiting.
Jensen said Devour turned out nothing like he thought it would. He saw the movie after it was done and couldn't even recognize some of the plot points from what he remembered shooting. He was really happy to be working with his dad on the movie, though, and each thought they'd been upstaged by the other.
The final question was from "Anonymous." The male voice asked Jensen to respond to the accusation that Jared was better looking, taller, and younger. Yes, it was Jared. Jensen's response was, "You have to ride shotgun."
And then it was Jared's turn.
Jared
Jared was wearing a white button-down shirt and jeans (sorry, no pictures--I didn't bring a camera). He opened up with a pet story. He just had to take Sadie to the vet for a check-up and she got beaten up by a cat in the waiting room. She wasn't hurt, but Sadie is so big that Jared was amused by her getting picked on by a cat 1/10 her size and losing.
Everybody had been introducing themselves by name before asking questions all morning. Jared responded to all of them with, "Hi, I'm Jared." One woman introduced her question with, "Hi, Pam, I'm Jared." Jared actually said, "Hi, Jared," and the room died laughing. He said he'd done it on purpose. When the next questioner came up and introduced herself, Jared said, "Hi, I'm Pam."
The first couple of questioners were unintentionally kind of rude. The first one said she'd gotten in line to ask Jensen a question so she wasn't really prepared for the change in speakers. Jared said, "I can be Jensen," and changed his whole posture and expression and deepened his voice, and did his Jensen impersonation for the question.
The next person said she'd also had her question for Jensen and that he could've answered it better. The room booed at her. She asked about a scene in "Bedtime Stories" where Sam paused in what he was saying and Dean finished the line. She wanted to know if Jared forgot his lines and if Jensen was bailing him out. Jared said no, that the scene had been one long take that had to be timed to start and stop and specific places. It's hard to judge timing when you're walking that far, so sometimes they have to insert unplanned dramatic pauses to slow down, and sometimes they have to talk a lot faster to finish in time. He said they were probably just trying to cram in the last of the dialogue before they hit their mark.
Jared said that Sarah from "Provenance" is his favorite love interest for Sam so far and that he thought the writers had left the door open for her to appear on the show again, so he was hoping maybe she'd be in another episode someday.
Kim Manners choreographed the love scene in "Heart." Jared talked about how awkward it is to shoot love scenes because the actor wants to be all cool and suave, and the director is saying, "You're blocking her light" and "Can you move your head this way a little?," not to mention the fact that you have no clothes on in front of someone you barely know. (He described it as, "Hi, I'm Jared," then pantomimed taking his shirt off). He was also joking about wondering which parts of him were visible on camera and if maybe he should be flexing something to look better.
Jared said that if he could have dinner with anyone in the world, living, dead, or fictional, he would choose his paternal grandfather because he never got to meet him.
Everybody remembers Kim Manners dumping water on Jared and Jensen when they were pretending to climb down into a sewer in "No Exit" from the gag reel, right? There was a reason for that. Jared and Jensen had to spend a day crawling around in a pipe masquerading as a sewer. They were wet, covered in gunk, and their knees were all scuffed up from all the crawling, so when it was over, Jared, Jensen, and two of Jared's friends who were in town picked up Kim Manners and stuffed him in that gunky, wet sewer pipe.
Jared said his most memorable moment working on Supernatural was when he realized the work he was doing was reaching people and they were enjoying it.
You know the debate fandom has been having about the end of "Bad Day at Black Rock" when Dean yells, "Sonuvabitch!," and Sam looks like he's cracking up as he turns away from the camera, and whether that was scripted, or just Jared losing it? Jared just lost it. The "sonuvabitch" was ad-libbed and Jared had thought the take was over, so it caught him by surprise.
Jared loved the face Jensen made when the Winchesters won free food for life at Biggerson's in "Bad Day at Black Rock." He said Jensen looked like he was 6 years old.
When asked what he likes to do to kill time on the set between takes, he said it was really hard to do anything. There's a long wait between takes sometimes, but if he reads a book or plays a videogame or something, there's a chance that he could lose the space he needs to be in as the character, so he mostly just spends time with his dogs or on the phone with Sandy.
Another fan who'd wanted to ask Jensen a question started out with, "I fell in love with him on Dark Angel--" to which Jared interrupted, "Didn't we all?" (Poor Jared was getting a lot of leftover Jensen questions.)
Jared talked a little about whether or not Sam came back 100% Sam. He doesn't know what the writers intend because they haven't told him anything, but he said he's been trying to bring out the Dean in Sam this season.
In answer to a question about whether he keeps in touch with anyone from Gilmore Girls, he said he'd like to, but he doesn't have time. He did say that he'd been following Milo Ventimiglia's work on Heroes and was proud of him.
Someone asked him the most embarrassing thing he'd done and that Jensen had done while drunk. The same question had been asked of Jensen, who claimed to have lots of material but wouldn't answer. Jared said that Jensen has this goofy face he makes sometimes that makes him look like he's 5 or 6 years old that kills Jared every time.
When asked which fictional character he'd like to play in a movie someday, Jared chose Howard Roark from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
Jared said he didn't get to watch Supernatural when it was on because they're usually filming on Thursday nights, but he did admit to having the season pass for it on iTunes.
And then Jensen came back out for a joint Q&A session.
Jensen & Jared
They started giving each other crap immediately. Jensen came back out wearing the same green Sam Winchester T-shirt I'd bought before the panel. He was going on and on about how he'd never had a more comfortable or attractive shirt, and Jared replied that he'd never been more attracted to Jensen's torso. There was much taunting about embarrassing tattoos in embarrassing places that each of them supposedly had (but don't), and Jensen threatened to wear the T-shirt to the airport and onto the plane (he and Jared are traveling together). Jensen also did his impression of Sam's expressions on the shirt design.
Jared immediately asked Jensen the question about "Bedtime Stories" he'd been asked. Jensen shrugged and said they'd just followed the script. Jared looked out at the audience, pumped a fist in the air, and said, "Ha! My answer was so better."
When asked what their favorite roles were and why, Jensen pointed at Jared and said, "Sam, because he gets to work with Jensen Ackles."
Jared's favorite episode at the moment is "The Kids Are Alright" because he was hardly in it, so it was the first episode he's really gotten to see as a regular audience member, which he thought was fun. Jensen's favorite episode is both parts of "All Hell Breaks Loose."
Jared decided that he needed a Dean T-shirt, but no one had one for him. Jensen said he'd left an autographed one for Jared backstage. Jared pumped a fist in the air and yelled, "Ebay!"
By request, they both let go and spoke in their real accents for a while.
Someone requested the "Blue Steel" expression from "Folsom Prison Blues" (and Zoolander). Jared did it, but Jensen wouldn't, even when Jared tried to make him. Then they started joking that there were so many cameras going off taking pictures of the moment that they could do a 360 CGI shot like in The Matrix of Jared's "Blue Steel."
When someone asked Jared if it was fun to play the badass in "Born Under a Bad Sign," Jared replied, "Oh, I'm not playin', sweetheart."
Jared joked that his greatest fear was to wake up to the poster of Jensen that was hanging in the back of the room. Jensen said he could arrange that. Jared's real answer was that his greatest fear was of losing a loved one.
They were both asked why they've never pranked Fredric Lehne (the YED). They said he was just so professional on the set, not like the two of them. Then they said he'd been in the business a lot longer and knew more pranks than they did, and that he was also friends with producer/writer Robert Singer, so they were afraid of the script repercussions ("Sam is buried in cold mud"). They have started messing with Jim Beaver, though. **SPOILER ALERT** There's an upcoming ep where Bobby is unconscious in a hospital bed and they were shooting a close-up of him being unconscious. It was supposed to be very serious, but the whole time, Jared was at the end of the bed playing "this little piggy went to market" with Jim's toes. Jim never cracked, and as soon as the director said, "cut," Jim opened his eyes and yelled, "What's wrong with you?" Jensen said that Jared laughed so hard he fell out of the room. **/SPOILER ALERT**
The last question was who they thought would win in a fight, their characters or Jack Bauer from 24. Jensen's response was, "Isn't Kiefer tiny?" The questioner pointed out that Jack killed someone last season by biting out his throat. Jared said, "Sam can move things with his mind," and pumped a fist in the air.
There was a master sergeant from the U.S. Army special forces on hand to make a presentation. Apparently, seasons 1 & 2 of Supernatural are the most requested DVDs by troops serving in Iraq. Warner Bros. agreed to donate 3,000 copies to them. Jensen and Jared were each presented with a letter from Gen. David H. Petraeus and a special forces coin (the only way to get one is if you become a green beret or are given one by a green beret; they're rarely presented to civilians). The boys were very moved, and Jared asked the room for a round of applause for the troops serving overseas. Jensen and Jared also presented the master sergeant with a season 2 box set of Supernatural and one of Kim Manners's directing scripts (including all of his handwritten directing notes) autographed by everyone under the sun (Jared and Jensen, Kim Manners, Sera Gamble, Katie Cassidy and Lauren Cohen, and I don't even remember who else).
I really wanted to see Jared and Jensen on stage at the same time just once while the show was still in production and they were still close friends, and it was totally worth it. I had a great time.
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Date: 2007-11-11 10:17 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-11 10:39 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-11 11:01 pm (UTC)From:Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that I've linked to this description on watchingsupernatural.com (http://www.watchingsupernatural.com/). Thank you for putting so much detail into this! If you'd like to see the actual mention, here (http://www.watchingsupernatural.com/fan-convention-in-chicago/) it is.
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Date: 2007-11-11 11:12 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 12:41 am (UTC)From:Thanks again
*hugs*
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Date: 2007-11-12 02:09 am (UTC)From:And you're welcome. 8-)
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Date: 2007-11-12 04:29 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 01:35 am (UTC)From:Thanks you SO MUCH for posting this, I really enjoyed reading about the con since I didn't get to go. :(
YOU ARE MY HERO!
*draws hearts*
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Date: 2007-11-12 02:36 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 04:53 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 10:46 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 09:28 am (UTC)From:I was at the Gold Weekend Special Breakfast Sunday morning where the boys came in with no plans or itenarary and just vamped for us. We were at round tables and ate breakfast and it was their first appearance at the con. It was amazing - worth the cost of the entire con! I was at the front table due to the great plan of Dana and Sue and Patty - we all sat in front of the door in shifts - all freaking night! But it was so worth it - I sat about 5 ft. in front of them, nothing to obstruct my view. Sigh.
They were adorable at the breakfast!
There is a vid floating around of it - I am sure folks will find it. I am so exhausted that I must get to bed ;-)
Great con and those boys are treasures ;-)
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Date: 2007-11-12 10:49 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 01:14 pm (UTC)From:your report
Date: 2007-11-12 02:05 pm (UTC)From:Re: your report
Date: 2007-11-12 10:52 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 04:45 pm (UTC)From:awesome
Date: 2007-11-12 10:12 pm (UTC)From:Re: awesome
Date: 2007-11-12 10:55 pm (UTC)From:Re: awesome
Date: 2007-11-13 07:16 pm (UTC)From:I made a topic so everyone can add links they find.
Supernatural Plus is here (http://z11.invisionfree.com/Supernatural_Plus/index.php)
Supernatural Love Here (http://z6.invisionfree.com/Supernatural_Love/index.php)
Re: awesome
Date: 2007-11-13 11:12 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-13 07:11 am (UTC)From:Oh man, I am sad about Jared, though. Poor thing did seem to be getting lots of overflow questions, but he handled them so well. He cracks me up. I'm glad you decided to go, and had such a great time!
no subject
Date: 2007-11-13 11:10 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-13 11:03 pm (UTC)From:You should definitely add this report to the super-wiki. Or I could add it for you if you want, just let me know.
http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Creation_Cons (http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Creation_Cons)
no subject
Date: 2007-11-13 11:14 pm (UTC)From:You should definitely add this report to the super-wiki. Or I could add it for you if you want, just let me know.
Would you mind? I know nothing about the super-wiki. Of course, it might be redundant now that everyone is putting up videos and people can just watch the boys for themselves.
no subject
Date: 2007-11-14 12:31 pm (UTC)From:You're linked on the Creation Con page at the super-wiki!
I loved reading your, and everyone elses', responses to events. It makes the experience much more personal and reflective. The video is great and makes me squee but it does not have the same emotional resonance. We definitely need both!
no subject
Date: 2007-11-14 11:34 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-14 02:51 am (UTC)From:The presentation with Master Sergeant Wise was extremely touching. I was in tears. Jared & Jensen were very choked up & that made me cry even more! Yes...I am a huge sap!
no subject
Date: 2007-11-14 03:50 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-17 12:50 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-17 04:04 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-21 04:04 pm (UTC)From:have taken 30 seconds and they could charge good for that.
The photo ops and autograph session were bad because they
kept pushing you and I had photos when I wasn't ready.sure
thanks Chris. Other than that it was a wonderful time, but
they have to slow down a bit.
no subject
Date: 2007-11-22 12:59 am (UTC)From:they have to slow down a bit.
Don't hold your breath on that. Creation is a moneymaking machine. I greatly prefer fan run cons for sheer fun and variety of programming, but if Creation is going to put Jensen and Jared on the same stage at the same time 10 minutes from my apartment, well, I'm only human.
no subject
Date: 2007-11-23 07:44 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-11-23 09:23 pm (UTC)From:This isn't the greatest quality video, but it's the only one I know of that has the Sadie story. Click here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv2GRp2r-4Y).
First Con
Date: 2014-09-21 03:35 am (UTC)From:Re: First Con
Date: 2014-09-21 06:32 am (UTC)From: