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the_other_sandy) wrote2008-06-27 09:45 pm
the_other_sandy) wrote2008-06-27 09:45 pm
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WinchestMidwest 2 -- Day 1
This is my first WinchestMidwest. It's a really small fan-run Supernatural con that just happens to be held at a hotel about 2 miles from my apartment. How could I pass that up?
Our con badges came on a black lanyard that says "*ROCK MUSIC PLAYS*" in white letters with little skulls and crossbones on it. It's very cute.
The con started with a meet-and-greet that gave everyone a chance to register and settle in. There were slides of Jared & Jensen and Sam & Dean playing at one end of the room. There were only 25-30 people there, but I was the only one who wasn't with someone, so I wound up playing with the Play-Doh party favors. I fail at talking to people I don't know.
After the meet-and-greet, we watched a video recap of seasons 1-3. Some enterprising soul edited together a sort of Reader's Digest condensed version of the show with each season distilled down to 15 minutes. I miss how much Sam smiled in season 1.
The video recap was followed by a very lively open discussion of the show and its fandom that also tended to veer off into discussion of other shows as well. In fact, I'm pretty sure we spent as much, if not more, time discussing other shows as we did Supernatural. It was fun anyway.
The evening concluded with a Guitar Hero challenge, but my video game experience is pretty much limited to puzzle games (I finally broke 800,000 points on Bejeweled 2 Deluxe!), so I took that as my cue to head home.
There are some interesting panels coming up tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to yakking about my show all day.
Our con badges came on a black lanyard that says "*ROCK MUSIC PLAYS*" in white letters with little skulls and crossbones on it. It's very cute.
The con started with a meet-and-greet that gave everyone a chance to register and settle in. There were slides of Jared & Jensen and Sam & Dean playing at one end of the room. There were only 25-30 people there, but I was the only one who wasn't with someone, so I wound up playing with the Play-Doh party favors. I fail at talking to people I don't know.
After the meet-and-greet, we watched a video recap of seasons 1-3. Some enterprising soul edited together a sort of Reader's Digest condensed version of the show with each season distilled down to 15 minutes. I miss how much Sam smiled in season 1.
The video recap was followed by a very lively open discussion of the show and its fandom that also tended to veer off into discussion of other shows as well. In fact, I'm pretty sure we spent as much, if not more, time discussing other shows as we did Supernatural. It was fun anyway.
The evening concluded with a Guitar Hero challenge, but my video game experience is pretty much limited to puzzle games (I finally broke 800,000 points on Bejeweled 2 Deluxe!), so I took that as my cue to head home.
There are some interesting panels coming up tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to yakking about my show all day.