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elizalavelle) wrote2007-07-10 06:51 pm
elizalavelle) wrote2007-07-10 06:51 pm
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Last day of Polaris... picture post coming next!
I wanted to go to the dealers room because I’d not yet been so I was up early again and headed down there first thing. Somewhere in the middle of the room I ran into Sue and Dorothy and they were doing another group picture with Ron so I went along to that. He was pretty amused at how wrecked some of us were. As he doesn’t drink he gets to laugh at everyone who by Sunday is somewhat in a perma-hungover state. Our picture turned out well, no one blinked (we had one blinker on Saturday which the photographer didn’t notice until after all was done with.)
Then I ran back to main room to work crowd control for Steve Bacic’s panel. His was fun. He said he was pretty sure he still was drunk, which always makes for a pretty entertaining panel and also meant he was pretty laid back which worked for it being the first panel Sunday morning and many people were still in bed. Small crowd, but I think the people there had more fun that way. He knew a bunch of his fans by name and they had fun asking random questions and just teasing back and forth :) Erick Avari came in at the end of this panel... also, I'm guessing, still drunk. And hopped up on stage and started throwing Skittles to people in the audience. I was amused :)
This brings me to 12 which was Ron Glass’s last autograph time so I went over for that, had a bunch of fellow Browncoats a few people ahead of me in line but I didn’t feel right skipping up to see them so I ended up skipping back to chat with Cindy and SunnyD and another fan whom I didn’t know while we waited. Sunny was kind enough to take a couple of shots of me talking with Ron while he signed my stuff. (those will be in the picspam post) He saw Morena’s signature on the Serenity disc and asked who it was (it’s hard to read on the shiny cover) and I said it’s Morena’s, and then told my story about how last year she’d signed my Firefly DVD case and told me to never show it to him because she’d signed over the top of his head by accident. He got a good laugh out of that one and told a little story about how her wardrobe on set usually took the longest out of the main cast because it was so elaborate and she’d come to set one day all dressed up and he looked at her and asked “so when’s the carnival” which is not such a funny story in type but imagine yourself a good Ron Glass chuckle at the end of it and it’ll work :)
At 1pm was a Spike panel (Someone please put a Spike in me) on which Magie was a panellist (it was her suggestion for a panel, I highly approve!) and I can’t remember everyone elses names… but it was another good panel. Fun just to reminisce about our favourite vampire. I was sorry that I had to bail early but I had to be back on mic for Ron’s second Q&A and the main room is on the complete other side of the hotel so I had to have time to run over there and check in.
Ron’s second Q&A had a lot more Firefly questions which I liked more. One girl had him come up with 1 word descriptions of his other cast members and now I wish I’d written them down because I can’t remember all of them. I know Morena was “lovely” Jewel was “deceptively-sweet” Nathan was “all over” I believe Alan was something like “crazy” and I cannot remember what Sean, Summer and Gina were. Someone asked what would be his word for himself and Ron declared “fantastic!” hee! Actually the girl who asked the question had asked one the day before about Nathan Fillion’s hotness. She was a good question asker I think. She was able to tease with the guest without crossing into that line of just bothering them. Perhaps the people who were all on the other side of that line should have paid more attention to her. The same guy who’d asked the awkward question on Saturday was back to be a little more awkward again at this Q&A. Since Ron saw him coming though he just joked around a bit and then sent the guy away. It was well done.
It’s weird to see the different approaches people take to being able to ask a question. There are the people who just ask questions because they can rather than because they have anything they actually want to know about. There are people who are really shy about asking their questions but who usually have a good one. There are newbie fans who ask things they could have found out on their own in about 30 seconds online (although sometimes in person the responses in person are hammed up a bit so they’re not so boring for everyone else who knows the answer already.) There are those who seem to just want to pick on the guests which is just strange to me. And lastly there are those who really have a good grasp on the vibe of a Q &A and who can tell how far they can push with a guest and still have everything be entertaining and fun for everyone. These also tend to ask good fun and interesting questions. Clearly I like those best.
Ron also had a very sweet moment (and I clearly was still over hormonal because I felt teary) when someone asked what he’d remember most from his experience and he said it was the girl who he’d met in the autograph room who’d had brain surgery earlier in the year and said it was him on Firefly that got her through it. And he had such a great grasp on it, that it wasn’t him really but that it was that he was doing good and important work. I thought that was just lovely.
After Ron’s talk Kate, Tom and I all went down to the Dealer’s room again. Tom ended up heading out to go get dinner and Kate and I stuck around and shopped. I took a picture of the Jack Sparrow cut out that the Pixel Barrow table had up and also traded a film cell I’d bought there earlier in the day for a different one that had not been on display before. All told over the 2 days of shopping (I picked up a few little things on Saturday) I ended up with little Buffy stand up cardboard pop out dolls (like tiny paper dolls really) with two backgrounds that just look like fun. I have no idea where I’ll set them up but I like ‘em. The PotC film cell, a Companion ID from Firefly/Serenity (Kate got the mechanic and the doctor one… no public relations sadly) and 3 Farscape pins (a DRD, a com – for my Rygel doll since he doesn’t have one) and a Peacekeeper logo. They also gave away a lot of free stuff at that table so I have bookmarks and a pen and a little drd pompom magnet which is adorable!, ummm oh and I bought a set of Farscape season 3 cards and a set of Wizard of Oz cards, both of which were not too expensive. I can’t buy expensive trading cards ‘til I have a place where I actually want to put them… I should invest in some card pages and a binder again :) That was it.
Lastly there was 1 more Firefly panel (Life in the ‘Verse) to go to for which ALL of the panellists skipped out. However there were a few people there who as a joke had sat up at the panellist table, one girl who was all of 14 maybe and someone who may have been her older brother or cousin or something, they seemed to know each other at any rate. And they decided to be the panellists when no one showed up and did a pretty good job of it with no prep work :) I was glad that panel went on since it was a really interesting one because we got right into what the difference between planets on the core and on the rim are and the border planets in between and why we believe what we do about all of them. Even how immigration from Earth That Was would have worked and how that might have had an effect on the standards of living on the core planets as they were colonized. It was really interesting and full of a lot of conversations I’d not had before.
Closing ceremonies were at 5. Katee Sackhoff was on and as she was a Sunday guest only and everyone wanted to see her (I suspect… and not without good reason, that this is where our Firefly panel ended up ;) ) but she didn’t run that late. We were assuming she still had 15—20 minutes left to go when we got up there since her autograph line had been SO long and she was going straight to the Q&A after that, I just thought it all would have started late but apparently it was only 5 minutes late so that was not too shabby. She was a good speaker anyways, we got to hear her last amusing story about the BSG set so that was fun. The first guest for next year was announced and it’s going to be another Sunday only guest: Rachel Luttrell from Stargate Atlantis. Jewel Staite is joining that show next year so I feel I’ll know who that is by next July lol. After the ceremony came the teardown of everything. I stuck around for that and Tom was awesome and brought me some food from Kelsey’s where the Browncoats were doing their dinner. It was much needed and much appreciated! All was done by about 7ish (well all that the volunteers could do, what was left was really heavy lifting and I just couln’t do it) and Jo and I went to pack up our stuff and get ready to head home. I’m already voluntold for next year in the main room again which I really liked :) AND I worked enough hours to get a discount for next year! I’m a fan of that.
So then there was packing and leaving and saying goodbye and heading home on the ridiculously long bus ride again and then much sleeping :)
It was a fabulous weekend. I’m so doing it all again next year. I felt bad I wasn’t able to spend as much time with my friends as I’d have liked but I did like that I was pretty much always busy, there was no time to be bored.
I wanted to go to the dealers room because I’d not yet been so I was up early again and headed down there first thing. Somewhere in the middle of the room I ran into Sue and Dorothy and they were doing another group picture with Ron so I went along to that. He was pretty amused at how wrecked some of us were. As he doesn’t drink he gets to laugh at everyone who by Sunday is somewhat in a perma-hungover state. Our picture turned out well, no one blinked (we had one blinker on Saturday which the photographer didn’t notice until after all was done with.)
Then I ran back to main room to work crowd control for Steve Bacic’s panel. His was fun. He said he was pretty sure he still was drunk, which always makes for a pretty entertaining panel and also meant he was pretty laid back which worked for it being the first panel Sunday morning and many people were still in bed. Small crowd, but I think the people there had more fun that way. He knew a bunch of his fans by name and they had fun asking random questions and just teasing back and forth :) Erick Avari came in at the end of this panel... also, I'm guessing, still drunk. And hopped up on stage and started throwing Skittles to people in the audience. I was amused :)
This brings me to 12 which was Ron Glass’s last autograph time so I went over for that, had a bunch of fellow Browncoats a few people ahead of me in line but I didn’t feel right skipping up to see them so I ended up skipping back to chat with Cindy and SunnyD and another fan whom I didn’t know while we waited. Sunny was kind enough to take a couple of shots of me talking with Ron while he signed my stuff. (those will be in the picspam post) He saw Morena’s signature on the Serenity disc and asked who it was (it’s hard to read on the shiny cover) and I said it’s Morena’s, and then told my story about how last year she’d signed my Firefly DVD case and told me to never show it to him because she’d signed over the top of his head by accident. He got a good laugh out of that one and told a little story about how her wardrobe on set usually took the longest out of the main cast because it was so elaborate and she’d come to set one day all dressed up and he looked at her and asked “so when’s the carnival” which is not such a funny story in type but imagine yourself a good Ron Glass chuckle at the end of it and it’ll work :)
At 1pm was a Spike panel (Someone please put a Spike in me) on which Magie was a panellist (it was her suggestion for a panel, I highly approve!) and I can’t remember everyone elses names… but it was another good panel. Fun just to reminisce about our favourite vampire. I was sorry that I had to bail early but I had to be back on mic for Ron’s second Q&A and the main room is on the complete other side of the hotel so I had to have time to run over there and check in.
Ron’s second Q&A had a lot more Firefly questions which I liked more. One girl had him come up with 1 word descriptions of his other cast members and now I wish I’d written them down because I can’t remember all of them. I know Morena was “lovely” Jewel was “deceptively-sweet” Nathan was “all over” I believe Alan was something like “crazy” and I cannot remember what Sean, Summer and Gina were. Someone asked what would be his word for himself and Ron declared “fantastic!” hee! Actually the girl who asked the question had asked one the day before about Nathan Fillion’s hotness. She was a good question asker I think. She was able to tease with the guest without crossing into that line of just bothering them. Perhaps the people who were all on the other side of that line should have paid more attention to her. The same guy who’d asked the awkward question on Saturday was back to be a little more awkward again at this Q&A. Since Ron saw him coming though he just joked around a bit and then sent the guy away. It was well done.
It’s weird to see the different approaches people take to being able to ask a question. There are the people who just ask questions because they can rather than because they have anything they actually want to know about. There are people who are really shy about asking their questions but who usually have a good one. There are newbie fans who ask things they could have found out on their own in about 30 seconds online (although sometimes in person the responses in person are hammed up a bit so they’re not so boring for everyone else who knows the answer already.) There are those who seem to just want to pick on the guests which is just strange to me. And lastly there are those who really have a good grasp on the vibe of a Q &A and who can tell how far they can push with a guest and still have everything be entertaining and fun for everyone. These also tend to ask good fun and interesting questions. Clearly I like those best.
Ron also had a very sweet moment (and I clearly was still over hormonal because I felt teary) when someone asked what he’d remember most from his experience and he said it was the girl who he’d met in the autograph room who’d had brain surgery earlier in the year and said it was him on Firefly that got her through it. And he had such a great grasp on it, that it wasn’t him really but that it was that he was doing good and important work. I thought that was just lovely.
After Ron’s talk Kate, Tom and I all went down to the Dealer’s room again. Tom ended up heading out to go get dinner and Kate and I stuck around and shopped. I took a picture of the Jack Sparrow cut out that the Pixel Barrow table had up and also traded a film cell I’d bought there earlier in the day for a different one that had not been on display before. All told over the 2 days of shopping (I picked up a few little things on Saturday) I ended up with little Buffy stand up cardboard pop out dolls (like tiny paper dolls really) with two backgrounds that just look like fun. I have no idea where I’ll set them up but I like ‘em. The PotC film cell, a Companion ID from Firefly/Serenity (Kate got the mechanic and the doctor one… no public relations sadly) and 3 Farscape pins (a DRD, a com – for my Rygel doll since he doesn’t have one) and a Peacekeeper logo. They also gave away a lot of free stuff at that table so I have bookmarks and a pen and a little drd pompom magnet which is adorable!, ummm oh and I bought a set of Farscape season 3 cards and a set of Wizard of Oz cards, both of which were not too expensive. I can’t buy expensive trading cards ‘til I have a place where I actually want to put them… I should invest in some card pages and a binder again :) That was it.
Lastly there was 1 more Firefly panel (Life in the ‘Verse) to go to for which ALL of the panellists skipped out. However there were a few people there who as a joke had sat up at the panellist table, one girl who was all of 14 maybe and someone who may have been her older brother or cousin or something, they seemed to know each other at any rate. And they decided to be the panellists when no one showed up and did a pretty good job of it with no prep work :) I was glad that panel went on since it was a really interesting one because we got right into what the difference between planets on the core and on the rim are and the border planets in between and why we believe what we do about all of them. Even how immigration from Earth That Was would have worked and how that might have had an effect on the standards of living on the core planets as they were colonized. It was really interesting and full of a lot of conversations I’d not had before.
Closing ceremonies were at 5. Katee Sackhoff was on and as she was a Sunday guest only and everyone wanted to see her (I suspect… and not without good reason, that this is where our Firefly panel ended up ;) ) but she didn’t run that late. We were assuming she still had 15—20 minutes left to go when we got up there since her autograph line had been SO long and she was going straight to the Q&A after that, I just thought it all would have started late but apparently it was only 5 minutes late so that was not too shabby. She was a good speaker anyways, we got to hear her last amusing story about the BSG set so that was fun. The first guest for next year was announced and it’s going to be another Sunday only guest: Rachel Luttrell from Stargate Atlantis. Jewel Staite is joining that show next year so I feel I’ll know who that is by next July lol. After the ceremony came the teardown of everything. I stuck around for that and Tom was awesome and brought me some food from Kelsey’s where the Browncoats were doing their dinner. It was much needed and much appreciated! All was done by about 7ish (well all that the volunteers could do, what was left was really heavy lifting and I just couln’t do it) and Jo and I went to pack up our stuff and get ready to head home. I’m already voluntold for next year in the main room again which I really liked :) AND I worked enough hours to get a discount for next year! I’m a fan of that.
So then there was packing and leaving and saying goodbye and heading home on the ridiculously long bus ride again and then much sleeping :)
It was a fabulous weekend. I’m so doing it all again next year. I felt bad I wasn’t able to spend as much time with my friends as I’d have liked but I did like that I was pretty much always busy, there was no time to be bored.