Con-con Day 3

Today's been a long day already and I've been awake for just shy of 14 hours.

We got up early for the set tour - which was cool. kimberlyfdr, foreverseenstar, and I had Dean Devlin as our tour guide. Their "soundstages" are two warehouses in the industrial part of Clackamus, which is about 20 minutes outside of Portland. One's their permanent set (the apartment and McRory's) and the other they call the "Franken-set" because it's where they build all the other sets. But it was neat seeing the sets and seeing how they do things and getting to hear about things that are coming up in the third season.

I had just enough time when we got back to scarf down a bagel and cream cheese and get a frozen drink from Starbucks before Mark Sheppard's panel. Since Mark joined John Rogers for his panel yesterday, John decided to join Mark for his today. The two of them are fun together, though. And it was interesting hearing Mark talk about the fight between him and Christian earlier this season and how it started with his ten-year-old son, who loves Eliot, saying that he wanted them to fight. He said that in the first take, when Christian slammed him down on the table, they went through the table - which was bolted to two chairs and that Christian's hand came up to swat the table away from hitting Mark in the back of the head and everyone froze for a second and the two of them were like, "What are you doing? Let's keep going." And Mark's son comes up and goes, "Are you all right?" to Christian. And that Christian was a trooper because he had to hit him with the rod - with the angle they were filming at, he couldn't pull any punches and Christian was only wearing a pad on his leg. It's fun listening to him talk because he's a geek too and he loves all of this stuff as much as we do.

Beth and Gina's panel was fun. The two of them are adorable together.

I got one of the two autographs I needed to get today. I wasn't able to get the other because Mark had to leave to get back to either L.A. or Toronto (I can't remember which he said).

The photo ops have been a clusterfuck, though. Because first they did the group shots with all five. Then, instead of doing the guys so they could get to their panel, they did Gina, then Beth. As far as I know, they're still doing Christian, or may've just finished up. So, the guys' panel probably won't be happening at this point. :-(

Am still looking forward to Christian at Dante's tonight, though.