Con-con Day 2
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kimberlyfdr, since I had a fidgety night last night. (I don't do well the first night somewhere new. And I think I did okay at the Westin because I was so tired.)
We did really well getting ready this morning - and even had about twenty extra minutes. :-) Bothforeverseenstar and kimberlyfdr were excited to have mimosas. Both foreverseenstar and I had pancakes for breakfast and the pancakes won. (They gave us four huge, fluffy ones. But they were yummy.)
We hadkimberlyfdr's panel this morning on the nature of family on "Leverage". We had a good discussion. And I learned that Aldis Hodge is 23.
From there, I went to the panel with Mark Franco (visual effects producer), Kevin Jackson (stunt coordinator), Kai Shelton (practical special effects), and Derek Fredrickson (digital effects). It was interesting hearing them talk about what they do on the show and how they do it.
After that was the panel with Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Reisgraf, and Aldis Hodge. It was lots of fun and it's great to hear that they all get along really well and enjoy what they're doing and, as Tim said, "they genuinely like each other". And Tim took a picture of the crowd and tweeted it. And it sounds like the third season is going to be awesome.
I missed Apollo Robbins' (the show's consultant) panel because we were waiting in line for autographs. I was really curious to see what he had to say. Tim drew a "self portrait" in my autograph book. I asked Gina about her baby - who's four months old today and is "the baby on set" and "getting her cheeks pinched a lot". Didn't really say much to Beth or Christian. I feel really stupid, though, because I messed up and said I enjoyed seeing Aldis on "The Mentalist" (which he wasn't on, he was on "Castle") and he corrected me that his brother was on "Mental". Whoops! I didn't get an autograph from Dean Devlin, but I did thank him for Stargate, since that's what got me into sci-fi (and partly what got me into "Leverage") and he was very gracious and thanked me. Mark Sheppard was awesome (as we all know). He was wearing a shirt that says "As Seen on TV" - which amused me greatly. He also showed me his dragon tattoos on his arms and chest (he's got four or five) and asked me if I had any. I told him I didn't, but that I've thought about it and he told me to make sure it was something personal "because it's a permanent symbol of a temporary emotion". And he asked me where I'm from and I said "Delaware" and he said, "That's where I get my credit card bills from."
We've just been hanging out since then, waiting for the banquet, which is at 8pm. And I just finished a sandwich, even though we'll be eating again soon because I haven't eaten since breakfast. It was really good and came with tater tots and I got it from AJ on the Rails. We're also wondering what's going on with the photo ops, since the autographs took so long today. But it sounds like they got everyone through once today, so maybe they'll just do all the photos tomorrow or something. We'll see. (I also need to get a couple more autographs that I promised, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to do that too tomorrow.)
kimberlyfdr, since I had a fidgety night last night. (I don't do well the first night somewhere new. And I think I did okay at the Westin because I was so tired.)We did really well getting ready this morning - and even had about twenty extra minutes. :-) Both
foreverseenstar and kimberlyfdr were excited to have mimosas. Both foreverseenstar and I had pancakes for breakfast and the pancakes won. (They gave us four huge, fluffy ones. But they were yummy.)We had
kimberlyfdr's panel this morning on the nature of family on "Leverage". We had a good discussion. And I learned that Aldis Hodge is 23.From there, I went to the panel with Mark Franco (visual effects producer), Kevin Jackson (stunt coordinator), Kai Shelton (practical special effects), and Derek Fredrickson (digital effects). It was interesting hearing them talk about what they do on the show and how they do it.
After that was the panel with Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Reisgraf, and Aldis Hodge. It was lots of fun and it's great to hear that they all get along really well and enjoy what they're doing and, as Tim said, "they genuinely like each other". And Tim took a picture of the crowd and tweeted it. And it sounds like the third season is going to be awesome.
I missed Apollo Robbins' (the show's consultant) panel because we were waiting in line for autographs. I was really curious to see what he had to say. Tim drew a "self portrait" in my autograph book. I asked Gina about her baby - who's four months old today and is "the baby on set" and "getting her cheeks pinched a lot". Didn't really say much to Beth or Christian. I feel really stupid, though, because I messed up and said I enjoyed seeing Aldis on "The Mentalist" (which he wasn't on, he was on "Castle") and he corrected me that his brother was on "Mental". Whoops! I didn't get an autograph from Dean Devlin, but I did thank him for Stargate, since that's what got me into sci-fi (and partly what got me into "Leverage") and he was very gracious and thanked me. Mark Sheppard was awesome (as we all know). He was wearing a shirt that says "As Seen on TV" - which amused me greatly. He also showed me his dragon tattoos on his arms and chest (he's got four or five) and asked me if I had any. I told him I didn't, but that I've thought about it and he told me to make sure it was something personal "because it's a permanent symbol of a temporary emotion". And he asked me where I'm from and I said "Delaware" and he said, "That's where I get my credit card bills from."
We've just been hanging out since then, waiting for the banquet, which is at 8pm. And I just finished a sandwich, even though we'll be eating again soon because I haven't eaten since breakfast. It was really good and came with tater tots and I got it from AJ on the Rails. We're also wondering what's going on with the photo ops, since the autographs took so long today. But it sounds like they got everyone through once today, so maybe they'll just do all the photos tomorrow or something. We'll see. (I also need to get a couple more autographs that I promised, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to do that too tomorrow.)
