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Fan Expo 2014
Aug. 13th, 2014 01:01 pmSo, it's about 2.5-3 weeks until the annual Fan Expo con.
Some of the guests are cool (Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill, the core three of the Eleventh Doctor's run on Doctor Who... some Walking Dead people, some Arrow people, a few Trek captains), but none that I'm immediately willing to go shell out a huge amount of cash for autographs for. Normally I go for autographs from Firefly-related guests, but this year for some reason they got Nathan Fillion, who also came last year. He's certainly a great guest, but two years in a row? At least throw in a second guest. :)
But, as of this moment at least, I'm tentatively planning to go. The decision might still change. It has before, but it's remained fairly consistent the last week or two. One of the reasons is that they're celebrating the 25th anniversary of Prisoners of Gravity an old show that discussed comics, SF, and fantasy books, which exposed me to a lot of authors and such (at one time I used it to generate reading lists), and I'd like a chance to thank the cast and crew. And I suspect even if they don't have a separate autograph section and just do a panel, it's a panel that a) won't be too overcrowded, compared to others, and b) will be filled with people who are also readers, so a little more chance at common ground. So I'll try to attend that panel, however, it has to not only be on Saturday, but at a reasonable time on Saturday, and the con schedule hasn't been finalized yet so I don't know if that'll happen. That aside, I'm going mostly for the experience, see the cosplays, force myself out of my shell a little, and in general break up the monotony that is my life just a tiny little bit.
Also I kinda like the idea of playing ticket fairy... going early as I always do and grabbing a ticket for a place in the autograph line for some of the stars I'm considering spending money for (Smith, for example), and then randomly bestowing it on some latecomer and possible first-time congoer who is despondent that they're probably going to have to wait forever (because it's 3pm and they're now serving tickets up to 100 and are giving away tickets numbered 600). I won't just grab line tickets willy-nilly for giving out later, that's not fair play, I think, but I think it's fair if I'm genuinely considering getting an autograph and then decide maybe to give it up to somebody who wants it more but had bad luck (and of course, no charge or anything, just make somebody's day and disappear into the crowd).
Some of the guests are cool (Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill, the core three of the Eleventh Doctor's run on Doctor Who... some Walking Dead people, some Arrow people, a few Trek captains), but none that I'm immediately willing to go shell out a huge amount of cash for autographs for. Normally I go for autographs from Firefly-related guests, but this year for some reason they got Nathan Fillion, who also came last year. He's certainly a great guest, but two years in a row? At least throw in a second guest. :)
But, as of this moment at least, I'm tentatively planning to go. The decision might still change. It has before, but it's remained fairly consistent the last week or two. One of the reasons is that they're celebrating the 25th anniversary of Prisoners of Gravity an old show that discussed comics, SF, and fantasy books, which exposed me to a lot of authors and such (at one time I used it to generate reading lists), and I'd like a chance to thank the cast and crew. And I suspect even if they don't have a separate autograph section and just do a panel, it's a panel that a) won't be too overcrowded, compared to others, and b) will be filled with people who are also readers, so a little more chance at common ground. So I'll try to attend that panel, however, it has to not only be on Saturday, but at a reasonable time on Saturday, and the con schedule hasn't been finalized yet so I don't know if that'll happen. That aside, I'm going mostly for the experience, see the cosplays, force myself out of my shell a little, and in general break up the monotony that is my life just a tiny little bit.
Also I kinda like the idea of playing ticket fairy... going early as I always do and grabbing a ticket for a place in the autograph line for some of the stars I'm considering spending money for (Smith, for example), and then randomly bestowing it on some latecomer and possible first-time congoer who is despondent that they're probably going to have to wait forever (because it's 3pm and they're now serving tickets up to 100 and are giving away tickets numbered 600). I won't just grab line tickets willy-nilly for giving out later, that's not fair play, I think, but I think it's fair if I'm genuinely considering getting an autograph and then decide maybe to give it up to somebody who wants it more but had bad luck (and of course, no charge or anything, just make somebody's day and disappear into the crowd).
