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Informal ChicagoTARDIS report #2
Nov. 25th, 2007 04:30 pmThe train ride back can be summed up thusly: So not doing that again.
I'll have a more detailed report here and probably on Firefox news, but I did want to pass on these tidbits:
Our guests of honor, Eric and Eliza Roberts, made their Saturday panel directly from deplaning from the flight from Bulgaria that had kept them overseas. (The Friday guest star slot was turned into an impromptu memorial for Verity Lambert, I'm told.) Eliza was pretty put together. Eric was funny, charming, and so jetlagged I'm amazed he could sit upright. But he did. Sometimes.
Most notable was the two of them discussing with glee how often they've killed each other off onscreen.
The Nick Briggs/Robert Shearman show was just as amusing this time around, and when it was time to shift to the Big Finish panel it became the Nick Briggs/Robert Shearman/Jason Haigh-Ellery show without shifting a beat. I missed part of that (I had one of those "must adjust blood sugar NOW!" moments) but thoroughly enjoyed what I saw. The interesting tidbit to come out of that was that they are working on having instant downloads of the Big Finish stuff, so that you can pay and immediately download an mp3. Or buy a CD and have an mp3 download to keep you going until the CD arrived. (I had to raise my hand and put in my $.02 that they keep up with the physical CDs as well, on account of they survive events like computer crashes. Also - this part I didn't say in the panel - I prefer to listen in my car.)
The Torchwood panel looked like fun, but I returned fairly quickly to the Ethics of Spoilers one, because I was really enjoying it. Although I did keep thinking that one of the funniest bits in Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf is the running gag about how the episode titles have *always* been spoilers.
I'll give a more polished set of descriptions later, but I can't tell you much beyond this point; right as things were gearing up for the Masq and Mystery Theatre 337, I was in the line to be a sardine for the next 18 hours.
I'll have a more detailed report here and probably on Firefox news, but I did want to pass on these tidbits:
Our guests of honor, Eric and Eliza Roberts, made their Saturday panel directly from deplaning from the flight from Bulgaria that had kept them overseas. (The Friday guest star slot was turned into an impromptu memorial for Verity Lambert, I'm told.) Eliza was pretty put together. Eric was funny, charming, and so jetlagged I'm amazed he could sit upright. But he did. Sometimes.
Most notable was the two of them discussing with glee how often they've killed each other off onscreen.
The Nick Briggs/Robert Shearman show was just as amusing this time around, and when it was time to shift to the Big Finish panel it became the Nick Briggs/Robert Shearman/Jason Haigh-Ellery show without shifting a beat. I missed part of that (I had one of those "must adjust blood sugar NOW!" moments) but thoroughly enjoyed what I saw. The interesting tidbit to come out of that was that they are working on having instant downloads of the Big Finish stuff, so that you can pay and immediately download an mp3. Or buy a CD and have an mp3 download to keep you going until the CD arrived. (I had to raise my hand and put in my $.02 that they keep up with the physical CDs as well, on account of they survive events like computer crashes. Also - this part I didn't say in the panel - I prefer to listen in my car.)
The Torchwood panel looked like fun, but I returned fairly quickly to the Ethics of Spoilers one, because I was really enjoying it. Although I did keep thinking that one of the funniest bits in Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf is the running gag about how the episode titles have *always* been spoilers.
I'll give a more polished set of descriptions later, but I can't tell you much beyond this point; right as things were gearing up for the Masq and Mystery Theatre 337, I was in the line to be a sardine for the next 18 hours.
