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neadodsThere's a certain irony that I paid the extra fee for a very nice assigned seat, which I have sat in exactly once this con. What panels I made yesterday, I was slumping in the back row for a quick escape.
Bits I should have put in earlier editions:
India Fisher was wearing an op-art 60s-style dress for opening ceremonies; K, a regular congoer, asked her if Colin Baker had given it to her. She claimed to be furious... but repeated the joke several times.
In the first Big Finish panel, Nick Briggs was talking about his gut reaction to spiders - "it's them or me" and how he wants to write a monster that kills humans not out of evil, but a simple gut disgust of them the way he reacts to spiders.
The only panel I was on on Saturday was Women of the RTD era. Now, although the panel description was talking about how the female characters "failed" compared to Rose (I didn't write this, Rose fans) my argument was that all of the female characters of the RTD era, including several one-note comedy characters like Jackie, ended up as fully-developed, realistic women. They may have been underserved by the stories they were given, but they themselves were all interesting and well-rounded people. IMO, the only female character who was given a fate that I, as a woman, find creepy and "fail" as all hell is Rose herself, who went from self-determined to utterly focused on the Doctor, and whose advice from the Doctor went from "have a wonderful life" to "look after this clone of me" - essentially changing his orders from having a life of her own to devoting her life to a man.
There isn't enough "ew" I can type.
Alas, I had to bail halfway though; someone brought in a slice of pizza to eat - eating in panels is fairly common as there is no lunch break in the schedule. However, it's spaghetti that did me in, so it's going to be a long time before I can smell tomato sauce with oregano without running.
I slept through the Paul McGann movie panel, but hear from several sources that he barely remembers it and thus kept his answers to "yes," "no," and "maybe."
Naoko Mori also answered in mostly standard cliches - the actors were a family, John "is a very naughty boy," it was confusing to shoot two episodes at once. Eventually she told some new stories - that she was so ignorant of Doctor Who that she'd tried to look up the word TARDIS in the dictionary and then called her agent, who laughed so hard at her he put the phone down and she had to call back. "I will never work with John Barrowman again because I always end up dying in his arms." (Her other Barrowman quote was "Caring, fun, lovely and always takes his clothes off. It's amazing what you get used to.")
I didn't have the strength to stay through Chicks Dig Time Lords, but I did get to see that there was someone in the audience wearing the costume from the cover.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jigglykat nearly died of delight.
I missed much of the second Big Finish panel because I'd been sleeping, but I did make it there in time to make a plea that they keep the audio format. (Someone had asked on Friday if they'd consider going to video.) Nick Briggs pointed out that he'd done audios as a kid - wrote the script and did all the voices. "Nick, you're still doing that," Jason Haigh-Ellery pointed out.
They talked about how they're now working on scripts 6 months out because of new compliance rules after that shock jock aired obscene phone calls on the BBC. (When asked for spoilers, they said "The Doctor will land on a new planet." "The TARDIS will go out of control." There were also jokes about writing an all-cliche story: Cliche of the Daleks.)
Nick also said that he's known Gary Russell since '84 and thus there aren't long negotiations if there's something they can't do; he just gets a phone call saying, "Nick. No."
There were huge cheers for the idea of a Charley series, just as there had been big pressure to bring her back on Friday.
I wanted to get a McGann autograph, but when I got there, I didn't even have the strength to stand in line. I'll try again today.
The halftime of the Masquerade, while the judges are judging, is a Match Game, with con members vs a team of guests including Nick Briggs and Tony Lee. Tony was caught flatfooted when the entire audience yelled "How strange were they?" after the "They were so strange prompt" - but bounced up, grabbed the MC's microphone, and started working the crowd. "Okay, yell it again. No, this section, I'm not feeling it. Just you. Now just these 10 rows." He kept reducing it down until he pointed into the audience and said in tones of doom, "It's YOU!" Then he bounced back to the table, saying "Now I get this game!"
Orangecoat!Martha (ETA:qchan) was one of the contestants, and was given "One of Gwen's [blank] is a camera." She said "breasts."
TONY: We all thought that, but we didn't write it.
NICK: I feel such a tit.
As Martha laughed she curled her hands up to her chest, prompting Tony to say "Now you're miming it... and ones of impossible size."
And now, under the cut, 9 pictures from the halls and the masquerade. I didn't get shots of the Labcoat!Martha, Astrid, or the 10th Doctor faceoff (2 Doctors, one with Rose behind him, the other with Orangecoat!Martha and Donna). I do have shots of 10 and Martha; Donna, Jack, and the TARDIS; Reinette; Lady Steampunk (a random hall costume); and UNIT. I also got one shot of the several crowd-pleasing Rose and Martha catfights.
Masquerade awards went to Ten and Orangecoat!Martha, Dalek Woman, the female Five and Two from yesterday's photos and more. (I was, uh, unavailable during much of the awards.)
Lady Steampunk. She said she'd been asked to be in the Masquerade, but preferred to watch.
I have a posed picture of Reinette, but I like this shot more:
qchan Martha and Ten from the halls:
The catfight:
UNIT:
I'll let the rest speak for themselves:
knitchick1979, booksavvy, and TARDIS
That'swiliqueen off to the left, as someone late to the Masque of Mandragora
Bits I should have put in earlier editions:
India Fisher was wearing an op-art 60s-style dress for opening ceremonies; K, a regular congoer, asked her if Colin Baker had given it to her. She claimed to be furious... but repeated the joke several times.
In the first Big Finish panel, Nick Briggs was talking about his gut reaction to spiders - "it's them or me" and how he wants to write a monster that kills humans not out of evil, but a simple gut disgust of them the way he reacts to spiders.
The only panel I was on on Saturday was Women of the RTD era. Now, although the panel description was talking about how the female characters "failed" compared to Rose (I didn't write this, Rose fans) my argument was that all of the female characters of the RTD era, including several one-note comedy characters like Jackie, ended up as fully-developed, realistic women. They may have been underserved by the stories they were given, but they themselves were all interesting and well-rounded people. IMO, the only female character who was given a fate that I, as a woman, find creepy and "fail" as all hell is Rose herself, who went from self-determined to utterly focused on the Doctor, and whose advice from the Doctor went from "have a wonderful life" to "look after this clone of me" - essentially changing his orders from having a life of her own to devoting her life to a man.
There isn't enough "ew" I can type.
Alas, I had to bail halfway though; someone brought in a slice of pizza to eat - eating in panels is fairly common as there is no lunch break in the schedule. However, it's spaghetti that did me in, so it's going to be a long time before I can smell tomato sauce with oregano without running.
I slept through the Paul McGann movie panel, but hear from several sources that he barely remembers it and thus kept his answers to "yes," "no," and "maybe."
Naoko Mori also answered in mostly standard cliches - the actors were a family, John "is a very naughty boy," it was confusing to shoot two episodes at once. Eventually she told some new stories - that she was so ignorant of Doctor Who that she'd tried to look up the word TARDIS in the dictionary and then called her agent, who laughed so hard at her he put the phone down and she had to call back. "I will never work with John Barrowman again because I always end up dying in his arms." (Her other Barrowman quote was "Caring, fun, lovely and always takes his clothes off. It's amazing what you get used to.")
I didn't have the strength to stay through Chicks Dig Time Lords, but I did get to see that there was someone in the audience wearing the costume from the cover.
jigglykat nearly died of delight.I missed much of the second Big Finish panel because I'd been sleeping, but I did make it there in time to make a plea that they keep the audio format. (Someone had asked on Friday if they'd consider going to video.) Nick Briggs pointed out that he'd done audios as a kid - wrote the script and did all the voices. "Nick, you're still doing that," Jason Haigh-Ellery pointed out.
They talked about how they're now working on scripts 6 months out because of new compliance rules after that shock jock aired obscene phone calls on the BBC. (When asked for spoilers, they said "The Doctor will land on a new planet." "The TARDIS will go out of control." There were also jokes about writing an all-cliche story: Cliche of the Daleks.)
Nick also said that he's known Gary Russell since '84 and thus there aren't long negotiations if there's something they can't do; he just gets a phone call saying, "Nick. No."
There were huge cheers for the idea of a Charley series, just as there had been big pressure to bring her back on Friday.
I wanted to get a McGann autograph, but when I got there, I didn't even have the strength to stand in line. I'll try again today.
The halftime of the Masquerade, while the judges are judging, is a Match Game, with con members vs a team of guests including Nick Briggs and Tony Lee. Tony was caught flatfooted when the entire audience yelled "How strange were they?" after the "They were so strange prompt" - but bounced up, grabbed the MC's microphone, and started working the crowd. "Okay, yell it again. No, this section, I'm not feeling it. Just you. Now just these 10 rows." He kept reducing it down until he pointed into the audience and said in tones of doom, "It's YOU!" Then he bounced back to the table, saying "Now I get this game!"
Orangecoat!Martha (ETA:
qchan) was one of the contestants, and was given "One of Gwen's [blank] is a camera." She said "breasts."TONY: We all thought that, but we didn't write it.
NICK: I feel such a tit.
As Martha laughed she curled her hands up to her chest, prompting Tony to say "Now you're miming it... and ones of impossible size."
And now, under the cut, 9 pictures from the halls and the masquerade. I didn't get shots of the Labcoat!Martha, Astrid, or the 10th Doctor faceoff (2 Doctors, one with Rose behind him, the other with Orangecoat!Martha and Donna). I do have shots of 10 and Martha; Donna, Jack, and the TARDIS; Reinette; Lady Steampunk (a random hall costume); and UNIT. I also got one shot of the several crowd-pleasing Rose and Martha catfights.
Masquerade awards went to Ten and Orangecoat!Martha, Dalek Woman, the female Five and Two from yesterday's photos and more. (I was, uh, unavailable during much of the awards.)
Lady Steampunk. She said she'd been asked to be in the Masquerade, but preferred to watch.
I have a posed picture of Reinette, but I like this shot more:
qchan Martha and Ten from the halls:The catfight:
UNIT:
I'll let the rest speak for themselves:
knitchick1979, booksavvy, and TARDISThat's
wiliqueen off to the left, as someone late to the Masque of Mandragora
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Date: 2009-11-29 02:25 pm (UTC)*giggles* So true!
Talking of India, I finally got around to listening to the BF Winter Preview pdocast yesterday - and nearly fell off the chair when I heard India's in one of the Sherlock Holmes stories. I'm torn now because I'm NOT a huge Holmes fan (the few books I've tried were too misogynistic for my tastes - and I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to 'that's how it used to be in those days'), but I would love to hear India doing something else. Ah, Big Finish, how you torment me.
And YES PLEASE to a Charley series!
PS Hope you're over the worst of ickiness?
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Date: 2009-11-29 08:07 pm (UTC)The Sherlock Holmes audios don't seem to be a straight mapping of the old stories to the new, so I have hopes that certain attitudes will change when the stories are written by Nick as opposed to Conan Doyle. (Alas, I didn't check "podcasts" when I filled my ipod, so it stripped them out of the playlist I had created. So I haven't heard that one yet. Yet!)
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Date: 2009-11-29 08:12 pm (UTC)Urgh! You poor thing! Hope you feel 100% soon!
The Sherlock Holmes audios don't seem to be a straight mapping of the old stories to the new, so I have hopes that certain attitudes will change when the stories are written by Nick as opposed to Conan Doyle.
Maybe I'll risk them, then...
(Alas, I didn't check "podcasts" when I filled my ipod, so it stripped them out of the playlist I had created. So I haven't heard that one yet. Yet!)
Ah! Okay... It was VERY long (40 minutes, almost) - but interesting, and full of the usual silliness.
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Date: 2009-11-29 08:14 pm (UTC)Well, I'm eating again, and that's the important thing! Although I'm awfully glad to have a wingman on the way home.
I'm about 4 Big Finish podcasts behind and had meant to catch up with all of them on the way up. I guess I'll load the ipod (properly!) back home and listen on the way to work.
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Date: 2009-11-29 08:19 pm (UTC)Yes, eating's very important. And having a second driver sounds essential this once...
I'm about 4 Big Finish podcasts behind and had meant to catch up with all of them on the way up. I guess I'll load the ipod (properly!) back home and listen on the way to work.
I suddenly realised I've still not listened to the Rob Shearman one - which is utterly ridiculous!
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Date: 2009-11-29 02:45 pm (UTC)Steampunk is sooo cool! We went to a great panel on steampunk fashion at the comic and anime con in London in October. I am the proud possessor of a steampunk pocketwatch and brooch!
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Date: 2009-11-29 08:21 pm (UTC)http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/steampunk/
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Date: 2009-11-29 08:24 pm (UTC)Blimey! I was only down there around the August Bank Holiday, and there was NO advance notice about this anywhere! Silly MHS!
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Date: 2009-11-29 03:24 pm (UTC)Weird - not that this opinion is held, but that it was institutionalized like that.
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Date: 2009-11-29 03:37 pm (UTC)The movie panel was very enjoyable. Paul may not remember but Daphne does.
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Date: 2009-11-29 08:09 pm (UTC)I'm sorry I missed the panel... but I really, REALLY needed sleep, having not gotten any the night before!
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Date: 2009-11-29 05:24 pm (UTC)I'm really curious about what that's supposed to mean -- "failed" in what sense? If failure = lacking self-determination, then as you say Rose is the only real failure. If failure = didn't keep fighting alongside the Doctor right up to the bitter end, then Martha is the real failure because she willingly walks away from him. If failure = character arc that ends up right back where it started, that's Donna.
But I suspect, consciously or not, they mean "failed" in the sense of being less loved by the Doctor, which is just...well, fail.
That Ten and Martha couple looks awesome.
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Date: 2009-11-29 08:12 pm (UTC)Yes. I think it was also written to be contentious so the panelists could work up a lot of arguments about it... but yeah. I prefer my take on it.
Ten and Martha were fabulous.
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Date: 2009-11-29 11:52 pm (UTC)In the first Big Finish panel, Nick Briggs was talking about his gut reaction to spiders - "it's them or me" and how he wants to write a monster that kills humans not out of evil, but a simple gut disgust of them the way he reacts to spiders.
Ironically, that's pretty much the daleks. Their instinct is to exterminate everything unlike them due to intense xenophonia or in other words a sincere disgust by anything different. And they even use the same word for it!
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Date: 2009-11-30 09:56 pm (UTC)And the girl in the striped dress/tunic and blue jeans--who is she cosplaying as?
Thanks for posting all these pics!
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Date: 2009-12-01 03:50 am (UTC)There were quite a few clever young'uns around. :-)
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Date: 2009-12-02 01:42 am (UTC)2) She's the TARDIS, which is why she kept hanging out with the Doctor.
3) Consider blanket permission given for linkage anywhere the pictures would be appropriate. I don't have names for most of the cosplayers, so if they come up on the comm, let me know so I can give proper credit!
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Date: 2009-12-03 01:54 am (UTC)Yes, I'm the Jack :) and the Donna that swiped my hat is
I don't have LJ names for a lot of the people, though I do have some of them on FB now :)
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Date: 2009-12-02 03:52 am (UTC)Agree with almost all of this. I really hope that panel description was 99% wind-up.
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