Liveblogging ChicagoTARDIS: Sunday
Nov. 29th, 2009 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If I was following the original plan, I'd be on the road by now, but then, the original plan didn't call for me to poison myself half to death. (File under things I never needed to know: Dramamine makes you not throw up. It doesn't make you want to not throw up.)
*ahem*
I was on the Spoilers panel with
spastasmagoria and Lars Pearson; three opinionated people means a rocking panel and indeed it rocked, especially for a Sunday morning when most people are dragging. Get a hot topic like spoilers, though, and nobody's dragging long...
Then I went to Rob Shearman reading one of his stories from Love Songs For The Shy and Cynical; the one about there being only so many love songs allowed in the world. It is cynical, and yet lovely and sad.

Then I was supposed to be at the "Fandumb" panel with
spastasmagoria, but I bailed to see the Big Finish Paul McGann panel - Paul, India Fisher, Jason Haigh-Ellery, Nick Briggs, and surprise guest Jake McGann.

It started out so slowly that I was wondering if I could gracefully bail and go to where I belonged, but then it picked up.
Notes:
- Jake says he's seen more of the Dr. Who TV movie than his father has.
- India, being asked if she liked being chased by space monsters, said very dryly "How lucky I am that my job is also my hobby."
- BBC7 became interested in broadcasting in 2005 when the show came back; book readings had done well and edited versions of the first season of Eight/Charley were their highest-rated shows ever. So they went ahead with the Eight/Lucie series. BBC pays for part, but Big Finish can do them much more cheaply than BBC could in-house.
- On the meals - someone told them they had a drinking game and took a slug every time the Big Finish meals were mentioned. "He's ratted in five minutes" Nick said.
- At the end of every episode, Paul McGann starts singing the Dr. Who theme.
- Paul swears that the sequel to Lesbian Vampire Killers is "a movie about big gay werewolves" and he's in it.
- On talking to himself (when he's playing different characters in audio) Paul said, "It's kind of natural - you've got voices in your head all the time."
- Paul wants to play a companion. India says she'd love playing the Doctor. Jason and Nick looked thoughtful.
- What attracted Paul to working on Collision was the rest of the cast; he always checks out who his co-workers will be. On the result, he said "My mum liked it."
- At one point, India was vaguely describing a scene. Nick knew the exact title of the story.
- Paul tends to quote Withnail and I on set because all the other actors want to, so he's getting it out of the way.
- About the Eight wig: "I still see that wig in my nightmares."
- Jason wants to do "Companion Idol" and have companions voted off. Paul liked doing the audio with all the different companions.
- When asked their favorites:
JAKE: The one I was in. (Not referring to Immortal Beloved or "the one where I was punched in the nose" but the upcoming Earthly Child.)
PAUL: Shada and the Horror of Glam Rock
INDIA: It was Neverland, but Blue Forgotten Planet has passed it.
NICK: There are too many to choose
JASON: The Cannibalists

There may be more - I'm going to one more panel and probably closing.
I'm getting by by the kindness of strange friends, who have given me half a bed and (far more importantly) a passenger/second driver home tomorrow. I keep thinking I might be strong enough to do it, but even if I'm strong enough to get in the car, would I be strong enough to get myself across 713 miles alone?
And now to check up on email & LJ for the first time in 2 days.
*ahem*
I was on the Spoilers panel with
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
Then I went to Rob Shearman reading one of his stories from Love Songs For The Shy and Cynical; the one about there being only so many love songs allowed in the world. It is cynical, and yet lovely and sad.
Then I was supposed to be at the "Fandumb" panel with
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
It started out so slowly that I was wondering if I could gracefully bail and go to where I belonged, but then it picked up.
Notes:
- Jake says he's seen more of the Dr. Who TV movie than his father has.
- India, being asked if she liked being chased by space monsters, said very dryly "How lucky I am that my job is also my hobby."
- BBC7 became interested in broadcasting in 2005 when the show came back; book readings had done well and edited versions of the first season of Eight/Charley were their highest-rated shows ever. So they went ahead with the Eight/Lucie series. BBC pays for part, but Big Finish can do them much more cheaply than BBC could in-house.
- On the meals - someone told them they had a drinking game and took a slug every time the Big Finish meals were mentioned. "He's ratted in five minutes" Nick said.
- At the end of every episode, Paul McGann starts singing the Dr. Who theme.
- Paul swears that the sequel to Lesbian Vampire Killers is "a movie about big gay werewolves" and he's in it.
- On talking to himself (when he's playing different characters in audio) Paul said, "It's kind of natural - you've got voices in your head all the time."
- Paul wants to play a companion. India says she'd love playing the Doctor. Jason and Nick looked thoughtful.
- What attracted Paul to working on Collision was the rest of the cast; he always checks out who his co-workers will be. On the result, he said "My mum liked it."
- At one point, India was vaguely describing a scene. Nick knew the exact title of the story.
- Paul tends to quote Withnail and I on set because all the other actors want to, so he's getting it out of the way.
- About the Eight wig: "I still see that wig in my nightmares."
- Jason wants to do "Companion Idol" and have companions voted off. Paul liked doing the audio with all the different companions.
- When asked their favorites:
JAKE: The one I was in. (Not referring to Immortal Beloved or "the one where I was punched in the nose" but the upcoming Earthly Child.)
PAUL: Shada and the Horror of Glam Rock
INDIA: It was Neverland, but Blue Forgotten Planet has passed it.
NICK: There are too many to choose
JASON: The Cannibalists
There may be more - I'm going to one more panel and probably closing.
I'm getting by by the kindness of strange friends, who have given me half a bed and (far more importantly) a passenger/second driver home tomorrow. I keep thinking I might be strong enough to do it, but even if I'm strong enough to get in the car, would I be strong enough to get myself across 713 miles alone?
And now to check up on email & LJ for the first time in 2 days.