Bonn, Saturday

[selenak]

And the late night report, short version:

First panel today, Dominic Keating and Jolene Blalock: Dominic Keating very funny, bawdy humour, Jolene Blalock still a sweetie. When asked for alternate profession of choice, says "librarian", and asked for favourite authors, names Tolstoy and C.S. Lewis.

Andrew Robinson: very intense, most serious of all the panelists, very political, too. Talks about directing and acting with a detailed passion, just directed Mother Courage by Brecht (considers it one of the best anti-war plays ever. For ide_cyan: he reinacted his favourite scene from Hellraiser for us.

Autograph line: was long. Poor actors signed 1500 autographs today and aren't done yet. Got mine.

Robert O'Reilly & J.G. Hertzler: two men show. Did Klingon rap for us. Robert O'Reilly, when asked which show he prefered, TNG or DS9, said TNG from a working pov, as the only show where the regulars really were like a family (not just part of studio propaganda) and hung out with each other and the guest stars between takes, trailer doors always open etc, whereas DS9 was a working environment for the actors, i.e. they did their job and went home and didn't have much interaction aside from that.

Costume Contest: Hilarious. Gay Jedi show won. Also Star Wars hippos, an extra award. May definitely month of SW.

Leonard Nimoy panel: only saw 15 minutes, as went to Stephen Furst afterwards (they scheduled poor S.F. half an hour after the Nimoy panel started). L.N. calm and with a great delivery, immediately started with the Shatner anecdotes.

Stephen Furst: only 20 people there at first, due to above mentioned circumstance. Fangirled him for hobsonphile. Asked more questions than anyone else, felt not guilty for monopolizing even later when there were about 100 people. Told him adored performance in drunken Vir after Cartagia'd death scene and got him to tell tale of fake JMS script slashing Londo and G'Kar.

Off to bed now; one more day to go!

Comments

[wychwood]

*Eifersucht aus England*

(or is that the wrong term? ;))

Sounds like you're having a great time! I hope you're taking lots of pictures...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Nein, das ist gut formuliert.*g*

I didn't take pictures, due to lack of a camera but muffinmonster (today) and cavendish (yesterday) did, and they'll post them for the benefit of the general public.

[cavendish.livejournal.com]

Now you will have gotten bimo really envious of you ;-).

Your description of day 2 really sounds like fun :-). Thanks for the short report and have a great third day of the convention.

Btw.: some of the pictures I took yesterday really turned out nicely. You will see them shortly in bimo's lj :-)

Frank

Ps.: As I have said before: It was really nice meeting you live and in person.

PPS.: And sorry for the many typos in yesterday's comment: We were both really to tired to type, I guess ;-)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I know all about tired typos, believe me. Just realized I wrote "time" instead of "team" in a mail to Andraste.

It was lovely meeting you in person, too. Looking forward to the photos!

[bimo.livejournal.com]

Hi there :)

I just dropped by to let you know that the pictures are online now.

Have a great day at the Con and a good trip back home :-)

[hobsonphile.livejournal.com]

Awww! Poor Stephen! They did that to him at the con I attended in 1999 too, only in that instance, the powers that be scheduled his panel so that it overlapped with Walter Koenig's autograph session. Everyone started leaving right in the middle of his talk. I felt so bad. *huggles Stephen*

But at least you were there this time to give him the thorough fangirling he deserves. Yay! I can't wait to hear the full report!

Oh, and tell him Happy Birthday from hobsonphile! *g*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I wish I could, but he won't be at the convention on Sunday (today for me now) except for the closing ceremony, which is when I'll be in the train to Munich...

[harshday.livejournal.com]

Whenever I think of Star Trek, I think of either William Shatner or Patrick Stewart. Cause are the only two series I've seen. LOL.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I saw both gentlemen as well at a convention, more than a decade ago.*g* (And Patrick Stewart on stage, more recently, in Ibsen's The Masterbuilder). Star Trek: had nostalgic childhood experience with TOS, fell in love with TNG, then fell in love with DS9 (best written ST show ever), did not fall in love with Voyager (but didn't hate it either), haven't really watched Enterprise but might give the fourth season a try after having met the tremendously nice actors.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

For ide_cyan:

...heh.

he reinacted his favourite scene from Hellraiser for us.

Which was?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Evil brother Frank comes down the stairs and apparently tries out his new skin, courtesy of good brother Larry. At least, not having seen Hellraiser, that's what I got from the performance.*g*

[kathyh]

Stephen Furst: only 20 people there at first, due to above mentioned circumstance.

What daft scheduling, but good for you if you got to ask lots of questions. Jolene Blalock and Dominic Keating sound like fun - they almost make me wish I'd liked Enterprise better and not give up after Season 1. Have fun tomorrow.

[cavendish.livejournal.com]

you can easily rejoin with the fourth, it is really nice; which can not be said for seasons 2 and 3

Frank

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I think I might just watch the fourth season. They both were very open about the writing deficiences, but praised the last season (Jolene Blalock said that this is how the show should have started out).

And yes, daft scheduling - he didn't expect ANYONE to show up and appeared to be quite touched to discover he had hardcore fans.*g*

[cavendish.livejournal.com]

I do have the complete season four on my computer (except, of course, for the last two or so episodes); divX format, so the episodes easily fit on two DVDs.

To cut a long story short: If you want to have them, I would be happy to to promote a show which, imho, could have been one of the best Trek shows ever ;-)). Kathy: I would need your RL address for sending the episodes if you are interested :-)

Frank

[kathyh]

If I've still got your correct email address you should have it by now. Many thanks for the very kind offer.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd love to have them. But I don't think Kathy will get a reply note because you responded to my post. Otoh, I do have her RL address.*veg'

[cavendish.livejournal.com]

She has already sent her RL address to me via mail, but thanks :-)

I'll send the first half of season one early next week; the second half will follow as soon as it is complete, which will be in, I think, two weeks time.

Frank

[ex_mrs260625]

Andy Robinson! *glee*

I love hearing him speak.

So, what's his favorite Hellraiser scene?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

He's a wonderful speaker, and took the trouble to answer every question seriously, not with a joke. Wish I could see his take on Mother Courage, but alas, a trip to LA isn't in the budget right now.

Favourite Hellraiser scene: see above in reply to ide_cyan.

[wychwood]

irrelevant but for you:

http://scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/kessel/kessel1.html

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Awww, you were the one who asked that question about the fake script?! Thank you!!! I laughed so hard when I heard about the one night stand of Londo and G'Kar.

(BTW, my hubby was the guy sitting a few lines behind you who asked if the humor, e.g. Londo and Lennier in the bar scenes, had already been in the script or developed by the actors.)

*very amused*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was me. Had to ask that. It's always nice to know the creator of your show had the same BadWrong ideas you had.*g*