FedCon: The end

[selenak]

..Aka this shall be our day of Glory, to quote from The Gift. Still the brief version, as I'm very exhausted after another long journey in the train.

Clare Kramer: Was a nice panelist, somewhere between the joking and the serious type of panelists. Explained the process of shooting action scenes (i.e. when the stunt people come in and when it's the actors) in great detail, made passionate SMG defense and love declaration to same when someone said whether it was true SMG was "not as social as the others". Must say SMG defense warmed my heart, as show is over and Clare K. has no reason to praise her if she doesn't mean it.

Real Life Astronaut Rick: Was v. interesting and v. incensed when someone suggested we hadn't made it to the moon and that it was all a big fake. Were there, too, he said. Was adorable.

Merchandise: proved stronger than me. Did buy some more stuff after all. One Mausbiber Gucky, which is a character of a German SF series called Perry Rhodan, and the third season of Xena. (Aka the one with the musical and the China episodes and The Rift.) Did not buy Darla action figure, as one was Darla from Welcome to the Hellmouth (she'd never forgive me if I bought her in that dress) and the other unrecognizable generic game face Darla from Reunion. Was v.v. amused to find there is an Arvin Sloane action figure, but alas same looked even less like Sloane. Instead of even vaguely resembling Ron Rifkin, it resembled George Bush. That's just wrong.

Train journey: Took different train, regretted it as alternate train was full and self ended up in smoker department (all overs were full). Have headache now.

And lastly, the first FedCon photos are up at bimo's. Have a look here!

Comments

[wychwood]

I should have guessed you'd have been into Perry Rhodan :)

Is it good? I have a friend who raves about it, but he's really more into starship technology than actual plot or characters...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

It's not good on a B5 or DS9 level, and going on since the early 60s, it's been through a lot of authors, but I'm fond of it. And of some of the characters. My father was a fanboy already, and so was one of my uncles; they loved the specs for the starships whereas I always skipped that part. It's best when you start as a teenager, though...

Perry Rhodan

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've got a friend who's rather obsessed with it, too. Didn't think you'd be into it, really! That friend of mine has been trying to get me into it, as well, but both the many thousands of issues of backstory and some stylistic issues are daunting me. I don't want to commit to so much catching up, and I'm afraid I can't deal with bad style on a large scale. Of course, I don't *know* the writing style will be bad, but I'm kind of afraid it will be.

Sounds like you had fun this weekend. :-) Wow, and you even managed a report - I never manage that after a con.

Re: Perry Rhodan

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Writing-wise, it's handwerklich gut. Nothing special, but okay. The kind of thing you can read on a beach or in the train. No purple prose. But you don't have to catch up; I wouldn't say PR is a must. If you want to give it a try, I'd recommend going for the book collections (the silver ones) and read the first three books, which collect the first thirty or so issues but evened out the cliffhanger of the week bits and stuff like that for the book version. They also are very 1960 sci fi, so it's interesting for nostalgic reasons. (Putting an end to the Cold War is big on our hero's agenda once he gets his hands on Alien tech, because he decides he can't just hand that over to his government in the cold war situation, as it would escalate same; women in leading positions are still taken as a sign of an unusual alien culture*g*)

Linguistic curiosity piqued

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Is "handwerklich gut" the equivalent of the English "workmanlike"?

Re: Linguistic curiosity piqued

[selenak.livejournal.com]

No, more "craftsmanlike", but I wasn't sure whether this is a word in English...

Re: Linguistic curiosity piqued

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

"Craftsmanlike" doesn't really exist. "Workmanlike" means sort of "tolerable, but devoid of real imagination or special talent"

[kathyh]

Must say SMG defense warmed my heart, as show is over and Clare K. has no reason to praise her if she doesn't mean it.

Good for her! I got sick and tired of all the bad press SMG got as the only times I've seen her on TV she was charming. Wanting to give up a role she'd played for seven years is hardly a crime, particularly a part that must have been as emotionally gruelling as Buffy sometimes was (i.e. The Body).

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Precisely. Will transcribe the nice things Clare Kramer had to say soon. In the meantime, I suppose one big reason why SMG got the bad rap was that she didn't do conventions (she did one now), which was perceived as arrogant. But firstly, doing cons is voluntary; secondly, as the leading lady she had the most work on the show, so if she didn't want to do additional Buffy work in her spare time, I entirely understand.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been to FedCon too! A pity we didn't meet :)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

It is. Next time, especially if they really get some of the Serenity crew...

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Serenity---?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The ship from Firefly, and the name of the movie based on same tragically cancelled tv series written by Joss Whedon which is going to start this autumm, the trailer of which caused much ecstasy both on lj world and at the con when Marc Lee showed it.

[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks for the answer. So far, I escaped the Firefly hype.

.oOBeing fannish is becoming exceedingly expensiveOo.