Vancouver Con 2007 - Part 2
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switch842WARNING! May contain minor spoilers for the second half of Atlantis Season 3.
Friday was good. Didn’t have to be up too early, which was nice.
First up was Garry Chalk (Colonel Chekov). It was weird to hear him talk without the Russian accent. Someone asked him about it, actually. And he said he had a friend who was a defected Russian fighter pilot. He stole a jet and flew it into France and defected and all that. Then emigrated to Canda where he is now a plumber. It was pretty cool. So this friend is his dialect/accent coach whenever he has to do Russian. He is also a musician and he sang a bit for us. He has a nice voice. It was kind of like bluegrass kinda thing. I think. He also impersonated Don Davis. So funny! I think almost everyone impersonated Don at some point. LOL.
Then we had Andee Frizzell, the Wraith Hive Queen. She’s was really awesome. It was her first con (Yay! Con Virgin!). And she was really funny and sweet. I’d like to see her again. Someone asked her what it was like to have Joe Flannigan on his knees all the time. She cracked up laughing and said “Not too bad.” Then related this story about how she had run into him and his wife when they were out somewhere, but Joe didn’t recognize her without her make-up on. But she’s all like “Hi, Joe!” And Joe turns to his wife and is all “I have no idea who this woman is!” (Cos she’s really pretty.) So she goes “Kneel!” in that wraith voice of hers and Joe’s like “Oh! It’s you!” Then turns to wife and says “I have no idea who this woman is.” It was funny. And she had funny stories about James Lafazanos who plays the male wraith. In the scene in Allies where James is on the table getting transformed, he took one of the medical electronic pad things (and all that is real medical equipment by the way) and stuck it to his forehead. And then couldn’t get it off! So they finally had to call in make up cos he had this huge red welt in the middle of his forehead. And he was in trouble!! Very funny.
Oh! And a story about Submersion (spoilers ahead!). There’s this scene where she has to rise up out of this pool of water kind of like Apocalypse Now. It’s really cool if you haven’t seen it yet. But the pool was only about 3 feet deep, so she just had to kind of crouch and hold onto this weight at the bottom to stay down. Now, one thing you need to know is that the prosthectics for her face are made of foam. Yes, foam. And she has to submerge herself in a pool of water. You see where this is going? So, as soon as she gets down, a few seconds later, she feels the mask starting to lift up. And her wig has a big foam piece in it, too. And the end of the wig is tied to her pants so the hair doesn’t float to the top. So, her head is trying to come and it’s pulling her pants with it. And there’s so much bouyancy in all the foam, that the big 50 pound weight starts to jump off the bottom of the pool! When it comes time for her to emerge her cheek bits are up in her eye sockets and she can’t see anything. But she does it and it looks cool. So, it all worked out in the end.
Until the next morning.
When she woke up and looked in the mirror and saw that her neck/collarbone were covered in hickeys from the foam stuff pulling on her skin. Oopsy! :-)
Then we had Don who was charming and funny as always. Sadly, I don’t really remember any specifics of what he talked about. I think there were a couple stories about golfing with Chris Judge and whenever he would shank a shot into the woods, they would all yell, “Isn’t that that bear we saw the other day?” And Chris would storm out of the woods yelling, “There’s no bear! There’s no fucking bear!” Chris is afraid of bears, in case you didn’t know.
Then while the autographs were going on, me, Erin, LuAnn and David were all up on stage as the Gateworld Stargate Trivia experts again. It was pretty fun. We got about 50/50 with the audience. Pulled some interesting answers out of our butts. Like, before Ronon Dex was on Atlantis there was another character named Ronon. It was the Jaffa that tried to kill Bratac on the cargo ship in Lost City. He was named Ronon. Or Ronin or something like that. Why do I know that? It’s just so random!
Anyway, a bunch of us then met in the hotel restaurant for dinner. And I have to say, that with the hotel being a Hilton, you’d think it’d be good an stuff. Yeah, no. The waiters were awful. Never checked back on you. The dinner food was OK. Breakfast food, just no. I ordered scrambled eggs the first morning. They tasted like the were cooked in a vat of melted butter. So gross. Never eating there again. Like I’ll be back in Vancouver anyway.
Then there was the Friday night cabaret starring Rachel Luttrell, Dan Shea, Carmen Argenziano and Don Davis.
Rachel has a lovely, lovely singing voice. She sang some 40s song that I can’t remember the name of. But it was really pretty. She said she was really nervous about it all week, but it went really well.
Dan came on and just kind of ran around being all hyper and telling funny stories. Michael Shanks is the biggest wuss, apparently. And whenever he has to shoot a P90 for RDA, he has this strange habit of sticking his pinky out. So Rick yells at him about it all the time. In a funny way, of course.
Next was Carmen. Carmen is a dirty, dirty, old man. He had written a few short “audition” scenes for some members of the audience to act out and he was going to be a casting director. All the scenes had something to do with sex. But the best was when my friend Beka got called up. Now, Beka is this shy, sweet 19 year old girl. Still kind of “innocent” in a way, and it si very easy and very fun to make her blush. So, she starts reading through her scene and just turns bright red and starts laughing. She’s playing Dr. Fraiser who’s talking about how she needs to get out of the mountain and have her needs met. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. So, she goes off to learn the lines and when Carmen calls her back on stage, she goes “Where’s Erin when I need her?” Carmen asks, “Who’s Erin.” Beka – “She taught me everything I know.” So, Carmen calls Erin up and stage and the two of them start going through the scene alternating lines. And it is HYSTERICAL. Beka is doing so awesome. They just start ranting and raving about how they’re not appreciated and blah blah blah. But then the script ends (it was only about a page, handwritten in Sharpie). But Carmen tells them to keep going. So they do. Eventually Erin busts out with “Daniel’s always dying on me! Why?!?!” Which Beka follows up with, “He only comes to me when he needs medical attention! What about my needs, huh? What about me?” And the audience goes crazy and it was way awesome.
Don came out and read some stories about growing old. Some funny, some touching. He ended by reading some of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Which, I’ll admit, made me tear up a little.
That was that and then we went to hang out in the bar for a little while. I didn’t stay too late since the next morning was THE SET TOUR!! Yay!!!
Friday was good. Didn’t have to be up too early, which was nice.
First up was Garry Chalk (Colonel Chekov). It was weird to hear him talk without the Russian accent. Someone asked him about it, actually. And he said he had a friend who was a defected Russian fighter pilot. He stole a jet and flew it into France and defected and all that. Then emigrated to Canda where he is now a plumber. It was pretty cool. So this friend is his dialect/accent coach whenever he has to do Russian. He is also a musician and he sang a bit for us. He has a nice voice. It was kind of like bluegrass kinda thing. I think. He also impersonated Don Davis. So funny! I think almost everyone impersonated Don at some point. LOL.
Then we had Andee Frizzell, the Wraith Hive Queen. She’s was really awesome. It was her first con (Yay! Con Virgin!). And she was really funny and sweet. I’d like to see her again. Someone asked her what it was like to have Joe Flannigan on his knees all the time. She cracked up laughing and said “Not too bad.” Then related this story about how she had run into him and his wife when they were out somewhere, but Joe didn’t recognize her without her make-up on. But she’s all like “Hi, Joe!” And Joe turns to his wife and is all “I have no idea who this woman is!” (Cos she’s really pretty.) So she goes “Kneel!” in that wraith voice of hers and Joe’s like “Oh! It’s you!” Then turns to wife and says “I have no idea who this woman is.” It was funny. And she had funny stories about James Lafazanos who plays the male wraith. In the scene in Allies where James is on the table getting transformed, he took one of the medical electronic pad things (and all that is real medical equipment by the way) and stuck it to his forehead. And then couldn’t get it off! So they finally had to call in make up cos he had this huge red welt in the middle of his forehead. And he was in trouble!! Very funny.
Oh! And a story about Submersion (spoilers ahead!). There’s this scene where she has to rise up out of this pool of water kind of like Apocalypse Now. It’s really cool if you haven’t seen it yet. But the pool was only about 3 feet deep, so she just had to kind of crouch and hold onto this weight at the bottom to stay down. Now, one thing you need to know is that the prosthectics for her face are made of foam. Yes, foam. And she has to submerge herself in a pool of water. You see where this is going? So, as soon as she gets down, a few seconds later, she feels the mask starting to lift up. And her wig has a big foam piece in it, too. And the end of the wig is tied to her pants so the hair doesn’t float to the top. So, her head is trying to come and it’s pulling her pants with it. And there’s so much bouyancy in all the foam, that the big 50 pound weight starts to jump off the bottom of the pool! When it comes time for her to emerge her cheek bits are up in her eye sockets and she can’t see anything. But she does it and it looks cool. So, it all worked out in the end.
Until the next morning.
When she woke up and looked in the mirror and saw that her neck/collarbone were covered in hickeys from the foam stuff pulling on her skin. Oopsy! :-)
Then we had Don who was charming and funny as always. Sadly, I don’t really remember any specifics of what he talked about. I think there were a couple stories about golfing with Chris Judge and whenever he would shank a shot into the woods, they would all yell, “Isn’t that that bear we saw the other day?” And Chris would storm out of the woods yelling, “There’s no bear! There’s no fucking bear!” Chris is afraid of bears, in case you didn’t know.
Then while the autographs were going on, me, Erin, LuAnn and David were all up on stage as the Gateworld Stargate Trivia experts again. It was pretty fun. We got about 50/50 with the audience. Pulled some interesting answers out of our butts. Like, before Ronon Dex was on Atlantis there was another character named Ronon. It was the Jaffa that tried to kill Bratac on the cargo ship in Lost City. He was named Ronon. Or Ronin or something like that. Why do I know that? It’s just so random!
Anyway, a bunch of us then met in the hotel restaurant for dinner. And I have to say, that with the hotel being a Hilton, you’d think it’d be good an stuff. Yeah, no. The waiters were awful. Never checked back on you. The dinner food was OK. Breakfast food, just no. I ordered scrambled eggs the first morning. They tasted like the were cooked in a vat of melted butter. So gross. Never eating there again. Like I’ll be back in Vancouver anyway.
Then there was the Friday night cabaret starring Rachel Luttrell, Dan Shea, Carmen Argenziano and Don Davis.
Rachel has a lovely, lovely singing voice. She sang some 40s song that I can’t remember the name of. But it was really pretty. She said she was really nervous about it all week, but it went really well.
Dan came on and just kind of ran around being all hyper and telling funny stories. Michael Shanks is the biggest wuss, apparently. And whenever he has to shoot a P90 for RDA, he has this strange habit of sticking his pinky out. So Rick yells at him about it all the time. In a funny way, of course.
Next was Carmen. Carmen is a dirty, dirty, old man. He had written a few short “audition” scenes for some members of the audience to act out and he was going to be a casting director. All the scenes had something to do with sex. But the best was when my friend Beka got called up. Now, Beka is this shy, sweet 19 year old girl. Still kind of “innocent” in a way, and it si very easy and very fun to make her blush. So, she starts reading through her scene and just turns bright red and starts laughing. She’s playing Dr. Fraiser who’s talking about how she needs to get out of the mountain and have her needs met. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. So, she goes off to learn the lines and when Carmen calls her back on stage, she goes “Where’s Erin when I need her?” Carmen asks, “Who’s Erin.” Beka – “She taught me everything I know.” So, Carmen calls Erin up and stage and the two of them start going through the scene alternating lines. And it is HYSTERICAL. Beka is doing so awesome. They just start ranting and raving about how they’re not appreciated and blah blah blah. But then the script ends (it was only about a page, handwritten in Sharpie). But Carmen tells them to keep going. So they do. Eventually Erin busts out with “Daniel’s always dying on me! Why?!?!” Which Beka follows up with, “He only comes to me when he needs medical attention! What about my needs, huh? What about me?” And the audience goes crazy and it was way awesome.
Don came out and read some stories about growing old. Some funny, some touching. He ended by reading some of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Which, I’ll admit, made me tear up a little.
That was that and then we went to hang out in the bar for a little while. I didn’t stay too late since the next morning was THE SET TOUR!! Yay!!!
lovely lovely con report
Date: 2007-03-30 11:22 am (UTC)Helena
Re: lovely lovely con report
Date: 2007-03-30 11:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-31 06:43 pm (UTC)