going to VanCon
May. 27th, 2012 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupThe roommate and I have decided to go to VanCon, the SPN convention, this summer. I have just ordered tickets (+ an autograph from Julie McNiven).
I actually have rather mixed feelings about this. On the one hand:
OTOH, I'm actually very uncomfortable with the idea of celebrity, especially as it usually manifests in the TV/movie world. I fangirl Neil Gaiman like mad, but I think I could still carry on a semi-coherent conversation with him. I could at least ask intelligent questions! I'd have no such expectations for my interactions with most actors. (Except hopefully Julie McNiven, aka the only woman there on Saturday or Sunday, which is part of why she's the one I want an autograph from.) Partly that's because of, for example, Jensen Ackles' ridiculously pretty face, but partly it has to do with this whole adoring-public aspect. It's a very peculiar dynamic, and kind of degrading to everyone involved, it seems to me.
This discomfort on my part is not helped by, oh heavens, the ugliest, most soul-crushing website known to man, from which one must purchase one's tickets. Honestly, if I didn't know people have successfully attended this convention for years, I would be so put off that I quite possibly wouldn't be willing to go. The site radiates incompetence. And in addition to the painful graphic design and the bizarre navigation (and have I mentioned the ugly?), the tone of the thing pretty much makes me want to dive into bed and hide under the covers. In case I ever had any doubts about the sad little peon I am in relation to the actor guests, the website clears it right up for me.
However! We are going for reasons stated above, regardless of the fact that I am possibly not quite the standard sort of person to go to this sort of thing. (The roommate's going because she's a great sport.) Vancouver or bust! Possibly we might also see if we have any chance of catching some filming one day? I know that people have managed to do this in the past, based on Twitter clues and, uh, stuff. Or we might just tool around Vancouver; I've never been before.
We're planning to skip Friday, though. The only people scheduled to be there that day are Julian Richings (Death), Kim Rhodes (Jodi Mills), and Matt Cohen and Richard Speight for their Friday night karaoke... thing, none of which seemed worth hanging out a whole extra day for.
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I actually have rather mixed feelings about this. On the one hand:
- Vancouver's a reasonable drive for us, and it'll be a fun road trip
- the show's been renewed, so there should be plenty of positive energy from everyone (as opposed to nostalgic "remember when" panels, when the actors mostly haven't even thought about those roles in years)
- from what I've seen, I like this particular set of actors as people a lot more than most celebrities, about whom the less said the better
- when's the next time I have have an event this close related to a show I care about this much?
- the tiny little people from my TV screen in real life. o.O
OTOH, I'm actually very uncomfortable with the idea of celebrity, especially as it usually manifests in the TV/movie world. I fangirl Neil Gaiman like mad, but I think I could still carry on a semi-coherent conversation with him. I could at least ask intelligent questions! I'd have no such expectations for my interactions with most actors. (Except hopefully Julie McNiven, aka the only woman there on Saturday or Sunday, which is part of why she's the one I want an autograph from.) Partly that's because of, for example, Jensen Ackles' ridiculously pretty face, but partly it has to do with this whole adoring-public aspect. It's a very peculiar dynamic, and kind of degrading to everyone involved, it seems to me.
This discomfort on my part is not helped by, oh heavens, the ugliest, most soul-crushing website known to man, from which one must purchase one's tickets. Honestly, if I didn't know people have successfully attended this convention for years, I would be so put off that I quite possibly wouldn't be willing to go. The site radiates incompetence. And in addition to the painful graphic design and the bizarre navigation (and have I mentioned the ugly?), the tone of the thing pretty much makes me want to dive into bed and hide under the covers. In case I ever had any doubts about the sad little peon I am in relation to the actor guests, the website clears it right up for me.
However! We are going for reasons stated above, regardless of the fact that I am possibly not quite the standard sort of person to go to this sort of thing. (The roommate's going because she's a great sport.) Vancouver or bust! Possibly we might also see if we have any chance of catching some filming one day? I know that people have managed to do this in the past, based on Twitter clues and, uh, stuff. Or we might just tool around Vancouver; I've never been before.
We're planning to skip Friday, though. The only people scheduled to be there that day are Julian Richings (Death), Kim Rhodes (Jodi Mills), and Matt Cohen and Richard Speight for their Friday night karaoke... thing, none of which seemed worth hanging out a whole extra day for.
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