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very much Rosie for the report, and
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Rosie Goes to See James
at DragonCon
Sunday
I was awake early again but not so bad this time still
having a ball so I sat in bed and looked through my photos
on my camera and squeed a bit (ok a lot!) fell asleep
again for a while so had to rush breakfast to get over to
the Marriott again same room as the day before for the
Smallville panel queue. I was fairly near the front again,
but al the usual suspects (Patti, Becky, Stephen etc) were
already there. Different people to talk to this time we
all sat on the floor and talked to Smallville fans and
Michael Rosenbaum fans so no hardship in queuing again. They
didn't let us in until much later this time and nobody dared
go to the loo after the trouble the day before! It was every
woman for herself again - I aimed for the far side of the
hall and got in the second row 3 in from the aisle. James
was going to be seated on the other side unfortunately and
this time those wretched water jugs were getting in the way
of my view of James. I should have asked to have them moved
like Becky did the day before - or they could have something
less intrusive I lost a few shots because of those cursed
water jugs grrr!
Again this panel ahs been reported in detail elsewhere, so
I'll just put in bits I remember. It was great fun! James
and Michael together are hilarious. Michael was feeling a
tad delicate I think he looked a bit rough but in an
endearing way. James looked gorgeous (of course) and was in
the black shirt again yay! It all started off fairly
sensibly but then went off all over the place James peered
down the microphone on the table and said " I feel like a
astronaut at a press conference" and then crossed his hands
and did the serious frown look (like that promo shot from
Moonshot!) I loved their re-enactment of the arrival of the
T-rex in Jurassic Park using the water glasses and banging
on the table a lot! James was doing his science bit about
the formation of the ripples (Geek Boy!) and Michael decided
they could have saved Spielberg millions of dollars!
James "Do you want to hear my great idea?" Super Geek Boy
James with his idea about energy renewal which did make a
lot of sense man, I love it when James gets all
enthusiastic and geeky about something and is talking fast
with lots of hand gestures he is (as Jean put it )
adorkable!
They talked about roles and an actors input and James talked
about how he had learnt his lesson on PS I Love You boring
boring character! - "Good film, but who was that boring guy?"
James thought the character could have been so much more.
From that he learnt not to just be a good boy on set, not
making waves was going to speak up if he didn't like it.
Said there were three types of movie written, directed and
edited. Can make such a huge difference everyone has their
own interpretation. James went to Dragon ball determined to
have input and speak up said he would rather have been
fired from Dragonball than make a movie not true to what he
thought it should be.
I did take a lot of pictures again but as I said the jug
was a bit of a pain but James was laughing so much
throughout that he was sitting back and away from it which
gave me some good chances.
Lunch next (cheeseburger on the steps of the Marriott
again hmm - d้jเ vu?) and then I went shopping in the
dealers rooms. Spent a good long time just looking at all
the amazing stuff that was for sale costumes and clothes
etc didn't buy much but did get a whole load of those
fictional ID cards including 3 different ones for Capt.
John and a Milton Fine one!
Back to the hotel to drop stuff off and collect my bits for
signing later, and then it was off to join the photo ops
queue again. It was going to be fun as we were doing the
group shots today as well as the James/Gareth sandwich!
There was much hilarious planning as people had to do their
individual shots and then dash out and straight round again
to do groups and then again for James and Gareth. No sign of
our tables picture from the party though 4 other tables
pictures were there I kept going back and checking.
As the queue rounded the corner in the photo room and we
could see James, I thought "he's still wearing the lovely
black striped shirt yay!" and he looked so good in it over
his jeans. When it got to my turn, I walked towards him
grinning and said "You're wearing the shirt!" and he laughed
and said "I suddenly remembered I'd promised to, so I had to
quickly change" so he remembered that I had asked! (Incidentally,
when I got home, I had an email from "Dearly Beloved"
thanking me personally for getting James in a decent shirt
for the photos - she and her friends were delighted
!)
First shot we did was back to back - James asked me if I
wanted to do "guns" too and I said yes. James looks SO cool
and suave and James Bond-y in this picture and I look a bit
like his mentally challenged sidekick but it's a great
pic! Then I asked if he would do the thing with his tongue
(the roll behind the teeth with a smirk) and James was
saying "What? This?" and rolling the sides of his tongue up.
Yes I got to study his tongue at close range
! We finally
got it right in the end but we need to be smirking more
really or leering!
Then I couldn't remember what else I was going to ask for,
so after a few seconds of me dithering madly I said "oh,
just give me a cuddle" and boy did he! I was all cuddled
in close, both of his arms holding me in against him and
part of my face is hidden behind James aww, - was lovely.
And the last one we did a profile shot again so I got to
stare into those beautiful blue eyes again. James was
holding both my hands though you can't see it in the picture
and he is smiling but got that intense look on his face
again gorgeous! As I shook hands, I said "I'll see you
again in a minute " and went out to join straight back on
the queue with all the members of JMConApps (Stephen, Linda,
Magie and me) and JMF ( Stephen, Linda, Patti, Cynthia,
Myrlyn and me) for our group shots. JMConApps was up first
I got to be on James right with his arm round me and my arm
round him. Then as there was a few changes for the second
group, I managed to stay in the same place for that picture
too and that was lovely as it took a while for Froggy to
get us all arranged so I got to stand there and hold onto
James for a bit
.!
Then it was out the door and back round again for the James
Gareth picture. This was great fun as James seemed to be
encouraging Gareth to play along. The first few pictures
were straight forward in-the-middle-arms-round type. Them
Myrlyn wanted to be sandwiched in between them (and she was)
and the next girl had them all doing a sign with their hands
at this point Gareth called out to the queue " get your
imaginations going!" and you could tell he was enjoying
himself. Patti stood in the middle with the two boys back to
back on either side for her picture. And then it was me! I
said " I want to be the filing in the sandwich" and so was
facing James with Gareth up behind me now Gareth must have
done some serious knee bending to get into that pose as his
head is level with mine and he's miles taller than me. He
was extremely up close too! (hel-lo!) James and I have our
heads together and I'm hugging him with both arms and Gareth
is looking smouldering behind me! Wow looks good as all 3
of us were in black shirts.
As we separated and I shook Gareth's hand and then James and
said something about being the filling in that sandwich and
James laughed and said " We're just two pieces of toast
really aren't we?" which cracked me up oh YEAH baby (oo
two hot pieces of buttered toast.. the possibilities are
endless!!)
I told Steve H as I was leaving that the party photo of our
table wasn't there yet but in fact when I went out, it was
and yes, there I was, leaning on Gareth and holding
James's hand shameless hussy that I am! I was glad to get
it as I wanted both the boys to sign it.
I was having so much fun, but there was a little bit of a
downer at this point, when I was shown a email that had been
sent to one of the boards (from someone who wasn't even at
DragonCon) taking a chunk of the report I had posted the
night before about the party and James messing up a couple
of songs. The whole report was exactly like these reports
very enthusiastic and upbeat and me loving every minute
but it had been taken as a bad thing and it was being said
that James wasn't prepared or very professional etc etc. I
was steaming mad! Turning my words round and making them the
opposite to what I meant. I knew I couldn't leave it so I
had to do some damage limitation (and so later I did just
that. There was lots of links to my brief reports and the
few pictures I had posted on various different boards as it
seemed I was one of the few people who had a laptop with
them. So I went on one of the boards I was more of a lurker
on and wrote a very general upbeat and positive post about
the party and what a great job James had done in difficult
circumstances, how impressed I was that he performed so well.
I wasn't going to sink to the level of accusations and name
calling, just tell how it was here for me totally
brilliant!)
(I am just listening to James singing as I am writing this
and I can clarify that the first lines of Katie and
Millionaire are almost identical!)
I had met up with Merce again in the photo queues so we were
hanging around together and she came in the autograph queue
with me and kindly videoed me talking to James so I had my
hands free to hold all the various bits I had my party
ticket and the party picture for James to sign..
We shook hands and I said "hi James" and he signed the party
ticket first (well, it has my name on it too!) and I must
have said something about that because he was laughing with
me. As he was signing the party photo, he said "I had a
really good time last night" and then added "I really wish I
could have done that song with Gareth we practised!" and I
agreed I would have loved to have heard it. Then I said "I
loved the new song" and James`s face went more serious and
almost slightly disbelieving and he said "You loved it? Well,
thank you!" as we shook hands again and I added "and I'll
probably like it more when I can hear it better!" and James
laughed - he was still holding onto my hand at this point! -
and gave me a thumbs up with the other hand as he said "
yeah, when you can hear it!" and we are both laughing. Then
I showed him my "For What I Need" necklace and told him it
was my favourite song and he leaned forward to read it and
said "that's very nice
that awesome!" and we shook hands
again. I said "I'll see you tomorrow" and James is smiling
that devastating smile at me and then I had a very lovely
private moment with James which sent me off into mad
internal squeeing!
(Pause whilst Rosie goes off into some mad fan girl squeeing
and shrieking and is totally insensible for a few
minutes
..)
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I wanted Gareth to sign the party picture too and as he was
sitting at the next table to James and there wasn't much
queue for him, so I went straight there. James had signed on
the left of the picture although he was standing on the
right, so I said to Gareth "James signed on the wrong side,
not the side he's standing" and Gareth glanced across at
James and said in a raised voice "that's because he's a TWAT!"
which cracked up both me and Lisa who was sitting with
Gareth and I got three `x's' with G's signature!
(And would you believe it even the sign with Gareth's name
over his signing table said " David Gareth Lloyd" but I
noticed that they had drawn a arrow between the names and an
`OOPS' added wish I had taken a picture
!)
There was still no sign of the photos being back yet they
were having problems s one of the printers had given up the
ghost and so it was taking ages for them to get through all
the photos. I did get my James/Gareth sandwich picture
though which I was pleased about as I wanted both boys to
sign it)
Merce and I then just hung out and did some serious catching
up until she went off to her next workshop then I checked
for the photos again but it looked like they would be
printing all night so they probably wouldn't be there until
the morning. So there was more talking with people and
hanging out and then I decided I wanted to have some proper
food so went to the Italian restaurant that the |Torchwood
fans recommended only a couple of blocks up and that was
about as much as I saw of Atlanta! Had very nice pasta for
dinner and was back at the hotel for a sensible time. I was
still a bit squee-y as there was just a little bit more time
with James tomorrow, but then I was going to be going
home
..:-(
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