CCEE 2019: Saturday or Snowstorm in April
Yes, a snowstorm in April. Such is the city I live in. Though, it is funny watching the reactions of the celebrity guests who aren't used to our wacky weather. Zachary Levi was just mystified on his Instagram.
Speaking of Zachary Levi, the man is a hoot. He did throw off my entire schedule this morning, though. I really wanted to see him first thing, but while waiting in line we were told he was skipping his first round of autographs and was going straight to his panel. My friend and I eventually caught up with him in the afternoon. Man, he had a lot of photo ops today.
So the main reason I wanted to meet Zachary Levi was because I knitted him a Shazam doll:
He really seemed to like it; he said it reminded him of "those sock monkeys". I don't know what will happen to the doll once he heads home, but at least I got it to him.
While we were at it, my friend and I got a selfie/table photo with him.
Man, I'm short.
I also got Catherine Tate's autograph and photo, hence why I'm dressed like Ten in the Zachary Levi photo. Catherine is nice enough to stand on the other side of the table, rather than just sit behind it, so you get to interact more with her, which is so nice of her. She's the first person to sign October/Ten's month. I feel like I'm the only fan hauling this calendar around because no one seems to have seen it before.
So much room left. I really need to meet David Tennant.
Catherine was also pretty fun in the photo-op. She got so excited when a fan gave her knitted finger puppets of Donna and some Adipose that she decided to keep the Donna one for the rest of the photos going forward. You can just see it on her left hand.
She also asked if we wanted to do an action pose, which is what we're supposed to be doing in this photo. Clearly, Catherine has done this many, many times before. I have no idea what I'm doing. I can never get the Doctor poses right. Oh, and someone gave her a crocheted Adipose yesterday and she was carrying it around today (it even ended up in the photo with the fan who knitted the finger puppets). So, if you gift Catherine with something, she will definitely keep it.
Spent the rest of the day in panels. Christina Ricci was a last minute guest. She was brought in after David Harbor had to cancel. Apparently, she started doing cons last year.
Not the best photo in the world, but still pretty good for sitting near the back of the room. She said she's game to be cast in a superhero movie. I don't know who she could play, but someone in the audience suggested Squirrel Girl. :-D
Next was the Smallville panel. It was supposed to be Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum, but Michael had to cancel last minute to get surgery on his throat, so they brought in Laura Vandervoort to replace him.
The two of them got white hatted at some point and they were kind enough to wear the hats for the panel. The Michael Rosenbaum cutout was something Tom brought out. I thought it was weird that they brought out a table for the panel, but I guess having a table is more common than sitting on couches, so that's what Tom and Laura got. They also did a game where you weren't allowed to say "super", just to make things more interesting. If someone said "super", you got to boo them. Tom slipped up twice while Laura said it three times, though Tanner, the moderator, tried his best to get Tom to say words with super in them.
Oh, and Laura proved just how polite Canadians can be. She had a story where she was strapped into a harness and was there for a long time, but she was too Canadian to bother someone to be brought down, so she eventually passed out from the lack of blood flow. When she woke up, she apologized for passing out. She apologized. Tom, on the other hand, told her to eat a sandwich when she woke up. :-D
I sat through a panel with Peter Weller next since I was too lazy to get up.
I've only seen him on Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek Into Darkness, but obviously he talked a lot about Robocop. He's a very intense guy, but that just mean he had some very eloquent and well thought out answers. I also didn't know that he's an art history professor. He said he'd loved to make a movie about Da Vinci. I also didn't know that he directs. See, the things you learn when you're too lazy to get up from your chair.
Last panel of the day was the Shazam! panel with Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, and Jack Dylan Grazer. At first, only the two kids came out, and I seriously thought Zachary wasn't going to show up. He eventually popped up about midway through. I think he was trying to get through more autographs.
You can tell that Zachary knows how to work a panel. Tanner quickly became forgotten as Zachary easily fielded questions from the audience. He's just so enthusiastic. You can also tell that he's spend a lot of time with Asher and Jack and they have that lovable snarky banter down. Oh, and Jack isn't on his phone because he's bored; there was a guy who asked a question who was wearing a canoe on his head and Jack was Googling what that was about (as per canoe head guy's suggestion).
Oh, and Jack gave Tanner more flack for accidentally spoiling Infinity War last year. Tanner will never get to live that down.
And yeah, there was practically a blizzard going on when the panel was over.
I'm not up to much tomorrow so I get to sleep in! Sun should be back out, too, thank goodness.
Speaking of Zachary Levi, the man is a hoot. He did throw off my entire schedule this morning, though. I really wanted to see him first thing, but while waiting in line we were told he was skipping his first round of autographs and was going straight to his panel. My friend and I eventually caught up with him in the afternoon. Man, he had a lot of photo ops today.
So the main reason I wanted to meet Zachary Levi was because I knitted him a Shazam doll:
He really seemed to like it; he said it reminded him of "those sock monkeys". I don't know what will happen to the doll once he heads home, but at least I got it to him.
While we were at it, my friend and I got a selfie/table photo with him.
Man, I'm short.
I also got Catherine Tate's autograph and photo, hence why I'm dressed like Ten in the Zachary Levi photo. Catherine is nice enough to stand on the other side of the table, rather than just sit behind it, so you get to interact more with her, which is so nice of her. She's the first person to sign October/Ten's month. I feel like I'm the only fan hauling this calendar around because no one seems to have seen it before.
So much room left. I really need to meet David Tennant.
Catherine was also pretty fun in the photo-op. She got so excited when a fan gave her knitted finger puppets of Donna and some Adipose that she decided to keep the Donna one for the rest of the photos going forward. You can just see it on her left hand.
She also asked if we wanted to do an action pose, which is what we're supposed to be doing in this photo. Clearly, Catherine has done this many, many times before. I have no idea what I'm doing. I can never get the Doctor poses right. Oh, and someone gave her a crocheted Adipose yesterday and she was carrying it around today (it even ended up in the photo with the fan who knitted the finger puppets). So, if you gift Catherine with something, she will definitely keep it.
Spent the rest of the day in panels. Christina Ricci was a last minute guest. She was brought in after David Harbor had to cancel. Apparently, she started doing cons last year.
Not the best photo in the world, but still pretty good for sitting near the back of the room. She said she's game to be cast in a superhero movie. I don't know who she could play, but someone in the audience suggested Squirrel Girl. :-D
Next was the Smallville panel. It was supposed to be Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum, but Michael had to cancel last minute to get surgery on his throat, so they brought in Laura Vandervoort to replace him.
The two of them got white hatted at some point and they were kind enough to wear the hats for the panel. The Michael Rosenbaum cutout was something Tom brought out. I thought it was weird that they brought out a table for the panel, but I guess having a table is more common than sitting on couches, so that's what Tom and Laura got. They also did a game where you weren't allowed to say "super", just to make things more interesting. If someone said "super", you got to boo them. Tom slipped up twice while Laura said it three times, though Tanner, the moderator, tried his best to get Tom to say words with super in them.
Oh, and Laura proved just how polite Canadians can be. She had a story where she was strapped into a harness and was there for a long time, but she was too Canadian to bother someone to be brought down, so she eventually passed out from the lack of blood flow. When she woke up, she apologized for passing out. She apologized. Tom, on the other hand, told her to eat a sandwich when she woke up. :-D
I sat through a panel with Peter Weller next since I was too lazy to get up.
I've only seen him on Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek Into Darkness, but obviously he talked a lot about Robocop. He's a very intense guy, but that just mean he had some very eloquent and well thought out answers. I also didn't know that he's an art history professor. He said he'd loved to make a movie about Da Vinci. I also didn't know that he directs. See, the things you learn when you're too lazy to get up from your chair.
Last panel of the day was the Shazam! panel with Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, and Jack Dylan Grazer. At first, only the two kids came out, and I seriously thought Zachary wasn't going to show up. He eventually popped up about midway through. I think he was trying to get through more autographs.
You can tell that Zachary knows how to work a panel. Tanner quickly became forgotten as Zachary easily fielded questions from the audience. He's just so enthusiastic. You can also tell that he's spend a lot of time with Asher and Jack and they have that lovable snarky banter down. Oh, and Jack isn't on his phone because he's bored; there was a guy who asked a question who was wearing a canoe on his head and Jack was Googling what that was about (as per canoe head guy's suggestion).
Oh, and Jack gave Tanner more flack for accidentally spoiling Infinity War last year. Tanner will never get to live that down.
And yeah, there was practically a blizzard going on when the panel was over.
I'm not up to much tomorrow so I get to sleep in! Sun should be back out, too, thank goodness.