Bring on 2015 already!!!!!

[vyperdd]

Just when I didn't think I could get any more excited about my con adventures next year , I find out that Ben Browder and Michael Shanks, 2 of my favourite actors (3rd and 4th after Jared and Jensen)  are coming to my hometown next April for OzComicCon and I just know I'm going to be spending the big bucks to have the best weekend with them, which will hopefully also include dinner with 1 or both of them.

I've had the pleasure of meeting both guys at various cons before, Ben 3 times (in LA, Sydney and Melbourne) and Michael once in Melbourne, but I'm still really excited to be getting the chance to see them again. More photos and autos and panels and I can't wait!!!! And I know I'm just going to be as giddy and nervous as I was when meeting them for the very first time.

With Ben,  this con will be extra special as I'll be getting to share it and him with my best friends, a group of amazing gals who answered my desperate pleas when I first discovered Farscape and was in need of episodes to watch. All I wrote in an Aussie yahoogroup for Farscape was "I've seen an ep and I need more. Please help!!!!!" It wasn't on air in Oz at the time, I didn't have a dvd player so they copied VCR tapes for me and sent them to my local library (2 were librarians) for me to pick up. In the decade since, we've met up every few weeks for lunch or dinner, we've travelled to the other side of the country for fan meet-ups (the best of which was TaScape '04 when they were filming PeaceKeeper Wars in Sydney. We did a double-decker bus location-filming tour, had the crew madly shutting windows when we drove past the studio where they were filming and had an amazing BBQ on the beach where a lot of scenes were filmed that was attended by lots of the crew. Unfortunately the cast (Ben, Claudia, ect weren't there) but it was still a fantastic day. So many crew were amazed that we wanted their signatures and to have photos with them. These guys were production people and set dressers and special effects crew and costumers and other behind-the-scene folks who so rarely get the recognition for all the wonderful work they do. Without them, there would have been no Farscape (and the same goes for SPN as well)

Anyways, only 2 of this group has met Ben before, so it'll be amazing to see the others get to meet him as well. And I'm hoping that some other Scapers that we haven't seen in years will make the trip from interstate so we can have a great big Scaper family reunion.

So my poor, poor credit card is going to take more torture and I'll be living off toast and vegemite for years (maybe decades) to come as I pay it off but oh boy, it is certainly going to be worth every bloody cent.

So, meeting and hugging Jared


and Jensen


and Ben


and Michael


all in one year and at 3 cons. I truly don't think I'm going to survive so much OMFG hotness and awesome and sexyness but dude, what a way to go!!!!

Comments

[matchboximpala.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a lot to look forward to in 2015!

I feel like I am missing some serious geek cred because there are too many shows I haven't seen -- like Farscape!

[vyperdd.livejournal.com]

It certainly is. And here I was hoping no-one awesome was going to come to my local cons so I could do them really cheaply. I go even if I'm not a fan of any of the guests just for the amazing fannish and fandom atmosphere.

Given my luck so far, David Tennant (my 5th fav actor) will do a con somewhere in Australia and because he is on my must-see list, I will not be able to stop myself from travelling to where-ever he would be. So, David, honey, do me a really big favour and stay away from OZ next year. But you are more than welcome anytime after that once my credit card and fangirl heart recovers.

Oh you must watch Farscape. I highly recommend it. It's the only other show besides SPN that I am almost constantly re-watching. It's got everything I love about SPN, great actors who are also wonderful people in RL, amazing emotional and angst-filled storylines, crazy, crazy humour (they do the best body swap episode I have ever seen and will always wish SPN had given us something similar instead of Swap Meat) and heartbreaking cliffhangers. There's love and deaths galore and births and fights and break-ups and make-ups between each and every character and I just love it to bits.

So, yes, if you can get hold of it, give it a go. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

[desertport]

Oh, wow, that is awesome! I adore FS, though I'm only as far as the middle of S3. Trying to savor it by watching a few eps (or ten, okay) when the mood hits. I think you chose good actors to see--these guys really seem to get a kick out of fandom.

[vyperdd.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! Another Scaper!!!!

Oh, boy. Season 3 was amazing but then so was the whole series. I envy you watching it for the first time. And just thinking of what you've got to look forward to. It only gets better.

So who are your fav characters. Mine are John, of course, D'Argo and Rygel and Pilot (and that says something that 2 of them are puppets, but they are also real-life characters in their own right and I love them just as much as their more human cast-mates.

[desertport]

I am so glad to hear it gets even better--it's been phenomenal so far. I think Aeryn Sun is my favorite character, followed by D'Argo and Rygel and maybe Crais (the actor is SO into his role, which makes him hilarious and compelling at the same time). It is really something that the puppet characters are so amazing. Rygel is surprisingly complicated; at times he even moves me. Something about the way he's crass and selfish and somewhat amoral but still feels things deeply or sometimes remembers he's a Very Dignified Royal. Also, BB doing Rygel in the bodyswap ep kind of made my year. He is incredibly talented, that guy.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I am actually going to burst from jealous! I have wanted to meet Michael Shanks for EVER!!!!!!

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

That is amazing! you are going to have so much fun. I think if I were in your shoes, I'd be just about ready to explode.


ETA: Also FARSCAPE! FARSCAPE! There's never enough on my flist about it. THE AWESOME THAT IS BEN BROWDER.