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*Great big hug to Mama!*
Missed you and everyone else on Meez, too! And thanks for the all better, it helps!
JB was only there on Thurs and Fri, but we wanted to see GDL, so we got Sunday tickets. It was hilarious when he first saw us. We were the first Torchwood cosplay group he'd seen in the US, so he kind of did this double take because we were off to the side looking over the photos and then he giggled under his breath, so I said "You knew it would happen at some point," and he replied with "But you look great!" When I get the pictures posted you will see that we went with the full commitment, right down to haircuts and colors, so it was pretty wild. Then when we made our next walkby I gave him this little Jack wave and he giggled again and did it right back. Then I got fanboyed by a brilliant classic Joker and that set him off again, too.
It was a bunch of fun around the BBC America booth, where we got the most recognition. There weren't even any Doctor cosplayers, so we were pretty much the only ones representing BBC scifi, but that made us all the more special.
Oh, and one thing GDL answered for us. On the question of whether Ianto was jealous over the soldier-in-a-bar bit from Stolen Earth, he admitted it was a tiny bit of jealousy and that Ianto feels a little bit jealous of all of Jack's experiences, but it was just as much that he wondered why he wasn't there to meet the soldier, too. Naughty-minded Ianto.
We also noted that he's totally in shape at the moment and when we asked him if this means there's going to be another shirtless scene, he gave us a coy grin and flexed. And seriously, if you ever get the chance to see him in person, you'll -really- get why Jack would have it bad for Ianto. GDL is amazingly pretty face-to-face. | That sounds like so much fun Sorry you missed JB...but GDL sounds Amazing.. Seriously...next time I'm going to have to go to a Con. I just need to. I can't believe you guys were the only BBC America Cos-Players though. That just seems crazy. Considering how many shows they have now...Oi.
I am just grinning here typing because I am imagining you doing the wave and him giving it back. Just Brilliant...BRILLIANT!!!!! And YOU got fanboyed? I am so sorry. Though...it is a good compliment.
Was there a question and answer session with him...or did you just go up and ask him about the moment in "The Stolen Earth?" Plus...flexing. Oh yeah...OH YEAH! How did hubby handle your fan-girl gooing??? |
Considering it was my anniversary present to get to meet Gareth, he handled it just fine. He was the one taking the picture of us all, and GDL claimed to be flattered that he was my present, so to speak. The hubby was watching from across the way half the time we were out cosplaying the floor, which wasn't too far from where GDL was, and he said every time we even got close GDL would light up, knowing we'd stop by and say 'hi' again if he wasn't busy with another fan. He was obviously pretty tired, but he was always really sweet to all of his fans and he truly loves being cosplayed, especially, I might add, by teenage girls, so any teenage girls out there who want to put on a suit, he loves it!
The fanboying was actually pretty fun. I just felt one of those slinkups next to me and turned and there's a brilliantly done-up classic joker who just gushed "Captain Jack, I've been dying to meet you!" and then we did photo ops.. And it was just about five feet from GDL, who was looking over and got another giggle going. I might add he does that a lot. He has a giggle fit over something about every ten minutes, it seems, although it might have a lot to do with jetlag, too. Still, it was nice for him to see that Torchwood really does have a fanbase over here. When he's at Dragon Con with James Marsters I hope it cements it enough for him that he'll come back again next year, by which time I hope Torchwood's US broadcast issues will be worked out so there'll be even more American fans.
There wasn't a Q&A on Sunday, don't know about the other days. We just walked up and bugged him and he chatted away about it. You can tell he loves playing Ianto just by the way he talks about him. He's keeping pretty busy with other projects with the short season, doing a lot of theater, audiobooks (his voice is amazing), and promoting his band and Disgracelands, which is.. Well, heck, where most of his band comes from, but it's clear Ianto is his favorite thing to do and talk about. And yes, the wave was a real thrill, since he did it pointedly in the flirty Janto style to keep with the cosplay.
Back to the hubby, though, we're pretty trusting about that sort of thing. If Eve Myles or Billie Piper had been there, I'd have had to relinquish him for most of the day, so it's even. He got his thrills when Marina Sirtis showed up at the next booth along with Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton.. Which was yet another convo we tossed back to GDL, who is a fan of Star Trek:TNG himself. He confessed he'd already snuck over there to meet his own scifi heroes.
I correct myself on the BBC America cosplayers. There was one small child, about 6, who was dressed as a Dalek and was adorable at it, but he only lasted the morning, or at least I never saw him after that. And we did see a guy getting his photo with the Dalek display who unfairly was not dressed as Tenth, because he looked so much like David Tennant it was scary. If our camera had not been halfway down the convention center at the time with my hubby, I'd have a photo of him, too.