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Post by theotherjosh on Nov 9, 2017 14:23:22 GMT
I haven't heard heard anything recent from kimalysong and I see that she is not a moderator anymore. Too bad. Unfortunately she stepped down from her moderator post a couple of months ago and is taking a break from the forum. I've been in touch with her and she thinks she will be back, she's just not sure when. Glad to hear that she's okay.
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Post by elkawho on Nov 11, 2017 5:11:06 GMT
First day of the convention: Kind of a warm up day. My son won a trophy for "World's Worst Doctor Who Idea". LOL!! Sylvester's panel was joy to see, he barely sat down for more than 5 minutes. And there was a "Women of UNIT" panel with Katy Manning and Ingrid Oliver that was a hoot. Katy started naming some of the people she dated/hung out with back in the day (The Stones, The Beatles, Jimmi Hendrix, and it seems her best friend growing up was Liza Minelli) and I thought Ingrid was going to have a stroke. I asked if we will ever get to hear Tim Treloar in a UNIT story, and while she couldn't really answer me, she told me she would surprised if I wasn't going to be happy with some things coming up. My boys and I had dinner with Barnaby Edwards, and boy is he a joy to talk to. We talked loads of Big Finish. Shakespeare, Torchwood, David Warner, Toby's lunches, and loads of Doctor Who, of course. He was careful not to let anything slip, so unfortunately I have no updates there. We just had a wonderful evening. The Match Game of Rassilon was loads of fun, and not as raunchy as last year. But we did get a moment of Michael Troughton giving Fraser Hines and big ol' kiss! And that's the update for Day One. I'm hoping for some kind of news tomorrow. We shall see.
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Post by rran on Nov 11, 2017 5:18:50 GMT
First day of the convention: Kind of a warm up day. My son won a trophy for "World's Worst Doctor Who Idea". LOL!! Sylvester's panel was joy to see, he barely sat down for more than 5 minutes. And there was a "Women of UNIT" panel with Katy Manning and Ingrid Oliver that was a hoot. Katy started naming some of the people she dated/hung out with back in the day (The Stones, The Beatles, Jimmi Hendrix, and it seems her best friend growing up was Liza Minelli) and I thought Ingrid was going to have a stroke. I asked if we will ever get to hear Tim Treloar in a UNIT story, and while she couldn't really answer me, she told me she would surprised if I wasn't going to be happy with some things coming up. My boys and I had dinner with Barnaby Edwards, and boy is he a joy to talk to. We talked loads of Big Finish. Shakespeare, Torchwood, David Warner, Toby's lunches, and loads of Doctor Who, of course. He was careful not to let anything slip, so unfortunately I have no updates there. We just had a wonderful evening. The Match Game of Rassilon was loads of fun, and not as raunchy as last year. But we did get a moment of Michael Troughton giving Fraser Hines and big ol' kiss! And that's the update for Day One. I'm hoping for some kind of news tomorrow. We shall see. Have fun
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Post by elkawho on Nov 12, 2017 3:50:40 GMT
Day Two:
I was part of 2 Big Finish panels: I moderated the Intro To Big Finish panel. It went well and I had folks come up to me after that they were now able to go to the Alien Entertainment table in the vendor room and not be intimidated by all of the BF mech they had. That probably made me feel better than almost anything that happened today. The second was a Big Finish Trivia game. We used some of the questions you folks provided, and a lot of others. It was the first time this was done, and there were a lot of kinks that need to be ironed out if we end up doing it again next year. But it was fun. Tomorrow I am on the Big Finish: To Recast or Not to Recast panel. I realized that with Barnaby Edwards the only BF guy here, the only panels with BF info are the ones I'm on! I missed the Barnaby panel today because my son wanted to go see Katy Manning, so I don't know if there was any info at that one or not. So sorry, folks. No news to report. Just a lot of fun.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Nov 12, 2017 16:14:54 GMT
I'm so happy to see Barnaby Edwards is back full steam with Big Finish and I'm happy that this con sounds like so much fun.
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Post by elkawho on Nov 13, 2017 2:28:37 GMT
I have to say, Barnaby was a joy during the entire weekend. Today I watched him engage a boy of about 9 or 10 at his signing table and they had the most lovely conversation. This kid told him that NONE of his friends watched Doctor Who, and Barnaby made him feel like the smartest, most important kid in the world. It was fantastic. I had a discussion with him about recasting at Big Finish for the panel I was doing, and it was great. But he looked at me and said, "Why aren't I doing a Big Finish panel?" I had no answer. I told him to bring it up with the show runners, because I would have LOVED to have seen one.
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Post by elkawho on Dec 27, 2017 11:59:13 GMT
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Dec 27, 2017 20:00:23 GMT
Well, that sucks. I was actually trying to make it up for that one.
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Post by theotherjosh on Dec 27, 2017 21:21:01 GMT
Obviously this isn't great news, but Doctor Who has always been the story of rebirth.
I never dreamed the program would return after its cancellation in 1989, but look at us now.
I used to attend I-Con up in Stony Brook and I thought they were well and truly dead after they took a pounding from Hurricane Sandy, but they were back in 2017 after a five-year hiatus.
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Post by Ela on Dec 28, 2017 19:16:05 GMT
Yeah, this was one I would have attended if it kept going.
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