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I should write this down while it's fresh!
- Today, I went to Melbourne's Armageddon Expo to meet Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan
- Their panel was first on my to do this, aside from buying tokens for photos and autographs later on. We got in as early as we could to secure good seats.
- I spent so much time taking photos I didn't even write notes
- I wanted to ask a question, but the moment the mic reached my hand, my mind literally went blank- which I said out loud and got some chuckles. I recovered and asked what kinds of futures would they have written for their characters.
- Cindy referenced Tron 2.0/Ghost in the Machine, saying if Jet Bradely were on the Grid, she would have liked Lora to have written a program to protect him. Bruce admitted he wasn't a writer and so he didn't have much of an answer, but he imagined there should be a whole heap of little Trons, little boy Trons and girl Trons, running around "the way it should be".
- After the panel, which was great fun and I think I took at least 150 photos, we went to chill by the signing area because a lot of the actors were out to lunch and there was lots of room to just sit. Bruce and Cindy walked by us, we would've yelled out to say hello but they were far enough for that to have been awkward (so they couldn't exactly stop to say hi) but close enough for us to really just run over and jump them.
- Around 2.20, we went to line up for our photos.
- Bruce said as we took ours, "Does Flynn live... that's what I'd like to know." I replied "I think so, I think he lives through Sam. And Tron through Alan."
- I don't think he realised my shirt said TRON LIVES, not FLYNN... eheheh;;
- In my photo with Bruce and Cindy together, I asked them to hold up my TRON LIVES and YORI LIVES tshirts (I had changed into my RAM LIVES one by this point) and they happily obliged. I remember Bruce saying something like "Gotta show off" in a funny tone, I should've replied "it's what creative types do!" but was already too flustered from standing between them.
- When I went to get their autographs, Cindy was very kind and seemed to really like my chibis drawing of Tron and Yori. She showed Bruce who found them cute too. I was very shaky when I gave Bruce his tshirt and I admitted this was all quite scary. He leaned forward and said in a very caring voice, "Why is it scary?" like he honestly wanted me to feel comfortable. I admitted to being a huge fan and went on to tell him how I had spent the last two months marathoning Scarecrow and Mrs King, he seemed quite delighted by this.
- I told him about season 3 and how it drove me nuts the entire season how Lee and Amanda didn't kiss. He laughed and said "well we had to keep you on the edge of your seat!" I told him I am very much looking forward to season 4 and I had season 1 in my bag. He laughed and said "you really came armed!"
- I didn't want to distract them from more guests so thanked them and made my way off.
- When they were leaving the signing area, I was very happy to see them carrying my gifts in their hands (well, the bags I gave them were BRIGHT blue and pink, it was quite hard to miss. A volunteer held Cindy's but Bruce carried his own; this made me extremely happy).
- Throughout the day, I had a few people comment on my shirt. "Nice shirt!" said one passerby and others that waited in line for photos looked at me and took a moment to realise I was wearing a parody of the original FLYNN LIVES. They were all quite amused.