Chicago con report, Sunday
Pictures of the guys, right this way. :)
Better late than never! Right?
Sunday morning we were late to the breakfast on account of the fact that neither of us were feeling well, stomach wise, but we didn't want food anyway and we still made it there before the guys did so it was all good.
The tables are pre-assigned, y'all. I swear I didn't pick Jared's side. *snerk*
The guys were great, as always. Someone asked about 5.08, and Jared brought up CSI Miami. Jensen said they studied my favorite youtube video for H research - comeon, y'all have seen it. Don't lie.
Q: “How many episodes of CSI did you suffer through ..”
Jensen: “Nono, nono, no - here’s the thing, if you go on youtube, God love those youtube users because they’ve actually comprised an entire montage of David Caruso doing the glasses - the one liners with the glasses. All we really had to watch was about 30 seconds.”
Click to viewI about died when he said that, lol. I KNEW it. *dies*
Jensen talked about filming 'The End', which was a heroic effort for him. *claps again*
Mmmhmm. *pets teh hairz*
Jared kept fiddling with his mic. It had a short in it, and he said it was Morse Code.
Jensen kept swatting him to make him stop.
They both mimed out a scene from Abandon All Hope, where Samantha had been swinging the loaded shotgun around. It was hysterical, and also .... kind of not funny, as I've seen that sort of thing happen at the gun range for real.
*wince*
After breakfast, we got in line for photo ops. Everything moved very quickly and smoothly, and even though you blink and it's over, at the end of the day I think it was much nicer for everyone involved the way this con was run. For one thing, the guys didn't have to fire up the nitro to catch their flight, and instead of standing in lines forever we got to sit and wait it out and go up row by row. I highly approved. I do miss seeing everyone's posed pictures, though - it kind of sucks paying a zillion dollars for a picture you could have gotten at Wal-Mart. *sigh*
BUT. I love our pictures. A lot. A lot a lot. So it's all good.
PHOTO OPS POST SOLD SEPARATELY
We wore purple and black. Well, we decided on purple and black, but the black I had was supposed to be in my shoes and you wouldn't have seen them anyway, and I never would have worn them again, so I didn't buy them. But I bought a purple shirt, which is a big deal for me because I don't like purple almost as much as I don't like yellow, or pink, so I felt accomplished nonetheless. *snerk*
This was my first time ever meeting Jensen. The thing I was the most surprised over was how I didn't feel nervous at all, lol. I thought maybe I would be for some reason, idk why. He was so sweet. And comfy.
Seeing Jared is always awesome; there isn't anything quite like a Jared hug. The only thing that would have made it better was more time. *sigh*
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The Panel
Jared: “He’s like the Neo, or Luke Skywalker…”
Jensen: “I wouldn’t go that far.”
Jared on being Lucifer:
Jared: “I loved it. I’ve had a great time sort of playing evil Sam. I know sometimes y’all say evil Sam or good Sam, what do you like better, and I like evil Sam better.”
*crowd cheers*
Jared: “Whooo!” *fistpump*
Dear lotr_lemmy : I still win.
Q: “I know we don’t want it to, but with the possibility of the series this coming to an end, how are you going to feel saying goodbye to all this and the cast and the crew?”
Jensen: “Well … this doesn’t have to end.”
Jared: “This only stops when y’all want it to stop.”
Jensen: “Yeah. That’s entirely up to you guys.”
Jared: “I heard a snort! I heard a snort.”
*shrug*
“I heard a snort. And I intend to find out who.”
*points*
“She’s banished!”
Jared: “The show will end one way or another … whether it’s episode 30 or episode 5 … it will end and it’ll be tough to say goodbye, but also it’ll be a good positive - I think it’ll be nice to see Supernatural as a whole. You know, right now y’all are part of - we’re all part of this growing beast that is Supernatural. And y’all ask questions and it kind of makes us think, and we talk about during the week and go ‘oh yeah, that is an interesting thing to think about’ and maybe add to the character, and then we kind of are asking y’all questions back and y’all kind of give us insight into the show that we film. And so it’s a really cool kind of relationship to have with y’all guys, because y’all know so much about the show and the characters. But ultimately, it will all end, but then it will be nice to sort of talk about it - you know, to put it behind us, but to be able to have it to talk about, as opposed to now it’s sort of a growing beast.”
Jensen: “Basically ask us when it happens.”
Jared: “Keep your craft, first and foremost……. Being in movies doesn’t make you an actor. Loving your craft and acting makes you an actor.”
Q: What dreams have you not accomplished yet outside of your career.
Jensen: Having children.
Crowd: AWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Jared: *indignant* ME TOO! ….. having kids!?
Jared: I think dreams should always be evolving, you know what I mean?
Jensen: And flying a plane, too. I want to fly a plane. And maybe basejump. Have you seen these new guys called bird men? They’ve got the neoprene suits with the wings, and they basejump and literally take off across valleys … wow. Sign me up. That is some cool stuff. Of course if I had kids I could never do it.
Jared: You could throw them off.
Jensen: Ok, he’s not allowed to have kids.
Jared: I was talking about your kids.
Jensen: And he’s not allowed to babysit.
Jensen: “No, seriously, like my parents hate Christmastime because they’re like ‘we don’t know what to get you, so here - have some socks.” And it’s not their fault, it’s like if I want to get something I just go out and buy it.”
Jared: “Meanwhile he’s like YEAH, SOCKS!”
Jensen: “Yeah, ‘Good! I’ve got holes in mine. ‘ “
Jared brought out Sam to ask him if he knew Dean didn’t really leave that voicemail and he said no, Sam still thinks he did. You people need to find a vid of that if you haven't seen it yet; watching Jared bring out Sam never gets old.
*loves*
Jared sprung a leak! *lol*
WARNING: Perving over this picture is punishable by death. Or I'll frown at you really hard.
He's not trying to be hot, he's doing his best Jared impersonation.
Jared, on the other hand - is always hot.
*wink*
Q: "If you were both available, and you had to write each other's profiles on match.com, what would you write?"
Jensen: "If I was to write his? Three words. Single white female."
I lost track of how many times throughout the day Jared mimicked Ernie from 509 going 'in the cemetaaarryyyyy...'
*lolz*
Things to do in Vancouver: Drive up to Whistler and go eat at
Vij's. Got it. *adds it to the someday list*
The Auction
Jared auctioned off Sam's season 3 watch for his mom's kids back in San Antonio. Jensen jumped in and ran commentary, Texas style. So awesome. :)
Jensen: "It smells like him."
If you watch the auction video, you can actually see the moment where the bidders kill Jared dead.
*hugs him*
Here are me, Vikki, and blacklid basking in the post-guys panel exhaustion glow.
On breaks we would set up in the lobby and sell things we made to bring along. A lot of y'all have asked if we'd post anything when we got back, but we didn't really have anything left, so we took a few weeks to restock, but now the store is open!
Stuff like this -
Go look! Free shipping on most stuff through Dec.15th.
Julie!
I have to admit I missed most of Julie's panel. We were dying of starvation and we actually drove to get real food.
But just like the last time I saw her, she was very sweet and soft spoken, and I can't wait to have her back on Show - *sigh* is hiatus over NOW? *glares at hiatus*
Also I really, really loved her owl necklace. Girl has good taste. :)
And I think it's creepy to say you want someone's hair, but I tried to get that color once and it came out flaming 5th Element orange ... but maybe that's a story for a different time. *shifty eyes*
Rob!
Rob IS Chuck. Chuck IS Kripke.
Ergo....
Kripke was at the con!!
O.O
Rob came out on stage and chugged a bottle of water. Very cute.
He talked about how weird it was filming the con ep and then being in Chicago, but that it was significantly less weird to be at the real con, since we were mostly women and were not all dressed like Jensen and Jared, lol.
When I got my autograph from him we talked about how weird it mutually was, us being at the con WHILE watching the con ep, and he laughed. We told him we loved it and thanked him for coming, and all agreed that it's hysterical that he's dating Becky now. *g*
After the con closed, we grabbed dinner and headed out to go see ALL SAINT'S DAY!
(The Boondock Saints sequel, for the uninformed)
ZHOMG. DOODS. DOOOOOOODS.
Go see it. It has SPN end-of-series relevance. We say. Uh - highly symbolic and mind-shattering.
Might have left blacklid and I sobbing hysterical messes.
Just go see it.
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