EMS 2012
6th - 7th October 2012
Had booked a weekend pass to Entertainment Media Show, originally with the intention to get photos and autos from Jaimie Alexander, Aidan Turner and Louise Brealey. Sadly Aidan's filming for the Hobbit clashed with his would-be attendence at EMS so he had to pull out. Jaimie had to pull out because she hurt herself from filming Thor 2. In fact lots of guests had to cancel because of schedule clashes and I think this made quite an impact on the attendance by geeks for this weekend. It was so quiet, even when I arrived at around 10:30 in the morning on both days.
EMS was held in Kensington Olympia's Grand Hall. I've been to Olympia many times for job exhibitions and Japanese conventions i.e. Hyper Japan but I had never been to this specific hall and this event. Usually I go to London Film Comic Con/LFCC as that tends to be more exciting.
Saturday would've been eventful but since the guests I wanted to see had cancelled I took my time walking around the stalls and went to the Red Dwarf Q + A Session which turned out to be great entertainment. Sadly Danny John Jules wasn't able to attend because of his flight delay in another country. He was filming overseas. So it was just Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn and Craig Charles present. Some of my pics can be seen here. I'm slowly catching up with Red Dwarf series 10. I forget how funny it could be which is rare for me because I'm not the comedic type. It takes some skill to make me genuinely laugh.
After the Q + A session I left to go to Tottenham Court Road to eat lunch at one of my fav Korean restaurants. I missed eating Bibimbab so much so I had to order it as I was in London.
Now with Sunday I managed to meet Louise Brealey aka Molly Hooper from Sherlock. She wasn't busy so I could walk straight to her desk, say hi and shake her hand. We had quite a weird yet casual conversation about languages and my ethnicity which was difficult to explain. Somehow she seemed interested while signing my photo and my Sherlock BBC box set. Met her again for the photoshoot after lunch and she remembered me which was nice. In fact Louise Brealey was down to earth. I'm sure it'll be awkward when I meet Benedict Cumberbatch one day. But I could be wrong. For all I know he might be a cool guy. Who knows? Sometimes you'll hear other people have a good experience with your favourite actor but when you yourself meet him it doesn't always work out. You can't expect too much.
As far as merchandise goes, I bought a panda ear hat for £15 and got a free pack of Yan Yan for free. Saturday purchase consisted of 4 Loki/Tom Hiddleston photos XD I decided to use some photos as fan mail. Hopefully Tom will see my letter and sign the photos I enclosed in my fan mail envelope haha.
Had booked a weekend pass to Entertainment Media Show, originally with the intention to get photos and autos from Jaimie Alexander, Aidan Turner and Louise Brealey. Sadly Aidan's filming for the Hobbit clashed with his would-be attendence at EMS so he had to pull out. Jaimie had to pull out because she hurt herself from filming Thor 2. In fact lots of guests had to cancel because of schedule clashes and I think this made quite an impact on the attendance by geeks for this weekend. It was so quiet, even when I arrived at around 10:30 in the morning on both days.
EMS was held in Kensington Olympia's Grand Hall. I've been to Olympia many times for job exhibitions and Japanese conventions i.e. Hyper Japan but I had never been to this specific hall and this event. Usually I go to London Film Comic Con/LFCC as that tends to be more exciting.
Saturday would've been eventful but since the guests I wanted to see had cancelled I took my time walking around the stalls and went to the Red Dwarf Q + A Session which turned out to be great entertainment. Sadly Danny John Jules wasn't able to attend because of his flight delay in another country. He was filming overseas. So it was just Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn and Craig Charles present. Some of my pics can be seen here. I'm slowly catching up with Red Dwarf series 10. I forget how funny it could be which is rare for me because I'm not the comedic type. It takes some skill to make me genuinely laugh.
After the Q + A session I left to go to Tottenham Court Road to eat lunch at one of my fav Korean restaurants. I missed eating Bibimbab so much so I had to order it as I was in London.
Now with Sunday I managed to meet Louise Brealey aka Molly Hooper from Sherlock. She wasn't busy so I could walk straight to her desk, say hi and shake her hand. We had quite a weird yet casual conversation about languages and my ethnicity which was difficult to explain. Somehow she seemed interested while signing my photo and my Sherlock BBC box set. Met her again for the photoshoot after lunch and she remembered me which was nice. In fact Louise Brealey was down to earth. I'm sure it'll be awkward when I meet Benedict Cumberbatch one day. But I could be wrong. For all I know he might be a cool guy. Who knows? Sometimes you'll hear other people have a good experience with your favourite actor but when you yourself meet him it doesn't always work out. You can't expect too much.
As far as merchandise goes, I bought a panda ear hat for £15 and got a free pack of Yan Yan for free. Saturday purchase consisted of 4 Loki/Tom Hiddleston photos XD I decided to use some photos as fan mail. Hopefully Tom will see my letter and sign the photos I enclosed in my fan mail envelope haha.