TSCC Cast Appearing at Golden Apple Comics

[Ronnie]

Sept 14, 2008 16:28:43 GMT -5 Deep Art Frummy said:

Thomas looks like he's taller in person.

Sorry on the "ladies" mishap, haha.

It's funny because a lot of us said the same when he walked by. Usually you expect an actor to look TALLER on screen.

He was very gracious, everyone of the cast seemed like they were having FUN. Everyone was laughing and joking around, very friendly with the people out there. It was also a blast hearing them laughing and joking out loud during each other's scenes in "Automatic for the People".

Here's Brian Austin Green signing my print ;D



I got a LOT of comments on it from the Cast, which was very cool.

[Erika]

Thomas is like 5'10" I think he slouches a lot as John which is why he always looks shorter.

Great photos Ronnie! Hope to see more

[Ronnie]

Sept 14, 2008 16:48:50 GMT -5 Erika said:

Thomas is like 5'10" I think he slouches a lot as John which is why he always looks shorter.

Great photos Ronnie! Hope to see more

Still shooting through them all, I guess I'll post to the Gallery and you can do a link from the Main Page? I think I still don't have any permissions to update the Front Page.

Hopefully my 2 short videos came out great too.

I think I'm still in AWE over the whole thing. ;D

[jen22]

Thanks for all the pics guys. Man Summer looks so cute.

Ronnie that poster thingy of yours looks very cool btw.

[gothamite66]

Sept 14, 2008 16:56:13 GMT -5 Ronnie said:

I think I'm still in AWE over the whole thing. ;D

Me too! My head is still spinning from all the excitement!

[Derek Reese]

Awesome photos! Love seeing the cast there in all their glory.

[jeck]

Sept 14, 2008 16:24:27 GMT -5 Ronnie said:

Here's a few quick ones, I shot 326 photos and 2 videos, currently resizing them all.

So glad that you were able to take vids and wow! A lot of pictures! I honestly thought Annie was the only one video taping! Can't wait to see your vid and pictures.

The cast was amazing and friendly and warm to the fans. From Brian on one end to Shirley all the way at the other. Even to Josh and James. It was a great time!

[Erika]

For you guys who have video that you want to share - register over onto our video channel and let us know what your login is and Kate will upgrade you so that you can upload your video directly into it You can post the video at higher quality there than on YouTube, it's a snap to load the video, I've done it before, it's easy.

Also - Ronnie, Kristina, and Jeck - I'm going to bump you all up to admins over on the gallery so that if you have more photos to add to the galleries that I created for your photos, you can just upload them yourselves. (Err Kristina - PM me your ID on the gallery - I couldn't find you. Ronnie and Jeck - you're all set )

Your albums are all located HERE along w/ the other photos that I've gathered so far from the event (Ronnie you're on page 2.)

[Ronnie]

My Album is here:

sarahconnorsociety.net/photogallery/thumbnails.php?album=621

I'm still working with Erika to get the rest up. I have them all in my Photobucket however.

Signed prints:

(Very reflective, its in plastic right now)



Debating on whether I should track Lena Headey down to sign both before I frame both of them, I'm happy with them as is. What do you guys think?



Me and Josh:




Goodiebag:













Edit: One more from Q&A, unfortunately I was in the rear so lighting was not to my advantage.

[Derek Reese]

Great stuff, period, Ronnie.

[Deep Art Frummy]

lmao @ Thomas pointing right at you.

Priceless.

[gothamite66]

So here's my take on the day's events:

OK, let me start by saying that Saturday’s event was totally exciting. It was a long day but I had so much fun. I’ve never attended any signings or conventions before so I had no idea how the day would go, but I figured I’d give the Golden Apple event a try. I really had no excuse not to go. The cast from my favorite show was going to appear in person at a venue that was less than 1.5 miles from my house.

As soon, as I found out about the signing I told my family to prepare themselves for a day without me because I was determined to get into the event even if it meant I had to get in line at 9 am.

Friday evening came around and I packed my bag so I wouldn’t forget anything the next morning. My plan was to occasionally have my DH drive me to the store to check out the line, if there was no line then we would head home and try again in an hour or so. At around 10 a.m. we headed out the door, first to drive by Golden Apple and then to a street vendor to pick up some USC gear in preparation for the big USC v Ohio St. game. We drove down La Brea Ave and as we were crossing Melrose I saw that there were already 10 to 12 people in line, so we circled around the block and my DH drop me off at the store.

At first, I was kind of nervous because at the time I was the only person in line who was alone, but soon after another individual showed up alone so we spent the rest of the afternoon chatting about TSCC and other sci fi shows. As I was looking around, I noticed that a couple of the girls looked really familiar and realized that they were the girls from IMAY. I’m kinda shy, (actually really shy), so it took me awhile work up the courage to approach them, but I finally did and also met the girls from Dekker Daily and chatted with them for awhile. After meeting with the IMAY and Dekker Daily girls I was able to meet our own Ronnie. (BTW, in case you are interested, Ronnie is really tall) I chatted with him for awhile before returning to my place in line. By this time it was early afternoon and the person I had been hanging with had called up Dominos and had some pizza delivered to us on the sidewalk. So we sat down on the sidewalk and had lunch. Around 3 pm Indie 103.1 showed up and soon after a Fox video crew and then the TSCC car showed up. The video crew filmed everyone standing in line and while photographers took pictures of fans in front the the TSCC car.

Then at about 5 pm the Golden Apple staff started letting us in the store and passing out the goodie bags. As I was standing in line I noticed Josh Friedman and got totally excited and pointed him out to the people around me while trying to snap his picture. We had to wait inside the store for awhile so Garrett Dillahunt made his way down the line greeting everyone and posing for pictures. He was really nice and stopped every few people and chatted with the fans. Soon thereafter, the cast began to sign the autographs and I worked my way forward. The entire cast was incredibly friendly and me being the shy nerd that I am totally clammed up and couldn’t think of anything to say. The only people of was able to manage to say anything to was Garrett and Shirley and even then I fear I sounded really silly. Once past the signing table I worked my way to the seats and was able to get a seat in the third row. After saving my seat, I head back toward the signing table and snapped as many pictures as I could before the staff shooed me away but I snuck back and began snapping pictures from a slightly different angle. When I finally went back to my seat, I ran into Josh Friedman and shook his hand and told him how totally awesome the show was. (I was at my full nerdiness at this point)

Now it was time to watch “Automatic for the People”. I’m not going to say much because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone but I will say the episode TOTALLY ROCKS!! I can’t wait to see it again this evening.

Next came the Q & A and many of the fans were able to ask questions. I didn’t ask any questions because most of mine were for Lena Headey (who was unfortunately unable to attend) and the other question I had was for Shirley Manson and another fan asked a very similar question. During the Q &A Josh addressed the issue of DVR’s and mentioned that it was important to view the recordings within 3 days for the ratings to make a difference.
When the Q & A was over the staff cleared us out so that they could show the episode for the remaining people who could not get in during the signing. Myself and the person I was hanging with headed to the back of the store hoping to catch up with the cast before they left. I was able to get my picture taken with BAG and I was hoping to get a picture with Garrett but security and staff once again shooed me away.

Overall, I had a great time. It was a long day but totally worth the wait and the sunburn. I hope I get a chance to attend another Golden Apple event with the TSCC cast.

[k8ie]

Thanks for the info.

And OMG -- swag lust. Lucky, lucky Angelenos.

[Deep Art Frummy]

Thank you for the in depth review, Gothamite. Glad to hear you had fun. Hell, glad to hear all of you had fun.

Now, if only the midwest could get some love.

[jeck]

Dekker Daily finally had the time to do our round-up of the day's events.

It is posted here:
community.livejournal.com/dekker_daily/99786.html

And thanks to the generosity of the IMAY gals, we have complete video (in two parts) of the Q & A posted there and also portions of our time spent with Thomas after the event.

Go check it out.