robertfryett

Go to a costume shop? Sorry, can't resist a sarcastic comment :) I didn't dress up last year. I was hunting for a sticker so I could write 'Hi, my name is God' on it, but I was too hungover to actually hunt for it, so I didn't bother. It's not a massive deal if you don't, but I'll certainly be doing it this year.

Yeah we believe you Quiet you! I'll admit, I know a lot of them, but I think we all do. But the guys who wrote the not quite as great episodes, I never paid attention to who they were

You'll be fine dude! Last year was my first time (at a convention!), and my best friend and I turned up not knowing what to expect. The general gist is this. You get there and stand in a line to register. That's pretty dull (as standing in a line often is), and after that, go do whatever until the opening talk. All the guests will sit there and say hey and such, and then off you go to get ready to party. Then, you party. Everybody is almost too friendly, it's great. It's not like life. You can literally walk up to somebody and say hey, and you have a friend, because you're all there for the same reason. The amount of people I met there that I still talk to nearly a year later is astounding. Because, you know, Whedon. The next day, you get up, you do your picture thing, get your autographs and all that kind of stuff, and sit and listen to the guest talks. Most of all, they're incredible. But, you might get a Mercedes McNab incident. Blah. Blah. Blah. Fortunately, I don't think we have any guests like that this year. Once all that's done, go get into your ridiculous costume, and party. Tip: Learn the Thriller dance. Then. Party some more. Then fall over. Sunday is generally spent with the last few guest talks (and I think the 'guest encounters' happen then, where people have auctioned to get them alone. I'm planning on using my skills to get Jewel Staite into a private encounter without the use of money, personally), and photos and stuff, if you missed them the day before. Then, bizarrely enough, party. Then you go home Hope it helped!

I got the wrong end of the questioning stick here. I thought you meant a Hallowhedon crew member! But yeah, I think somebody like Marti Noxon, Drew Goddard, Jane Espenson, those kind of guys, I think people would love that. I know I'd certainly love to see them there. But yeah, it'd have to be somebody of that kind of ilk for people to be enthused. Carl Ellsworth, for instance (who only wrote Halloween), wouldn't be that interesting. And if Ashley Gable (who wrote I Robot, You Jane) was announced, I think I'd send my ticket back to be honest. Disclaimer: My geekiness isn't SO extreme that I know all the writers' names. I have www.buffyguide.com up :)

It's got to be Once More, With Feeling. Dr. Horrible was great, I absolutely love it (by the way. The hammer is my spam...), but Once More With Feeling has got to be the greatest episode of anything in the world, ever. Not only is it hilarious, but ties in to the story perfectly, it brings all the characters up to date with what's going on in their friends' lives, it shows us glimpses of what could happen (Xander's wedding nerves, Dawn's kleptomania etc), and it's just brilliant . And, you know, Tara singing 'you make me com-plete! You make me...' is bloody brilliant. And now for something completely different... See what I did there?

YES! thats a good question At events when people are allowed to ask questions and you see the guest roll their eyes at the stupidity/rudeness or mundaness is awful. I once heard a very rude man ask summer glau how she felt about being ranked in the fhm top sexy woman. she was so uncomfortable but it didnt stop the guy with a follow up. I bet James Marsters get asked the john barrowman question all the time too. Although from last years hallowhedon I much prefered listening to him talk about his working with Juliet - he sparkled. Am going to attempt to think of a few good questions and none for steve the pirate I second that, excellent question. Must more interesting that some things people ask. Although when we've all had a few drinks who knows? There really were some awful questions last year, 'James Marsters, if you could be any animal, what would you be?' and crap like that. I asked whether the guests (I aimed it at all of them) watched Dollhouse, and what they thought of it (it was very topical at the time, it was just before it was cancelled), but obviously asking Mercedes 'I'm as stupid as I look' McNab to compare herself to a wall was a better question. This year, I've asked Alan 'So! That picture of you with Joss, Nathan and Adam... What's the deal with that?!'. Not the greatest question (I much prefer the serious ones, where the guests really tell you something about themselves), but we're all desperate to know what it was. And if nothing else, it'd make him squirm in his seat!