Thank you, Dylan

[julesjones]

My flist is quiet this weekend. This is because half of it is at Redemption, a British con which started out as a Blake's 7/Babylon 5 con but which these days is much more of a general sf con. Yes, sf con, not media con, because Redemption is run by sf fans whose tastes happen to include tv. There's a reason why I get snarky (all right, snarkier than usual) with litfen who get snobby about Filthy Media Fen Bringing The Apocalypse...

There are a good many reasons why I regret not being there this weekend, but the prime one has to be that I am missing the cabaret performance of Under Torchwood, which has probably just finished. I do, do hope there was someone with a cam and a Youtube account in the audience.

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[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

It would have been much easier to bait you with some sort of snide comment last week, before I started yapping about how much I'm liking Blake's 7.

Except you already knew about the Buffy fixation, so it might have been doomed from the start--but I'd have TRIED.

[julesjones]

Yes, but I already know you're not a "popular is bad" moron, so it might well have failed anyway. :-)

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

you're not a "popular is bad" moron

On the contrary, popular things frequently are pretty dire. [grin] I'm just open to the idea of exceptions.

[julesjones]

Exactly. Popular things are frequently dire. But "frequently" is not identical to "always". :-)

I ended up on the Redemption/Orbital desk in fan alley at Glasgow Worldcon, for reasons involving "I had to run away to Merkia to avoid being press-ganged onto the committee, you know". Which meant I had to spend some time listening politely to an Old Fart who felt the need to lecture us about how scummy mediafen taking over Eastercon was one of the signs of the end of the world. Which provided a certain amount of entertainment, because the other person on the table was someone who makes me look polite and restrained, and I got to watch *him* listen politely. :-)

It's always fascinated me that lit fandom, if it notices me at all, regards me as a media fan, when in fact I have very little interest in tv and not much more in the cinema.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I have heard from my mole at the con that they also did Man of Iron again - Mole, who hadn't seen it before, was hysterical.

[julesjones]

I've still not seen Man of Iron myself yet -- I keep missing it for various reasons. One of these days...

One of the things that always annoyed me about A Terrible Novel was that reading it through an editor's eyes, I could see that there was genuine potential there. He's quite capable of learning to write a good book -- in a genre he understands. Unfortunately that genre is not science fiction.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

Under Torchwood was astonishingly well received, and it was most entertaining delivering it. We've had some good feedback for it face-to-face wandering around the convention afterwards, too.

[julesjones]

Oh, excellent. :-) I wish I could have seen it.