I've been thinking about the Jack/Gwen thing alot.

I have always thought that she was special to him from the beginning. In the first episode he told her about the not being able to die thing, of course she saw the result, but that was something that he hadn't revealed to the rest of the team. In fact, he has confided in her more than it seems he has in Ianto.

I was sure it was all on him, but Gwen telling him that she loves him has confused me about the whole thing.

I have Wonderconned. Summer Glau is WAY more popular than anyone else on SCC, and everyone knows it but is mostly good-natured about it, except I suspect Thomas Dekker finds it a bit annoying. His hair is even more annoyingly in his face in RL than it is on the television screen. Also, he wants to do more stunts and fight scenes.

The panel moderator was an inoffensive but not particularly insightful guy from TV Guide (not Fonebone), who asked bland questions that didn't get a lot of meaningful stuff from the cast or writers on the panels. The one thing I found interesting was that Josh Friedman was asked about continuity and consistency with the films, and his response was basically that they weren't trying to be consistent with the films, because they'd make their heads explode trying, and the films weren't even consistent within themselves.

There was also an indication that they consider these to be independent timelines.

Also, I made PC ask about Teresa Dyson, and Friedman said we'd see her again.

And Summer Glau is lovely. And does most of her own stunts. She likes flying through breakaway walls.

As for the Jericho panel, they actually showed us a new episode, which was cool. On the panel were Hawkins, Stanley and Mimi, and the executive producer.

There was a great deal of pandering (I felt) to the fans about the nuts campaign, and that got a bit old for me. Nobody mentioned writing to the advertisers as an alternative to sending crap to the network. And apparently the Obama campaign has contacted the guy who came up with the nuts campaign. (I can hear Allyson's head exploding from here.)

(I was surprised at how peeved I was about the way they all seemed to think this was the first time omg that any grassroots campaign for a television show had gotten any traction. Hello, ST:TOS? LFN? Roswell, Farscape, Firefly? Eh.)

OTOH, Lennie James, who plays Hawkins, is really pretty awesome (Nutty, you're right, he's a Brit), and Alicia Coppola is just as pretty and freckled in person as she is on the screen, if shorter. Everyone's always shorter in person...

Alicia Coppola is just as pretty and freckled in person as she is on the screen, if shorter.

Really? Cause she used to be on one of my soaps, and she seemed like six foot tall. I mean, probably, on soaps, all the men are itty bitty.

Cause she used to be on one of my soaps, and she seemed like six foot tall.

Which one?

Summer Glau is WAY more popular than anyone else on SCC, and everyone knows it but is mostly good-natured about it, except I suspect Thomas Dekker finds it a bit annoying.

My heart bleeds for him.

My heart bleeds for him.

::plays emo goth rock::

Which one?

Alicia Coppola was on Another World for at least a year, maybe two. Um, in 1992-3 I think? Probably before I finished highschool.

So, however tall she is, she's also pretty well-preserved. She didn't play a teenager or anything, and she doesn't look much different 15 years later.

Yeah, in person she definitely looks older than Brad Byer, who looks by comparison about 22. In person she also has way more freckles.

Lennie James, though, was definitely the star of the panel: he's sharp & well-spoken and seems really thoughtful in a way that some actors aren't. I was really impressed.

My write-up of the SCC panel.