Joss Whedon

T1 was Starfury’s first *deep breath* Chuck/Sarah Connor/Dollhouse/Dr. Horrible convention, held at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Birmingham. The guests were Zachary Levi, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, Dichen Lachman, Miracle Laurie, Felicia Day, Tom Lenk, Jonathan Woodward, Mark Sheppard, Georges Jeanty and Dominic Keating. Well Tom and Dichen were billed as ’suprise’ guests, but Tom was the only real surprise because there were many whisperings before the convention part of the convention began about Dichen being there. I believe Mark was meant to be a surprise, but he’s become a staple at Starfury conventions. That and he announced it on his Facebook. After Jonathan outted him on his Facebook status for being a guest too.

Being a Gold Ticket holder I had a few perks, one of them being the Meet and Greet on the Friday night. That’s where you sit around a lovely big table with your friends and the guests come over and sit with you. I’ll be honest, the last few M&G’s I’ve been to I’ve been a bit disappointed. Just something with them lacked that little something extra. Though my reservations were firmly kicked in the arse with this M&G!

The order of the guests is probably not the order they came in, or in any specific order, just the order in which my brain chooses to remember the events in.

Zachary Levi aka Chuck Bartowski aka a very, VERY awesome guest. I was hoping Zachary would be one of those charming, very likeable and brilliant guests. I wasn’t disappointed. He came to our table, sat with us, ate our Jaffa Cakes (To which he added that maybe peanut butter should be added to the mix - can’t say I agree!) and talked about Chuck, TV of the present, future and hope for a third season. He’s very passionate about Chuck and while hopeful for a third season he’d clearly be bummed if there wasn’t. He did tease us that season 3 would be epic, if we ever got it. But didn’t let slip any secrets about it!

Adam Baldwin was a surprise. Well I say that now only because the last time he was at a con he wasn’t the happiest of chaps for whatever reason. Though this time he was back to being his chipper self, making a mess on the table with Jaffa Cakes. After being dubious about them, he single handedly devoured about 3 in quick succession. Again we talked a bit about Chuck and a third season. Can’t remember much else. Aside from introducing ourselves individually to him as requested. Though I think Adam was just being polite when he said he recognised some of us. Well maybe he did! I live in quite hope that he did genuinely recognise us who’d seen him before. Adam did tell us one thing about Zach we wished we knew before - he loves Avenue Q and will sing all the songs! If only we’d seen Zachary after Adam, with Avenue Q being one of our favourite musicals we were kicking ourselves for not having a serenade of Zachary singing ‘Everyone’s a little bit Racist’!

Tom Lenk we may have made a mistake with. The first thing we mentioned to him was his very brief role in How I Met Your Mother! Mistake - he wasn’t happy with his role in that! Woops! Never mind.

Felicia Day was high on sugar I believe. She stumbled onto the chair, and as she did so a piece of fudge fell from the side of her mouth. I think she was a little embarassed to say the least. Still we had a bit of a geek out, I’m sure, about something or another. Words were exchanged, but my memory’s failing me now.

Dominic Keating was … well, I think the less I say about him the better for me and anyone reading this. He wasn’t my favourite guest of the weekend. Or any convention. Not my taste maybe.

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