After lunch we had the games session. The cast were divided into two teams, Cat and Ashley against Taylor, Amalia and Jess. But Lyne replaced Jess for this. Both teams were joined by various members of the audience. This time it was a game of charades. This seemed to suit Taylor very well, she was immediately asking about if they were allowed to indicate how many words? Or how many syllables in each word? Amalia seemed not to understand the idea of syllables. Taylor was too hyped up to explain it.
We were not allowed to take photos or film this part of the con. So, I just sat back and enjoyed the show. I do remember the rock, paper, scissors contest to decide who went first! Taylor and Ashley taking the ‘combat’ very seriously. And, of course, it ended in a draw, so we had another round of rock, paper, scissors between our generals. Petra won!
The next panel was with Lyne and Cat. I didn’t take any notes during this panel, I just sat and lived in the moment.
And what a moment it was. General Alder and General Bellweather in their army uniforms. I know Lyne had kept her general uniform, but I don’t know where they got Petra’s uniform from. But it made a huge impact that they dressed for us. This panel had an additional surprise for us. One of the staff came to the front with a mobile phone with Jess on Facetime, ready to join in.
Lyne and Cat also did their Generals photoshoot in their uniforms. This was really well received. I hope this would encourage other cast members to bring along things they have for photoshoots.
Amidst the autograph sessions and photoshoots, there were more group meets. I went to the Taylor one.
Taylor was telling us about her holiday with her boyfriend and her grandparents. They had been to Ireland. She had a long story about Danny and Guiness and all the adventures that they had. That took up a big part of the meet. Taylor really does have a gift as a raconteur. She could easily do a one woman show.
I did get to ask her a follow up to what I had asked her at Witchbomb about the audition tapes. Taylor said that she had looked for it, she doesn’t have a copy, but was trying to see if her agent still had a copy. She wants to see it herself and see how she had played the character differently.
She did say that the scenes for the audition were the ‘rah-rah’ scene where she meets the unit for the first time and the scene where she meets Scylla for the first time. I would really like to see both of these, but especially the second one because that was Amalia’s self tape audition scene and it was subtly different from the broadcast version. Did Taylor do the same one as Amalia or the broadcast version? When did it change?
Then we had the closing ceremony. And of course, the blue balloons get everywhere. The end of a packed day. This was Cat’s farewell to us as she was not coming on Sunday. There were lots of tears from the cast, who were very affected by the emotion from the audience.
But there was one more surprise, when Ashley asked two members of the audience to stand up. They were total surprised, until Ashley revealed they were having their birthdays this weekend.
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