growyourwings | Vancon 2009

Vancon 2009
Misha's Panel
(link to Vancon 2009 Master Post)

Above: Misha studies fandom and thinks, "Is a puzzlement."

I'm sure the content of Misha's panel has been all over the place by now. Below I've listed things I recall from the top of my head.

Misha who plays the angel Castiel is now the only other regular on the show other than the Js.

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My report and photos...

- Misha seemed surprised that people wanted to talk about Misha's Minion's and his tweets. It was like he was astonished that the fans would want to talk about it. He seemed slightly embarrassed to admit to his co-workers (the SPN crew/family that were in attendance) that he had followers on Twitter that he called "Minions."

- on August 29, 2009, Misha tweeted to his minions ::

at 04:45 :: I'm giving a PowerPoint presentation at a Vancouver event tomorrow discussing my treatise, "Anomic Vectors in the Postmodern Workforce."

at 04:49 :: It should be interesting. If attending, please bring a pen, a piece of black construction paper, & an egg for the mind-control experiment.

- He asked people to hold up their eggs and black paper. And seemed both pleased and astonished that people had actually brought them. I guess room service had had a rush of requests for one hard boiled egg the night before.

- He threw out Creation's pre-submitted questions immediately. He said he'd insisted/argued back staged that he wanted to take questions directly from the fans.

- And he could give it to the fans as much as they'd give it to him. I don't think Creation really has to worry about Misha being embarrassed by inappropriate questions. It's more like the fans need to be wary of what Misha might say to them and/or ask them!

- When a question was asked that was hinting at slash--he restated the question using the words homo-erotic (or something like that.) When he started to talk about slash, the audience basically gasped and shouted out that he "wasn't supposed to talk about that." He raised his eyebrows (a very distinctive Misha expression btw--I saw it a lot in my photos)--he raised his eyebrows and said something like "I'm not supposed to talk about that?! Here's the line," he mimicks drawing a line on the stage. "And here's me stepping over the line," as he walks over the line. He then said something like it being "about me" so why couldn't he talk about it?! And I probably shouldn't even put this in an open post. But heck there's vids out there in full view for everyone to see.

- I have to admit I love that Misha can give as good as he gets. And that he doesn't mince words. (And don't read any pro- and/or anti-slash into this--like politics, I'm not getting into that. Just stating what I heard.)

I don't remember much else off the top of my head. Those are the things that stood out for me.

Above: Towards the end of the panel Misha asked for all the eggs to be passed forward. He collected a lot of them when he went off stage. I must have turned off my flash some time before and when I realized he was headed towards me with the eggs, I turned my camera back on, but forgot to turn the flash back on--hence the very blurry photos. But I had to include them.