I’ve posted about this on FS before, but I was at San Diego Comic Con the first year Twilight had a Hall H panel. Hall H sits 6,500 people, and it’s not cleared between panels, so a lot of people, self included, would stand in line for hours and stay in the hall all day, sitting through stuff we didn’t give a shit for to see the things we were excited about.
I forget what I was there to see, but before that day, I mostly thought of Twilight as basically the teen equivalent of cheap romance novels that get sold at grocery stores; harmless brain candy. I work at a library and read the first one because I try and read all the books with a thousand+ person waitlist. It seemed silly and harmless.
Then I sat through an hour of Twilight mania in a room that was at least half hardcore Twilight fans. Every time whatsisface who played Edward opened his mouth, they screamed.
Before every Q&A, fans are asked not to ask personal questions/make personal requests. Grown women asked the actor what kind of underwear he wore, what it was like being the sexiest man in the world, and whether he liked older women. I wanted to sink through the floor in embarrassment and none of the insanity was even directed at me.
Before then, the worst question I’d heard anyone ask was during another panel I was sitting through to see something else. A gormless wannabe screenwriter told an actress she was beautiful and asked if she’d star in his sure-to-be-a-blockbuster film. She laughed, and all 2,000 people in the audience jeered and booed.
No one laughed or booed adult women asking sparkly vampire dude what undies he had on.
Re: Breaches of fandom etiquette
I forget what I was there to see, but before that day, I mostly thought of Twilight as basically the teen equivalent of cheap romance novels that get sold at grocery stores; harmless brain candy. I work at a library and read the first one because I try and read all the books with a thousand+ person waitlist. It seemed silly and harmless.
Then I sat through an hour of Twilight mania in a room that was at least half hardcore Twilight fans. Every time whatsisface who played Edward opened his mouth, they screamed.
Before every Q&A, fans are asked not to ask personal questions/make personal requests. Grown women asked the actor what kind of underwear he wore, what it was like being the sexiest man in the world, and whether he liked older women. I wanted to sink through the floor in embarrassment and none of the insanity was even directed at me.
Before then, the worst question I’d heard anyone ask was during another panel I was sitting through to see something else. A gormless wannabe screenwriter told an actress she was beautiful and asked if she’d star in his sure-to-be-a-blockbuster film. She laughed, and all 2,000 people in the audience jeered and booed.
No one laughed or booed adult women asking sparkly vampire dude what undies he had on.