ONE YEAR

[elisi]

It’s a year since we launched Good Omens. How lovely of NASA to mark the occasion by launching a rocket. @neilhimself @terryandrob @bbcstudios @AmazonStudios

— Douglas Mackinnon (@drmuig) May 30, 2020

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[dieastra.livejournal.com]

And I was there, by pure accident... stumbled into the Good Omens premiere on my way to see Tom Hiddleston in theatre. Just when I arrived, David Tennant was getting out of a car right in front of me.

It was so surreal.

[elisi]

For a second I thought you were talking about the rocket launch! :D

But then I realised. Damn, I am v jealous now.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

That icon of yours is fitting for so many ways LOL

You probably saw way better pictures of it at the time than mine, but here is a little report I did:

https://dieastra.livejournal.com/328000.html

The theatre tickets were bought in November. I had no way of knowing what would be on this very day in May. The date was chosen as we were in town anyway for a convention. Which then did not even happen. But I went to a different convention that same weekend and met David Harbour from "Stranger Things", so all in all it was a successful trip.

[elisi]

That icon of yours is fitting for so many ways LOL
It's a long time favourite! :)

You probably saw way better pictures of it at the time than mine, but here is a little report I did:
!!! I clearly missed that. Oh, my Ineffable Husbands. *clutches heart*

Thank you so much for sharing that, and glad you had a successful trip, even with the unexpected changes.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

This was all so much of a hassle. I don't know how familiar you are with the "Heroes & Villains" conventions. They were very successful in America for some years with actors from all the superhero shows like "Arrow" and "Flash" and then in 2017 we went to the first one in London, me because I wanted to meet Sean Pertwee and others from "Gotham" for the first time as I was a new fan.

It was a well organized con back then, I loved how they did the photolines - like at an airport, with an exact time stamp when to go into line, so people would not queue needlessly. I really was impressed.

We went back the next year which was still great but soon after it all started to fall apart. Reports of cancelled or postponed conventions came in, with people waiting for their money but never got it back. And for months no actors were announced for the planned London con in 2019. People who already had bought expensive tickets because of the past years started to worry.

I never really followed it all, I think in between they also went bancrupt and started a new company with a new leader, it was all a big mess. Then finally they postponed the 2019 one to 2020. Some people were stupid enough to still believe them and kept their tickets. The rest of us went to their credit cards and got it back this way.

Of course one year later nothing happened and everyone still waiting for money will probably not ever get it. They are officially insolvent now.

In the end I can be thankful of the Facebook group though as it was them who told me about the MGM comic con and when I went to look who is there David Harbour was the first guest announced. It would never had occured to me to check for him otherwise.

MGM was also a HUGE con and they also got lots of the guests from the cancelled one to make up for that, but I was only interested in one, so where he was, I was, be it autograph line or photo line or panel line, without any fear of missing anything else. I even found time to go to a game area where you could build a futuristic LEGO city, I loved that.

[elisi]

Late reply is late!!

But wanted to say thank you for the indepth reply. I never knew about any of this, and am glad that you got something good out of it in the end. <3