I know this is a few days late, but I had things going on and didn't get to putting the photos on the interwebs in an LJ-friendly form until tonight. But yes! I figured I'd share the experience of my very first Doctor-Who-cast meeting.



The event was held at a very tiny venue just off Times Square (something you learn about us NYC-folk is that we can squeeze a theater into ANY nook or cranny.) I got there, met up with Andre T from The Happiness Patrol podcast, debated the delay of the latest Terrible Zodin with Barnaby Edwards, nabbed a good seat, and waited for the show to begin. Being the massive dork that I am, I read the Target novel of The Highlanders while I waited. And then things got underway:



The show itself was really more like a live commentary of snippets of the Two era, which I was a little miffed about at first because I thought it was going to be more original content, but then I remembered a) most of the episodes on Lost in Time don't have commentaries and b) it's Frazer Hines in the flesh talking to us. We were allowed to take pictures but not video, so it's a damn good thing my camera was actually cooperating with me that night. Unfortunately, I didn't get as many good pictures as I wanted, since I missed most of his best faces and poses when I put my camera down, but there's still a few goodies in here, mostly due to context.

Making the obligatory "you would've had to shoot us to get us off the show" speech:


Watching the goodbye scene at the end of The War Games:



Remembering Pat yelling "YOU LITTLE SHIT!" at him (all in good fun) when he and Colin Baker were fooling around with his wheelchair in The Two Doctors:


On literally arguing with himself playing both Jamie and Two in Helicon Prime:


Ken Deep (from Podshock) brought up Prison in Space. Frazer's reaction to the mention of leather-clad Zoe was to do the Jamie thing and rob him of personal space while, and I'm not kidding, rumbling "WHAAAAT. Say it again. I love it when you talk dirty to me."


Apparently the guy who choreographed the fight scene between Zoe and the Karkus in The Mind Robber was in the audience, so we got to watch a clip of that. I felt the overwhelming need to get some shots of Frazer with Classic Who superimposed on him:




"Look at the size 'o THAT thing, Doctor!"


Thwarting the crew's efforts to see under his kilt during the helicopter rescue scene in The Invasion:



This was a really poor shot because I got to it late and he isn't pointing to the right spot anymore, but worth noting in case anyone else wants to try scouring pictures for a better shot. Showing off a scar on his upper forehead he got from a swordfight in The Highlanders:


Recalling the other helicopter rescue scene in Fury From the Deep:


And finally, a bit of derp:



During the Q&A afterwards, I seriously considered taking a hit for the Terrible Team and asking Frazer about sandwiches. Eventually I chickened out. Oh well :/

And then it was time to SIGN THINGS! Part of the autograph policy was that if you bought a copy of Hines Sight, you could get one personal item signed for free. Deciding to take this route, I scrambled to figure out what to get signed: my Target Highlanders or a piece of my Jamie-art. Between Tumblr and Facebook, arting won out. Pretty much everyone else there getting personal stuff signed had their books, DVDs, or Big Finish sleeves with them (one guy even had a small stack of Doctor Who Annuals.)

So I made it up to Frazer at the table and was more or less completely lost for anything special or witty to say, not even an "I love Jamie" (although that was because I figured that just being there was indicative of that fact.) Before signing the book he double-checked the spelling of my name with me and quipped "ah, Hannah and Her Sisters," to which I replied "I actually haven't seen that movie yet." While he was signing The Book, I pulled this out:



Barnaby, who was standing right next to Frazer, saw it and his face lit up and said "is that one of your pieces of artwork?" (He's a fellow contributor to TTZ, so he's familiar with my Who artings) I said it was and showed it to Frazer. He smiled and said it was lovely :D



I wound up waiting until the crowd had died down (there were a few dozen people in line behind me the first time) before going back and asking him for a photo of us. Everyone else who had done it before had done so with a copy of Hines Sight. I decided to pretend to be original and did one with my Highlanders book (someone else actually had an Emerdale Farm book with them.)



And well, that was that, really.

I really need to get that art framed now.