The weird thing is the first one, two years ago, was equally badly organised (although much less popular) and Jensen was jumped on by the girl, so I really thought he'd never come back to this organiser, and I was absolutely amazed that he did this year. I would have put money on that, and lost, so now although I think this one was way worse for fans, maybe it wasn't quite so for the stars.
However I think the actors were taken advantage of, Misha having to cover for Jensen's panel and explain to the fans that Jensen wouldn't make it, then Malik and Gabe having to cover some of that too, instead of an organiser standing up to admit it. They handed out more tickets than they'd budgeted for (and presumably paid the actors for) - with all the confusion over missing photo ops and autographs in the packs, and no-one checking them. I got to the front of the queue to collect my missing photo ops at 10pm after my autographs and they had run out of numbered printed photo op tickets - ie the 1,000 or so numbered photos of Jensen. I assumed that I would have already been allocated my numbers, but apparently not, they had already given out *all* the scheduled photo op tickets, so someone else had been given mine, and they scribbled "photo Jensen" on a spare blank autograph card (and no-one could forge that, obviously!)
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Re: Aptly-named Asylum
Date: 2009-06-06 01:46 am (UTC)However I think the actors were taken advantage of, Misha having to cover for Jensen's panel and explain to the fans that Jensen wouldn't make it, then Malik and Gabe having to cover some of that too, instead of an organiser standing up to admit it. They handed out more tickets than they'd budgeted for (and presumably paid the actors for) - with all the confusion over missing photo ops and autographs in the packs, and no-one checking them. I got to the front of the queue to collect my missing photo ops at 10pm after my autographs and they had run out of numbered printed photo op tickets - ie the 1,000 or so numbered photos of Jensen. I assumed that I would have already been allocated my numbers, but apparently not, they had already given out *all* the scheduled photo op tickets, so someone else had been given mine, and they scribbled "photo Jensen" on a spare blank autograph card (and no-one could forge that, obviously!)