Sex not Stargates Brings Fans to SG-1/Atlantis Expo (Joe Flanigan, etc.)

[wraithfodder]

Sex not Stargates Brings Fans to SG-1/Atlantis Expo
Love in a Wormhole: SG-1/Atlantis Convention

Excerpt from this 11/12/2009 article, which has a nice picture of Joe Flanigan in it...

An audience of predominantly middle aged women gathered the weekend of Nov. 6-8 at the Los Angeles Marriott at LAX for Creation Entertainment’s Official Stargate SG-1/Atlantis Convention for a chance to melt at the sight of the Beatles of Stargate — hotties Michael Shanks, Joe Flanigan, Ben Browder, and perhaps the Ringo of the group, Paul McGillion.

REST AT : http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/?p=11514

Hee, it was a fun article to read, and also shows that conventions are NOT just teenagers (I think that may be reserved for Twilight conventions).

Comments

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Great article, though I do think the title is a rather narrow view of conventions. As was stated in some of the comments following the article, a lot of people go for more reasons that simply to see the eye candy. I've never been to a con myself but would one day like to go, not so much to meet the actors, but more to meet my fellow fans.

To say it's all about the sex kind of makes the fans sound dirty, when there's more to a convention than the pretty faces.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

If it was just about 'sex', the actors wouldn't need to talk. they'd just stand there. We love to hear them impart stories, but I also know how the press works. Titles like that draw in the fans, although I have this overwhelming desire to put the proper punctuation in the title! ;)

And yup, meeting and hanging with fellow fans is a big part of doing cons. I never think to say it as I always think it's a given.