Fannish 50: #8: Gallifrey One
Mar. 5th, 2023 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valoiseSince about 2015 Gallifrey One has been one of my favorite cons. A bit bigger than most fan-run cons, Gally has been going for over 30 years, starting during the wilderness years when the only new Doctor Who content were books, Big Finish audio, and fanworks.
In addition to guests from the cast and crew of both Classic and Modern DW, I love the focus on fan-created content including (but not limited to) panels, cosplay, a vidshow, game shows, art show, live podcasts and more I usually spend more time at these activities than in the main hall with the highlight guests. This year one of the guests, outgoing show runner Chris Chibnail, also signed on for a panel other than in that main hall. And on that panel I saw his inner fanboy joyously emerge.
Because the convention takes place in LA, there is a regular panel of television writers who are also DW fans. Regular Gally guests Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, David Gerrold, Craig Miller, and Gillian Horvath have worked on iconic shows from many ST series, Highlander, Lost, Family Guy, The Orville, and many, many more. Chibnail, grinning broadly, seemed a bit awestruck and had to be encouraged to join in. When Craig Miller mentioned being a creator of the UK kid's show Pocket Dragon Adventures, Chibnail's looked absolutely delighted. I'd heard that this is the first fan event that he'd been to since he was a teenager. Even as the DW showrunner he had only done the huge commercial spectacle of ComicCon to showcase Jodie Whittaker taking over the role of the Doctor. It looked like Gally was his safe place to let his fannish joy take flight.
In addition to guests from the cast and crew of both Classic and Modern DW, I love the focus on fan-created content including (but not limited to) panels, cosplay, a vidshow, game shows, art show, live podcasts and more I usually spend more time at these activities than in the main hall with the highlight guests. This year one of the guests, outgoing show runner Chris Chibnail, also signed on for a panel other than in that main hall. And on that panel I saw his inner fanboy joyously emerge.
Because the convention takes place in LA, there is a regular panel of television writers who are also DW fans. Regular Gally guests Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, David Gerrold, Craig Miller, and Gillian Horvath have worked on iconic shows from many ST series, Highlander, Lost, Family Guy, The Orville, and many, many more. Chibnail, grinning broadly, seemed a bit awestruck and had to be encouraged to join in. When Craig Miller mentioned being a creator of the UK kid's show Pocket Dragon Adventures, Chibnail's looked absolutely delighted. I'd heard that this is the first fan event that he'd been to since he was a teenager. Even as the DW showrunner he had only done the huge commercial spectacle of ComicCon to showcase Jodie Whittaker taking over the role of the Doctor. It looked like Gally was his safe place to let his fannish joy take flight.
