In the past eight months since I last wrote about Matt, I have filled my twitter and Facebook timelines with immediate news of Matt's appearances in the media and /or conventions. There hasn't been one detail that had gone unnoticed. For a man who does not have any current projects for us to watch, he is certainly in the media often or enjoying the convention circuit.
Fan Expo is hosting an event with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill. Attendees purchase tickts to the convention and then tickets on how they will be seated in the panel. They pay more if they want a photo and/or autograph. By the end of this weekend, I will have spent $450 to sit in a room with him twice and to take a photo with him. I would genuinely do it all over again.
According to some fans, it is still possible to give talent cards at American cons, but it is increasingly getting more rare as security threats become more frequent and real. I wanted to give Matt a thank you card and quickly discovered it is near impossible.
You can't give it to a handler during the photo ops as they need to keep the flow of pictures happening frequently. You can try giving it during an autograph session, but not to a volunteer to pass onto a handler. So if you want to give Matt a thank you card at the fan expo, you would probably have to pay another $110 with tax just to hand it over.
Knowing I only had five seconds with him, I decided to choose one sentence that could sum up my entire experience with him. He finished taking a photo and then leaned forward with his hand extended to shake it. He greeted me with a warm smile and general courtesies. It was so hard to speak while being so close to him and looking directly at him. "Thank you for saving my life" I said. He titled his head slightly and thanked me.
Then he turned towards the camera with his hand on my shoulder. I was still in a daze and it took a while to even register he had his fingers up in a peace sign and I thought "There's something I'm suppose to be dong now, but what?" By the time it registered with me to also raise my arms and fingers, the picture was taken and I had to shake my head slightly just to return back to normalcy.
I remember putting my arm around him and thinking he seemed much smaller than I had imagined, but also so comforting and reassuring.
It's been a rather insane day with discovering I had lost a baby only fifteen minutes before Matt came out for his first panel in Toronto and then getting lost in the happiness of that panel and Arthur Darvill's, but also dealing with the loss of a baby. Talk more soon.
