Dragon*Con 2010
September 3rd-6th
While this was not technically a Quantum Leap convention, it brought stars Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell together for the first time (in person) in 15 years!
This event was held
in Atlanta, Georgia.
Oh boy.
The Quantum Leap panel was the official start of my sister stalking Scott Bakula all weekend. She claims that she's had a crush on this man for twenty years, although I somehow didn't know about this until after I told her he was going to be at Dragon*Con. It seems like the sort of thing I would have already known. If it were true. On the other hand, I DID know about our mom's crush on him.
One of the very first questions someone asked in the panel was which leap was the hardest for Scott to act. He thought a second and said, "The chimp wasn't easy." Then he looked at Dean Stockwell and said, "Don't you say anything!" Dean leaned toward the mic and said, "He just made it look easy."
The main thing I remember from this panel was the total bromance vibe Scott and Dean were giving off. They sort of went on at length about how great it was to work together, and that they still keep in touch, and how cool it was for Dean to guest star on Star Trek Enterprise. Scott was really the one praising Dean the whole time. For different questions, he would prompt Dean with stuff like, "Do you remember what you told me about that?" or "Should I tell them about when you called me on the phone a week later?" or "Tell them the story about the green wig."
Friendly advice: don't ever ask Dean Stockwell about the green wig. It was gross, and you probably don't want to know.
At one point while Scott was going on about how everything he knows about acting he learned from Dean, Amy swears she saw him tear up a little. I don't know about that, but the whole thing was kind of sweet. I remember Scott said, "He loves this. He loves it when I talk about my feelings," or something like that, while Dean was glaring at him. And Scott just smiled back and patted him on the shoulder.
When Scott was trying to say he thought Dean had a photographic memory (when it came to memorizing lines), he accidentally called Dean photogenic. Twice. Amy told me not to include that in my report. Heh.
The best part of the whole panel, for me, was also the most awkward. A fan came up to the mic and asked if Scott and Dean would look at each other and say "Oh boy" like they had just appeared on stage in front of everyone and didn't know what was going on. The whole audience laughed at the question, and then waited for them to do it. They turned and looked at each other, with these reluctant expressions like "Are we really going to do this?" and that made everyone laugh again. But it was like they couldn't decide if they were going to do it or not, so they just kept looking at each other - for so long that everyone got quiet and then burst out laughing again. We laughed and got quiet three whole times while they just stared at each other. But then finally they both said, "Ohhhhhh boy." Everyone applauded. I hate it when people ask actors to perform during panels, but in this case it was actually pretty funny.
After the panel ended, as we were getting up to leave, Amy and a woman who had been sitting near her struck up a conversation about how they were both planning to marry Scott Bakula. Oddly, I don't think they felt the same way about Dean Stockwell.