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This episode so nearly took the top spot, if only it wasn’t for Clary’s crazy idea to tell Simon’s mother about Simon’s death.. oh, and whoever jumbled up those Alec scenes at the end there. Otherwise, we love this episode!
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Jace get slapped in the face, Clary kills a demon, Clary gets the Mortal Cup, Jace and Clary kiss for the first time.. and we still end up talking about Alec for 10 minutes. Oops? Listen to us argue about Clace while we #EnjoyShadowhunters…
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We were lucky enough to attend the Welcoming Party on Saturday morning, to kick off Pandemonium Con and after a crazy game of Jenga, the boys tried to tidy up the fallen pieces, however failed miserably and just threw all the bricks into a box.
Matt: “What tremendous fun that was! What’s the next game? Have you ever played Code Names before? That’s a great game, we should play that next!!”
Host: “So we have some lines here from the show, we read them out, you’re gonna have to guess who said it.”
Dom: “They have to guess?”
Host: “Yes, you read it out for them, they guess.”
Dom: “Oh, thank god. That’s alright then!”
Host: “You get it right, you go over there and you get a prize”
Matt: “What’s the price??”
Host isn’t entirely sure. Turns out to be notebooks they were selling in the merch store, which were super cute!
Isaiah: “I’m gonna do it in the character… (soft British accent) ‘There it is. The famous Morgenstern swagger. Wayland. Herondale. Lightwood. It’s hard to keep track..’”
After everyone stops laughing, Will and Matt conclude that the accent and voice was indeed very good, and Matt guesses Isabelle for laughs.
Fan: “Sebastian”
Dom is up next. He looks confused. Dom shows his quote to Matt.
Matt: “That isn’t on the show! That’s ridiculous!”
Dom: “First rule of Shadowhunting: When something explodes just keep walking. Never think twice. Never look away. PS: Never been said on the show!”
Fan: “Alec.”
Dom: “No.”
Fan: “Dominic?”
Dom: “Who uis Jace, yes. Never been said.”
Discussion over explosions and walking starts. Matt takes the card from Dom and debates the quote. He is very unhappy about the logic, saying it makes no sense to not look away AND to keep walking. Dom explains that you’re walking away from the explosion. Matt says “But never think twice, don’t look away… if I don’t look away, and keep walking..”
Matt gets up to act it out, looking behind himself at the explosion and walking forwards, promptly tripping off the stage, but smoothly catches himself and continues as if nothing happened “That’s a bad first rule…”
Dom: “There were so many first rules…”
Will starts a quote, in a soft, female voice, but before he gets more than two words in, everyone laughs. Dom interrupts, saying “Don’t do that!”
Will starts again, everyone laughs.
Will starts again. “It’s like my brain is telling me to do one thing and my heart another.”
Fan: “Clary.”
Matt is up.
Matt: “Whoever puts their hand up first I’m pointing at you. Impossible just means try again.”
Fan: “Alec”
Matt: “Boom there we go. What are the odds? That’s the one that people actually ask me to write down all the time.”
Isaiah is up.
Isaiah: “Together we can restore my family name and keep the institute.”
Dom: “I don’t remember this one either!”
Matt: (pouting) “I’m not reading that quote.”
Matt gives his card to Dom
Dom: “I see Isabelle is the smart one in the family..”
Fan: “Magnus?”
Dom: “Nope”
Fan: “Alec?”
Dom: “Nope”
Matt: (catching on to what the fan just said) “Why would Alec say this??”
Fan: “Meliorn!”
Dom: “Yes!”
Will: “If I listened to my heart, I would never be able to do my job.”
Clary. Nope.
Alec. Nope.
Matt: (pointing at fan who’s out of her chair, waving) “Ok, you seem super enthusiastic!!”
Fan: “Magnus”
Dom: “Nope”
Fan: “Jace.”
YES!
Isaiah: “Emotions are nothing but a distraction, You are ruled by them.”
Fan: “Alec”
Matt: “Yes! That’s a perfect Alec line…” (pauses, then mumbling) “He is such a dumb dumb.”
Dom doesn’t remember another line.
Matt: “Don’t worry. It was early on. And this isn’t your line..”
Dom: “Yeah but… They still gave me all the scripts, right?”
Dom: “Emotions are never black and white, they are more like a symptom”
Fan: (instantly) “Magnus!”
Isaiah: “Ok, from now we will need episode number and name…”
Will (in an urgent, British Aristocrat voice) “Save your worries for the mundanes! Everybody has a sad song!” continuing “And that’s how it was delivered as well.”
Fan: “Jace in the City of Bones”
Dom: “Yes. Wow. Well done. I am sure that’s not in the show! Especially if I delivered it like that!” (laughter) “In that British accent you always do, (‘fake’ British) ‘Everybody has a sad song’ rather than just talk the way I actually talk.”
Matt does the last card.
Dom: “Oh, I actually remember this one!!!”
(everybody cheers!)
Matt: “Let’s just keep playing games! All weekend long!”
We were lucky enough to attend the Welcoming Party on Saturday morning, to kick off Pandemonium Con.
This had been advertised as a relaxed party in which the Shadowhunters cast and fans would play games, and it all kicked off with a not in any way relaxing game of Jenga…
Host: “So we’re gonna play Jenga, with a twist…”
Matt complains that “Jenga takes an enormous amount of time. We might as well be playing Settlers of Catan!”
Matt is also unhappy that it’s them, playing a game of Jenga on stage, rather than there being multiple games happening at once, that everyone could play and join in with, however it is quickly revealed that fan participation isn’t just encouraged, but in fact unavoidable.
Dom: “Ooooh, I see what’s going on here!”
All Jenga blocks have stickers with initials on them, and the game rules are that you remove the block of the person you want to go next, and therefore the person that’s most likely going to lose the game.
Host: “So the way it works, imagine that I want Dom to loose…” Dom looks offended.
Matt: “So if all the fan pieces are gone, do the fans loose?”
Host: “Well, the pieces are in rows, so there’s three of each, in each layer, so that’s not really going to happen, is it?”
Matt: “I don’t know! You don’t know how good we are!”
Dom choses a ‘Matt’ piece.
Matt: “Am I getting targeted? Well, this one is mine! So I’m winning!”
Matt puts the piece with his name on it on the table in front of him and instantly gets heckled by the audience.
Audience: “Aren’t you going to put it on top??”
Matt: “Oh, is that how we’re doing it? Alright…”
Will goes next and also takes a Matt piece.
Host: “Well, hopefully the next person won’t chose you again.”
Matt: “But it doesn’t matter, because ultimately the tower will still be full of names, because the person whose pieces you’ve taken are just on top of the tower, so no one is losing…”
Host and Matt argue and Matt eventually gives up, trying to explain what he means and goes “oh alright, whatever”
Will freaks everyone out, by shaking the tower, but removes the Matt piece, then tries to put it on top
Will: “This bit… I’ve had a lot of coffee, so this is the hard bit!”
Matt’s turn.
Matt: “Ok, I’m gonna get rid one of these fan ones. Does that mean a fan comes up next, yeah? Good! How does it work? Can I use two hands? Can I just do whatever I want?”
Matt is clearly distressed by the lack of rules.
Host: “You can use as many hands as you want!”
Matt manages to remove the fan piece. Fan comes up on stage.
Host: “Who is you want to lose?”
Dom: “No pressure! You didn’t think it all the way through when you volunteered, did you?”
They realise they are playing the game wrong.
Matt: “We were just going down the line…”
Fan removes Matt’s piece, so Matt has to go again, now that everyone has understood the rules.
Matt: “Okay, I’m just gonna go twice now!” (chooses his own piece)
Host: “But if you push your piece out, you have to go again. Why do you want to do that?”
Matt: “If I get all my pieces on top, then I don’t have to go again later!”
Host: “I kind of want him to lose now”
Dom: “Yeah, I know”
Matt removes Dom’s piece, so Dom has to go next. He starts. The tower wobbles. Everyone yells and screams.
Dom: “I got this, okay?”
Isaiah: “Noooooo… Nooooooo…”
Audience: “Pressure! Pressure”
Dom get his piece out. It’s a fan.
Fan comes on stage.
Dom: “Round of applause for her!”
Host: “Choose who you want to loose. And yes, you can pick a fan if you want if you don’t want them to lose. You’re really nice. I still kind of want Dom to loose”
Dom: “With those skills? Right..”
Fan removes a piece. It’s Dom’s, so he has to go again.
Matt starts straightening the tower, after it wobbles from floor vibrations, when the fan leaves the stage.
Dom: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING??”
Matt: “I’m making it more even!”
Isaiah: “Slooooooooowly… sloooooowly..”
Dom removes a piece. It’s Matt’s, so Matt goes to look at the tower, clearly aiming for another Dom piece.
Isaiah: “It’s not even personal anymore at this point..”
Matt: “Now it’s just about survival! It’s not about targeting any individual…”
Dom: “But these ones all have my name on them. And then I have to go again! How do you not understand the game??”
Matt takes Dom’s piece out. Dom goes again. Touches a piece, then moves as if to chose a different one
Matt: “No! You can’t change your answer! You have to remove that piece!”
Lots of suspense. Dom nudges and pushes but the tower wobbles.
Matt: “No, no no no. Go to the other side! Do from over there!”
Dom stops and turns on Matt
Dom: “Listen MATE..”
Dom launches himself at Matt and pulls Matt’s hood over his head. Lots of laughter.
Dom goes back to the tower, glances up at Isaiah, who is staring with a worried look on his face.
Dom: “That face isn’t helping, Isaiah!”
Dom turns back to tower, takes a deep breath.
Dom: “I’m shaking…”
Matt: “Alright baby! Come on! You can do it!”
Dom casually whips out his Jenga piece. It goes flying across the stage. When Dom finds it again, it turns out to be another fan.
Fan comes up, then turns to audience, asking: “Who should I pick?”
Dom: “No no. No audience conferring!”
Fan: “What’s the aim of the game?” (laughter)
Matt: “Remove that piece there very delicately. Wobble it around a bit..”
Dom: “Don’t listen to Matt!”
Matt: “Yeah, I don’t want to put you off. Get on that side.”
Fan: “No but… seriously, what’s the aim of the game?”
Host: “Well, Isaiah’s not done anything, so maybe you should pick him? Or a fan?”
Fan: “I don’t want us to loose!”
Dom: “You do whatever you want, but you should pick that piece right there. I mean, you do what you like. But that one. Right there. Just that one.. you know.. what does it say on the front? Oh, ‘fan’. Fancy that.”
Matt: “Kid, you’ve got it. I believe in you!”
Matt starts humming the jaws theme tune..
Matt: “You all seen Jaws? That movie has a big old shark in it..”
Fan keeps trying to get the piece out. Lots of oohs and aahs from cast.
Matt: “She’s shaking”
Dom: “You got it! You got it!”
Matt: “No way!”
Fan gets her piece out. It’s Isaiah.
Isaiah: “That was amazing”
Matt: “Oh my. Oh my my my…”
Audience wants to know what happens to the looser of the game.
Host: “The looser has to do an imitation of one of these guys..”
(Oooooooh…)
Matt starts humming Old Lang Syne. We think he was aiming for more of the Jaws theme tune and missed, but who knows with Matt.
Isaiah gets his piece out. It’s Matt.
Isaiah: “I’m sorry.”
Matt: “Old Matt.. Alright, let’s do this thing.”
Isaiah wobbles the stage walking back to his seat. Matt backs off from the tower until Isaiah sits down. When Matt goes to lean towards the tower again, Isaiah gets back up going ‘oh, let me just’ and wobbles the stage some more, stomping around. Then he sits down.
Matt touches a piece
Matt: “Nope.” (He doesn’t want to tale that one out, as it’s difficult.
Dom: “No no no, if you’ve touched it.. you don’t get to change the rules in the middle of the game. I had to ninja my one out.”
Matt concedes and returns to the piece he previously touched. Matt whips his piece out and it goes flying across half the stage, as Dom’s did, earlier.
Matt: “Where did it go? This is now stressful!”
Will: “What I’m doing here is I’m testing the friction of the table..” chosing from the lowest tier.
Matt: “Oh, the bottom ones!”
Clearly this had not occurred to Matt. Will tries to slide one of the bottom pieces out and tower wobbles.
OOOOOOH.
Will: “Ok, ok, hold on, Turns out, it’s a load bearing brick! Maybe if I do it from this side..”
More wobbling
Matt/Dom: “Oh my god, oh my god…”
Isaiah: “No, no.. no… no..”
Will gets his piece out. It’s a fan.
Host: “Ok, who wants to loose?”
Fan comes up
Isaiah: “What is your name?”
Fan: “Hannah”
Isaiah: “Hannah? Good night, Hannah.”
(Laughter)
Hannah casually gets her piece out. Cheering. It’s another fan.
Matt: “She’s never played this game before..”
Next fan comes up.
Matt: “Your whole life comes down to this moment right now. Everything you’ve ever done.”
She touches a piece. It’s not a good piece.
Dom: “Oh gosh.. oh gosh..”
Matt: “Now she’s stuck with it. She has to do this one.”
Tower wobbles.
Dom: “Oh gosh…”
Ooooohs and aaaaaahs
Matt: “This is so much pressure…. You got it! You got it! You got it! Stay calm!”
Matt tries to help by putting his hands on the fan’s back. Somehow we didn’t feel that this was going to help in keeping her calm…
Will: “Absolute silence in the room please.”
Room goes quiet. Fan pulls on the piece, tower wobbles dramatically. Shouting from the audience.
Matt: “Oh my god. Oh my god.”
Tower falls.
Host: “Unfortunately you have to imitate someone from the cast.”
Fan refuses.
Host: “If you don’t I’ll kick you out of the convention centre.”
Matt/Dom/Will/Isaiah: “NOOOOOO”
Dom: (gesticulating wildly) “Matt’s an easy one though, just do this with your hands”
Matt looks offended.
Matt gesticulates and shouts “What? JENGA?”
(laughter)
Matt: “This is like the ultimate level of stage freight. You’re allowed to make fun of us, we really don’t mind.”
In which we continue talking about Pandemonium Con. Forever and ever and ever. This part discusses the panels in as much detail as we can cope with after still having not slept more than 4 hours per night, since Friday. Slight 3b Spoiler alert!
We have a tonne of notes and we will put together some blog posts on our website with detailed information on the panels and photographs, as soon as we are able to!
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In which we have a lot of things to say about Pandemonium Con. More stuff than we expected. So much, that today we are talking about all our activities and the miraculousness that is the Shadowhunters cast.
We will discuss all the panels we attended in tomorrow’s podcast. There are so many episodes coming your way this week! Be prepared!!!
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We discuss The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, what worked for us, what didn’t work and whether we are going to continue watching this TV show, when it returns in 2019.
Light spoilers for the first 10 episodes, so if you have not seen Sabrina yet and want to remain completely unspoiled, please watch the show first!
We are reading chapters 14 – 17 of City of Ashes, in which Maia encounters some of the same object permanence problems that Jace has struggled with throughout a lot of the book and Alec is smart, insightful and cunning and we are loving it!
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Cross fandom recommendations from our second game of Fic Brackets. We hope you enjoy and please leave all these lovely authors feedback, if you’ve enjoyed their stories! LISTEN TO THE PODCAST EPISODE HERE.
