To tell the truth Cyn, in spite of being a self confident person, I would have been the last one to go up to the guy and say anything. That's because I don't feel I have a right to be intrusive with these people.
I don't like cons very much and my personal take on them is that any actor with an ounce of self respect would avoid them. But that's just my personal take. Ron Halder's esteem as an actor dropped considerably in my view when he turned up at the convention in the first place. It probably sounds very harsh, but I respect the actors who don't attend these events far more than those who do. I find the antics that the guests get up to on stage a complete turn off. I like my actors to do their job and play the parts they play. The idea that they turn into this performing troupe of circus animals is distasteful to me.
The other aspect is that after previous life experiences, I find I cannot join in with the general hysteria of these things. At last year's Gatecon I found myself withdrawing further and further the more hysterical the antics became. I'm not sure why. I think I have been exposed to and done too many horrendous things in my life (war and killing not being the least of them) and it has damaged me to a large degree. It has coloured my world with PTSD and turned me into a different person than I was before I joined the military. It doesn't mean that I am not a nice person or someone who can enjoy themselves or have fun, I just don't seem to be able to fling myself wholeheartedly into the hysteria and excitement. <shrug> I am probably very damaged and I am a much more private person than I was before in many ways. I would never approach an actor like Ron Halder now, although I might have a few years ago. Something justs holds me back.
Yet if you saw me with close friends and family you would wonder what I was talking about!
I'm probably not making any sense here at all and I apologise for the ramblings. My PTSD has kicked in big time since meeting, on a Nile cruise boat of all places, a British officer who happened to be on the shot up Basra road at the same time I was. We were searching for 'live' people and he was a military journalist sent to record the carnage. We subequently found no live people and he inadvertently made a reference to all the dead children among the Iraqi soldiers that we found. My nightmares about that came back big time and now I cannot sleep properly.
So not meeting Ron Halder has rather paled into insignificance next to that I can assure you!
Incidentally, the comment your friend made about Ron giving her the creeps once she knew he was Cronus? The answer to that is that he isn't Cronus. Cronus doesn't exist. Ron is an actor who helped to create a part with his acting ability. He's probably a nice normal guy with a wife and family. The notion of dealing out wholesale death and destruction would never enter into his life arena in reality! Unless of course he did something creepy at the con to make her feel that way. I find it rather sad that someone would associate a TV persona with the real person's persona.
