Talk:Con Man (web series)

Twitter sources

I feel using tweets from Tudyk's, Fillion's, Haarsma's, and the series's Twitter accounts is justified under WP:TWITTER, but please, let me know if I'm going a little too far on that. So far, I'm using tweets to source intention to film crowd scenes at Phoenix Comiccon and Dallas Comic Con, that Spectrum is built out of The Softwire, and that the Indiegogo surpassed $1.75 million on a specific date. That's four sources, which is one-fourth of the unique references on the page. I expect the last one, about 1.75, will be replaced should an article come out about it. (Who knows, maybe it will.) I'm hoping filming at Phoenix Comiccon and Dallas Comic Con will be replaced as the two cons approach? But anyway, at this moment, I don't think I'm going to be using any more Twitter sources. ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 17:12, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

At the moment, there's only one source from twitter, to source when the indiegogo surpassed the stretch goal to fund the full season. I'm going to currently add another tweet, this time to source the date principal photography wrapped. If it's deemed inappropriate, let me know. ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 01:59, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Interviews and other articles

Just so I can keep track, I'm listing a few interviews and possibly relevant articles not yet used in the article so that I don't lose them

• Tudyk interview with HollywoodNews
• Tudyk and Fillion interview with Esquire
• Tudyk interview with Slug Magazine
• Press release on Nasdaq about partnering with Hang W/
• Interview with Yost notes Alan's guest appearance on Justified was credited as Wray Nerely. It's WP:SYNTH, I'm sure, to suggest Con Man is that "something" but I'm not sure if it's relevant to mention the name of Alan's character was one he was credited by professionally. So, I'm just leaving this here. See DigitalSpy article below (the other one, not Rogue One).
• Interview with LA Times, lots of stuff regarding production and what-not.
• Variety report mentioning Con Man as the third highest crowdfunding effort "in the sector" (I'm not sure what that means).
• NerdAppropriate Podcast interviewed Tudyk with bits about Con Man. Starts at 12:05 with a roughly three-minute introduction to Con Man, 15:15 is about the circumstances of the interview itself, interview itself begins at 17:10 and runs until 29:40. Covers a mention of filming at conventions (in the intro), story arc of episodes 10-12, mentions of a timeline (Alan and PJ "kicking it around" for one and a half years, Nathan joined six months into that).
• Article from the Orange County Register. About half of it is a rehash of what's already floating around and what-not, but there are a couple of bits here and there that are possibly relevant.
• SDCC write-ups:
  • Entertainment Weekly
  • Hypable
  • CBR
  • Paste Magazine
  • Zap2It
  • io9
  • Hyable short interview
  • IGN video interview
  • Entertainment Weekly interview (Flash) (and my flash player isn't working, so idk if this has the same interview on it
  • Chat with Nerdist
  • LA Times video interview
  • some questions with Blastr
  • a different Blaster thing, I think
  • Con Man at Nerd HQ Conversations for a Cause
  • Nerd HQ, but only Con Man without all the other convos
  • Alison Haislip with GamesRadar
  • TV.com brief, mentions Hall H (first webseries to use that venue, apparently)
  • TVLine video interview
  • Collider video interview
  • Nerdist Panel liveblog
• FastCompany summarizes Con Man production
• DigitalSpy reporting Tudyk would've turned down Rogue One if conflicting with Con Man. Don't know if useful, but storing it here in case it is.
• Paste Magazine, another article
• Small thing from Wall Street Journal, saw a potentially useful quote
• CNET quotes Alan on Wray
• DigitalSpy
• Emily Kinney's Reddit AMA on dropping out of Con Man
• Tudyk and Fillion interview with the Decider
• Haarsma briefly with the Orange Coast Magazine
• MoviePilot before the series was released
• Blastr, in case the casting alone being worth "price of admission" proves useful
• USA Today
• wrt Rogue One cameo
• NYCC write-ups:
  • Blastr
  • Entertainment Weekly
  • GeeksOfDoom
  • Alan Tudyk with Marvel Live
  • Bleeding Cool
  • NYCC provided video of the panel
  • EW video interview
  • THR
• Hitfix interview
• Interview with Creative Screenwriting
• Fillion with Advocate
• Fillion and Tudyk with Kevin Smith
• Haarsma and Tudyk with CBR
• Lapira with Assignment X
• Tudyk with Ashbury Park Press podcast
• Haarsma with Three if by Space
• Con Man Reddit AMA
• SDCC 2016 write-ups
  • Blastr
  • Den of Geek
  • Bleeding Cool
  • Video from Comic-Con HQ
  • Interview with Fandango
• FilmJournal
• io9 on season 2
• Reviews:
  • IndieWire on first four episodes
  • DailyDot on the first four, a negative review
  • CNET, briefly, on the first four, bit mixed
• Video game:
  • North with Eurogamer
  • Gamasutra
  • Blastr
  • EW
  • PocketGamer
  • CrowdFunInsider
• Comic:
  • Free Comic Book Day
  • CBR on FCBD
  • More on FCBD
  • Digital Journal
  • Issue 1
  • Issue 3

I will add more potentially useful articles, again so they don't get lost, as they come out. The timestamp at right is updated. ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 21:55, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Because my previous format was difficult to read, I consolidated everything into a bullet list within my first comment, rather than the mess of prose and links and making it look like a multi-person thread when it's just me. Permalink to the page before this consolidation, in case anyone is interested in that. ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 01:00, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Cast section

At this rate, Mindy Sterling (playing Bobbie) is going to appear in every episode. She already appears in about half of them. At this point, should she be added to the main cast section? Originally, I had put Alan and Nathan there because they were the only named characters and featured heavily, for obvious reasons, in the publicity.

And, since we're here, should a proper recurring cast section be built? I threw together a quick list here, but with a bit more info because it's missing some. That's every cast member who appears in three or more episodes. Now, there are four cast members who appear in at least two episodes: Nolan North, Ari Stidham, Natasha Price, and Sasha Feiler. I'd like to include Nolan North as he plays a named character which a fair portion of screentime, and the other three don't play named characters (though Ari Stidham's is more than come and go, unlike the others, he plays "1st class geek"). Anyway, I'm thinking anyone appearing in that list I linked plus Nolan North? Any objections to that? ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 21:39, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Actually Stidham is credited for three episodes. ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 22:41, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

I made the above edit to the page. ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 21:06, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Episode synopses

Is there a reason the first 10 episodes have a paragraph long description, but the last three don't? Is there a source these are all getting pulled from? Xavdid (talk) 05:31, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

It's simply I was writing them, and I wrote the first ten, but I never got around to watching the last three. ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 13:09, 3 April 2016 (UTC)