No, it had nothing at all to do with what questions were sent first/last.
As Tramz already mentioned in the previous post, there was a council meeting held so the others could get a look at the questions, and to sort of organize them as well as we could without knowing who in the band would be at the interview, anyway!
Obviously questions about the album, film, and tour were put at the top of the list, and then from there, we made sure to choose at least one question from each person who chose two. Again, because we didn't know the time limit of the interview or who would be there, we wanted to make sure we had a question from everyone on hand.
Because we had organized it this way beforehand, there was no way for me to remember the order of which questions came to me first, so this was definitely not a "first-come, first-serve" basis. Even if it had, we would have still had to omit some questions, as many were for Marco or Anette as well.
Basically, the first question, even if it was mine, seemed the most obvious, so I went with it and just sort of let questions go from there. As he was talking about his time in the U.S., the most natural question after that was about when they would be returning here for a tour. Then discussion of that led to questions about the show that night, discussion of the secret show, etc. When Tuomas was talking about his time in the U.S., Desi's question came up because as he was mentioning Kansas, I told him that Desi was from there. He seemed interested in this fact, and that was when she asked her question.
Then, when discussing the show that night, the next question that seemed to come naturally was Sherry's question, which in turn led to talk about the possibility of doing a show with an orchestra. So on and so on. And also, since so few interviews had discussion about the movie, we wanted to include questions about the film, so we also went through those questions. Once we talked about the movie and the tour, we went to questions about the album and songs in particular (we thought that was a good time to bring up the question about SLS), which led to questions about bonus tracks and if there would be any for the album, which in turn led to discussion of previous albums. Then his talk about not wanting to go back to DPP era opened up the topic of which songs the band didn't like playing live. Then as we saw we were reaching the end of the interview, I went with a "trivial" question, to at least have one question that didn't center on Nightwish-related things, and then I made sure to ask about when they would be playing Australia and South America, since I got several questions from people about those two locations (particularly Brazil in regards to South America)...hopefully you can sort of see how the flow of conversation led to certain questions. It had nothing to do at all with when they were submitted or anything like that. And the time goes very quickly too; we had hoped that 30 minutes would have been enough time to at least get one question from every person who sent in something, but we didn't even scratch the surface, to be honest. We had so many great questions left over, so the questions that weren't used were not because they weren't as good, but simply because we either ran out of time, or the question didn't fit into where the conversation was going as much. I hope I have explained this as best I could.
Also, because there were so many interesting questions left over, I have kept all of them on file, and may use them somewhere down the line in the instance of future interviews. I am not trying to say we will have more interviews after this, but things appeared to go well, so you never know! So if we are lucky enough to do this again, these other questions will find a home. They have not been discarded or forgotten about, and they were not used because they weren't any good, or because the questions that were used were necessarily better. Quite the opposite; I wish we'd had more time to get to everyone because so many of these questions were well-thought out and insightful. But that gives us incentive to try for another interview someday, doesn't it?
