2 posts tagged “comic con”
It's taken longer than I expected but we finally finished sorting through our 700+ photos from Comic Con.
The final set, pared down to about 150 is on my Flickr page.
You can see that here:
Comic Con '08
Below is what I'm calling the "Best Of the Best Of".
This was the first panel we went to and our first full day at CC. We showed up for the Dr. H panel almost an hour early and had to sit through the end of the Stargate Atlantis panel in order to get seats.
As soon as Stargate was over there was a mad rush towards stage to grab seats that people were leaving behind. Why they were leaving, I don't know; didn't they know what was coming up next? Have they no sense?
In a matter of minutes the room was packed to capacity, 4,000 raving Whedonites all packed in and waiting.
When he arrived the crowd went wild and the sound was deafening. It was so awesome.
He introduced everyone and got right to questions from fans.
At one point a woman asked about "Dr. Who" and the crowd reacted loudly, the panel mocked her politely but she still had no idea what she had done wrong. It was both sad and funny.
When the panel was over both Annie & I commented that we had felt like we had already got every dollar we paid to get in.
From there we made our way down onto the convention floor where all the vendors and gobzillions of people were.
It was a mad house, yo. I don't know how they fit all those people in that convention center. Sure it looks giant on the outside but when you're in there it feels pretty small. That is unless you need to get from one end to the other in just a matter of minutes. If that's the case you're pretty well boned.
We saw all these awesome things on the floor*:
See that shirt I'm wearing? The one that I made? (All props due to my slicey Dave for having the idea.) I sold it later in the day for $15. Well I sold one just like it. I made an extra one hoping to sell it and I did.
I brought a third shirt with me to change into, so I could literally sell the shirt off my back if I needed to.
After Futurama & The Simpsons panels we tried to go to the Lost panel but the line was ridiculous and I was more concerned about getting in to see the BSG panel that would undoubtedly be packed.
We decided it was looking like we weren't going to get into the Lost panel so (Ex) Office Wife, her old man Dave, and their friend Preston and I all left Annie behind and beat feet to go see the Dollhouse panel followed by BSG.
I know there are people who think otherwise but the Dollhouse panel made me want to see Dollhouse less. I really don't like Dushku and her and her behavior was a big turn off for me. At one point she was giving a hand-job to the microphone. I swear. Check out the video. The action starts around 45 seconds in.
The BSG panel was awesome; they showed us a teaser for the final half of the final season and showed a preview for Caprica, the upcoming prequel. I didn't have the camera so I didn't get any pictures of that.
During the panel Lindeloff & Cuse were giving out Lost related prizes to the fans asking questions and they appropriately enough gave Hurley a tub of Dharma Initive ranch dressing.
When that was over and while I was in the BSG panel Annie went over and saw the Pushing Dasies panel where she got really good seats and got these pretty awesome pictures of Kristin Chenoweth, Chi McBride and Lee Pace.
From there we broke for late lunch and went back in to try and catch the Mythbusters panel.
The line for that was ridiculously long and the room was pretty small so after we walked all they way to the end of it, up and down flights of stairs in the afternoon sun we decided to walk all the way back to the front of the line and get in line for the Sarah Silverman panel.
Annie being the lone wolf got a really good seat in the second row while the rest of us sat in the back.
The panel ended like this. I don't think I need to say anything else about that.
Walking in we were all handed tickets. About five minutes later they announced that the first 1,000 people to redeem the tickets got a free copy of seasons 1 & 2 on DVD and a t-shirt. Then they started an episode.
Being a fan it was a hard choice, watch the new episode in which Sweet D and Charlie become cannibals or go get the DVDs which I wanted to buy but didn't have the funds to. In the end I went to get the DVD.
It was a good time, worth the $75 dollars and the couple nights in a hotel (can we pre-book Château Chatte Squeaking now Mrs. N?) (Not as dirty as it sounds, French speakers.)
OK the line wasn't that long but it was pretty long.
We left San Luis yesterday at noon hoping to get in town to make a 6:00 showing of the pilot for new J.J. Abrams show "Fringe" but traffic did not allow and we arrived downtown at 6:01 local time and then had to look for parking.
You know, when there are emergencies they have anti-gouging laws, gas, milk, water...other stuff all stays the same price. That should apply for parking as well. Lots that would normally run "$3 all day" according to the signs were charging $10 for parking on Wednesday night and $15 for parking on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Thinking we might make the 7:30 screening of the pilot we walked hard the three blocks to the convention center and we we got to the front we were met by a group of men and women wearing badges shouting that everyone who still needs their passes has to go to the end of the line.
So we walked, and we walked, and kept on walking.
The
line snaked around the grassy area in front of the convention center,
then around the building and down to almost the very end of the
building on the other side were we came in from. The people who were in
front of us in line checked their watches and said that we walked 14
minutes from the front to the back of the line.
When we finally got
to the end people were raising their arms in triumph like they had one
a contest of "see who can queue the longest".
We waited, hardly moving for almost half an hour then suddenly the line was moving, we were snaking around where all those people had been standing and not moving before. And we walked, and walked, and walked, when we finally got inside the convention center there were men with badges shouting at us to go up the escalators and keep on going. And we walked a little bit more until finally coming into huge hall where they gave us our badges, lanyards, a program and a bag of goodies (Magic the Gathering cards! Now I can play the game I used to make fun of kids for playing! Oh Joy!).
The time was 7:35, five minutes after the screening was set to start. There was a big sign pointing us in the direction of the hall it was being held in so we chanced it and went it.
Success!
The doors were open, people were going in. We sat down and and noticed that the hall was only about 1/3 full and it stayed that way throughout the screening.
The show that we were so hot to see was pretty OK. It started off like a good episode of the X-Files but kinda lagged in the middle then wrapped up like a good episode of the X-Files. In the middle I was kind of bored though. But considering that it was the pilot episode and they had to introduce all the characters and the Big Idea for the show I'm willing to look past that boredom for now.
Today is the first full day of The Con and we are staying away, no panels that we can't live without seeing.
Instead we are going shopping, having lunch with our old friends and going to see The Dark Knight in IMAX this afternoon!
Friday: Joss Whedon. Buffy Season 8 and Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog, among other other awesome things.
