Comic Con 2009
I am completely and utterly exhausted. I think in the last five days I only slept a total of 14 hours and my pedometer said I walked about 69,205 steps or 37 miles since last Wednesday. This may explain why my feet hurt. And even right now I'm currently running on only 2 hours of sleep. But it was WORTH IT. David Tennant was worth losing sleep!
Quick overview:
Wednesday:
Headed down to San Diego and checked out preview night and I went straight to the "Pea Shirt" booth, and I was surprised that they remembered me. I dunno if that is a good thing or not, but I got a VIPea (heehee) discount.
Thursday:
I checked out a writing panel then got into Burn Notice panel and I have never watched this show, but after watching the awesomeness that is Bruce Campbell. He kept giving money out to fans that screamed out "I love you" or if they had really good questions. After that panel it was the Psych Panel and James Roday and Dule Hill are just too funny together. Maggie Lawson was just adorable. Tim Omundson Lassie! was just too funny and so not Lassie-like. Corbin Bernsen was also fun to watch. After Psych I stuck around for the Dexter panel. It was so odd to see Ralph Garman in person. I'm so used to just hearing his voice. Dexter panel included Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, and John Lithgow, who makes me think back of the days when I was still at university and would see him EVERYDAY as we walked his dog through the campus. After those panels were done we checked out the Green Lantern: First Flight premiere.
Friday:
Woke up bright and early to see the Farscape 10th Anniversary Panel. Ben Browder and Claudia Black were both present and it was a joy to finally see Ben and Claudia together at once. It is so hard to see those two together! So I opted out of Stargate: Universe for Ben and Claudia. After that panel I hung around for the AMC: The Prisoner with Jim Caviezel, Lennie James, and Jamie Campbell-Bower, who is very cute but in a oddly feminine way. This Miniseries adaptation looks pretty awesome, but then again how can it not when you have Ian McKellen being all manipulative and creepy.
After I got ditched by my friends, I walked the exhibit hall again and headed up to meet up with arysani and we ended up in the 24 panel and saw Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Anil Kapoor, Katee Sackhoff (who is gorgeous with long hair) and Freddie Prinze Jr. Next panel was Bones, too bad only Emily Deschanel and Hart Hanson where there, but they managed to keep the panel fun. Next was Dollhouse so you've got Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku and near the end Fran Kranz and Dichen Lachman showed up.
Saturday:
I had tried to get into the Chuck Panel, but I wasn't really dead set in going so I got in late and couldn't get in, but I got into the Family Guy panel, which had Seth MacFarlane, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Alex Borstein, and Mike Henry. The panel was excellent and very funny. At one point some one asked a question and Seth Green hugged Alex Borstein and then they grabbed each other and pretended to go under the table to make out. Them Mila joined them under the table, while Seth MacFarlene was trying to answer a question seriously. It was just too hilarious and much too short. Though I now really want to watch the the new "Empire Strikes Back" parody and catch up on Family Guy episodes again. The Cleveland Show panel was also interesting I might give the show a try though Cleveland wasn't a character I really was interested in. That panel included Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, Sana'a Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Jamie Kennedy.
After great panels for MacFarlane and folks, I was very disappointed with the Futurama and Simpsons panels. For Futurama I sort of understand why none of the cast memebers came since there is this issue of FOX wanted to replace all the voice actors because they don't want to pony up the cash for the original voice actors. But for Simpsons there was no one there other than the writers and Matt Groening.
Then I hung around the room for V and after watching the pilot episode I am very intrigued and Morena Baccarin can do beautifully creepy like no other. I was having flashbacks to her role as Adria in SG-1. But I will definitely check out this remake. Panelist include, Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Morena Baccarin, and Scott Wolf. Since my butt was imprinted in the seat already I stayed for the Fringe panel. Anna Torv looks better in person for some reason... maybe it's the way they are making up her character because she looks so harsh and manly on the show. Joshua Jackson and John Noble were the two best ones on the panel since they kept joking around and making some random comments.
And finally True Blood panel which included, Anna Paquin, Alan Ball, Charlaine Harris, Nelsan Ellis, Rutina Wesley, Sam Trammell, Michelle Forbes, Stephan Moyer, Deborah Ann Woll, and Alexander Skarsgard. Pretty much the whole cast was on stage, and unfortunately, there were A LOT of stupid questions. Some girl even asked about a vampire/human baby hybrid. Immediately Alan Ball said, "WHAT?!" and gave the best OMGWTF face and said, "No. Humans will stay humans and vampires will stay vampires" or something to that extent I don't remember. I just remember a lot of the audience were like "boo! Wrong fandom! Wrong show! Go back to Twilight!" Though another fun fact was that someone asked about Eric wearing pink spandex, and Askars runs out to the front to show that he was wearing pink and teal socks. Only Alexander Skarsgard can wear that and still be considered manly. And that man is giant when he stands next to the whole cast.
One thing that irked me was that my camera died when it came time for True Blood... stupid batteries... oh well... it's not like I could get good pictures of Alex since the stupid cameraman was retarded and kept focusing the camera on Alan Ball and not on Alex even though half of the questions were geared towards Askars.
Sunday:
Today, I woke up at 4:30 AM just so I could eat breakfast and get in line to see David Tennant in the Doctor Who panel and it was WORTH the two hours of sleep I got last night. Tennant came out where a black t-shirt with a glittery stormtrooper helmet on his shirt. And he was just adorable. When someone yelled "I love you!" he answers back "I love you too! And I love you all every single one in your own special way" or something like that. Then there was a question about what kind of teacher David would be if he could be one and when he said English was always his best subject the English geek in me rejoiced. lol The panel had a bunch of really great questions and David answered most of them. Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, and Euros Lyn were also very fun to see since they also geeking out on all sorts of things. There are a lot more things that happened, and it's probably on youtube so go there to check it out. ;)
Also I may be on TV, but in Britain, since apparently, they were also filming stuff for Doctor Who Confidential during the panel since the camera kept panning back and forth around where we were sitting. So I'll be on TV... maybe. lol
Now I need to unpack before I actually keel over... I'm so going to fall asleep at work tomorrow.
ETA: Also saw Leonard Nimoy while walking the Exhibit hall one last time. That was pretty cool.
ETA2: I should also mention that mspooh and I have a tradition of going to TGIFridays to eat every time we are at Comic Con. So I went and found that only one of our boys was still working there. So went up to the hostess and asked if the boy was working that day. This was on Wednesday. She told me that he only worked on the weekends. So I came back on Saturday and asked her again, and the hostess remembered me and said she would go and get him. And she did. So I said "hi" to him and asked if he remembered me. Then I said, he probably didn't remember me and only remembered the "other one" aka mspooh, but he said he remembered us both and that this is like the third year that I was here. Then he asked if I wanted to stay and eat. I would totally have stayed, so I could do what mspooh told me to do, which was "Put money in his pocket." But my friend didn't want to eat there again, so I had to tell him sorry, I had to leave, my guy friend sucks and won't let me stay and talk to him. I asked if he would be there again next year and he said, "God, I hope not." But I remember he said that last year, yet he was here again. So mspooh next year you have to come to make sure if he's there or not and we need to put money in his pockets again. ;)
Quick overview:
Wednesday:
Headed down to San Diego and checked out preview night and I went straight to the "Pea Shirt" booth, and I was surprised that they remembered me. I dunno if that is a good thing or not, but I got a VIPea (heehee) discount.
Thursday:
I checked out a writing panel then got into Burn Notice panel and I have never watched this show, but after watching the awesomeness that is Bruce Campbell. He kept giving money out to fans that screamed out "I love you" or if they had really good questions. After that panel it was the Psych Panel and James Roday and Dule Hill are just too funny together. Maggie Lawson was just adorable. Tim Omundson Lassie! was just too funny and so not Lassie-like. Corbin Bernsen was also fun to watch. After Psych I stuck around for the Dexter panel. It was so odd to see Ralph Garman in person. I'm so used to just hearing his voice. Dexter panel included Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, and John Lithgow, who makes me think back of the days when I was still at university and would see him EVERYDAY as we walked his dog through the campus. After those panels were done we checked out the Green Lantern: First Flight premiere.
Friday:
Woke up bright and early to see the Farscape 10th Anniversary Panel. Ben Browder and Claudia Black were both present and it was a joy to finally see Ben and Claudia together at once. It is so hard to see those two together! So I opted out of Stargate: Universe for Ben and Claudia. After that panel I hung around for the AMC: The Prisoner with Jim Caviezel, Lennie James, and Jamie Campbell-Bower, who is very cute but in a oddly feminine way. This Miniseries adaptation looks pretty awesome, but then again how can it not when you have Ian McKellen being all manipulative and creepy.
After I got ditched by my friends, I walked the exhibit hall again and headed up to meet up with arysani and we ended up in the 24 panel and saw Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Anil Kapoor, Katee Sackhoff (who is gorgeous with long hair) and Freddie Prinze Jr. Next panel was Bones, too bad only Emily Deschanel and Hart Hanson where there, but they managed to keep the panel fun. Next was Dollhouse so you've got Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku and near the end Fran Kranz and Dichen Lachman showed up.
Saturday:
I had tried to get into the Chuck Panel, but I wasn't really dead set in going so I got in late and couldn't get in, but I got into the Family Guy panel, which had Seth MacFarlane, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Alex Borstein, and Mike Henry. The panel was excellent and very funny. At one point some one asked a question and Seth Green hugged Alex Borstein and then they grabbed each other and pretended to go under the table to make out. Them Mila joined them under the table, while Seth MacFarlene was trying to answer a question seriously. It was just too hilarious and much too short. Though I now really want to watch the the new "Empire Strikes Back" parody and catch up on Family Guy episodes again. The Cleveland Show panel was also interesting I might give the show a try though Cleveland wasn't a character I really was interested in. That panel included Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, Sana'a Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Jamie Kennedy.
After great panels for MacFarlane and folks, I was very disappointed with the Futurama and Simpsons panels. For Futurama I sort of understand why none of the cast memebers came since there is this issue of FOX wanted to replace all the voice actors because they don't want to pony up the cash for the original voice actors. But for Simpsons there was no one there other than the writers and Matt Groening.
Then I hung around the room for V and after watching the pilot episode I am very intrigued and Morena Baccarin can do beautifully creepy like no other. I was having flashbacks to her role as Adria in SG-1. But I will definitely check out this remake. Panelist include, Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Morena Baccarin, and Scott Wolf. Since my butt was imprinted in the seat already I stayed for the Fringe panel. Anna Torv looks better in person for some reason... maybe it's the way they are making up her character because she looks so harsh and manly on the show. Joshua Jackson and John Noble were the two best ones on the panel since they kept joking around and making some random comments.
And finally True Blood panel which included, Anna Paquin, Alan Ball, Charlaine Harris, Nelsan Ellis, Rutina Wesley, Sam Trammell, Michelle Forbes, Stephan Moyer, Deborah Ann Woll, and Alexander Skarsgard. Pretty much the whole cast was on stage, and unfortunately, there were A LOT of stupid questions. Some girl even asked about a vampire/human baby hybrid. Immediately Alan Ball said, "WHAT?!" and gave the best OMGWTF face and said, "No. Humans will stay humans and vampires will stay vampires" or something to that extent I don't remember. I just remember a lot of the audience were like "boo! Wrong fandom! Wrong show! Go back to Twilight!" Though another fun fact was that someone asked about Eric wearing pink spandex, and Askars runs out to the front to show that he was wearing pink and teal socks. Only Alexander Skarsgard can wear that and still be considered manly. And that man is giant when he stands next to the whole cast.
One thing that irked me was that my camera died when it came time for True Blood... stupid batteries... oh well... it's not like I could get good pictures of Alex since the stupid cameraman was retarded and kept focusing the camera on Alan Ball and not on Alex even though half of the questions were geared towards Askars.
Sunday:
Today, I woke up at 4:30 AM just so I could eat breakfast and get in line to see David Tennant in the Doctor Who panel and it was WORTH the two hours of sleep I got last night. Tennant came out where a black t-shirt with a glittery stormtrooper helmet on his shirt. And he was just adorable. When someone yelled "I love you!" he answers back "I love you too! And I love you all every single one in your own special way" or something like that. Then there was a question about what kind of teacher David would be if he could be one and when he said English was always his best subject the English geek in me rejoiced. lol The panel had a bunch of really great questions and David answered most of them. Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, and Euros Lyn were also very fun to see since they also geeking out on all sorts of things. There are a lot more things that happened, and it's probably on youtube so go there to check it out. ;)
Also I may be on TV, but in Britain, since apparently, they were also filming stuff for Doctor Who Confidential during the panel since the camera kept panning back and forth around where we were sitting. So I'll be on TV... maybe. lol
Now I need to unpack before I actually keel over... I'm so going to fall asleep at work tomorrow.
ETA: Also saw Leonard Nimoy while walking the Exhibit hall one last time. That was pretty cool.
ETA2: I should also mention that mspooh and I have a tradition of going to TGIFridays to eat every time we are at Comic Con. So I went and found that only one of our boys was still working there. So went up to the hostess and asked if the boy was working that day. This was on Wednesday. She told me that he only worked on the weekends. So I came back on Saturday and asked her again, and the hostess remembered me and said she would go and get him. And she did. So I said "hi" to him and asked if he remembered me. Then I said, he probably didn't remember me and only remembered the "other one" aka mspooh, but he said he remembered us both and that this is like the third year that I was here. Then he asked if I wanted to stay and eat. I would totally have stayed, so I could do what mspooh told me to do, which was "Put money in his pocket." But my friend didn't want to eat there again, so I had to tell him sorry, I had to leave, my guy friend sucks and won't let me stay and talk to him. I asked if he would be there again next year and he said, "God, I hope not." But I remember he said that last year, yet he was here again. So mspooh next year you have to come to make sure if he's there or not and we need to put money in his pockets again. ;)