2010 San Diego Comic-Con
Friday
Off to breakfast at Cafe Diem. I had a Destiny Omellete. We cried out for destiny and thus fortified, went to go sit in line for Stargate Universe.
I should note that in honor of the panel I wore my Stargate Atlantis uniform - science division. In this outfit, I like to think that I am the team technical writer. Bothering McKay to document exactly how he save the station the last time. It needs to be reproducible. I don't care that he doesn't want to maintain the technical blog or attend our daily scrums, or whatever. It lends zest to my less inter-galactic writing.
10:30-11:30 Stargate Universe— Follow your Destiny. Catch the Syfy Stargate Universe panel, featuring Robert Carlyle (Dr. Nicholas Rush), David Blue (Eli Wallace), Ming Na (Camile Wray), Alaina (she was a last minute add on - TJ), moderated by Robert Cooper (series co-creator). Ballroom 20
Interesting having seen them last year. They were much more relaxed. Both on the panel and with each other.
David Blue was/is still/will be an enormous geek. He made the geek references. He was geeky. Got the most questions from the audience.
Really, it was Ming Na, who was the revelation. For one thing, she has a new iPhone, which she petted and caressed and called, "Precious." Then they took Precious away from her. Then she was sad. Then she got her Precious back. She was hillarious. Calling traveling to earth, "Getting stoned" etc. Very light and comfortable and took lots of photos of us. For the episode when she stoned into the quadriplegic body. She studied interviews with Christopher Reeve.
TJ's pregnancy plot arc was brought on by the actresses pregnancy, which to my mind was a point of good fortune. Since that arc really enriched the relationships over the course of the season.
Good panel. The preview that we saw was more of an add than a preview scene, but we've got some interesting stuff coming up. Rubs hands, makes a Mr. Burns impression. "Excellent."
11:30-12:30 Caprica— Syfy presents an exclusive glimpse into the future of humanity. Featuring Alessandra Torresani (Zoe Graystone), Sasha Roiz (Sam Adama), Ronald D. Moore (co-creator/executive producer), and David Eick (executive producer) and moderated by Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times. Ballroom 20
More a matter of being there. I didn't watch Galactica. I'm not watching Caprica. However, Ballroom 20 had a long, long line. And since I wanted to attend the Joss panel to be followed by the Women who Kick Ass panel.
Who isn't listed above is James Marsters, who since I don't watch the show, I had no idea he was on the show. He got both a question about Spike and Braniac.
12:45-1:45 The Big Bang Theory— It's "Anything Can Happen Friday" at Comic-Con as The Big Bang Theory -- which kicks off a new night of comedy on Thursdays for CBS this fall -- returns to Comic-Con with a special screening and Q&A featuring the show's creators and stars. Resident Big Bang alum Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation) moderates a lively discussion featuring executive producers Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men) and Bill Prady (Dharma & Greg), as well as series stars Johnny Galecki (Roseanne), Jim Parsons (Garden State), Kaley Cuoco (Charmed), Simon Helberg (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), and Kunal Nayyar (NCIS). From Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television, The Big Bang Theory will air Thursdays at 8 pm ET/PT this fall on the CBS Television Network, and The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Third Season will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 14. Ballroom 20
Ducked out on the bathroom break for the first half. Also, don't watch Big Bang Theory. For some reason, every episode (yes, even a Wil Wheaton episode) that I catch it's never as geeky as I keep thinking it will be based on comments to see/hear.
However, Wil Wheaton moderated the questions (apparantly, I missed the Bare Naked Ladies playing the theme song).
Didn't, of course, recognize half the references, seemed like a fun geeky cast.
2:00-2:45 Bones— Creator and executive producer Hart Hanson and star David Boreanaz are on hand to discuss what went down in Season 5 of Bones and the cliffhanger finale as well as what's in store for Booth and Brennan in the exciting new Season 6! The panel will be followed with a Q&A session. Ballroom 20
Ah, a show I watch.
Emily Deschanel was also there.
Turns out David Boreanaz is afraid of double decker buses. Or not. Well, he spun a good tale about how double decker buses are traps. They sway and they're scary. For the rest of the panel, when things questions went awry, he was on top of bus.
Looks like we're going to get a new villain next season. Which hardly counts as a spoiler. Next year on Bones, they'll solve crime.
Anyway, very flirty with the spoilers. Lots of banter.
3:00-3:45 The Joss Whedon Experience— Every year Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, and Serenity, comes to Comic-Con to give fans a wide-ranging and digressive look into what's keeping him busy. Join Joss and a few thousand of his closest friends for the Q&A. Spoiler Alert! Ballroom 20
And the reason I wasn't too upset to miss yesterday's panel, was because I was actually planning on trying to get into this panel.
When asked about his writing process:
"Inspiration, Hungry, Porn, Inspiration."
Little kid asking, "What expires you to write Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog."
"I wanted to make Dr. Horrible, because I feel like Dr. Horrible."
Dude asked him who his favorite actor to work with is. Then it turned out to be Nathan Fillion. Literally. then he named him as Antman. Nobody else could play that part, and doesn't appear in the film.
And that was the last question.
Oh, and there was someone playing onf those horns soccer horns. and Oh did it play.
Ran into Nathan Fillion (well, he walked by us) in his monstrous porn mustache, by one of the Starbucks outside the dealers room.
Then we picked up our swag, and feeling hot (as in really overheating) in my Atlantis outfit, I changed into my Fury (as in Kindly One) outfit, which being a toga was quite brief.
I should mention at this point that there's quite a lot of description of the various panels, because those are easier to type up. The experience of running through the dealers room and encountering clever costume after clever costume is hard to capture. So to sitting in seats and bantering with my friends between panels, chatting with people that I don't know in rows in front and behind me is also difficult to capture. It's more a feeling.
Like going to see a movie in a room full of people, who all know the backstory, want to see it, and are fully invested in the emotional exprience. Like what follows.
8:00-10:00 World Premiere: Batman: Under the Red Hood— Warner Home Video, Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Animation proudly present the World Premiere of Batman: Under the Red Hood, the eighth entry in the ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 movies. In the film, Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm. One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code. Killing is an option. And when The Joker falls in the balance between the two, hard truths are revealed and old wounds are reopened. The stellar voice cast is led by Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), Jensen Ackles (Supernatural), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), John DiMaggio (Futurama), Jason Issacs (the Harry Potter films), and Vincent Martella (Phineas & Ferb). Executive producer Bruce Timm (DCU films), director Brandon Vietti (Superman: Doomsday), award-winning comics writer Judd Winick, casting/dialogue director Andrea Romano (DCU films) and members of the voice cast will be around for a postscreening panel that will reveal details behind the making of the film, a glimpse of the 2011 DC Universe Animated Original Movies slate, and a first look at the next DCU film, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. Warner Home Video will distribute Batman: Under the Red Hood on Blu-Ray and DVD, OnDemand and For Download on July 27, 2010. Note: a second encore screening will take place in the same room beginning at 10:15
Then off to dinner and a wonderfully short line for the fabulous, the wonderous, the outright beautiful "Batman: Under the Red Hood", which once again in heroic fashion delivers the answer why all ends can't justify all means, with Joker skittering like a rabid mad chaotic thing.
It opened with a Death in the Family and then was pretty much like jumping out of a plane from their. The final scene... outright chilling. Outright explores the real creepiness of what Bruce does by taking in children and turning them into Robin. Boy wonder. A children. Beyond the physical, the emotional. Parallelism in multiple different ways between this and that character.
Judd Winick , who wrote the script from the comic, did a great job cutting it down to its bare bones free fall story.
Then there was a panel with (see above). John DiMaggio, who did Joker, was simply adorable. Nervous at stepping into some enormous clown shoes. The crowd was appropriatly appreciative of Andrea Romano. And... okay so, Bruce Greenwood did a really lovely restrained Batman. He's also going to be doing Bats in the Young Justice series, which I'll be curious to see how that works.
Oh, and Judd Winick made the most wonderful comment about the cast. That it was a geekgasm. Because really, Captain Pike, Dean Winchester, Dr. Horrible, and Half of Futurama doing the voices. And the crowd went woot.
From then we headed back tot hotel room where I spent 40 minutes putting my hair in curlers.
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