Comic Con --Thursday (possible spoilers)
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tenayaIt started off well. Only was half hour late leaving the house, traffic okay, got to Deej's motel without problems. There, the guy behind the desk carefully scanned his computer, his spreadsheet and room roster and after about five minutes decided they didn't have the guests who I was looking for. Thank god for cells phone. Jeeze.
The trip south was complicated by a truck accident that caused a brush fire around the Camp Pendelton area that had caused 'major slowing.' After traveling two miles in thirty minutes, we took an exit, reversed our direction, stopped at an Arby's for a potty break and a sandwich, and took the Ortega Hwy to Lake Elsinor. That was a very pretty drive (also that of "ROAD WORKS! BE PREPARED FOR SLOWING" every couple of miles --- we only had one one-lane event.) That took an extra hour but the next hour went by at 85 mph; no visible gas shortaged 'let's drive a sensible speed' on I-15!
That got us to the con at noon instead of ten like we'd planned. Deej missed the delectable Keanu Reeves and I missed the Doctor Who panel and ten minutes of the Torchwood panel (registration? We walked right up to a desk and had finished in under a minute. I was very impressed!) We hustled to Hall 20 and then were very entertained by the lovely, but sex on the brain John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd , Naoko Mori and producer Julie Gardner. John is, of course, quite a quick wit and twice had to tell the tech to NEVER turn off his mic. Very stern. *g* He kept saying things that made Gareth's face turn quite red--very adorable. Not much in the way of spoilers, though. Season three will be five very intense episodes that will change everything and they will start shooting soon. I think they said it would show after Doctor Who and would also be shown in the US after that. In the Q&A, John replied to a couple of questions by saying "buy my book."
From there, we went down onto the dealer's room floor, cruised the SciFi booth where no give aways were happening (there are these humonguous purple bags around though that state "frackin big bag" and I so want one!" WB stated to just get in line hour hour before for their scheduled autographs. Across from SciFi at the Holtzheimer booth, John and Garth were signing autographs. I bought a couple of pics, John's book *g* and got them signed. The booth was terribly disorganized, but the guests were smooth and friendly.
Next we tried to get into the room to see Wizard's First Rule but were put off by the line and the fact that the panel had already started. We found an even longer line for True Blood panel but that wasn't going to start for over an hour so we got in the cue. It went fairly fast considering the line almost made a complete circle through the hallways. We sat through a Street Fighter IV panel (I know it's 'action' but it just looks very violent to m-- though the graphics were pretty and very artsy at times.)
True Blood had producer Alan Ball, novel writer Charlaine Harris and the cast. Ball was very excited by the books and was trying to stay true to them while making the necessary changes for episodic tv. Harris seemed sweet and thrilled and happy with the production even with the changes. The teaser looked very interesting with lots of simmering sex, some violence and like it might take me a few eps to warm up to it but ultimately worth it. They gave out tickets and when redeemed gave us a very cool bag with a True Blood beverage ad, a copy of the first book in the series and a comic thing. VERY cool!
The Dexter panel followed with Anthony C Hall, Julie Benz, and the exec producer. Hall kept snacking on chocolate and they said he had gotten stuck in a five hour traffic jam! (so glad we turned around!) The teaser looked fantastic. They said if the theme of the first series was about finding Dex's roots, the second was about good and evil, the third is that Dex gets a friend. The event that fuels the season is that Dex spontaneously kills someone--possibly someone who isn't guilty of killing.
Then, back to the hotel, meeting our roomie, Astrumporta, dinner and bed. Thank god!
The trip south was complicated by a truck accident that caused a brush fire around the Camp Pendelton area that had caused 'major slowing.' After traveling two miles in thirty minutes, we took an exit, reversed our direction, stopped at an Arby's for a potty break and a sandwich, and took the Ortega Hwy to Lake Elsinor. That was a very pretty drive (also that of "ROAD WORKS! BE PREPARED FOR SLOWING" every couple of miles --- we only had one one-lane event.) That took an extra hour but the next hour went by at 85 mph; no visible gas shortaged 'let's drive a sensible speed' on I-15!
That got us to the con at noon instead of ten like we'd planned. Deej missed the delectable Keanu Reeves and I missed the Doctor Who panel and ten minutes of the Torchwood panel (registration? We walked right up to a desk and had finished in under a minute. I was very impressed!) We hustled to Hall 20 and then were very entertained by the lovely, but sex on the brain John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd , Naoko Mori and producer Julie Gardner. John is, of course, quite a quick wit and twice had to tell the tech to NEVER turn off his mic. Very stern. *g* He kept saying things that made Gareth's face turn quite red--very adorable. Not much in the way of spoilers, though. Season three will be five very intense episodes that will change everything and they will start shooting soon. I think they said it would show after Doctor Who and would also be shown in the US after that. In the Q&A, John replied to a couple of questions by saying "buy my book."
From there, we went down onto the dealer's room floor, cruised the SciFi booth where no give aways were happening (there are these humonguous purple bags around though that state "frackin big bag" and I so want one!" WB stated to just get in line hour hour before for their scheduled autographs. Across from SciFi at the Holtzheimer booth, John and Garth were signing autographs. I bought a couple of pics, John's book *g* and got them signed. The booth was terribly disorganized, but the guests were smooth and friendly.
Next we tried to get into the room to see Wizard's First Rule but were put off by the line and the fact that the panel had already started. We found an even longer line for True Blood panel but that wasn't going to start for over an hour so we got in the cue. It went fairly fast considering the line almost made a complete circle through the hallways. We sat through a Street Fighter IV panel (I know it's 'action' but it just looks very violent to m-- though the graphics were pretty and very artsy at times.)
True Blood had producer Alan Ball, novel writer Charlaine Harris and the cast. Ball was very excited by the books and was trying to stay true to them while making the necessary changes for episodic tv. Harris seemed sweet and thrilled and happy with the production even with the changes. The teaser looked very interesting with lots of simmering sex, some violence and like it might take me a few eps to warm up to it but ultimately worth it. They gave out tickets and when redeemed gave us a very cool bag with a True Blood beverage ad, a copy of the first book in the series and a comic thing. VERY cool!
The Dexter panel followed with Anthony C Hall, Julie Benz, and the exec producer. Hall kept snacking on chocolate and they said he had gotten stuck in a five hour traffic jam! (so glad we turned around!) The teaser looked fantastic. They said if the theme of the first series was about finding Dex's roots, the second was about good and evil, the third is that Dex gets a friend. The event that fuels the season is that Dex spontaneously kills someone--possibly someone who isn't guilty of killing.
Then, back to the hotel, meeting our roomie, Astrumporta, dinner and bed. Thank god!
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Date: 2008-07-25 05:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-27 04:33 am (UTC)I'm glad there was something there that interested you. :)