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Today started way too early in the morning with a 9:00 a.m. panel on how we fans would improve the SciFi Channel if it were up to us. Obviously, it was not a business-oriented panel so our ideas may not be money-makers, but we would definitely like to see more actual sci fi programming on the SciFi Channel instead of wrestling or Z-grade monster movies like Mansquito. People also thought it was kind of sad that most of the innovative science fiction programming airing right now is not on the one station that specializes in science fiction.
The next panel I attended was on the disappearance of Babylon 5 fandom. Unfortunately, it seemed like the least articulate people were monopolizing the floor, so I went next door and sat in on a panel about how the character of Darth Vader was ruined by the second trilogy. Some people thought his uniqueness was destroyed by the creation of other Darths in the series. Personally, I thought the character was destroyed by turning him from a personification of evil into a whiny mama's boy with abandonment issues, but maybe that's just me.
After those two panels, I made a pass through the art room. You can definitely tell this is a slow year. Most of the outside tables were empty as were the back sides of the free-standing walls. Leah Rosenthal turned in her usual collection of hysterical cartoons. There's no con bonding experience quite like bursting into laughter at a fannish cartoon, only to have the stranger next to you start laughing at the same cartoon at the same time.
I also made another pass through the dealer room. I didn't mean to buy anything, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jennetj was selling badges to order with whatever picture you want on them. I got a Capt. Jack Harkness one to hang on my badge lanyard at work.
The big purchase of the day was my pre-order from Agent With Style. I bought 15 zines: 7 Supernatural (Hunting Trips 4, Road Trip With My Brother 6-9, Mockingbird, and Supernatural Special Gen Collection 2), 1 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (Coming of Age 8), 1 Magnificent Seven (Seven Card Stud 15), 1 Emergency! (The Best of KMG-365 2), 1 V (Vive La Resistance! 1), 1 Man from UNCLE (Worlds Enough 1), 1 MFU/NCIS crossover (Ducky's Pain), 1 Stargate SG-1 (Homeworld Security Daycare), and 1 Simon & Simon (A Family Affair). Would now be a good time to confess that I'm a multifandom ho'? Anyway, poor Mysti was having trouble with her credit card machine. It kept dying while trying to send my transaction, and the line behind me kept backing up. I finally took out my checkbook and a pen, waved them over the credit card machine, and told it I'd abandon it in favor of my checkbook if it didn't straighten up. As soon as I said that, the transaction went through. Hee.
After I lugged my giant pile o' zines out to the car to put in the trunk, I went to a panel on the most recent X-Files movie and why it failed. The general consensus seemed to be a lack of advertising and a release date the week after The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight was just so huge that it overshadowed everything. The original topic was pretty much talked out by halfway through the panel, so we also discussed what we liked and didn't like about the movie and what we'd like to see in a third movie should there be one.
The next panel I went to was on Stargate Universe. Not a lot of spoilers have come out, but most people don't seem to have high hopes for it because it's being written by the same writers who hit the bottom of the creativity well on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Most people were willing to give it a shot, many of them for Robert Carlyle, but no one was actually excited about the new show. We also started taking bets on how long Lou Diamond Phillips's character is going to last before he gets killed.
After dinner, I went to Holy Mother Grammatica's annual 2-hour grammar panel. It was a combination of grammar pet peeves and grammar instruction. I also read some of the fic bloopers I've collected. Susan made me come up and sit at the front table. Most of the bloopers have been posted separately on my LJ before. The only new ones I had for this year were:
and
The whole batch seemed to go over well.
About the only thing I haven't done yet is watch the competition vids. I'll have to catch those tomorrow.
The next panel I attended was on the disappearance of Babylon 5 fandom. Unfortunately, it seemed like the least articulate people were monopolizing the floor, so I went next door and sat in on a panel about how the character of Darth Vader was ruined by the second trilogy. Some people thought his uniqueness was destroyed by the creation of other Darths in the series. Personally, I thought the character was destroyed by turning him from a personification of evil into a whiny mama's boy with abandonment issues, but maybe that's just me.
After those two panels, I made a pass through the art room. You can definitely tell this is a slow year. Most of the outside tables were empty as were the back sides of the free-standing walls. Leah Rosenthal turned in her usual collection of hysterical cartoons. There's no con bonding experience quite like bursting into laughter at a fannish cartoon, only to have the stranger next to you start laughing at the same cartoon at the same time.
I also made another pass through the dealer room. I didn't mean to buy anything, but
jennetj was selling badges to order with whatever picture you want on them. I got a Capt. Jack Harkness one to hang on my badge lanyard at work.The big purchase of the day was my pre-order from Agent With Style. I bought 15 zines: 7 Supernatural (Hunting Trips 4, Road Trip With My Brother 6-9, Mockingbird, and Supernatural Special Gen Collection 2), 1 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (Coming of Age 8), 1 Magnificent Seven (Seven Card Stud 15), 1 Emergency! (The Best of KMG-365 2), 1 V (Vive La Resistance! 1), 1 Man from UNCLE (Worlds Enough 1), 1 MFU/NCIS crossover (Ducky's Pain), 1 Stargate SG-1 (Homeworld Security Daycare), and 1 Simon & Simon (A Family Affair). Would now be a good time to confess that I'm a multifandom ho'? Anyway, poor Mysti was having trouble with her credit card machine. It kept dying while trying to send my transaction, and the line behind me kept backing up. I finally took out my checkbook and a pen, waved them over the credit card machine, and told it I'd abandon it in favor of my checkbook if it didn't straighten up. As soon as I said that, the transaction went through. Hee.
After I lugged my giant pile o' zines out to the car to put in the trunk, I went to a panel on the most recent X-Files movie and why it failed. The general consensus seemed to be a lack of advertising and a release date the week after The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight was just so huge that it overshadowed everything. The original topic was pretty much talked out by halfway through the panel, so we also discussed what we liked and didn't like about the movie and what we'd like to see in a third movie should there be one.
The next panel I went to was on Stargate Universe. Not a lot of spoilers have come out, but most people don't seem to have high hopes for it because it's being written by the same writers who hit the bottom of the creativity well on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Most people were willing to give it a shot, many of them for Robert Carlyle, but no one was actually excited about the new show. We also started taking bets on how long Lou Diamond Phillips's character is going to last before he gets killed.
After dinner, I went to Holy Mother Grammatica's annual 2-hour grammar panel. It was a combination of grammar pet peeves and grammar instruction. I also read some of the fic bloopers I've collected. Susan made me come up and sit at the front table. Most of the bloopers have been posted separately on my LJ before. The only new ones I had for this year were:
"The Curator's eyes, completely white, rolled into the back of it's head and slumped onto the ground."
"He shrugged your shoulders."
The whole batch seemed to go over well.
About the only thing I haven't done yet is watch the competition vids. I'll have to catch those tomorrow.
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Date: 2009-05-25 09:45 pm (UTC)From: