Comicon Cool Stuff: Day One
Lots of fun today, in some ways it was as bad as I thought it would be and in some, it was actually surprisingly good. Yes, the crowds were out in force, yes the exhibition hall was hard to navigate, at least in some areas, yes, it was horrible trying to get into panels, but on the other hand, the panels we did go to were absolutely excellent, we found a couple of interesting things in the dealer’s room.
There were only two panels we really cared about today, the first was for Burn Notice. Immediately, I thought it was going to suck, two of the three main stars weren’t there, but Bruce Campbell showed up and was absolutely hysterical. It was worth standing in the long (and I do mean long) line just to see Bruce Campbell do his schtick on stage. It’s sort of like watching Christopher Judge and Michael Shanks at the Stargate panels. Even better, Michael Shanks hosted the discussion because he had a guest starring role last season and between him and Bruce Campbell, the whole place was falling apart laughing. Every time someone made some positive comment about Campbell’s character, he pulled out a wad of money and gave it to them. His final comment was along the lines of “My wife is going ask me how Comicon went, I’m going to have say expensive!”
The second was on “Science in Science Fiction”, hosted by Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy fame and featuring the creators, writers and science advisors of Battlestar Galactica/Caprica, Eureka and Fringe. They talked about how hard it is to keep the science reasonably accurate in shows where they inherently have to push the limits. Amazingly, there are times where they are so close to what actual science can show to be true, but the general population doesn’t know just how far we’ve actually gone. Perhaps even more interesting was the overall anti-superstition feeling across the panel, they were all very clear that they were uncomfortable with giving any supernaturalism even a hint of credibility. At best, they would give the unknown a flavor of being credible science we just haven’t deciperhed yet. I really like that, far too many shows just throw magic-tech into the mix because they don’t have to explain it. Thankfully, most of these creators know better.
As I said, some things just weren’t great and, as expected, the crowds were bad, even for a Thursday. I tried to get a picture that I couldn’t get last year to show the crowds out in front of the convention center, this is probably a better shot than I got last year and the crowds will only get worse. This is just absurd, it took these people more than a half-hour just to cross the street. I”ll see if I can capture even more people out and about tomorrow, let’s see how crazy this can really get.
We’ve changed our mind, at least temporarily, about putting up the pictures on Flikr. The problem is, we take so many pictures and can only upload 100MB to the site. Just our pictures today is about 80 megs and we don’t have the photo editting software available to cut them down. I’ll upload the whole weekend’s worth of photos early next week so be patient.
Off to bed now, I can hardly keep my eyes open. Back in the morning for another day of convention goodness.
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