Comic-Con 2012: Thursday
Jul. 17th, 2012 05:49 pm
So, I had the best time I've ever had at SDCC. In my fifth year of attendance I (mostly) knew what I was doing, I embraced the madness, and I accomplished everything I set out to accomplish. Only one thing went off less than perfectly. (I suppose there's always got to be one thing. It's a rule of life. Perfection would cause the universe to end. Right?)
SDCC 2012: Our Top Five Favorite Moments: I was there for every one of those, except Nerd HQ, and that's tied with something I did see. (I'd have loved to be at the Nerd HQ Doctor Who Q&A, of course, but it was announced and sold out in the space of fifteen minutes, during which I wasn't at my computer. I'd probably have blown off my other Saturday plans if I'd been able to get tickets. Probably.)
Highlights:
- The already legendary Firefly panel.
- Getting the one limited-edition-exclusive-random-giveaway thing I actually wanted.
- Ian McKellen startling the crap out of me while I was sleeping.
- Chris Hardwick's mad panel moderating skills. He was brilliant. He was so good in the Hobbit panel that the people sitting next to me were like, "Who's that? We should check out his other stuff." (He seemed a little subdued in the Doctor Who panel Sunday, but by then I think he was as strung out as the rest of us.)
- Andy Serkis saying "For fuck's sake" in Gollum's voice.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson standing up in Starship Smackdown to give an impassioned speech about the superiority of the original Enterprise.
- Camping: I really hope this doesn't become an Essential Comic-Con Experience for too many people, but I have to admit, living at the con was sorta fun, and actually reduced my stress level considerably.
- Although I had like twelve hours of sleep, total, for the WHOLE CONVENTION.
- And I miss it already. I wish I could do it again and see all the other things I was interested in, because there were plenty of them. There's just so much going on at once, and so many things require major time investments.
( Story and lots of pictures! Let's start with Wednesday/Thursday... )
