Tired from Con

[jetpack_monkey_ljarchive]

Epic weekend at Phoenix Comicon. Some key moments:

• Wil Wheaton flailing wildly as he told the story of a deep, personal connection he built with a video game NPC that happened to have his voice, and the tragic outcome when said NPC was shot and killed.
• LeVar Burton leading an entire auditorium in a "Reading Rainbow" theme song singalong.
• Jonathan Frakes learning the verb "to Riker" (to attempt, successfully or unsuccessfully, to mate with an alien woman, as opposed to "to Kirk" which only describes successful attempts)
• HAL 9000 conversing with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood (using recorded dialog from 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Being harassed by R2-D2 on the vendor floor
• Buying a Green Latern ring (Green Lantern powers not included)
• Having a blast as a panelist
• Watching with increasing horror as the Twilight panel (I was waiting for the next panel) presented a "history" of vampires in cinema, getting many key points completely effing wrong and essentially saying that Edward Cullen was the perfect culmination of an otherwise flawed subgenre
• Buying a couple awesome prints, including one of Nosferatu and another of a hitchhiking Deadpool
• For the second year in a row, the McFarlane King Kong figure was snaked out from under me, but I did manage to get the Gort Wacky Wobbler
• Chibi Cyberman art print
• James Marsters using surfer speak to describe how MacBeth should be played
• Felicia Day hating your face (you know who you are), via her Internet Lawyer Wil Wheaton
• Buying a random longbox of comics for the second year in a row. This year was heavy on the X-titles

Pictures going up on Facebook soonish.

Comments

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a blast and a half! Congratulations on your paneldom!

Edward Cullen is a twat, and MacBeth should be "translated" into surfer speak anyway.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

a "history" of vampires in cinema, getting many key points completely effing wrong and essentially saying that Edward Cullen was the perfect culmination of an otherwise flawed subgenre

Ow. My brain. D-:

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

My burning hot "Horror history, you're doing it wrong" rage.

[kittycat22.livejournal.com]

Wow! Other than the Twilight horror, that sounds like an awesome time! I followed Wil Wheaton's tweets, and it seemed to be tons of fun!

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I never ended up getting around to Wheaton's table, despite trying. Erin is notoriously allergic to lines and waiting and boredom, so we waited until the lines were down, but, ah... yeah, that NEVER HAPPENED (as opposed to last year when Wil actually had a few occasions of total freedom to schmooze and chat if you wandered by).

[steinba.livejournal.com]

He was pretty much impossible to get to at PAX, too.

[kittycat22.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe his popularity is growing vastly.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Stupid popular Wil Wheaton and his stupid awesomeness.

[kajivar]

Watching with increasing horror as the Twilight panel (I was waiting for the next panel) presented a "history" of vampires in cinema, getting many key points completely effing wrong and essentially saying that Edward Cullen was the perfect culmination of an otherwise flawed subgenre

What?

No, seriously...WHAT?

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

They didn't say it explicitly, but many of their comments were in the vein (ha) of "my wasn't that hokey" and "Nosferatu was anti-Semitic" and "vampires have never shared a common set of attributes, so sparkling is totally warranted."

[kajivar]

And here I was thinking I couldn't possibly hate those books any more than I already do. KAJI SMASH. I am sorry you had to witness that travesty. I think security would've had to drag me out if I was there!

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I was filing the comics from my brand-new longbox and Erin kept having to refocus my attention in that direction so I wouldn't yell at the moderators.

I explained to her that even though I was trying very hard not to listen, most of what they were saying was bypassing my ordinary filters and going to the "SOMEONE IS RIDICULOUSLY STUPIDLY WRONG" part of my brain.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

Heh. Julia has Torchwood aggro, you have Twilight aggro.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I have vampire aggro, which is weird for me, actually.

[kittycat22.livejournal.com]

I've actually heard that last one (The no common set of attributes- many different mythologies of vampires one) several times.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Me too, but it misses the point that the various syntactical elements of the vampire are usually linked on a semantic level. Sparkling is out of left field.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

It depends how narrowly you define the subgenre. Perhaps in this case the subgenre is "Mary Sue meets sparkling twat."

ETA: the letter l. :|

[steinba.livejournal.com]

Oh man, you were at the Frakes/Burton/Wheaton panel? Super jealous.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Frakes was freaking shocked that he ended up being the least funny person out of the three. Apparently he's normally lord high king comedy on these panels, and Wil and LeVar were running circles around him.

[lady-ash2112.livejournal.com]

Edward Cullen? Perfect culmination? ...ummm, yeah. I'm literally at a loss for words. I have read the first book, yes I thought I would give it a chance... I got maybe about 100 pages through before I got a little torch happy with my lighter.

I highly agree with you on vampires being a flawed sub-genre. Personally I have never cared for vampire films as a whole. Martin still remains the only movie in that sub-genre that I love, of course Martin's identity as a creature of the night is debatable.

The Lost Boys is okay but nothing great. However I really need to see the 1931 version of Dracula with Bela Legosi.