--Man overheard while waiting to get into the Con.
Where do I begin?
We took the trolley downtown, stopping on the way to eat pizza. While we were there we saw a man ordering a large quantity of pizza who was carrying a briefcase and a large flat object wrapped in bubble wrap. He was clearly on his way to ComicCon. While we waited for the next trolley we had fun guessing which people were on their way to the Con. We guessed that at least half were. Some of the people were easy, such as the man wearing a Spamalot t-shirt. There was also the pair of guys carrying briefcases who were unlikely to be buisnesspeople since one of them had a spiked mohawk.
A large group of us piled out at the station, most of us grinning broadly as we streamed across the street towards the convention center.
There was a surprisingly short wait to get the badges, thanks to the large number of check-in stations. Actually, it was mostly due to the fact that there wasn't anything to do there for another three hours. We checked in at about 3:00, and nothing started until 6:00. We wandered around for a while trying to find the line for the Exhibit Hall (or Floor). We wandered for some time, following various false directions from volunteers before we realized that the floor wasn't going to open until 6:00.We bought extremely expensive and terrible prezles, then got in line for the pilot screenings. They were played in the second-largest hall, which sat 6500. We had excelent seats; we could actually see the faces of the presenters just by looking at them, rather than looking at the screens. Warner Bros. played three full pilots for new shows. The first one was for Human Target, which is about a guy who is hired to protect people who have recieved death threats. Paraphrasing dialogue, he wears a bullet-proof vest but his cliants don't, because he is their vest. The show had potential, but, as Alec said, it did unfortunately have one of those "immortal fight scenes," in which the combatants miraculously survive being repeatedly hit on the head with heavy objects. However, it did have the advantage of not taking itself too seriously.
The second pilot was a remake of the show V. It was pretty awesome. It's a remake of the classic 1983 miniseries. Lizard people! It had lots of people familiar to science-fiction viewers whom I don't feel like naming (it would take too long). Every time one of them came on screen for the first time the whole crowd cheered loudly. The two actors from Whedon shows (Alan Tudyk (Wash) and Morena Baccarin (Inara)) got particularly loud cheers. Morena Baccarin is particularly well-cast as the creepy leader of the lizard people (they look human on the outside, but really are lizardy). She does several rapid blinks every few minutes. We guess that that's supposed to resemble the flickering tongue of a reptile moistening their eyes.
We left--along with about a third of the crowd--before the start of the third pilot, which was The Vampire Diaries, which is "an edgy and romantic new drama in which two vampire brothers--one good, one evil--are at war for the soul of one girl." *cough* Twilight *cough.* Instead of watching that pilot we went down to the Floor to look for free swag.
The giant bags were all gone, but there were other cool free things, like preview books from Darkhorse Comics. Plus, best of all, I got a Tenth Doctor action figure!
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