Friday, July 31, 2009

Things about ComicCon that I forgot to mention before

At the Psych panel, Dule Hill tapdanced. He was pretty good, too.

David Tennant was wearing a black t-shirt with a picture of a stormtrooper's helmet drawn out with rhinestones.

John Barrowman asked Alec what his Dexter pin was from, and chided him for not knowing that it the new season had started the week before.

Here's a complete list of the action figures that I got:
*Tenth Doctor (w/Brainy Specs) and five Adipose
*Tenth Doctor (w/ Coat and Sonic Screwdriver), Rose, Cassandra, and Cassandra's spider spy
*Jack Harness (w/ sonic blaster; from "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances") and the Empty Child
*Donna Noble
*Mickey Smith (w/Preacher gun)
*Clockwork Man (w/ detachable mask)
*Sycorax leader (w/ whip, staff and detachable cape)
*Ood Sigma (w/ translator ball)
*Regular Ood (w/ translator ball)
*TARDIS bank (it makes sounds and the light flashes!)

At the booth for The Prisoner they gave out photo ID cards and assigned each person a number by which each person would henceforth be known. I had to get a second card and number because I lost my first one.

I told Colin Baker that I was woefully uneducated about any Doctor before Ninth, but he forgave me since I knew at least that much.

We learned the importance of going to the market at night, rather than trying to get food before we went to the Convention Center. Having nothing but bread to eat all day is not as fun as it sounds.

When one considers that the food at Carpe Diem in Eureka is free, it seems even more outrageous that the Carpe Diem in San Diego would charge $14 for a hamburger.

Someone from the audience asked a question, and requested that John Barrowman answer it with his Scottish accent. He obliged, but kept slipping back and forth between his Scottish and American accent. It sounded very interesting. He must have worked very hard in high school to get rid of his accent. (He went to HS in the US, but spent most of his childhood in Scotland, where his family is from. His family still lives there, and I believe his partner is Scottish as well).

David Tennant, of course, spoke with his natural Scottish accent the whole time.

I can't believe I forgot to say this before, but Alec got a signed photo from Adam Baldwin! He, Edward James Olmos (Bill Adama), Michael Hogan (Saul Tigh), and James Callis (Gaius Baltar), were all giving autographs and getting pictures taken with people. Plus, they were charging enough for each autograph that we got to stand around there for several minutes, grinning foolishly. I even got several (bad) pictures of them. As one bystander said, "I'm totally geeking out!" They all seemed friendly and nice, which is always good to see, and only slightly bored. Here's the picture that I took of Adam Baldwin and Alec:
And here's the picture that Alec took of me and John Barrowman:I took many more pictures, of course, but it would take too long and take up too much space to put them all up here. I think I'll put them up on Picasa, which is where these pictures go, anyway.

When I think of anything else that I forgot I'll put it up in another post. Yay!

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