NYCC more or less
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bohemiaAccidental hiatus! Sorry, last week I don't even remember what happened, and then we had the day off on Monday so I was enjoying that and cleaning out my bookmarks and Instapaper links and that kind of stuff. I think I mentioned that. Then it was my mom's birthday Thursday so I was running around looking for another birthday idea because our plan to get an iPad crapped out (my dad told me he didn't have enough saved up--which, wait, WHY NOT, how much is he actually getting here, I hope it's more than me; I can't believe that my sister is actually carrying us all here). Then my mom got sick and I had to go to the New York Comic Con to do camera for my job (I wanted to go, obviously. It was supposed to be shoot Thursday and Friday, enjoy the next two days. It ended up being shoot Thursday, Friday and half of Saturday because of one panel they wanted me to cover. I ended up interviewing the guy from The Group That Shall Not Be Named, the HP Meetup group from NYC that I have yet to actually officially join, the CGI Supervisor, an actor from Red Tails, this Lucasfilm movie on the Tuskagee Airmen that looks AWESOME, etc. We got some cool footage and I got some free stuff from the Rockstar booth and random shirts from niconico.com. I had planned on seeing panels all day Saturday and Sunday but work and my underestimation of the popularity of Bone and Miku Hatsune interfered.
Also from my understanding of the access a press pass gave me, I was allowed into panels and the show floor but not theatres. And in my reading of the map American Airlines, MTV and IGN had the word Theatre after them. SO I IGNORED EVERY PANEL THAT TOOK PLACE THERE, LIKE THE MARK HAMILL SPOTLIGHT AND THE AVENGERS ONE THAT INCLUDED CHRIS EVANS AND COBIE SMULDERS.The Red Tails panel took place in the American Airlines Theatre and allegedly my job set up for there to be tickets for us at the door, but when I learned tickets weren't necessary except for the IGN theatre I was livid. I know for next year. BUT CHRIS AND COBIE THO. ;_;
Instead of the Mark Hamill Spotlight on Friday I went to a panel on "The Women of Queer Comics" which i thought meant characters in queer comics and which was actually about the women behind queer comics. So that was very lesbian and militantly anti-het and I felt awkward, but I wrote down some names and got some tips on how to get your name out there, so that was cool. Also, the girl on line next to me looked like she wanted to talk to me for a while and then when I chatted her up she was all "let me ramble about Buffy and how awesomely kickass she is" so I regretted that immediately. Also there was a MTF trans there who said some touching things about the panelists and a straight girl who eventually stood up and defended hets who read queer comics because they're awesome and not just "gay porn." Also the panelists were reading the room's schedule and they were in the middle of "Finding Bigfoot" and "Demonic Hotspots" and started going on about idiot boys and how WTF those people waiting for those panels must be and I didn't appreciate that, in principle.
I tried to get into the Bone panel on Saturday after work was done, instead of the John Landis panel I'd planned because I'd heard John Landis wasn't coming and he was the main reason I wanted to see that. But I went twenty minutes before it started because waiting an hour for the queer comics panel was crazy. Bone IS CRAZY POPULAR apparently, and I didn't get into the panel. So I went shopping and rested my feet until the OneRing.net panel which I almost didn't get into either. That was super boring because all they did was show a Keynote about the information they have about the movie so far. THANKS I KNOW WHO THE CAST IS, I COULD'VE SEEN THAT ONLINE. (Actually, I don't think I knew Orlando Bloom was returning; when his picture came up I loudly replied "WHY," but whatever.) But the picture they had of Benedict Cumberbatch reminded me of S2!Sam Winchester and of all things, that has me downloading the Sherlock pilot tonight.
There were some really awesome cosplays but between interviewing some of them for work and rushing off to someplace else, not having a phone the first day, saving my camera for panels I didn't get into and the crowds I can't remember all of them. I did enjoy Pedobear just creeping around pillars now and then and grabbing the arm of every lolita cosplay that came by, Darkwing Duck, CLEAN ALL THE THINGS, Rage faces, and Ash and his bike that played the bike music when he peddled.
On Sunday I went to the Spotlight of Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang and Rose McGowan, mostly for Jason Momoa and my co-worker really wanted to meet Rose McGowan. Except my co-worker decided to wait until I texted him to get ready and got there 20 minutes to the end of the panel. IDK what to do with that boy. But Momoa is delightful! And I was pretty impressed with Rose McGowan. I don't think she's the type of person I'd want to hang out with, but I could get along with her. MOMOA THOUGH, LET'S MAKE PLANS FOR BEER.
After that panel I went straight into the IFC panel with H. Jon Benjamin, David Cross, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel and special guest (aka their moderator) Seth Myers. H. Jon Benjamin is that awkward bastard sort of funny and I loved him but he was sort of fucked up. He kept interrupting one person who was asking a question, so that took up some time and when there was only three people left with questions he ran down and asked the last question and made everyone sit down. Seth, Fred and the Portlandia section weren't as funny but were more interesting (and were the main reason I was there, as much as I love Archer and H. Jon Benjamin Has A Van).
Then I met up with my aunt and cousins (who I'd run into the day before, along with an old intern from my job and his new podcast--yes, I'm jealous, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
winged_dreams at various points), got a massage from a vendor (lol he asked what I did for a living because I have a lot of stress in my shoulders. CARRYING THAT CAMERA BAG FROM 10AM-9PM WILL DO THAT), did some last shopping, and then tried to go to the Miku Hatsune concert. Except that the line wrapped around three times and the overspill line went halfway down the hall, soooo I didn't get in. I left and went to Kinokuniya and bought a bunch of Japanese stuff to make myself feel better about missing both Miku events (GUYS I JUST REALLY LIKE VOCALOID), even ate dinner there and then went home, exhausted (and excited for my next paycheck).
I really enjoyed NYCC. I have never been before, but it really felt like I was at SDCC--it was big and not just sad looking black curtain panels with fold-out chairs (they had cushioned fold-out chairs) and sad sack C-List celebrities. I missed a lot of celebrities I wanted to see like the Blairs from G4 and Seth Green, Alan Tudyk, Mark Hamill and even Eric Balfour, though I don't watch the one show that's taken off for him. But I'm definitely coming back next year and plan to go to all the panels I want to see with enough time. I feel like I want to save for SDCC to see TRS live and maybe if there's another event in a few years like the Scott Pilgrim panel last year where everyone I have ever adored was there or that fan favorite thing from this year, but otherwise I think I'm okay with sticking to Wizard World and NYCC con-wise! I don't really enjoy how shit like Psych and even Community end up at SDCC now--I feel like it should only be strictly sci-fi and geeky shows, not shows with geeky casts and/or references--and I see, from Portlandia and Adventuretime panels that NYCC is going that way, too. But it's not at SDCC's levels of bullshit yet, so I can deal still.
And I was going to catch up on Tumblr and TV but trololol I have to go to bed now.
Also from my understanding of the access a press pass gave me, I was allowed into panels and the show floor but not theatres. And in my reading of the map American Airlines, MTV and IGN had the word Theatre after them. SO I IGNORED EVERY PANEL THAT TOOK PLACE THERE, LIKE THE MARK HAMILL SPOTLIGHT AND THE AVENGERS ONE THAT INCLUDED CHRIS EVANS AND COBIE SMULDERS.The Red Tails panel took place in the American Airlines Theatre and allegedly my job set up for there to be tickets for us at the door, but when I learned tickets weren't necessary except for the IGN theatre I was livid. I know for next year. BUT CHRIS AND COBIE THO. ;_;
Instead of the Mark Hamill Spotlight on Friday I went to a panel on "The Women of Queer Comics" which i thought meant characters in queer comics and which was actually about the women behind queer comics. So that was very lesbian and militantly anti-het and I felt awkward, but I wrote down some names and got some tips on how to get your name out there, so that was cool. Also, the girl on line next to me looked like she wanted to talk to me for a while and then when I chatted her up she was all "let me ramble about Buffy and how awesomely kickass she is" so I regretted that immediately. Also there was a MTF trans there who said some touching things about the panelists and a straight girl who eventually stood up and defended hets who read queer comics because they're awesome and not just "gay porn." Also the panelists were reading the room's schedule and they were in the middle of "Finding Bigfoot" and "Demonic Hotspots" and started going on about idiot boys and how WTF those people waiting for those panels must be and I didn't appreciate that, in principle.
I tried to get into the Bone panel on Saturday after work was done, instead of the John Landis panel I'd planned because I'd heard John Landis wasn't coming and he was the main reason I wanted to see that. But I went twenty minutes before it started because waiting an hour for the queer comics panel was crazy. Bone IS CRAZY POPULAR apparently, and I didn't get into the panel. So I went shopping and rested my feet until the OneRing.net panel which I almost didn't get into either. That was super boring because all they did was show a Keynote about the information they have about the movie so far. THANKS I KNOW WHO THE CAST IS, I COULD'VE SEEN THAT ONLINE. (Actually, I don't think I knew Orlando Bloom was returning; when his picture came up I loudly replied "WHY," but whatever.) But the picture they had of Benedict Cumberbatch reminded me of S2!Sam Winchester and of all things, that has me downloading the Sherlock pilot tonight.
There were some really awesome cosplays but between interviewing some of them for work and rushing off to someplace else, not having a phone the first day, saving my camera for panels I didn't get into and the crowds I can't remember all of them. I did enjoy Pedobear just creeping around pillars now and then and grabbing the arm of every lolita cosplay that came by, Darkwing Duck, CLEAN ALL THE THINGS, Rage faces, and Ash and his bike that played the bike music when he peddled.
On Sunday I went to the Spotlight of Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang and Rose McGowan, mostly for Jason Momoa and my co-worker really wanted to meet Rose McGowan. Except my co-worker decided to wait until I texted him to get ready and got there 20 minutes to the end of the panel. IDK what to do with that boy. But Momoa is delightful! And I was pretty impressed with Rose McGowan. I don't think she's the type of person I'd want to hang out with, but I could get along with her. MOMOA THOUGH, LET'S MAKE PLANS FOR BEER.
After that panel I went straight into the IFC panel with H. Jon Benjamin, David Cross, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel and special guest (aka their moderator) Seth Myers. H. Jon Benjamin is that awkward bastard sort of funny and I loved him but he was sort of fucked up. He kept interrupting one person who was asking a question, so that took up some time and when there was only three people left with questions he ran down and asked the last question and made everyone sit down. Seth, Fred and the Portlandia section weren't as funny but were more interesting (and were the main reason I was there, as much as I love Archer and H. Jon Benjamin Has A Van).
Then I met up with my aunt and cousins (who I'd run into the day before, along with an old intern from my job and his new podcast--yes, I'm jealous, and
winged_dreams at various points), got a massage from a vendor (lol he asked what I did for a living because I have a lot of stress in my shoulders. CARRYING THAT CAMERA BAG FROM 10AM-9PM WILL DO THAT), did some last shopping, and then tried to go to the Miku Hatsune concert. Except that the line wrapped around three times and the overspill line went halfway down the hall, soooo I didn't get in. I left and went to Kinokuniya and bought a bunch of Japanese stuff to make myself feel better about missing both Miku events (GUYS I JUST REALLY LIKE VOCALOID), even ate dinner there and then went home, exhausted (and excited for my next paycheck).I really enjoyed NYCC. I have never been before, but it really felt like I was at SDCC--it was big and not just sad looking black curtain panels with fold-out chairs (they had cushioned fold-out chairs) and sad sack C-List celebrities. I missed a lot of celebrities I wanted to see like the Blairs from G4 and Seth Green, Alan Tudyk, Mark Hamill and even Eric Balfour, though I don't watch the one show that's taken off for him. But I'm definitely coming back next year and plan to go to all the panels I want to see with enough time. I feel like I want to save for SDCC to see TRS live and maybe if there's another event in a few years like the Scott Pilgrim panel last year where everyone I have ever adored was there or that fan favorite thing from this year, but otherwise I think I'm okay with sticking to Wizard World and NYCC con-wise! I don't really enjoy how shit like Psych and even Community end up at SDCC now--I feel like it should only be strictly sci-fi and geeky shows, not shows with geeky casts and/or references--and I see, from Portlandia and Adventuretime panels that NYCC is going that way, too. But it's not at SDCC's levels of bullshit yet, so I can deal still.
And I was going to catch up on Tumblr and TV but trololol I have to go to bed now.
