Highlights of SDCC 2011 (Way Late) Part 2

Friday, July 22, 2011

• Volunteer shift at 9:00am - Professional Registration in which I actually feel marginally useful as a volunteer (and have an awesome supervisor), putting together bags and brochures
• Sighting of Nicholas Brendon (Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) on the exhibit hall floor
• Wandered exhibit hall and Artists Alley
• Bedlam Panel

Nicholas Brendon (Buffy)

Theo James (Bedlam), David Allison (Writer: Bedlam)

Saturday, July 23, 2011

• A blur of a day in my allergy/cold-getting/sore-throat-catching/sleep-deprived state...no original journal entry for this day to pull from
• What I do remember: Knights of Badassdom Panel...because it was totally badass.
• Also Snow White and the Huntsman Panel...Hall H had no line...it was weird... 
• Spotted Matt Groening and Joss Whedon

Joe Lynch (Director: Knights of Badassdom), Ryan Kwanten (Knights of Badassdom, True Blood)

Ryan Kwanten (Knights of Badassdom, True Blood)

Summer Glau (Knights of Badassdom, Firefly)

Peter Dinklage (Knights of Badassdom, Game of Thrones)

Margarita Levieva (Knights of Badassdom)

Danny Pudi (Knights of Badassdom, Community)

Michael Gladis (Knights of Badassdom, Mad Men)

Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman)

Kristen Stewart (Snow White and the Huntsman, Twilight)

Chris Hemsworth (Snow White and the Huntsman, Thor)

Charlize Theron (Snow White and the Huntsman)

Matt Groening (Writer: Futurama, Simpsons)

Joss Whedon (Writer: The Avengers, Dollhouse, Firefly, Buffy, Angel)

Game of Thrones: amazing book and TV series by George R.R. Martin

Torchwood: amazing TV series...until this season when Starz was in control instead of the BBC

Highlights of Sunday still to come!

Highlights of Comic Con 2011 (Way Late)

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 

• Volunteer sign up
• Performance of Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog live at 10th Avenue Theatre - an absolutely astonishing performance of the piece, especially since they had to create the script and score simply by watching and listening to the film.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

• Volunteer shift at 8:00am - "Line Management" in which I acted as a human sign post to to keep a pair of doors clear and the Fire Marshall happy (side note - walking around for 3 hours is not so bad; standing in one place for 3 hours and oy vey my poor muscles!)
• Wandered the exhibit hall and signed up for a volunteer shift for Friday
• TV Guide Panel - included Matt Smith (11th Dr. Who), Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette on True Blood), Kristin Bauer (Pam on True Blood), Johnny Galecki (Leonard on Big Bang Theory), and several others
• Showtime Panel for Homeland, Shameless, and Dexter

Johnny Galecki (Big Bang Theory), Matt Smith (Dr. Who)

C.S. Lee (Dexter), Michael C. Hall (Dexter)

Johnny Galecki (Big Bang Theory), Matt Smith (Dr. Who), Kristin Bauer (True Blood)

Kristin Bauer (True Blood), Nelsan Ellis (True Blood)

Full TV Guide Panel

Johnny Galecki (Big Bang Theory), Matt Smith (Dr. Who), Kristin Bauer (True Blood)

John Wells, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin, William Macy (Shameless)

Morena Baccarin (Homeland, Firefly, V)

David Zayas, James Remar, Colin Hanks (Dexter)

Highlights of the rest of the weekend to be posted soon!