It's just about the fun and general debauchery.

[proggrrl]

A very creative fangirl made best use of her SMALLVILLE goody bag LOL! [via LA Times]


HOO BOY. Not only was I offline for the second half of Comic Con, and beyond busy at my office all last week - but then I even managed to get sick for a few more days. JEEZ.  Finally…without further delay…more fun things from Comic Con to share!

The massive net/blog coverage of SDCC this past week – and a relative lack of, well, ANY coverage in the Legacy Media – has me thinking.  If you like chewing on marketing trends as much as I do, you may find these of interest:

• IESB has video of the Web Boi panel, discussing the film/tv/comic/game news bloggers and web sites and their POV…Where are the LADIES for this panel!!! Also interesting that there’s no one on there from AICN.  Cinematical is whining about being left off the panel...I think I might know why that happened.  Kinda, erm, CATTY, for fanbois.
• Ed Martin at Watercooler TV ponders just what it is we fan bloggers (“citizen marketers”) do, and why our blogging is becoming so important to content creators and many other businesses…
• Diva Marketing’s discussion of blogger relations, and a study they posted from Agency.com (DL the PDF here).  The study really pinpoints who these bloggers (“the Uploaders”) are, and how important they are becoming to word of mouth marketing (WOM).  Even though this is a UK study, you could easily apply its conclusions to the US market.  In my business, WOM can make or break a product and it’s serious frakkin’ business.
• A later Diva post discusses the study again, especially its key point about bloggers being one of the net’s penultimate resources for content creators.
• And now a word from the polar opposite end of this discussion: Variety columnist Brian Lowry shows his age and his lack of fandom knowledge with this biting commentary on fan courting as a marketing method.  Apparently the con cosplay has this guy pretty shaken up...though I do agree that fandom asks TERRIBLE questions at panels. *g*
  

Ha! RDM spilled a BSG plot detail that has been bugging me for a long time…who left that note, that said “there are 12 models,” in Adama’s quarters at the end of the miniseries?  

One plot point that may or may not be resolved on camera is, at the end of the miniseries, who left the note for Adama telling him there are 12 Cylons? Don't despair, though, as Moore said he's always considered it to be Baltar who left the note. Moore described it in the context of the adjacent scene in which Six and Baltar are walking down a corridor and Baltar is contemplating his guilt about playing a part in the human genocide. He expresses a desire to do something good, hence the note. [taken from this very spoilery TV Week piece]

IGN has posted a DL'able file of the BSG press conference.  I like hearing RDM say that the writing staff, cast and crew are all being so intense about S4 because they know this is the end.  It’s almost like filming a TV movie or miniseries.  I’m sure it will be great for the show – not that the show wasn’t already The Best.  RDM also mentions, again, how unique the RAZOR project is for television, in that it will be aired on TV, and then sold as a DVD the following day.  This is a rare strategy for a network, rather unique in non-PBS TV, I believe.  If this works for BSG, I bet it will usher in a sea change (especially for cult/genre fare).  I love Lawless’ glee over playing a bad guy, and desire to continue doing so.   

A TV Squad fangirl ponders why the chaos of SDCC is so great.  I agree sistah!

A bit more from David Eick about his new pilot THEM, which apparently might get a midseason pickup by Fox.

Color me interested in this new TV show CHUCK, based on the promos I’ve seen, and playing around in the show’s seriously fun web site.

Thanks to PopCandy, we can all watch a few fall first-eps online NOW: The first episode of CALIFORNICATION (with David Duchovny), and  WEEDS’ third season, both via this link (use code MONDAYS).  And the pilot for CW’s new show REAPER, which was directed by Kevin Smith (use code 082507).

Anne Thompson was one of a select few reporters allowed to view the first footage from another Neil Gaiman project, CORALINE, an animated film directed by Henry “NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS” Selick.  Sounds great.

Pr0n star Jenna Jameson not only has a comic book coming soon, she is in talks to get her biography turned into a film – and says she is talking to Peter “FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS” Berg about directing…and Scarlett Johansson is her first choice dream-casting.

Utterly random con silliness that made me smile.

David "ANGEL" Greenwalt has left the new vampire TV show MOONLIGHT.  This sucks, I was just getting excited.  After bringing him on to rework and recast the show, looks like producer Joel “VERONICA MARS” Silver has replaced him, with one of the guys who worked on DARK ANGEL.  Hmm.  The show sounds like it’s taking Anne Rice’s vampverse for inspiration, which could be great.  And it has Jason Dohring and Shannyn Sossamon.  May still check it out.

Everything I know about the BSG panels at SDCC is over at Sitrep, check it out if you're into that.  Meanwhile, the coolest stuff I found about the HEROES panel:

• KEVIN SMITH! YAY
• Tee shirts: HRG came out wearing a shirt that said "I'm Just A Paper Salesman" drawn by the show’s artist Tim Sale. Parkman came out with a shirt that said "Milo Is My Hero". Oka came out with a shirt that said, "Hayden Is My Hero.” *glee*
• Some other choice tidbits via TV Squad:
• The panel, which featured most of the Heroes cast and creative team, took questions from the audience. And, by "questions," I mean young women exclaiming, "I love you, Milo."
• Tim Kring announced that he has plans in the coming months to organize Heroes fans via the glorious power of the internet to channel their ever-loving energy into doing something good in the world. It sounded like he was aiming to create the kind of relationship Joss Whedon has with the Browncoats and non-profit organization Equality Now.
• Very nice pictures and a quick rundown over at ComingSoon.net
• This guy, who writes about working the Con like he was riding the Tour de France – and who snuck into the panel by walking in with the cast & crew! MY HERO!

The HEROES panel video is up on NBC’s site.  Thank you very much – now I can get a high quality vid of the Ladies of BSG panel?!?! Never enough.  Also does anyone know if the S2 footage has leaked to YouTube yet?  Hook a sistah up!

STARGATE’s David Hewett mentions, near the end of this inty, that he’s developing a show for SciFi; a behind-the-scenes type show, backstage at a sci-fi TV show – taking THE OFFICE for stylistic inspiration?  Hmmmmm, I’d watch that.  [tip o’ the hat to SF Signal]

Yahoo has several clips from the BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT DVD release, including a trailer for Dangerous Days, the making-of documentary.  YES! They got Harrison & EJO to talk.  (btw this is the best LOOKING stream I’ve ever seen on Yahoo, rivals the smaller apple HD files but no waiting for the DL. Nice.)  SciFi.com has SDCC interviews with Ridley Scott, Sean Young and James Wong.  So…who do I hafta kill to get one of these Drew Struzan posters? Sa dflaksed trijlakse flaksdjflaksd!

“Many of the fans who ask questions in Hall H are in costume. One interesting moment: Liv Tyler confronted with herself in The Lord of the Rings. She gamely spoke Elfin on request.”  - Anne Thompson
*giggles*

If you had told me ten years ago that Ed Norton, Robert Downey Jr, Liv Tyler, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jon Favreau were gonna be doing tentpole comic book movies…I would’ve laughed in yr face.  Seriously tho - Favreau & Downey crack me up.  RDJ really knows how to handle hecklers and dumb con questions.  <3 <3 <3

The Shat does a video response to rumors that he was lobbying for a part in the new STAR TREK film…great idea.  [via SFSignal]

Cast o’ my dreams: I am not one to go seeing, let along BUYING, animated DC comic character movies. But check out the cast on JUSTICE LEAGUE: NEW FRONTIER, which apparently isn’t out till next spring:  Kyle McLaughlin ("Twin Peaks") as Superman, Lucy Lawless ("Battlestar Galactica," "Xena") as Wonder Woman, Neil Patrick Harris ("How I Met Your Mother") as the Flash, and David Boreanaz ("Angel") as the Green Lantern.  It’s voice-acting only but - WOW!!!

Leave it to our boy Cory Doctrow to voicepost the con.  Awwww.  Jeez man, the reason SDCC is so much bigger than WorldCon is, natch - the comics, the movies and the TV shows!!!!!  But he also points out 3/4s of the fun of SDCC - the "artisanal," "fannish" stuff.  I remember thinking that was the best part of the Trek con in NYC I went to in the mid-80s (the only con I've been to).

EW and RopeofSilicon have SDCC inty’s with Joss Whedon, full of info and opinion.  Poor Joss.  HBO please give this guy another series!  Now we know what happened with WONDER WOMAN. (Uh, Joel Silver was on that as producer? *ponders MOONLIGHT again* Uh-oh.)  Tons of deets on the SERENITY collectors edition DVD are now out.  Meanwhile, go read Whedon’s online comic Sugarshock here.  And remember: Joss is not your monkey… <3

That is all I have for you, fandom!  Quite a meaty, chewy con this year, eh. *hands fall off*



The Tusken Chorus. [by parrakum]




* title today is a quote from Jason Dohring

Comments

[einaphets.livejournal.com]

Girl, when do you sleep? No wonder you were sick. I hope you feel better soon.

Seriously, this is soo much info! Thanks for your hard work.

I love Kevin Smith. Is Heroes:Origins the second season of Heroes though? It doesn't come back until next year?

I'm ready for the Serenity and Blade Runner collectors editions. Squeee!

[nnaylime.livejournal.com]

Is Heroes:Origins the second season of Heroes though?

My understanding (based on something I read either in Geek or EW) is that it's sort of a spin-off, filler series to keep people from losing interest during the hiatus. The panel confirmed that they'll be stand-alone eps in the Heroes universe, each focusing on the origin of a different, heretofor unknown Hero . . . There was some rumbling somewhere that at the end of its run, the audience would get to vote for their favorite and that person would join the main cast.

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

I am much better now, thanks.

I think everything nnaylime just said above is spot on, RE Heroes Origins. They apparently want guest directors like Smith to do as many directing spots as possible. He's the first one to sign on.

This info was meant to be fed out to my flist over several posts along the entire week, I hope it's not TOO massive. There was just so much going on! YAY.

I am so buying that crazy-huge Blade Runner package.

[nnaylime.livejournal.com]

fenwic has a better picture of the 'bag lady' in her comments to me here (http://fenwic.livejournal.com/99687.html?thread=645223#t645223).

They jumped on me for texting during the Heroes panel (my phone could OMG also be used as a recording device!) so if the video does leak I'm going to have to admire the inginuity of whomever got it.

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

ICON!LOVE!

Yeah, I was hoping they (NBC) would've put it out there themselves by now...*mope*...no sign of the Razor footage either yet...Don't they love us? :-(

Thanks for the photo. Togas? Very bad idea!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Yay for all the awesome linkage! Thank you so much for sharing your fabulous brain-dump :D

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

Enjoy! It's the least I can do for lovely FANDOM. *g*

[canadiangirl-86.livejournal.com]

Dude, you are SO the go-to source for everything fandom. Well done!

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

A well-fed fandom is a healthy and delicious fandom! *g*

[latteaddict.livejournal.com]

Fantastic post, thank you!