San Diego Comic Con 2009 - Day 2 - Friday

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For a Friday the comic con felt more like a Saturday; I spent most of the day camped out in either Ballroom 20 or Hall H; when the line for Hall H begins to snake around the convention center, there's a problem. When the panel is nothing more than a video telecast, one starts to wonder why they don't just set up monitors and screens outside for the people standing in line, or simulcasting to other parts of the convention.

The day started off with the Stargate Universe panel, which seems to follow the pattern established by Star Trek: set the first one about exploration of worlds; set the second on a base, and throw the third show out to the middle of the galaxy and have them try to find their way home.

The BSG: The Plan/Caprica panel followed SGU in Ballroom 20, which consisted of Ron Moore, David Eick, Jane Espenson, Edward James Olmos and Esai Morales. Halfway through the panel, Grace Park showed up. The Plan is a retelling of certain events from the series of BSG retold from the Cylon point of view, and Espenson described it as a sort of reverse puzzle in which she had to pull it altogether to make the story work.

Olmos said he hopes that his vision for continuing the BSG timeline is a story in which Col. Tigh shows up at his door and says "Sir, we have a problem". He also noted that BSG leads perfectly into Bladerunner, he considers Inspector Gaff from Bladerunner to be a distant descendent of Adama.

Esai Morales said that in watching science fiction, he was always wondering why Hispanics weren't in space; mockingly he said in an Cheech Marin accent: "What happened, man?"

I ended the day with a slight sunburn on my arms; the injury of a long wait outside for Hall H to view Focus Entertainment's 9. I followed up by watching the panels for Legion and District 9. Legion is an apocalyptic angel horror movie, while District 9 is about alien refugees in South Africa; Legion looks terrible, but District 9, for a 30 million dollar movie seems quite impressive and interesting.

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