Comicon

Technically ComicCon I suppose, but whatever. Biggest Comic/Sci Fi Convention in the Western Hemisphere. How did I end up there you all may wonder? Living in a sci fi family with a roommate who's addicted to Sci Fi visiting is pretty much my answer. So this morning I was woken up at at 8am, thrown into a packed car and then onto an even more packed trolley to the convention center. I can't say of all the convention I would like to go to, Comicon is not one of my favorite. I don't read comic books (DC or Marvel). I watched Star Wars, but I'm not enough of a fan to want to meet all the people in it.

I don't know why they don't split up the science fiction and comics. I mean, I suppose they think they'll hit two birds with one stone, and it must have made sense in the early days of Comicon (39 years ago) but now that over 300,000 people flock to San Diego for Comicon, you think things would survive splitting the two up. As it is, even the San Diego Convention center is too small for all the people flocking to it. At 10am it was difficult to move around the main hall, by noon it was impossible. The combination of booth upon booth upon booth, with thousands and thousands of people made it feel claustrophobic to a level I have never felt before. By the time we left at 2:30pm, stepping outside the convention center was the first fresh air I had felt for four hours, and there were still masses of people flooding inside. Every single day at comicon has been sold out. I suppose they have a fire code for the convention center, but knowing how long it took us to get out, I can't imagine that that helps much.

River and I got to see the Joss Wheadon panel, which was good I suppose, though I still find it hard to find a difference between listening to a panel talk and watching people on screen. Unless I'm being introduced face to face, I don't think it's that awe-inspiring to watch people talk. Truly, there are generally enough people in a popular event that you can't even really see people on stage, so you have to watch the screens. So instead of sitting in your comfortable living room, popping some popcorn and flipping a screen on, you go into a packed ballroom, after sometime waiting hours in line, sitting on a uncomfortable chairs with thousands of other other rabid fans all screaming about the people on stage. Never been the type to get star struck. I don't really seem to care much. Furthermore, River was the one that knew the majority of the people. When you don't know who the "famous" people our, you don't tend to get as excited.

Not the most exciting day in my opinion, but at least River had a good time. She was on cloud nine the entire way home. I just never want to be in a building with that many people ever again. I have no patience to wait for events, I don't like crowds, and not nearly enough freebies.
-Lia