Jensen who? You're going to tell me they're on Veronica Mars now, aren't you? IMDB time..
Supernatural, actually. And hot is in no way off the mark. Guh.
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
'Jaynestown'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Consuela - Dec 11, 2006 3:33:24 pm PST #9269 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2006 9:35:16 pm PST #9270 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, the small con is that. A small con. The Guests of Honor tend to smaller-name Sci-Fi or fantasy authors
Which is the difference, I guess, between your small con and BE's -- they're talking small attendance, big names. And of people whose faces are front line, primarily.
It is weird, I guess (never having done something like that myself), but it sure seems there's money in it if you manage it right.
sumi - Dec 12, 2006 4:21:05 am PST #9271 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Scifi is doing a FF mini-marathon today. I caught the first 25 minutes of "The Train Job" before I had to leave for work.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 12, 2006 4:51:36 am PST #9272 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Catching up after a weekend in Maine and I am well and truly full of awe at how so many disparate elements pulled together to save the fans from the ginormous clusterfuck that BE managed to cause. "Wow!" doesn't even come close to expressing how shiny I feel about this. "Bless!" comes pretty close, though.
Nutty - Dec 12, 2006 4:56:30 am PST #9273 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
It is weird, I guess (never having done something like that myself), but it sure seems there's money in it if you manage it right.
Right. I'm beginning to realize that SF-lit cons and media cons are really different entities -- SF lit is half industry caucus and half community. The boundaries between fans and "stars" are very permeable, over the long term. Also, I've never heard of an SF lit con that wouldn't immediately plow any profits back into the next con. (For that matter, every year people buy "non-attending" memberships in cons, essentially giving the con money just to make sure it survives.)
Not to posit SF lit cons as unable to have horrifying disasters (there was a humdinger of a one that got cons kicked out of Boston hotels for a long time), but generally speaking, the horrifying disasters are stupidity, disorganization, and people getting out of hand; the profit motive for disaster is absent.
Although, I will say, the fangirling that Neil Gaiman gets, he probably should (and could) charge for autographs. (I don't think he does.)
Dana - Dec 12, 2006 5:04:22 am PST #9274 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I've been going to DragonCon for several years now, and it seems to me that they do an extraordinary job of wrangling 30,000 people and a few hundred guests.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 12, 2006 9:20:26 am PST #9275 of 10001
What is even happening?
(there was a humdinger of a one that got cons kicked out of Boston hotels for a long time)Oh please tell, or link, Nutty.
Nutty - Dec 12, 2006 9:32:28 am PST #9276 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Oh it was like 20+ years ago. Here we are: [link]
As disasters go, it was self-made, and one of those "Now Timmy has spoiled it for the rest of the class" type of problems. But, let us say that that, and one Baycon (SF area) that had a committee self-destruct, are the only two disastercons that have made it into book format (Camille Bacon-Smith's Science Fiction Culture .)
omnis_audis - Dec 12, 2006 1:31:30 pm PST #9277 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
on the plus side, Sci-Fi channel works in my office.
on the negative side... I forgot about the marathon until 1/2 way thru the last episode
:: sigh ::
I could have had Firefly on all day instead of Christmas songs.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 12, 2006 1:52:24 pm PST #9278 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Wow, it takes me back to the early 90s when a small local gaming group/con turned out to be a scheme to get the lead organizer some quick cash. One of my roomies got a court judgement against him after being wrongly implicated in the embezzlement, but apparently these things are VERY hard to get law enforcement to follow up on.
I don't regret the $ I shelled out for that Creation con with all the Mutant Enemy folks back in 2004 as a one-time experience, but I had more fun at the PBPs for much less money.