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Skriven 2007-07-28 00:14:09 av Jan (2649.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Reports from Comic-Con
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In article <Xns997AD25B96B76dershemcoxnet@69.28.173.184>, Carl Dershem says...
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>Walked through the hall on my break (working the con, so I don't get to see 
>panels), and the line for TLT was enormous - flashed me back to the lines 
>for the B5 show when it was on.  I really hope the presentation was as fun.
>

It was great, Carl.  Wish you could have seen it.

This is pretty much the same report as I wrote over on JMSNews.  Jon also goes
by "SmileoftheShadow":

Hi, all! I'm back from the convention for the day. Today was the B5 group
signing at 3:15 PM and then the Babylon 5: The Lost Tales panel at 6:00 PM.

Jon was going to meet me at the group signing but he wasn't able to make it in
time. By a sheer stroke of luck I ended up being the first one in line for the
group signing. All I did was ask where and when the line would be formed and
the
lady decided that it was right there and then. That was a little over an hour
before the scheduled start to the signing. I don't know how long the line got
but within a minute there were at least ten people behind me and they cut off
the line to new people about 10 minutes before the signing was due to start.

The signing started a few minutes late. As always, JMS was on time (early,
actually) and Bruce and Samm Barnes were with him. Tracy and Doug Netter were a
bit late. Apparently the car Tracy was in got stuck while a train crossed in
front of the convention center. While we waited, JMS went out and talked to the
fans a bit. I was really excited that Doug Netter was there and signing!

As Joe Nazzaro had told us over on JMSNews, there were some special mini-comics
that were being handed out at the group signing. Please believe that I'm not
being mean when I tell you that I'm not going to tell you about it...for now.
Once you've seen the DVD, I'll tell you because the comic expands on a comment
made (twice, if the script is accurate) in the DVD. JMS wrote it and it's
lovely.

Immediately after the signing I headed upstairs to get in line to get into the
room where the panel was going to be. In just a few minutes Jon joined me and
soon after we were in the room where a panel on 'Eureka' preceded the B5 panel.
As soon as that was over, Jon went to try to get us seats near the mike. There
were a bunch of seats that said they were reserved for studio attendees but
somebody had taken the rope down so Jon and I sat there, thinking that the
signs
were meant for another panel. Unfortunately, once the room was almost entirely
full an official came by and made us move. Before we did, though, we snagged a
little something that Joe Nazzaro brought. Sock puppets!!! Joe brought several
dozen black socks with big white eyes.

Just as we moved they also started handing out Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
'medallions' that have blinking lights. I'm sure they'd be really popular with
a
much younger person than I am.

Joe Nazzaro came out as moderator and then JMS, Bruce, Tracy, Peter W. Samm
Barnes and Doug Netter came out. JMS had them show a long clip of one of the
segments of the movie (the Sheridan/Galen segment) as well as the trailer shown
on the website. Then Joe N. wanted to have us show our sock puppets but JMS
simply wouldn't cooperate! I think he knew something was up. Anyway, we watched
the 'video blog' where JMS tried to convince Gregg Maday that sock puppet
actors
were the way to go, and demonstrated his idea. Gregg Maday was obviously
overcome by it all and utterly speechless.  At last we were able to show JMS
that we were all ready, willing and able to help out and proudly displayed our
puppets. Tracy was in stitches.

Joe N did a great job and asked really good questions and kept things moving.
Unfortunately my recorder decided not to work JUST as the panel started. Jon
pulled out his laptop and began to transcribe things (boy, can he *type*!)
until
his laptop battery died. I think he got most of Joe N's questions but not the
audience's. That's okay, they didn't really ask very interesting ones, mostly
of
the "will we see ___fitb___, JMS" sort and JMS finding a dozen different ways
to
say "Maybe, we'll see."

It was a great time and a great day all around. Jon and I will work on
transcribing some of the questions tomorrow. Joe Nazzaro, you did a GREAT job
and it was great to see you!

Jan


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