The following news bits came from the Comic Con panels for The Vampire Dairies, Supernatural and Doctor Who. This article closes out all my notes from last weekend and now, I have to sort out my pictures from the weekend and go from there… Comic Con pics coming soon! -
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries Comic Con panel really didn’t produce much news… just really great banter amongst the panelists:
The panel included Joseph Morgan, Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, Candice Accola and Paul Wesley. Exec producer Kevin Williamson was also there.
Another panel birthday at Comic Con, this time the crowd sang happy birthday to Paul Wesley.
Speaking of Wesley, he said he’ll be enjoying embracing the darker side of Stefan.
Dobrev said she likes playing both characters. Something about the nest of both worlds.
We have not seen the last of Elijah.
Damon is not happy how things are turning out at the moment.
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Supernatural Season Finale Review
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When Supernatural on The CW kicked in their sixth season, I think many people were wondering how it would go. Eric Kripke had stepped back and Sera Gamble stepped up and took the creative reigns. I have to say that as far as I can tell, Supernatural didn’t skip a beat. The classic rock music injected perfectly, the humor that lies underneath the stories and the story itself, the main plot, underneath it all, moved forward. Sometimes in tiny pieces and sometimes in entire episodes.
Albeit it, the show kept its charm and character and was not disappointing in this extra, or sixth season. I say extra because Kripke only had five seasons mapped out. He stepped back because his story was done. But when the CW renewed the series, they had to step up, and I’m sure the fans are glad they did. That’s when Sera Gamble stepped in. And having been one of Kripke’s right-hand persons, she had taken her notes well and employed them rather well.
With that, herein lies my recap/review of the sixth season finale of Supernatural…
Spoilers are abound:
In the first part/episode of the Supernatural season closer, titled “Let It Bleed,” it starts out with Crowley (Mark Sheppard) stepping outside his boundaries and kidnapping Lisa and Ben to keep Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) busy. Busy trying to find them. But Crowley had stepped out of line doing this, but regardless of how angry Cas (The ever popular fan favorite Misha Collins) is about this, Crowley doesn’t care anymore.
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You have to love how they start these Doctor Who episodes on BBC America. After last week’s episode of Doctor Who, I wasn’t sure if any other episode will start as confounding or as exciting as that one. Man, was I wrong.
This new episode of Doctor Who, titled “Day of the Moon” started out rather powerfully, moved quickly through a few events that were all incredibly key to the entire story and in the end, ‘The Doctor’ does what he does best, and that’s maneuver our newest and most frightening enemy into such a situation that he ends up kicking their asses in a grand and smart fashion.
Kudos Steven Moffat, kudos and thank you!
The following, after the break will present SPOILERS for those of you who have DVR’d the BBC America episode
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Today I tagged the panels for Doctor Who, Terra Nova and the new animated series from Cartoon Network, ThunderCats. I also have a new preview trailer for the ThunderCats show.
Day 3 at WonderCon 2011, the 3-day attendee’s are a bit tired. But there was a large crowd outside the Moscone Center South wanting in to buy their on-site tickets for Sunday. Those that were badged from previous days were entering the center, but awaiting for the convention floor doors themselves to be opened at 11 a.m..
As far as the first panel of the day, Doctor Who, the folks at the front of the line arrived there at 6 am to be sure they had a shot at the front row of the event. Lucky me, they sat next to me. (They were screamers. My ear is numb.)
Let’s get to it.
Doctor Who WonderCon Panel
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- WonderCon is coming up fast, taking place April 1st through 3rd in San Francisco at the Moscone Center South. Rooms are still available and at a reasonable price, all within an easy walk to the convention center.
As of this writing, the big events lined up for WonderCon that have caught my eye include panels for TV shows Falling Skies, Doctor Who, Terra Nova, Human Target and the new animated series ThunderCats.
Movies being represented at WonderCon (at the time of this writing*) include Warner Bros. live-action movie Green Lantern, Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens, HANNA, Priest, & Immortals.
*What’s interesting is the absence of a few highly anticipated movie panels… mainly Thor, Captain America, The Avengers, Super 8, Conan the Barbarian, The Amazing Spider-Man… and such. There are still spots on the calendar but with a week to go, it’s looking bleak for these projects showing up. Yea, yea, I want it all! What can I say.
I hope this lack of big-ticket upcoming events isn’t some sort of harbinger of this event’s future! It’s a great event that’s not as much of a frenzy as San Diego Comic-Con, while still getting some great exposure for various projects.
Here are some of the primary events taking place in the Esplanade room of the weekend:
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Now that we know that Sam (Jared Padalecki) has no soul, it’s touch and go between the brothers as they deal with skinwalkers in the episode of Supernatural titled “All Dogs Go To Heaven” and Dean (Jensen Ackles) treads carefully around him. But how careful do you have to be around a brother that never sleeps???
Skinwalkers are initially confused with werewolves in this episode of Supernatural, but in this case, they have decided take the shape of dogs. Their plan is simple: Generate enough skinwalker sleeper cells in different cities throughout America, get themselves taken in by caring families posing as the family dog and on the given night, a command is sent throughout the cells for the family dog to bite the entire family and change them too, into skinwalkers. It is an insidiously good plan where their population will expand by a huge factor of numbers.
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In tonight’s episode of Supernatural, titled “Two Minutes to Midnight,” Crowley (Mark Sheppard) tells Bobby (Jim Beaver) where Death (guest star Julian Richings) is, but at a steep price. All the while Sam and Dean confront Pestilence (guest star Matt Frewer), and Castiel (Misha Collins) is part of the equation as well.
I just don’t want to spoil tonight’s episode, but tonight you are going to probably have a jaw-dropping moment and get the Kleenex out people!
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It’s coming down to the wire in Supernatural as this wonderfully fun and entertaining 5th season of Supernatural draws to a close. How will Sam and Dean defeat the Devil? They were given a clue last week and all they need to do is find 2 more, muscle-car driving headsmen! How hard can that be!?
“The demon Crowley (guest star Mark Sheppard) tells Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) he can help them find the remaining Horsemen rings so they can trap Lucifer. The brothers are doubtful until Crowley leads them to Brady (guest star Eric Johnson), the Handler for Pestilence (guest star Matt Frewer) and Death. However, Brady refuses to give up their locations and sets Pestilence after the Winchesters. Robert Singer directed the episode written by Ben Edlund (#520).”
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Jared Padalecki as Sam, Jensen Ackles as Dean in SUPERNATURAL on The CW.
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Ever wonder when the next Comic Con is coming up? And I don’t mean the one in San Diego that is practically sold out? Speaking of Comic-Con International 2010, it is 98% sold out for Thursday, Friday and Saturday are both sold out, and Sunday is 77% sold out. It’s been my experience that Sunday is the TV panel day so you’re in luck if that’s your focus! Check out my Survival Guide for Comic-Con. It can be applied to any convention, but it’s based on the craziness that is Comic-Con International in San Diego!
Here are other conventions taking place in a town near you… hopefully! These upcoming conventions are taking place in Toronto Canada and Los Angeles, CA.
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Just thought I’d pass along the reminder that the series-finale of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse takes place on January 22nd, 2010. The final episodes leading up to this last day will be
- January 8th: “Getting Closer.”
- January 15th: “The Hollow Men.”
- The series finale on January 22nd: “Epitath Two: Return.” Felicia Day and Adair Tishler guest star.
It will be the end of a much tormented science fiction, fantasy TV series run that never quite caught on with the general viewing public.
I even had a feeling that despite the hard-core fan-base wanting Joss’s latest television effort to succeed, even some of us were hard pressed to really enjoy Dollhouse at times. Sometimes the show just dragged for me and at other times it hit on all 10 cylinders of its 8-cylinder engine. It just didn’t revv up enough to catch a foothold.
It didn’t help when viewers called it things like a show about trafficking.
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