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Welcome to my Guest Panels page. There are around 300 photos on this page, so enjoy! The page features photos from most of the panels I attended (with a few shots from the panels that Brian attended as well). I was trying to keep my flash photography to a minimum in order to not blind the guests or give them headaches, though they do seem to get through all the flashes well enough, I guess you get used to it after a while. Since I was getting used to a new digital camera, the photos from Day 1 weren't all that good, but I think I improved on the other 2 days' worth of photos.
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The Babylon 5 panel featured Jason Carter, Stephen Austin, and Peter Jurasik. Of course, there was a nice remembrance for Richard Biggs from each on the panel. Richard was a class guy and his death came far too early. Jason treated the crowd with some of his performance poetry (ask him to perform "Grandma" if you see him at a con). In the middle of Peter's story of how the cast got JMS pretty good at a con with the help of the audience (by asking them not to react to anything JMS said, which would freak him out and deflate his ego), Peter Woodward shows up like a stark raving guy citing why he wasn't invited to this B5 panel and then goes on to plug his own panel, and dashes around the room throwing flyers for his panel (and documentary/history show). Jurasik was dumbfounded, describing Woodward's entrance and equally quick exit as getting "bitch-slapped". Got to love the B5 panels, always something fun and interesting happens at them.
This was a panel that was supposed to feature 3 folks from Star Trek, but poor Beverly Washburn had to take the stage by her lonesome. It was an early panel, and I guess the other 2 guys were at the Walk of Fame and didn't realize they had a panel to attend. I didn't stay long at this panel.
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These photos were from a combination of panels that Brian attended. The first 2 photos are from a panel with artists who drew dinosaurs in their stories, like William Stout, Mark Schultz, and I don't know why Charles Vess was there(?). The rest of the photos are from a panel with Denny O'Neil, Chris Sprouse, Karl Story, and Brian Stelfreeze.
After the Saturday Parade, I hustled over to catch a bit of the Erin Gray and Dee Wallace Stone panel. They spoke of the child actors they worked with and how child actors really needed to be handled in the proper way, otherwise you can mess them up later in life, but they enjoyed how child actors lived in the moment of their scenes being films and taped. I didn't stay long in that panel because there were other panels I was also interested in at that time slot, and that happened to be a Harlan Ellison panel I stumbled on, more on that in the Harlan Ellison 1 panel.
I confess to catching the tail-end of the Farscape panel, just as they were leaving. There is usually a few panels of interest to me that overlap, so sometimes you don't quite make it to all the panels you want to see.
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I have no idea what the topic of this panel was, but it featured quite a few actors that I recognized from films in the past, so I snapped a few shots of them before moving on to another panel around the corner at the time.
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I managed to get to the Harlan Ellison panel by accident because the program listed it was just "Fingerprints in the Sky" and didn't list him as the speaker, but it just so happened that the same room was going to have the 2nd Firefly panel, so I went early to nab a good seat, and was pleasantly surprised to listen to Harlan tell some very amusing stories of his times in Hollywood (and how he was banned from getting any of his scripts to the live action Batman show in the 1960's). He was also aware that the bigger-than-usual turnout was due to Firefly fans, and he had a good time coming up with alliterative terms for "friends of Firefly" that had the crowd laughing. The Firefly phenomena wasn't something that Harlan was all too excited about, and he wasn't afraid to let anyone know of his views on their fandom.
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On Sunday, I stayed after the Babylon 5 panel for the Harlan Ellison panel, and he literally ran to the panel because he woke up late and had some verbal jousting regarding elevator etiquette with someone at the hotel. Harlan is very entertaining. Since there was a Warren Ellis panel going on at the same timeslot, I stayed for about half of Harlan's panel because I knew there was another Harlan panel later in the day,
Later on Sunday, I took in even more Harlan Ellison with a panel called "Fluffy Harlan" where Harlan was supposed to not go off the handle so quickly, but that didn't quite last too long into the panel, most to the delight of the audience in attendance. He talked about his on-going 4 year lawsuit with AOL which was finally resolved to both parties' satisfaction w/r/t copyright infringment that was being done on AOL online services. The other main story Harlan told dealt with his speaking engagement in Greensboro, NC, and the story had origins in Louisiana. The Q&A was fun.
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I just happened to pop my head into Richard Hatch's panel, which was more of an acting workshop, and he talked about how he gets himself prepared to get into his characters that he's playing.
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It was Sunday, and I barely made it to see the 4th Annual Iron Artist competition between Dan Brereton and William Stout. Dan painted a portrait of what appeared to be Gandalf, while Stout painted what Mona Lisa would look like had she been a dragon. Somehow this all came about from something relating to Shakespeare, I believe. Stout's painting garnered the most in the auction when it was up for grabs after the competition.
On Friday, Julie Benz's panel was also fun and flew by very fast. She's really bubbly and cute in person. Her story about getting to work with Jack Nicholson (in "As Good As It Gets) was very amusing. She also answered questions of her time as Darla on both Buffy and Angel. These photos are pretty bad as I was still experimenting with my new digital camera in low light conditions.
On Saturday, I checked out Julie Benz and Richard Herd's panel (titled "Buffy Extravaganza", but it was Darla-centric, and Julie-centric, though Richard had a wider perspective to offer on how reality TV shows are basically outsourcing good TV shows with good scripts and characters to tune into on a weekly basis, plus the unions aren't being employed by some of the reality TV shows, Julie doesn't like the way women are portrayed in the quagmire of reality TV shows either).
On Saturday, I bopped in on the tail end of the "Lost In Space" panel to hear good stories by June Lockhart and Mark Goddard. Mark's story dealt with the perils of being recognized in public, or not quite being recognized in public, it would seem...
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I was late to the convention on Sunday, and I caught the very last minute of "The Bad Boys of Buffy and Angel" panel, and found only Nathan at the panel. I think Adam Baldwin was slated to be on the panel, but he had to leave early, so it was just Nathan in a very crowded room.
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On Friday, since I was breaking in the new digital camera in low light shooting condition, I pushed my film speed too high, so the photos are pretty grainy for Nicole de Boer's panel, which was short because she was jet-lagged from flying in from England. But Nicole was slated for 2-3 more panels over the next 3 days, so a short panel was fine with me. She did tell the audience that the Dead Zone was picked up this past week for a 4th season, and Nicole de Boer (Sarah) reported this in her panel. She didn't know if the 4th season would be 13 episodes or 22 episodes, but they start back filming in January for more summer episodes for season 4. I guess she was pinch-hitting for Anthony Michael Hall (plus she's got the Star Trek connection too as Ezri Dax, she's got 2 shows to talk about at a con like Dragon Con). She said that she finds herself staring at Sean Patrick Flannery (Stillson) because he was Powder in the film, "Powder" and that was weird considering the creep he plays on the Dead Zone.
On Sunday, the last panel period came up, and I parked myself over in the Trek Trak room for the Nicole de Boer panel because I wanted to sit down for a while, and because there were free crackers which made for a good snack. Nicole plugged "The Dead Zone" from the get-go, but then worked her way back to answering questions about her time working on the last year of Deep Space Nine (and would love to be invited to do a DS9 movie should one materialize). She had some fun stories.
I think it was Sunday where I peek in on Peter Woodward's panel. He's a very good speaker, but I got really nervous once he started swinging the sword around, so I got the hell out of there quick!
On Saturday, I left half-way through Nicole de Boer's panel to join the Warren Ellis panel during the same panel timeslot. (Dragon Con was his first US convention appearance in over 7 years, so I thought I should check it out). Warren was very amusing and honest with his views on comics, the super-hero genre, and his interests in the stories he wanted to tell in the comics genre. The questions were quite good, and he was up to the tasks in answering them.
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On Sunday I stayed for about half of Harlan Ellison's first panel, and then headed to the reminder of the Warren Ellis panel. There was lots of Q&A and we all learned the intrinsic scariness of googling on terms like "anal horror". *Shudder*
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