Cinema Hype

To all of you in San Diego this weekend, to all of you who took time off from your (ostensible) jobs to indulge the passion for pop culture, to the true fans among us who know it all and want to see it all (and especially to those of you who clog up the question queues with your unpreparedness and your photo requests), I have three words: We hate you.

Sure, it’s very much against the generally friendly Comic-Con vibe, but we’re not ashamed. We hate that you and Sigourney Weaver get to talk about “Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture,” and that we don’t even get to ask our pal Sig (we get to call her that) whether she’ll shave her head again. We hate that you can see Jim Caviezel in the AMC miniseries remake of The Prisoner, while we just think he’s Jesus. We hate that there’s a Pixar panel with Hayao Miyazaki (what?!) and we’re stuck at home with his mind-altering, award-winning hand-animated movies (by HAND? Who DOES that?). We hate that you can bring your sketchbook and draw a posing Amanda Palmer—the singer and Dresden Dolls “frontwoman” who is also dating Neil Gaiman and is the subject of the photographic book Who Killed Amanda Palmer? and this confusing yet?—and all we get to sketch is, like, regular things. If we were to, you know, sketch regular things. We hate that you’re going to see which adorably outlandish British outfit Doctor Who’s David Tennant’s going to wear, and we haven’t even finished season four yet. We hate that you’ll be at the panel called “Bram Stoker: The Joss Whedon of His Day?” and, well, we won’t. We’re sorry that you get to experience world-class people-watching, and we’ve just got the National Mall for our entertainment. (WHATEVER, LINCOLN.)

We do not hate that you get to attend the Twilight: New Moon panel, but that’s what you get, isn’t it?

Also, would you mind sticking some of this up on Youtube for us? That’ll almost make up for your callous betrayal of the poor and the far-away. Almost.

Sincerely and with malice,

Liz

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