Was out of town to Tallahassee again this weekend, so I've got a few pages to scroll back through on the flist, as well as catching up with everything else online in my various fandoms.  

And I just haven't had any goof-off time at work at all any more, so my posting and commenting is showing serious neglect.  I'm actually sacrificing time here at work (okay, procrastinating) just to do this, but the job is driving me batshit, so I just needed a break.

Other flisters have already posted or linked this, but I also wanted a reference her for my own, after I read the O&A with Kristen Bell and Hayden Panettiere at TV Guide online this morning. It pertains to tonight's Heroes episode - 2.09 - "Cautionary Tales" - but also diverges into some cuteness too funny to pass up.  I never was ga-ga over the then-jailbait Hayden that so many fanboys seemed to be during season one. She just seemed to be a decent person, and was sweet enough when I met her - and I find her much cooler just by association with Kristen.  KBell's influence can only be a good thing. Link to the page is HERE, and a c/p of the text under the cut:


Also found another personal-info-related meme of minor interest, snagged from amaleka_crone, who got it from candlewaxdreams:


In addition, I guess it should be taken as good news that the studios and network honchos have agreed to come back to the negotiating table this weekend after the Thanksgiving holiday. It doesn't guarantee a damn thing, of course, as far as ending the WGA strike is concerned - nothing may actually be achieved yet - but at least it's a step in the right direction.  

And mainly because I wanted a singular grouping of links to Joss-talk (the man can be hilarious in his ranting and snarking), I wanted to highlight that Joss Whedon has been pretty active with his own commentary and blogging over at Whedonesque the last couple of weeks, with his own updates HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE, with commentary in a few others (may need to be registered to view - not sure). He's also linked the the United Hollywood page several times, and informed fans that the "Pencils 2 Media Moguls" campaign could be massive.  All the information on this is at the UH support page, HERE.  I went and donated a few boxes of #2s, just because this is something that really matters for the future of network television entertainment, and anything that can impress upon the studios and network executives that the fans actually do give a shit about the content being produced, I'm all for it.  

Lastly, I'll also include what has also been mentioned elsewhere that Ronald D. Moore has posted a blurb about Battlestar Galactica production being wrapped indefinitely, found HERE. Episode 13 of season four just completed filming, and that's all they've got scripts for.  Until the WGA gets a new deal, the planned-ending for the series in those final 7 episodes remains unshot.  NBC-Universal, which produces the show and owns Sci-Fi Channel, has already sent out suspension/termination letters to cast members now that production is in limbo - a scan of which is HERE.  Also, a c/p of the text from Moore's blog under the cut (formatting got a little wonky again - apologies):


God, talk about angst.  I want the writers to get their fair deal as much as anyone, but the mass devastation being wrought upon the TV landscape is slowly starting to mount and show in the production stoppages.  Fucking networks.  Greedy sonsabitches.





Kristen Bell is awesome.

So, I've slacked on some TV-update coverage since last week, both here and at Wicked-Insanity, but I'll get to that eventually. The reason for my distraction was the three-day comic/TV/film/toy/collectible convention held this past weekend here in Orlando - the FX Show. To my understanding (that I wasn't aware of until this weekend), this has been an annual thing for about 18 years - starting as a small toy show exhibit, and slowly snowballing into an outright Con growing in size over the last few years. From what I can gather, Florida eXtravaganza (hence, the FX) isn't quite as big as next month's MegaCon - which has been around a few years, too - but it's nothing to simply sneeze at, either.

I had never been to a Con before, so all of it was a new experience. While there were plenty of things to gripe over (so much $$$, poor organization, so much $$$, lack of clear scheduling, so much $$$), the good memories outweighed the bad, for sure. Before I get into any more first-person journal-izing, a list of the celebrities (of varying "fame") who were in attendance, can be found HERE (as long as that link still lasts). I'm going to put the rest of this long "dear-diary" crap of my weekend account under a cut, as to be nice to random flist-checkers. An advance warning that this will be very wordy and probably more detailed than anyone would really care to read, but I wanted my ramblings on the weekend put somewhere. Thus, the cuttage. Oh, and I've c/p this back and forth from Word a few times, so even though it looks right as I'm making this entry, the font size as it's posted seems to get wonky a few times. *shrug* It's still legible:

( My reason for going... )

( Friday. )

( Saturday. )

( Sunday. )
So - that was my experience attending my first-ever Con. It was quite memorable, and in spite of the expense, Saturday turned out to be one of the best days EVER.

I'll post some on new TV (which I haven't neglected, of course) later in the week when I find some time.