San Diego Comic Con 2015 (part 1)

Comic Con!!!!!!!! Here are our adventures, broken up into three parts. adelagia did all the hard work of actually writing this up (as well as remembering many little details that my exhausted brain had already forgotten), and I am merely reposting her post(s). This is why you will see references to "Sarea" -- I am not pretentiously referring to myself in the third person -- and the "I" in these posts is adelagia. :P I will add my own comments/recollections/nonsense in brackets [] and italicized!

Fair warning: It's Comic Con, mecca of all things pop culture, so if you fear getting spoiled about anything, read the original posts here, where adelagia has nicely kept things spoiler free. I am not as nice, and will freely discuss, without a care for spoilage. You've been warned!

(Pics were taken by me, adelagia or ropo)

( Oh Comic Con, why are you so exhausting? )

San Diego Comic Con 2015 (part 2)

Part 1

Again, the below was not written by me but by adelagia. My own comments are in italicized brackets.

Notice, too, that my mood for part 1 was "cheerful," while now it is "grumpy" after reliving the events from these days.

( You'll see why. )

San Diego Comic Con 2015 (part 3)

Part 2

Again, the below was not written by me but by adelagia. My own comments are in italicized brackets.

( This is how it ends. )

So would I go back? I'm really on the fence at this point. The only thing I can truly say that I am glad I went for, other than that San Diego was great and I always have fun with my friends, is that I had never really heard of Chris Hardwick before. But he moderated just about EVERYTHING, and was totally fantastic at it, and funny, and charming, and now I love him.

Anyway, there's something to be said for being there in person, but there was really very little that I felt I got out of it. Going to the panels was a giant pain, and it was all available online later, anyway. I had to wait for over an hour in line for pretty much everything I wanted to do, other than food. I don't know if you can tell, but I hate waiting. It is a COMPLETE WASTE of time, and imho is hugely disrespectful on the part of the con runners to make people do it in order to see something -- and thus potentially waste a day or more's worth of badges. It's one thing to make it an option for people who are determined to wait for something; it's quite another to make it so that if I want to see something, I have NO CHOICE but to wait in a line -- a totally unreasonable line, at that.

The awesomeness of Comic Con was vastly overshadowed by the terribleness of the logistics, from the line waiting to the masses of people that you had to shove through in order to get anywhere. There was a point in the Exhibit Hall when we were literally press against people on all sides. If there'd been a fire or other emergency, we all would have suffocated or been trampled, and there are honestly other ways I'd prefer to go, and for better reasons.