Get ready to be jealous, kids, because I’m about to describe to you the coolest night of my life and, I warn you now, by the time I’m through, you’re gonna want to be me. And by that I mean you’re going to want to put aside whatever hobbies it is you do to while away the hours, start up a television blog of your very own, spend three years devoting every waking moment to it and spend far more than you’ll ever made back for your efforts… all in the hopes of having the kind of night I just had thanks to the site having gotten me the Comic Con equivalent of a Golden Ticket: an invitation to the Entertainment Weekly/SyFy party.
Not to oversell the event or anything, but it was basically the party of the year.
Thanks to wonder that is YouTube, the best seat in the house for Comic Con 2009 was not front row center in the hallowed hall that is ‘H.’ Rather, it was in front of your computer, thanks to some friendly neighborhood super-fans who were kind enough to share the magic that is the ‘Con’ by uploading videos of some of your favorite panels. Many of which we’ve linked to after the jump.
10:15AM: JEFFSTER opens the CHUCK panel by bringing down the house with a unbelievable high energy performance following an intro video in which CHUCK co-creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak ‘joked’ that they had no idea what to do next now that Chuck knows Kung-Fu!
10:26AM: The genesis of JEFFSTER was courtesy of writer Allison Adler. Zach asks Vik when the CD is dropping, Vik responds, “I think we would be paid more not to sing again.”
10:27AM: In the first of many fan thank-you’s, Zachary Levi tells the audience that “we’re here because of you guys. When you have the best fans in the world who will go out and eat multiple Subway sandwiches and start grassroots campaigns and say we believe in the cast and crew. You guys are incredible. I love you so much.”
Since theTVaddict.com is essentially an operation of one, there was quite a lot that we didn’t get to at Comic Con. Which is why we thought we’d share some of the TV related tidbits we missed. Just a few.
• Kiefer Sutherland discusses the possible end of 24[HitFix]
• The nerds of THE BIG BANG THEORY commune with the nerds of Comic Con [EW]
“OMG! You killed Penny you bastard!” — exclaimed a not-so-understanding DR. HORRIBLE fan to Joss Whedon during his Comic Con Q&A.
“I forgot, she’s big here.” — said Freddie Prinze Jr who was caught off guard when the audience interrupted in applause during the 24 panel after he mentioned ‘his wife’ (Who just so happens to be Comic Con icon Sarah Michelle Gellar)
“Don’t be alarmed, we do blow sh*t up,” — assured Kiefer Sutherland to an audience of 24 fans following a fairly subdued sneak peak unveiling a fairly subdued preview of 24 Season 8.
“This is fantastic but at some point I need a gun because i’m starting to feel really naked. Preferably two.” — said 24’s newest CTU member Katee Sakehoff
Move over Kevin Smith, there’s a new man who we’d like to see take his ridiculously entertaining schtick of self-depracation and hilarity on the road. His name: Joss Whedon. As you’ll quickly see from our recap of his Q&A direct from San Diego Comic Con 2009.
On the future of Victor Joss Whedon: Spoiler Alert! Victor might get better, quickly.
On where the idea came to cast the hilarious Alan Tyduk as a villain?
I’ve met him. He’s an extraordinarily versatile actor and has actually got a fighting streak in him that you won’t see in Wash or in 28 days… no, which is the one without Sandra Bullock?
One what he’s reading for inspiration.
Wired Magazine is pretty much all I read and have time for. I’m reading Julie & Julia but haven’t come up with a lot for the show. We’ll save Eliza saying “bon appetite!” for sweeps.
Ronald D. Moore, not a fan of Emmy Voters
“It is a frakkin’ crime that the cast was never recognized for their performances. It is criminal.” said a visibly perturbed Moore who went on a surprising albeit fully deserved anti-Emmy tirade after yet another year of egregious Emmy snubs. “We would not be talking about CAPRICA on this panel today if it were not for the ensemble of actors that we put together on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.”
SyFy: Imagine Greater Less Boobies
One thing that won’t be coming with CAPRICA when it makes the jump from DVD to basic cable in January is the gratuitous nudity. That said, Moore does promise that when SyFy does rebroadcast the premiere, they’re planning to insert some new never-before seen goodies of presumably the non-nude variety. Joked fellow producer David Eick, “FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS’ Jeffrey Reimer, who directed the pilot is known in the business for the speed in which he works. Yet somehow, on the days when he had to shoot the lesbian topless dancers… everybody’s standing around looking at their watch with Reimer saying, ‘Let me try and get one more shot!’”
Edward and Jacob who? Or at least that’s what the CW hopes you’ll be asking after getting a closer look at the stars of their new fall series THE VAMPIRE DIARIES: (Left to Right) Paul Wesley as Stefan, Nina Dobrev as Elena and Ian Somerhalder as Damon.
Direct from Comic Con comes a gritty, dark and exciting new look at STARGATE UNIVERSE. Or with apologies to CAPRICA fans, what SyFy is definitely hoping is BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Version 2.0.
Ronald D. Moore, not a fan of Emmy Voters
SyFy: Imagine 
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