Friday’s Wrap Up (Scattered Mode)
After breakfast, beg Ben and Jesse to go downstairs to the Walk of Fame. Walk into an exhibitor’s area (merchants). Turn the corner and see Cliff Simon! Go to Cliff’s table and lose the ability to function. Turn 12 years old and need help with getting money out of pocket for autograph. Make fool of self. Seriously. Get picture taken with Cliff. He asks if he’s met me before. I am convinced he dreams of me, too. Torri and Rachel aren’t there yet. Move to the table of Don S. Davis (General Hammond). Get autograph from super nice (and possibly drunk) Hammond. Walk past George Takei’s table for time-being. Turn the corner and see Nicholas Brenden attempting to wake up. Hover back a bit to give Xander time to get with it. See that it’s not going to happen. Approach anti-social Nicholas for autograph. Get a little depressed over Nicholas’ unfriendly manner. Skip over Firefly cast. Arrive at Virginia Hey’s table. Zhaan is kooky! Wait to get to Virginia. Zhaan is very kooky! Still wait. KOOKY! Get to Virginia. Wonder why Virginia acts as if we’ve known each other forever. After chatting for a loooooong time, get autograph and move on. Skip over Rip Taylor because, um, huh? Arrive at Peter Mayhew’s table. Chewbacca never speaks, just signs (unpersonalized) picture. Hmmph. Doubleback to David Prowse’s table. Darth Vader is super nice! Signs picture with awesome conversation, too. Turn another corner to see Iron Shiek, Captain Lou, and Virgil. Virgil is sad that I don’t want his autograph. Too bad. Next table is Tony Todd. Whoo! Take pics, but do not approach. Walk past Mickey Rooney and George Romero (been there, done that). See that Anthony Daniels is very popular. Everyone must love Threepio! Decide to leave Walk of Fame.
Return to room and see that picture with Cliff looks blurry and bad. Muster up another $10 to get another picture. Cliff insists on just taking as many pics as I want for no extra charge. It’s love. Can die happy. Meet up with Jesse to attend first panel, “Meet the Stars of Harry Potter”. No stars of HP are there, so we leave. Skip panels until 4:00pm and watch first SG-1 panel in total amazement. Cliff, Don, Erik Avari (Sha’re’s father), Bill Dow (Dr. Lee) joke about Teal’c and the others. Have video. Hammond says for the crowd, “SG-1, you have a go. Godspeed.” Nearly die of excitement.
