Dragoncon, Day 3

Since the panel we had wanted to see at ten had been cancelled, we took somewhat of our time going in this morning. We headed to the Dealer's Room first, where the zine distributor let me trade in the duplicate for two smaller zines (Shadow Chasers, if you're interested, a very short-lived series that I only saw one or two episodes of, but I have grown to love the fanfiction). James also bought a book on rocketry and technology in the media.

Next we went to Peter David's Star Trek panel. We talked a little about Trek, but the bulk of the panel was his usual reading: this was not from one of his Trek novels, but from a book due out next summer, a sequel to his recently republished Knight Life.

I'd left my PDA in the truck, so we made a fast detour to the garage before returning to the dealer area. James bought some Sluggy Freelance books and I bought a critique of the Blake's 7 series and episodes.

Here we parted for a while: James went to a spacecraft talk and I went to a panel that was ostensibly about guest stars on Star Trek: the Next Generation, but kept wavering toward Babylon 5 since four of the five panel members (Andreas Katsulas, Julia Nickson, Julie Caitlin Brown, Lisa Wilcox, and Carel Strueyken) had been guest stars or regulars on that series. Julie took the lead in the panel and it was quite funny.

We then staked out places for the new MRAP stage comedy/musical, Welcome Back, Potter. Yes, Harry returns to Hogwarts to teach (and Snape still hates his guts) and his students are misfit imports from America--the "Warthogs," Barbarino, Horshack, and Epstein, the two Halliwell sisters Phoebe and Piper, their long-lost sister "Hotzie" Totzi, and Tabitha Stevens. Cordelia Chase and the Doctor somehow also made their way into this hilarious concoction, which featured songs based on music from Grease, Damn Yankees, and Cinderella, among others. (The capper was "Let's Go to Hogwarts Again.")

We kept our seats and munched our snacks through the interviening hour and a half (I'll skip the small altercation with security) so we'd have a good view for ARTC's two pre-masquerade performances, the 50s space opera spoof Rory Rammer, Space Marshal, and the infamous Special Order, a.k.a. "The Bookstore Play," about a mysterious and imposing customer who attempts to order The Necronomicon (the real one) from a bookstore and what happens when the volume actually shows up. Fiona Leonard's performance and the climactic scene usually leaves us with lumps in our throats.

We stood and chatted around the ARTC table, which was one of the nicest parts of the day. for another hour before heading home.

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