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So i went to the phoenix comic con with my mother this weekend. it was crazy!!! i mean this convention was across 6 thats right 6 buildings!!!!! the exhibit hall made me lost like every time cause it was under 3 of those builds!!!!
so one of the last things i wanted to do on Saturday because friday i stayed until 11p, cause omg paul and storm with AMBER FREAKING BENSON, SEANAN FREAKING MCGUIRE and John scalzi and pat rothrass who was totally willing to make paul and storm crazy for 30 minutes with pirate puns so by 4pm the next day the wave of nerds irritation from my dad and omg it June in phoenix Arizona and there are like 100000 people around me heat lead to sleepiness was go to the nathon fillion spotlight.
knowing that he is popular i went to get in line an hour before the spot light was suppose to start and found a biggest most complicated ill advised line ever.
so here are my issues with this spotlight and why i wanted to find a random security person and give them a talking to that will make them never want to see a nerd every again.
(1) the line was confusing snake weaving this way and that way and finding the end took asking 5 different security people who where about as useful as tits on a boar hog.
(2) the security people chosen for this job where the worst barkers ive ever seen. while i know hoping they could a person whose voice could carry like mine was to much to ask for (i was able to yell and be heard over the whole exhibit hall entrance so my mother could find me in the crowd) but seriously to be able to hear the people calling out to the line you basically had to be right next to them and this line was no more noisy than anywhere else at the con.
(3)when the spotlight before the one we happy little browncoats, whedonites, castle heads and various other people where waiting for let out did they allow the line to enter the ballroom like normal human beings so they could move people in to seat before the show started so they can find and fill the spots right away? NOPE!!! they escorted each person in and to a seat almost 1 by 1... thats right there are easily about 200? 500? people all crammed into a hall lines up six deep along one wall down another and when they ran out of room back again but they knowing they have 30 minutes between spotlights are seating everyone individually.
and (4) the one the REALLY PISSED ME OFF! i was waiting in line a lone because my mother wanted to sit on a panel about scientist talking about their work and what they have learned, which i almost feel asleep during cause the mars guy could drone. she was suppose to meet me in line. around 10 minutes before the start of the spot light i was worried she hadn't found me and texted her. about 10 minutes after the show started and i am fuming in line about missing the beginning i get a text back from her. the text? it says 'oh your still in line? im already in and have been for the last 20 minutes.' wait what???? the security people suppose to be policing the line and are escorting people in ONE AT A FREAKING TIME!! are totally not paying attention to who is actually entering and didnt care at all when people NOT in line walked in and sat down.
so wanna know when i was finally able to get in the ONE HOUR only spotlight? 30 MINUTES IN THE SPOTLIGHT!!!!
seriously if you had just opened the doors and let people go in normally i would have been situated maybe 5 minutes after they started at worst. i missed half of the show!! grrrr.
and worst?? worst! if i had just been more awake and told the security guys i wanted to see the previous spotlight for Stephen Amell*see below for fun fact about this spotlight i could have jumped the line because they where not making people leave panels before the next one started so some people sat through all the panals in what ever room they decided to claim. they had a no kicking out policy. a lie and some confusion watching someone weird talk for 30 minutes and i would have been ok.
Fun Fact: i had no idea who Stephen Amell was, and half of the line i was didnt know who he was too. when i told my brother this that night when we went to give him my awesome random gift of a 'The Crow' comic cause he collects them and he didn't have that one he was shocked and asked how in a world of the internet and being such a nerd that i have never seen Arrow and know that Stephen Amell was the Green Arrow... i shrugged and said 'ive been watching British dramas and comedy and silly hulu cartoons. Basically anything that isnt Dr.Who'
so one of the last things i wanted to do on Saturday because friday i stayed until 11p, cause omg paul and storm with AMBER FREAKING BENSON, SEANAN FREAKING MCGUIRE and John scalzi and pat rothrass who was totally willing to make paul and storm crazy for 30 minutes with pirate puns so by 4pm the next day the wave of nerds irritation from my dad and omg it June in phoenix Arizona and there are like 100000 people around me heat lead to sleepiness was go to the nathon fillion spotlight.
knowing that he is popular i went to get in line an hour before the spot light was suppose to start and found a biggest most complicated ill advised line ever.
so here are my issues with this spotlight and why i wanted to find a random security person and give them a talking to that will make them never want to see a nerd every again.
(1) the line was confusing snake weaving this way and that way and finding the end took asking 5 different security people who where about as useful as tits on a boar hog.
(2) the security people chosen for this job where the worst barkers ive ever seen. while i know hoping they could a person whose voice could carry like mine was to much to ask for (i was able to yell and be heard over the whole exhibit hall entrance so my mother could find me in the crowd) but seriously to be able to hear the people calling out to the line you basically had to be right next to them and this line was no more noisy than anywhere else at the con.
(3)when the spotlight before the one we happy little browncoats, whedonites, castle heads and various other people where waiting for let out did they allow the line to enter the ballroom like normal human beings so they could move people in to seat before the show started so they can find and fill the spots right away? NOPE!!! they escorted each person in and to a seat almost 1 by 1... thats right there are easily about 200? 500? people all crammed into a hall lines up six deep along one wall down another and when they ran out of room back again but they knowing they have 30 minutes between spotlights are seating everyone individually.
and (4) the one the REALLY PISSED ME OFF! i was waiting in line a lone because my mother wanted to sit on a panel about scientist talking about their work and what they have learned, which i almost feel asleep during cause the mars guy could drone. she was suppose to meet me in line. around 10 minutes before the start of the spot light i was worried she hadn't found me and texted her. about 10 minutes after the show started and i am fuming in line about missing the beginning i get a text back from her. the text? it says 'oh your still in line? im already in and have been for the last 20 minutes.' wait what???? the security people suppose to be policing the line and are escorting people in ONE AT A FREAKING TIME!! are totally not paying attention to who is actually entering and didnt care at all when people NOT in line walked in and sat down.
so wanna know when i was finally able to get in the ONE HOUR only spotlight? 30 MINUTES IN THE SPOTLIGHT!!!!
seriously if you had just opened the doors and let people go in normally i would have been situated maybe 5 minutes after they started at worst. i missed half of the show!! grrrr.
and worst?? worst! if i had just been more awake and told the security guys i wanted to see the previous spotlight for Stephen Amell*see below for fun fact about this spotlight i could have jumped the line because they where not making people leave panels before the next one started so some people sat through all the panals in what ever room they decided to claim. they had a no kicking out policy. a lie and some confusion watching someone weird talk for 30 minutes and i would have been ok.
Fun Fact: i had no idea who Stephen Amell was, and half of the line i was didnt know who he was too. when i told my brother this that night when we went to give him my awesome random gift of a 'The Crow' comic cause he collects them and he didn't have that one he was shocked and asked how in a world of the internet and being such a nerd that i have never seen Arrow and know that Stephen Amell was the Green Arrow... i shrugged and said 'ive been watching British dramas and comedy and silly hulu cartoons. Basically anything that isnt Dr.Who'
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