With Thursday's Hall H excursion being a bust, I resolved to avoid attending Hall H panels, and instead concentrated on the panels outside of Hall H. Instead of eating at Hennessey's again, we instead journeyed to the Cheese Shop, where I had coffee, biscuits and gravy to fuel my day at the con.
The morning started off with a quick look inside the convention hall, where I was once again denied a Hasbro ticket, and where I made a successful grab for the Harry Potter bag. The Pixar panel, which was made up of the short films that Pixar had done was my next stop. Fearing another "Hall H fiasco", I made way for Hall 20, for the Stargate panel, only to find out that Hall 20 had a cancellation in the morning. Kevin Smith's Reaper presentation had been rescheduled, making Stargate the first Hall 20 presentation of the day.
While I tried to find a seat in the front of the hall, I found that the die-hards had been there hours before, waiting for this panel. Greg Jones, the actor who plays Walter Harriman (the guy who sits at the controls of the Stargate and says things like "Chevron six encoded") was the moderator, and did his job better than anyone I had ever seen at Comic-Con. He was so good, I even stayed for the Stargate Atlantis panel afterwards. During the SG-1 panel, an attempt was made to call Michael Shanks (which didn't really succeed), and Scottish flags were flown during the Q&A session when a fan asked the writer what he had against Scottish people. (The answer: it's not my writing, you need to ask someone in the next panel).
Following two hours of Hall 20 and Stargate, I left for the premiere of "Chuck". While standing in line for Hall H the day before, I had received a T-shirt for Chuck, and curious about what this Chuck was, I went to the panel, not really expecting very much. From talking to the folks in the room, we didn't much know what Chuck was about either. The presenters didn't say much either, and just started the presentation of the show. Chuck is a Stanford grad who plays video games when he isn't working and has a job being a member of the Nerd Herd working at Buy More, (thinly veiled Geek Squad at a Best Buy). After receiving an e-mail from his college roomate, his brain is filled with classified information, which makes him the target of the NSA and the CIA. I look forward to watching more of it this fall.
The Eureka and Babylon 5 panels were next, and it was good to see the familiar faces of the cast once again. Peter Woodward (Technomage Galen) is incredibly hilarious as he poked fun at Tracy Scoggins (Lochley) and Bruce Boxleitner (Sheridan).
Having no food options within the Gaslamp, we departed for Ocean Beach and Nati's.
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