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We’ll be live blogging the Joss Whedon panel at San Diego Comic Con.  Starts at 3pm PT. Refresh the page regularly for updates.  Please forgive the many typos that will be made as we endevour to post the info as quickly as possible.

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And the crowd goes wild! Crowd stopped cheering eventually and Joss asks “Where did the good noise go?

Joss says thanks as always. They’re bringing out the new book Angel & Faith and Buffy Season 9

These universes are not throwaways they’re things we care about very much, we’re getting extraordinary artists & great creation.

Blu Ray for Buffy was just released but Joss knows nothing about it so no new commentaries.

If Buffy had continued would it have followed hte line of the comics? There’s no way it could have been, you couldn’t have had a whole ep of them having sex…. well maybe..

The whole point of season 8 was so they could do things they couldn’t have done. It became ab it of an albatross for them (not the cute kind like River)

Astonishing X Men … got no plans of resuming x men he would have loved to do something with the Grail, he would have liked to do Spiderman but there was nothing left to tell but he’s says he’s doing a Spiderman reboot movie in a year and it’s going to be really really bad

Did you write Buffy with the season end in mind?
Every season was designed for us to be cancelled , odly enough something I didn’t prepare that for is Firefly.

It’s an uncertain life so every season we wanted to go out with just enough that if we never come back there’s some sense of closure, we didn’t do a cliffhanger because we were never sure.

all the buffy and angel characters are under one roof now. I do want to thank the guys at IDW for sheparding the guys. It makes everything better to have them in eachother’s worlds, best part will be taking people from Angels world and putting them in Buffy’s and visa versa. We’re going to keep them in their own worlds a little bit so they can keep their own identities initally but then we’re going to get really silly. If i had the time there’d be about 5 guys that had their own books because there’s so many great dynamics there.
Frey popping up in season 8 was it difficult? It was some of the easiest and fun stuff and having Carl back to do it was really lovely, obviously there’s some reconcilling issues, all of the Buffy commic has been affected by Fray but now that I’ve resolved that bringing them back together was great,

Any characters you regret killing off or introducing? yes, I regret introducing Tara…. noooo… I don’t have a regret, we all now sometimes I’ve killed beloved characters and there are some that didn’t stick to the walls as well as others but if peopel didn’t like them we played that up

Joss would like to do more backstory stuff for Firefly (re Sheppards tail) they have the licence to move forward with more Firefly so it’ll be interesting to see what happens next.

Throughout Angel there’s refs to TPTB but not in Buffy was it just that you didn’t have that idea?

In Buffy there was the Watchers and those that made the first stlayer there were always those out there that you need to move the story allong or rail against to make things better things that would seem to be in opposition to the good forces and that no matter who’s out there that we need to do it for ourselves.

Would you ever bring Buffy to broadway?
You mean like taker her to a show? … I would.,. I don’t knwo if anyone would want me to but yeah, I thinks he belongs there, in the theatre next to where Dr Horrible is.

on killing charadcters in season 9 or 10 .. does he plan to break our hearts? he’s not gonig to tell us but S9 has some great new stuff in it, not built around darkenss per say but that bufy is about finding out who she is and it can sometimes be dangerous and sticky and weird, he’s not goign to reveal if there’s anything awful.

Joss managed to get through his childhood without having a life experience, his life exp was reading Frank Herbert. He was afraid of most things and … he didn’t have a terrible childhood but he doesn’t feel he had a remarkable one either, the things you see fear, helplessness, pain, loss were the things I was struggling with, very common issues with me but they weren’t based on spectacular events he could relay in a David Copperfieldy way but … he was a little bit pathetic… not any more though! he’s totally cool, has beautiful hair and…

is there a Buffy animated film in the future? How much money do you have… he says they tried but for some reason had little success

He’s still trying to get someone to make a Serenity Sequel! ….. but they won’t.

Question about why he writes female characters (he says there’s a youtube video that will answer that)

Would you ever consider lending your voice to Star Trek comics? Joss says no, they’re their own voices, for the comics it’s harder for them to capture and it’s not something he’s attracted to because he’s interested in the way they’re going to captuure the universe on film. He woudln’t want to wade into something wtih that much history, he’d rather do something new.

Dr horrible 2 soon?
The thin you have to understand….. is yes!

He’s worked on a number of songs, got a demo from Jed & Maurissa, a song they pitched made him say he wanted to take back his songs.

Was it deliberate the 7th ep of Buffy & Angel in each season seems to be the one that foreshaddows the rest of the season – was that deliberate?
Joss: it was based on the fact usually the seventh ep was the second one I could direct so I would save all the goodies for myself.

Are there things that will make Dawn a stronger character? She wont’ be a hero but she has her own journey to go on, he always felt she had more reason to complain than almost any teenager he knew but he doesn’t think of her as weak, she’s very much Buffy’s greatest support system right now. She’s someone who’s just moving on with her life now which is problematic for Buffy.

(battery nearly dead, sorry, will keep posting as much as I can )

There will be more Dr Horrible comics, written by Zak Whedon.

Avengers hasn’t been as hard as he thought it’d be, the characters mesh really well, they’re having a great time with eachother

Ripper: Joss has said we’ll get a whif of the Ripper, he still wants to do a Ripper series but if he mentions it to ASH again he thinks he’ll take a knife to his throat. but he’ll get the cameras rolling before and then call him and tell him to come.

Joss recently pulled out an old script (one of many that didn’t sell) and it was fun and interesting and he liked it a lot but he said… this guy’s young….

Kitty Pride = Kayley?… Joss never saw the connection.. but says he often doesn’t. He’s often unaware of … “let us call it theft” but now that it’s said, yeah, ok that’s another original idea! It wasn’t deliberate, but he does see the connection…. now….

Would you consider donig a strong gay male character? Totally, absolutely. He’s wanted to do a book, he has one in mind, not on the front burner but he thinks it’s about time.

Jo Chen pitched a story about Angel & Spike hooking up a bit…? Joss says he got to do a two page story which was then expanded to three, he says Jo is a miracle worker but because it was a short piece.

There will be more Dollhouse comics, some are on deck already and their reception will decide if there are more (and if people have the time).

Joss is giving the audience the gift of NOT singing..

Big thanks from Joss as he leaves the stage.

We’ll be live blogging from the Sanctuary panel later this morning.  To watch updates you’ll need to refresh this page frequently. In order for us to get information out as quickly as possible we’ll ask you to please forgive our many typos.

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Amanda Tapping & Robin Dunn arrived.

They’re in the middle of shooting season 4 and we’re very lucky they could take a quick break from production to attend.

Promo partly from already aired eps, but some clips from new eps too.

What’s it like working on the show? Amanda, it’s actually really fun it becomes about the scene the connection with your fellow characters, even though you’re in a massive green room it brings everything down to a strict focus, you can’t get distracted by the shiny things in the room.

Robin: it’s kind of like doing theatre, it’s all about the performance and connection with the actors.

Seeing hollow earth, and the city appearing all around them (hologram) was amazing, martin had a hard time directing them as to where to stand.

Just did an episode in a bedroom fighting a creature and some of them get knocked over and Magnus had to kick it but there was nothing there.

Season 2 ended with a huge drama, and it was a feeling of “where from here” and yet in season 3 we saw great self contained episodes.  Tell me about your experiences working on s3

Amanda: when we got picked up for S3 and got our financing and everything it was “yikes” thinking about what they had to do, it was very clever the way it was done, also 20 episodes in S3 which gave them the ability to create the art more.

Wanted to make it big with 20 episodes.

On episode 11 of season 4 and it’s the most kickass season we’ve done, I thought 3 rocked but season 4 is amazing

Robin: it really is amazing to me, I credit Damien but don’t tell him!

what was the worst day on set for s3?

there was water, there was… the thing with me (Robin) is I get knocked down a lot.

What’s the most tedious part?

Robin: definitely those times, it’s happened to me only a few times, there was Warriors, metamorphosis, I really get a chance to understand what Chris goes through on a daily basis.

When Chris plays each character he’s really like two different people and they think of him that way.

Janothan funny, has a really dry sense of humour and is really subtly goofy.  He knows hes’ being funny but doesn’t play it out.

When will Magnus get a date? Amanda says “please can you give Helen a love interest, even if it’s just a one off to show that this woman is … to that end there’s an episode called Monsoon and I get to show a very lovely and leading into sexy kiss, (not saying if it’s a girl or boy)

the bad boys… why don’t you kick them out? Amanda, I think Tesla as much as he’s a liability he’s an asset. Robin: He’s usually solving problems he created, why am I the only one that sees that?

Tempus is the first episode of the season and I think it’s one of our finest in terms of the look and stunts, I do an amazing fight in a bustle.

Shooting Normandy there was a desire to be true to the period, it’s important when there’s so much significance and loss and you don’t want to muddy the story to the point what really happened is lost, we felt a responsibility to the men and women that served at the time. Even though on set we did our usual joking around there was a kind of sombre-ness to it.

Robin says the dedication at the end really gets to him. Amanda says it had a reaction on everyone.

During filming it was pouring rain and freezing and nobody made a complaint, it was just amazing

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talked about Sanctuary for Kids. (changing camera battery so i can continue recording)

Secret about S4…

Amanda & Robin singing…. They’re doing a musical!! There won’t be any dancing but it is a musical episode.

Amanda is directing again and Robin Dunne has directed his first ep this season (he kept his pants off)

Ryan & Amanda sent Robin a singing telegram on his last day of directing his ep, it wasn’t as all what they were expecting though, he made up his own words for I Feel Good about robin keeping his pants on and… Robin dropped his pants.

Would you ever be on Destination Truth? Amanda: Yes!!

It was implied Helen speaks Norwegian? Chris’ dad helped me, but what resulted was completely apparently wrong. So I did get coaching from Chris Heyerdahl’s dad but apparently my pronunciation was completely wrong… sorry, … complain to Mr Heyerdahl.

Michal Shanks – will he be back? Amanda, nobody’s ever dead in sci fi. She says she’d also like to get Teryl Rothery, now that they’re established she feels they can get more Stargate actors on, she’d like to get Jewel Staite too.

Lots of characters will be returning again this season.

Robin: there’s a very cool new villanish guy coming in (Brian Markinson) who’s amazing.

Amanda would like to go back to the psychic mermaid Robin says he’d like that as well… but for different reasons!

Amanda always liked the idea of the abnormals that are more humanoid that has really phenomenal mental capabilities .

Tesla will be back in S4 as much as S3, Amanda says if we could have him on every day we would but he’s in great demand.

Amanda says she’s been part of the Syfy family for over a decade she feels fully embraced by the network, can’t imagine working for anyone else. Amanda says Sci fi is the most forward thinking genre and being an actor in sci fi for the past 15 years is liberating and having a network that embraces it is fantastic.

Question about the dancing in the Bollywood episode (i think it’s all on the DVD extras, save me some typing and go watch them )

Amanda says she’s not really like Magnus, she has a healthy curiosity like Helen but she’s far more open to others’ suggestions, not such a “tightass”, quick to laugh and she thinks Helen makes really interesting decisions that appear to be based on ego but aren’t, they’re based on an amazing understanding of the repercussions  down the lines, she’s an enigma wrapped in a conundrum.

Robin says the last point applies to Amanda too.

Robin says he’s dedicating his life to being the ugly way less popular George Clooney.

Amanda says British TV is far more forgiving of people’s appearance (and age) than American TV.

Any more emotional scenes like when Ashley died? Yes! Does that mean someone’s going to die?’ Amanda.. I’m not putting that out there. there are some hugely emotional scenes coming up

If you could be an abnormal what would you be?

Robin: I’d like to be invisible… you know why!

Amanda: Invisible might be ok.. having thought about it for a nanosecond, but the fear of being invisible is catching people talking about you and it could be depressing..

Is there going to be a soundtrack CD? Yes! We hope so, we’ve been perusing that, we’re not a studio show so it involves our financers and a lot of other people coming on board and saying yes.  There’s been a groundswell of support so Amanda really hopes so. Robin says every season the sound gets better, very evident during the musical episode called Fugue.

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Exec Producer Jack Kenny, Alison Scagliotti, Saul Rubinek, Joanne Kelly and Eddie McClintock form the panel. Eddie jumped off stage and ran around the entire ballroom. Eddie says it’s an insane rush to see the fans sitting out here in the audience.

They didn’t want everyone to just assume Mika would be back so they introduced a new character, Steven Jinks. Aaron has a different energy to the rest of the cast who are very out there he plays things closer to the vest.  It takes all the characters into a cool place, it’s great to have someone new to “explain” things to.

Allison says the Steve is the first person in the gang that can be a peer to Claudia, she”s kind of isolated in her age group so Steve plays into Claudia’s evolution as a character. She sways he’s hilarious and a wonderful presence on set. She says they both know their lines when they get to set and just want to have fun. What happens towards the end of the season is mind blowing.

Eddie joked it’s great to have two new “agents” because they don’t have to work as hard and still get paid as much. Joanne said it worked from the get-go and that Aaron is a great addition to the family.

Jack Kenny complimented the crew on working so hard and sweating it out 16 hours a day, saying they’re brilliant artists who create the show.

Jack says one of the joys of working with the cast is that they’ve got the kind of talent that allows them to come up with stuff on the set.

Saul Rubinek says one of the great things about the show is that Jack is always on the set which is rare and it’s great because he can see what’s working right away, he knows them really well and he knows whatever they wrote may not work right away but they can change it when it doesn’t work.  Saul says they change it up frequently from scene to scene and line to line. Saul says they’re blessed to have Jack Kenny on board.  Jack went on to thank all of the writers by name.

This year more than in the past we’re going to see an entirely different episode every week.

A Eureka crossover episode “Don’t Hate the Player” takes place in a video game. In one episode Claudia gets to play five different characters.

jack says the cast are amazing and they can handle the humour and the intense drama very well.

Joanne says she can’t believe how many people are here, it’s crazy. Eddie thanked everyone again for showing up. Jack said the viewers are really important, they put easter eggs throughout the episodes, especially the Christmas episode.

Saul says there aren’t a lot of shows that you can watch with your family and he thinks it’s the kind of show he’s proud can be a family show.  Eddie says he and his dad went to see movies and watched TV as a way of bonding and he and his dad would do lines together after watching a movie or TV show and to him that’s what Warehouse 13 is. Claudia says moms reach out to her on twitter and say that it’s great that they make the women on warehouse 13 show that it’s cool to be smart.

Guest stars this year include Kate Mulgrew & Jeri Ryan from Star Trek Voyager, Steve Young (Walking Dead) Roger Reece is back, Jamie Murray.  Eddie says Jeri Ryan is insanely hot.

Saul says the Christmas episode is one of the most fun episodes they’ve filmed, the episode was written by the Writers’ Assistance on the show.

Jack made specific mention of the studio and the network and he says they’re the best he’s ever worked with and they’re really lucky to have them working on the show.

Steve Jinks is an openly gay character, the point was to keep the show as real as the world is.  It’s just who he is and they don’t make a big thing of it. He says this is the way the world is turning into and it’s nice.

If they had their own artifact:

Saul – it would measure the true size of our audience rather than what the Neilsen ratings say!

Jack says the one he wants grows hair,

Joanne says she’s not specific but it’s food related

Alison says she wants a guitar that guides her to play whatever she wants

Eddie says he wants one that says “no, I’m not David Boreanaz” He said one day he’s going to write a book “Living in the shadow of Boreanaz”

Jack confirmed they are in the very early stages of working on the Warehouse 13 spin-off with HG Wells. They’re in the process of figuring out who’s going to be in it, where it’s going to be set etc.

Claudia says it would be really interesting to see Claudia as a “Dark Willow” (re Buffy).

In the future we’ll learn more about Mrs Fredderick and who she is and where she came from but there needs to remain a lot of mystery about her character.

Saul says they unsung heroes of Warehouse 13 are the design team in the art department, what they’re able to do with the budget they have is incredible.

Jack says that QMx are making such great props for fans to purchase that they’re starting to use their teslas and farnsworths (QMx have a booth in the exhibit hall at San Diego Comic Con so check them out!) on the show!

This season in addition to Warehouse 2 we’ll see a little bit of Warehouse 12 and a tiny bit of Warehouse 9, they mention a couple of others but it’s expensive.

After a couple of people asking questions were wearing fez hats it was mentioned that they actually feature a fez in an upcoming episode.

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Fans were treated to an impressive trailer showcasing what’s on the cards for the coming season, including some amazing guest stars like Felicia Day, Ming Na, Wallace Shawn and Stan Lee.

The space story presented a challenge for the entire town to rally behind, it was a bit of a leap of faith for the writers but something they thought they could pull off.

The changes after they went back in time,Colin Ferguson said “like a real relationship there are problems that come up and you have to make a choice whether you’re going to sort it out or cut and run… I don’t know”, he said jokingly, “I think something good happens.’

A number of cast members have directed episodes this season, Salli says she couldn’t’ believe the episode she got to direct it’s a huge episode and kicks off a lot of what’s going on in the season, she took it very seriously, the episode is 4:15.

Felica Day is coming into a show with an strong cast in a role that was seems like it w2as specifically created for her, she says it’s terrifying, like coming into someone’s family reunion and you’re the plus one and don’t know anybody.  She’s done a lot of guest spots and when you go on the set you don’t really feel like part of the family but with Eureka she did and it’s a testament to them about how generous and giving they are and it was so easy to find her footing as the character and as a person.

She said it was like the most beautiful gift to be given such a great role and to be given one with in the Eureka family.

The writers have a wish list of guest stars and Wil Wheaton and Felicia were among them.

Colin Ferguson says he tries to bring some of himself to the role, he says he’s goofy and a little odd and he figured if he could get some of that into a role it might work, in the past he was always told no, that’s not what we want but when he auditioned for Eureka they said “That’s what we’re looking for!” Ferguson also said some of the tone is set by the reaction from the viewers.

Neil Grayston says that sometimes he felt he was just there to be the butt of the joke guy but then they did the whole timeline shift which got him to reexamine Fargo and how he talks to people. He says it’s been great to have Farbo be adult and mature and have real relationships with people.

Neil says the Warehouse 13 crossovers (there’s another one this season) have been mostly self contained, that the cast are awesome and it’s awesome hanging out with them.

There’s a Christmas episode coming up too and Jamie Paglia says they decided to do it last year’s was well liked by the viewers and they weren’t sure there was anything else they could do however they came up with the idea of doing an animated episode! The episode isn’t fully animated but there are animated moments. It was interesting for Paglia to watch the cast do voice work.

Wil asked Felicia what it was REALLY like working with them (noting Syfy demanded he ask), Neil got up and walked around and then a impromptu musical chairs started up which got roars of laughter as Felicia recounted some silliness on set involving pants..and crotch wafting!

The episode commentary podcasts will return and they’re trying to get more of them involved.

They’d love to do more crossover episodes but it’s a matter of scheduling.

The second half of the season they weren’t able to make everyone’s schedules work but they did get Neil over to Warehouse 13.

Jamie Paglia said  Wil convinced them to go to Phoenix Comic Con and after meeting Stan Lee he asked them when they were going to put hi on the show. Getting to write something for Stan was like a dream come true. Wil Wheaton said they day Stan Lee was on the set everyone became 12 years old again.

 

We’re here at San Diego Comic Con and we’re going to try and keep a running blog on what’s going on during the day.  Refresh this page frequently for the latest additions.

 

 

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Exhibition Floor.

We took a walk around the exhibition floor this morning and things started off  nicely without too much crowding but it didn’t take long for that to change and before long there were people everywhere.

California Browncoats – Booth A7 & A8

We stopped by the Browncoat booth run  by charity California Browncoats and bought some shiny merchandise and admired the rest.  The California Browncoats will have a number of celebrity guests dropping by for signings.  Check their twitter account and their website for updates on who’s going to be stopping by, but drop by and see them regardless because you never know who will stop by randomly without notice.

 

QMx – Booth 2944 & 2950

One of the most striking things on the San Diego Comic Con exhibition floor this year is the full scale replica TARDIS. Doctor Who fans need to make this their number 1 place to stop by during the convention. Take a photo of yourself by the TARDIS and then check out all the amazing items QMx have for sale and get a sneak peek at some of the fun prototypes they’re working on.

QMx are licenced to make collectable and often limited edition items for Firefly, Serenity, Dr Horrible, BSG, Star Trek, Warehouse 13 (their stuff is so good the show is now getting some of their props made by QMx!) and Doctor Who.

Ballroom 20

Covert Affairs: the panel started with a fun scene where the characters played on the Comic Con theme.  Annie was undergoing a lie detector test after she snuck off to Comic Con, she claimed she was working on a lead and had intel that someone was disguised as Captain America. They then showed a preview of what’s coming up and opened up for a Q&A session with the guests. Peter Gallagher joked about how thrilled he was that they used one of his eyebrows on the Comic Con logo. The panel finished with a bloopers reel.

Psych: USA Network continued the theme by starting the Psych panel with a clip playing on those attending Comic Con and including William Shatner with a pineapple.  This was followed by an introduction and live song performed by the panelists.  Fans were treated to a sneak peek at what’s coming up in Season 6.

 

Once again the amazing California Browncoats setting up their booth at San Diego Comic Con in their usual spot on the exhibition floor (Booths A7 & A8). To find them enter the foyer, then go all the way down to Hall A, after you enter the exhibition hall walk straight through to the back and then turn right and walk all the way down till you find the tables & chairs in the open seating area, you’ll find the Browncoat booth right there on the corner.  they have lots of fantastic merchandise to buy including some new items and some special comic con exclusives including a “Shiny” pint glass and a FireFrog poster.  Be sure to save lots of cashy money for your visit as everything’s for charity.  This year the California Browncoats are supporting several charities including: