by Draal » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:02 pm
First five minutes there, I walked into a panel with Stan Lee.
To say it wasn't all bad, just the perpetual veil of fandom was thrown over all.
Either critics, fanboys, the neutral, ignorant, or another undefined aspect of the spectrum; its hard to hate the guys sitting behind the counters hawking their wares. Easy to feel sorry for them, easy to scoff at the costumed characters drinking coke; impossible to do so when they are enjoying themsleves.
What the convention comes down to is a few days out to enjoy the atomosphere and general lifting of indulging in real life those hours spent indoctornating ourselves either in front of a television or reading a comic.
Argue with a couple dressed as the pair from Final Fantasy 8 , sipping a soda and walking down the aisles to view Advent Children on a projection screen.
Attack the culture then, the consumeristic voyeur scrounging a few pennies to buy a book based on an impulse and investment made because a few hundred dollars was spent sometime in the past.
True, though not the point.
Easy to be a critic, hard to appreciate what exists.
First five minutes there, I walked into a panel with Stan Lee.
To say it wasn't all bad, just the perpetual veil of fandom was thrown over all.
Either critics, fanboys, the neutral, ignorant, or another undefined aspect of the spectrum; its hard to hate the guys sitting behind the counters hawking their wares. Easy to feel sorry for them, easy to scoff at the costumed characters drinking coke; impossible to do so when they are enjoying themsleves.
What the convention comes down to is a few days out to enjoy the atomosphere and general lifting of indulging in real life those hours spent indoctornating ourselves either in front of a television or reading a comic.
Argue with a couple dressed as the pair from Final Fantasy 8 , sipping a soda and walking down the aisles to view Advent Children on a projection screen.
Attack the culture then, the consumeristic voyeur scrounging a few pennies to buy a book based on an impulse and investment made because a few hundred dollars was spent sometime in the past.
True, though not the point.
Easy to be a critic, hard to appreciate what exists.