Boskone, part 4
Sunday. It was too cold to wait outside for the bus, so I took the T and it was probably faster than waiting for the bus would have been anyway; Sunday schedules are not nearly as frequent. Arrived in plenty of time for the 10am panel on “How Extended Edition DVDs Are Changing the Nature of Movies”. Fun and interesting, though fairly LOTR-heavy for the obvious reason.
Then a decision between two panels (”Those Terrible Middle Ages” and “Historical Myths in SF&F”); I dithered a bit before opting for the latter, simply because it was less crowded, and I was going to be leaving partway through to meet Helen for lunch. The write-up didn’t seem to be very clear to the panel, and I wasn’t really there long enough to see how it was developing anyway.
Lunch, some shopping, then back to gaming for the 12:30 Kill Dr. Lucky. I almost got the old coot (known in this case as “Dr. Pucky” since his token was the puck from a table-top hockey game), but all I managed was to clear out the failure cards so that another player could get him.
This left me time to catch the end of “The Dreaded Mary Sue” before the final panel I’d planned on: “Twenty Panels in an Hour”.
No blog entry I can write will do this one justice. The four panelists (Michael A. Burstein, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Leigh Grossman, and the victim-of-the-year, er, moderator Bob Devney) were clearly having a great deal of fun, as were the audience members. I lost count, but I think we actually got through thirty panel topics, even with miscellaneous digressions, running gags (”What if author were John Norman?”) and Geek Transcendence. I had so much fun that I’ve been threatened with being on the panel next year.
With that, I headed out to get some other things done before dinner, since I had system maint work scheduled after that (yes, I had to go to work in the middle of a three day weekend, sigh).
So that was Boskone as I saw it.
