Comic-Con: 'Chuck' vs. the Firewall & Iceberg
Your humble podcast hosts will be emceeing the "Chuck" panel in San Diego.
What will Jeffster! do for a Comic-Con encore?
Credit: NBC
For those of you who will be heading to San Diego next month for Comic-Con, some cool news: I will again be moderating the "Chuck" panel on Saturday...
... and this time, I'll be doing it with Fienberg as co-moderator.
We're both looking forward to it, and we're damn curious to see how these guys top last year's Jeffster! mini-concert. See you there.
Alan Sepinwall has been reviewing television since the mid-'90s, first for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, The Star-Ledger, and now for HitFix. His new book, "The Revolution Was Televised," about the last 15 years of TV drama, is for sale at Amazon. He can be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com
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Login or create a HitFix account Login SignupDerek
July 1, 2010 at 12:19PM EST Reply to CommentSweet! I'll be there. Looking forward to my first Con appearance.
Hatfield
July 1, 2010 at 12:24PM EST Reply to CommentBut we all know Dan hates everything!
adam
July 1, 2010 at 12:26PM EST Reply to CommentJeffster mini concert could easily be topped with a mini lingerie fashion show with all of the babes who have ever been on the show ;-) (mainly Jordana Brewster and Yvonne Strahovski)
July 1, 2010 at 1:12PM EST Reply to CommentPlease, please PLEASE! If there's any way to bring Yvonne more into the conversation, please find it!
Zac and Adam and Josh are complete extroverts, I know. We love it. But Yvonne seems so quiet next to them!
sepinwall I don't know if Yvonne's coming (there isn't a full guest list yet), but if she is, you can rest assured that one of our first questions will be to her. My one and only regret from a year ago was forgetting to ask her something, and then the fans doing the same.
July 1, 2010 at 1:13PM ESTSekaku Actually i wouldn't mind if you did more questions, not only moderator questions are usually more specific and intersting, but two years ago the best were the ones that involved whole cast. Ask some questions to Yvonne, yes. But also ask 1-2 that will involve whole cast, where every cast member has to give an answer. Two years ago i think Mo Ryan asked "how would you like your character to die?" or something along those lines.
July 1, 2010 at 2:17PM ESTFrankly the reason i'm not so looking forward to fans question because they are mostly the same and if i've to listen one more time to "what is Jayne favorite gun?" or "Who would win a fight between Jayne and Casey?", i'll seriously hurt somebody feelings. :)
MC Alan-
July 1, 2010 at 2:43PM ESTJust a heads up, Yvonne tweeted yesterday (source: https://twitter.com/Y_Strahovski ) that she would be at the panel for sure. Now, since she has her charity tournament in LA that afternoon, I doubt she'll stick around for press rooms and other stuff, but atleast she'll be at the panel. And yes, please tell Zac to shutup and let the poor girl talk!
Tom Galloway Possible thing to try; Set up a Google Moderator for the panel in advance. This allows folk to submit questions to ask, as well as vote submitted questions up or down. This way you can get a feel for what others want to ask, but get to apply quality control.
July 1, 2010 at 3:10PM ESTAdmittedly, I haven't used it in the wild myself, but it worked well at Google when it was still internal only vis a vis submitting questions for our Presidential candidate interviews back in '08 (I had an odd side job of, an hour or so before each interview, going through the top 10 or so submitted questions and doing an edit pass on 'em before passing them off to our CEO or whichever exec was doing the interview. Things like collapsing three Iraq questions into one, removing "Let me explain for four paragraphs why this question is important to me personally" boilerplate, etc. in order to get 'em into a form the CEO could use.) http://www.google.com/moderator/
ZacharyTF Let me guess, you want to ask Yvonne if the Wienerlicious outfit is coming back. :)
July 1, 2010 at 8:17PM ESTsepinwall Nah, we covered that at the New York Comic-Con a couple of years ago. :)
July 1, 2010 at 9:26PM ESTSammi I concur to the idea of getting (or rather, giving) Yvonne (and the rest of the cast) turns to talk during the panel. Just don't let the discussion all come from one seat on the panel. PLEASE!
July 2, 2010 at 1:03AM ESTTom Galloway
July 1, 2010 at 2:28PM EST Reply to CommentWanna cut a deal? Manage to sneak me into the Chuck panel room and I'll sneak you into the Pro/Fan Trivia Match room on Sunday. : -) (OK, so we've never turned away audience for it, and the only lines have been until the door opened from the previous item, but I figure it's worth a shot. : -) This year the Pros are scheduled to be Wein, Busiek, and Waid, with Peter David moderating (health permitting; he's currently recovering from back surgery).
jcpdiesel21
July 1, 2010 at 4:26PM EST Reply to CommentCool! Can't wait to see this panel at Comic-Con now!
alamble
July 1, 2010 at 6:03PM EST Reply to CommentIf you guys are going to be co-moderating, who's going to live-tweet/blog the panel for those of us who can't be there in person?
Audrey
July 1, 2010 at 7:02PM EST Reply to CommentAlan and Dan, don't be afraid to articulate the panel. Please ask questions and get EVERY cast member to be involved. In the past, Zach was the only cast member who did all the rambling, while Schwartz/Fedak did all the answering. Everybody else didn't even have a chance to finish a whole sentence.
Looking forward to it!
Audrey
July 1, 2010 at 7:12PM EST Reply to CommentFrom Sekaku: "Frankly the reason i'm not so looking forward to fans question because they are mostly the same and if i've to listen one more time to "what is Jayne favorite gun?" or "Who would win a fight between Jayne and Casey?", i'll seriously hurt somebody feelings. :)"
Yea, seriously. The fan questions are usually the most disappointing part of the panel for me. Same questions tend to repeat every year. Especially the Jayne vs Casey one. LOL
Com'on folks, you got 24 days (that's 576 hrs) to think of one really good question to ask the panelists. You have only one chance, so give it your best shot!
OldDarth
July 2, 2010 at 7:20AM EST Reply to CommentPlease ensure the whole cast is involved and echo the sentiment of finding some way to pre-screen audience questions to separate the chaff from the wheat.
tegan
July 2, 2010 at 8:26AM EST Reply to Commentcan you ask the creators if they'd be redecorating chuck's room for season 4? :p
Kirt Poulsen
July 2, 2010 at 5:37PM EST Reply to CommentAlan, here are my thoughts on season 4. Maybe you can form this in a question to Josh and Chris. If season 4 has Chuck carrying on his fathers work without Sarah, Casey and full team Bartowski, if Chuck is constantly lying and decieving the ones he loves the show will fail and season 4 will be the last. However, if Season 4 has team Bartowski with full opennes and honesty carrying on the Steven Bartowski work along with Chuck and Sarah growing every closer with those weekly tender moments between them, possible leading to another marrige this season will be a big success with a season 5 and beyond.
One question I would like to her Yvonne answer is said to Doc "he is incredibly special" what does Sarah believe that to mean? We know Chuck has an amazing mind that can handle the intersect beter than anyone, but I think it meas his tremendous ability to put those he loves and cares for above all else, his genuine goodness
Sekaku
July 4, 2010 at 4:03PM EST Reply to CommentBtw can you ask a question, if they will create storyline that will pair Ellie and Sarah in some way, because those two characters haven't had too many scenes together and frankly IMO this show right now is too much of a "sausgae fest".
Jasmine Bell
July 5, 2010 at 9:27PM EST Reply to CommentThis may not be relevant anymore but for argument sake can you please ask "who did Sarah really choose before Casey showed up?"
Thanks
Scott R
July 6, 2010 at 9:59AM EST Reply to CommentCan't wait to see Feinberg, mainly to know if he really looks as much like Better Off Ted's Phil Myman as he does in my head, in light of how much they sound alike.
noname
July 9, 2010 at 9:14AM EST Reply to Commentcan you ask if any other members of the show sing?
hmm2
July 11, 2010 at 3:05PM EST Reply to CommentHere's the Con description:
10:00-10:45 Chuck Screening and Q&A— Chuck executive producers and co-creators Josh Schwartz (Gossip Girl) and Chris Fedak appear along with series stars Zachary Levi (Alvin and the Chipmunks), Yvonne Strahovski (upcoming The Killer Elite), Joshua Gomez (Without a Trace), Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence (The Pursuit of Happyness), Vik Sahay (Good Will Hunting), Scott Krinsky (The O.C.), Sarah Lancaster (upcoming The Good Doctor) and Adam Baldwin (Serenity) for their usual hijinks—a Q&A to discuss the upcoming season four (made possible by the devoted fanbase) and a special video presentation. Produced by Fake Empire, Wonderland Sound and Vision in association with Warner Bros. Television, Chuck airs Mondays at 8pm ET/PT on NBC, and Chuck: The Complete Third Season will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 7. Ballroom 20