First thoughts about Thursday’s SDCC 2015 Schedule

If the panels announced for Thursday at Comic-Con were the only ones at the show, the event would still be packed with goodness for fans of all persuasions. Panels that I would expect to be on Friday or Saturday have migrated to Thursday because so much is being crammed into this weekend. On first scan, I found 31 panels that I wanted to attend. 31 panels and that is only Thursday – I have a feeling I am going to be wiped out after this year's con.

In the realm of current television, Dr. Who and Sherlock from BBC America are there as well as MTV's Teen Wolf, Playstation's Powers, Netflix' Sense8, SyFy's Dark Matter, Damien, TNT's The Last Ship, and one of my favorites, Comedy Central's Drunk History. Of those, I've seen Dr. Who, Teen Wolf, and The Last Ship before and they were all pretty good. I'd really like to see the two panels presented by NASA on Thursday – The Journey to Mars which includes author Andy Weir who wrote The Martian, and Turning Science Fiction into Science Fact. I missed the astronauts last year so I might make an extra effort to see these panels this year. Any time I can see real scientists talking about science fiction I try to be there. And then there is a panel on building a holodeck that looks really interesting.

Books and writing get a smattering of panels on Thursday with The Modern Fairytale, The Resurgence of Science Fiction, Authors of Epic Fantasy, Worldbuilding, and Character Creation. None of the movie panels look particularly exciting for me, but a few blogging/podcast panels look like fun – Wrath of Con Bloggers, The Comixologist Traveling Podcast Party, and Geek and Sundry I'm sure would be entertaining. In the realm of gaming, I am looking at possibly attending the Blizzard showcase, the Call of Duty panel, and the Nerdist Gaming panel, thought the last one starts at 9pm. Two panels that seem really interesting and bookend the day are The Buffy Effect: Teen Heroines Then and Now and Psychology of Cult TV Shows – both of these could be very educational and seeing as I love Buffy, I might just have to get there early to make the 10am panel.

All in all, Thursday seems like it will be jam-packed with lots of interesting stuff. I'm gonna have to do my usual analysis once the entire schedule is out so I can see what rooms to camp out in and when it is better to stand in a line.3 more days until the schedule is fully released…then I can really get ready for the con.

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