Saturday at SFX2005

Victor ambushed me on Friday morning with the news that there was a huge combined Anime / SciFi / Comic / Horror / Gaming convention on this weekend and that we had to go. I wasn't overjoyed: the last big convention I attended at the Metro Convention Centre was highly unpleasant. But I've got to pretend to be a good dad every now and again, so Saturday morning found us on the GO train in to Union Station.

I'm not an Anime, Comic, or Horror fan, and the last time I did regular gaming the hot new game was something called Advanced D&D. So the area of interest for me was restricted to just over a fifth of the activities. I was rather disappointed to discover that the SciFi was really restricted to movies and TV shows, rather than written Science Fiction (although the use of the five-letter abbreviation should have tipped me off).

I did get a brief glimpse of "Jayne Cobb", from Firefly:

The hall was already pretty crowded by the time we arrived (the line-up to buy tickets was just over half-an-hour from where we joined until we got to the booth). It got much worse as the day wore on:

I should mention that I'm not good with crowds.

After visiting the Serenity booth staffed by volunteers from the Canadian Browncoats, I eventually found myself a quiet piece of wall to lean against and waited for Victor and his friend Jacob to spend themselves dry.