Zed is on the cusp of receiving a football scholarship and becoming the first Zombie to ever attend college (and he’s excited to join Addison who has already been admitted). The town has finally accepted monsters as a part of Seabrook and has become a safe haven for monsters and humans alike. But it certainly makes you think about which side you want to be on.It’s Zed and Addison’s final year at Seabrook and things are better than ever. But there’s still some distance between them. These days, the two worlds are much more in tune with each other, largely because cons have gotten so popular.
#Lord zed costume tv#
I didn’t want anything to do with a group of obsessives who paid to get together to talk incessantly about a TV show that had been cancelled. William Shatner, for instance, used to avoid Trekkie conventions: Often the fans love a character more than the actor does, or value a piece of art more highly than the artist does. Of course, many, many people take on both of these roles.
Their dedication is to the craft, to the work, and not necessarily to the character or the merchandise. Their role is essentially active, and disciplined. They go to work whether they feel like it or not, whether they’re bored or not, and they take home a paycheck. The construction of fantasy isn’t rapture it’s a job.
Their job is to watch and enjoy.įor the suppliers of content, the outlook is very different. Yes, they may make costumes or write fan fic, but they don’t have to. Through the lens of the anime, the show, or whatever, they see another world that enthralls or inspires them. Maybe it’s just fun, or maybe it connects with them on a deep level. As such, they’re divided between two overlapping but fundamentally different groups: the entertainers, or suppliers of content (actors, musicians, vendors, con organizers), and the fans, or consumers of content.įans come because they’re in love with the entertainment. Cons are a celebration of what is, essentially, entertainment: TV, movies, comics, video games, books, merchandise. (The Riddler, perhaps?) But aside from a Kwisatz Haderach T-shirt, I was pretty boring. Many of them had obviously put a lot of time into their costumes, and some looked so cool that I wished I had a costume myself. Just walking around, we saw two Marios, two Luigis, a Joker, a Pikachu, an Ash Ketchum, a dude with a Portal gun, at least three Links, a Cloud (FF7), a Captain America, a Ryuk (Death Note), and dozens upon dozens of other characters I couldn’t identify.
He seemed very nice, and pleasantly surprised that anyone would still be interested in his Zedd role after all these years.Ī big part of any con’s appeal, of course, is people-watching. He answered questions from the audience and played video clips from the show, which brought back some memories I hadn’t thought about in a long, long time. We also went to a panel hosted by Robert Axelrod, the voice actor for Lord Zedd from Power Rangers. A kickass leatherbound notebook with a Cthulhu-esque shape inscribed on the cover.An 8-bit Mario sprite decoration for the fridge.We explored the giant vendor room, where we bought: The con attracted well over 2,000 people. We’re not especially into anime per se, but we’re sci-fi/fantasy nerds, and they had plenty of that too. On Saturday, Betsy and I went to the Animarathon anime convention in Bowling Green, Ohio.
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