JAYNE: The Panel Called Jayne
William Pace, Brian Wiser
I’m a big fan of Adam Baldwin and his various roles he’s played over the years. At Salt Lake Comic Con’s FanX event in 2014 the schedule lists two panels relating to Adam Baldwin. One is JAYNE: The Panel Called Jayne and there is also a spotlight panel with Adam Baldwin. This article is about the JAYNE: The Panel Called Jayne panel.
Adam Baldwin was not on the scheduled list of panelists. This is not the type of panel that I usually attend. I don’t attend because this type of panel seems to be a celebration of a thing that nerds like by nerds. In this case, there was no actual correspondence between Adam Baldwin and this panel.
I thought it might be helpful to other nerds to figure out if this kind of thing is worth your time. There was also a rumor floating around that Adam may show up at some point. I’ve got to be honest, I was pretty disappointed. Ultimately the panel ended up being a guy sitting at the front listing a bunch of shows that he’s been in and showing a bunch of pics from the internet. It feels very much like we’re being read to out of his wiki page.
Here are some things they did mention that I didn’t know about. He was in the X-Files, Independence Day.. and apparently there’s a little known show called ‘The Inside’ that was supposed to be pretty good. It only lasted 13 episodes. What’s funny about this panel is the guy keeps saying, “I didn’t know this, but he was in….” As if he had pulled up the IMDB page last night getting ready for the panel.
I’m sorry guys, this one was pretty painful. I hope the panelists never read this, but it was pretty dry. I don’t necessarily feel like it was the panelists fault. I doubt I could have done better. I just think the type of panel isn’t one that a lot of people are really going to benefit from. Since the people that are going to attend that specific of a panel are likely already Jayne/Adam Baldwin fans, they likely have googled his stuff before on their own.
Lesson learned, I won’t be going to this kind of panel again. A little harsh, but at least you know the truth of how I felt about it..
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P.S. Trevor converted to Marvel & DC comics and movies later on, so no heartburn on that one, right?
Hi, I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy our celebration of Adam. I spent a month preparing this presentation from multiple sources, and enjoyed sharing noteworthy things about his long career that I learned during that journey. To make his career overview more fun, I included quotes from from him and people he worked with. Photos from a screen used Firefly script and call sheet showing a behind-the-scenes view of his day, fan art (as shown in your photo), behind-the-scenes, and many photos from my personal collection were included. We also had fun with Jayne trivia, including a question Adam himself had given me the night before. This was a lot more than a Google search and a Wikipedia entry.
Hey Brian, I appreciate your comment. The reason I wrote that I hoped you didn’t read it is because the issues I mention are not really about the presentation. It’s about the the type of panel that Salt Lake is choosing to offer and what attendee expectations may be.
It costs a lot of time and money to attend cons. So the question for me is, is this panel unique enough be presented at the 3rd largest comic convention in the United States?
What I hope for in a panel and what keeps me up the night before a con – is the hope that I’ll have an industry insider standing in front of me unveiling things I never dreamed of. Making me feel as though I had been on set interacting with the beloved characters.
I AM interested in learning more about the Done the Impossible documentary. I just picked it up. You can expect to see an article about it coming sometime in the future.
For interested readers, the documentary is available on Netflix and is also for sale here:
http://donetheimpossible.com