Tobar said:
Almost time to celebrate a noteworthy event.

The last paragraph gave me nostalgia for the years where there was a mystique to being a sci-fi geek. The world of fanzines, and mail-order catalogues, the backrooms of comic-book stores, and of slipping "Dr. Who" refrences into conversation to see if any new people you met noticed, and were therefore in the cliub. That one shelf of RPG books and "Starlog" magazines at the back of the model-shop. Those were the days.

Now Comic-Con is covered by every media outlet in the world, every movie trailer is on every website, where they're analyzed frame by frame, and all the channels serve out a steady stream of sci-fi stuff.

Is there probably the same ammount of really good sci-fi getting made as in the past? I think so, probably one or two good things a year. Is there still a lot of crap? Yes, but even I admit the crap has gotten glitzier (Transformers 2 vs. Arena) and even movies that normally wouldn't be are wrapped in a shiny sci-fi package (GI Joe).

I just mourn the loss of something neat, and I admit, exclusive, about the fandom of the past.