What you missed at Comic-Con (rant + links)

Because you didn't go, did you?

You didn't take the Amtrak train from L.A., with each car stuffed so full, it's like fleeing on the last train out before a wartime occupation. You didn't pay for a hotel whose rates have been jacked for San Diego's annual Fleecing of the Fans. You didn't beg studio publicists for tickets to their programs so you could circumvent the epic lines and actually make it inside the ballrooms since Comic-Con refuses to provide media passes. And you definitely didn't have to deal with the world's worst Internet access while trying to cover the panels, which makes no sense, since it's a conference run by geeks for geeks, so you'd think they'd have all this worked out, right? Yet it's like, I don't know, using dial-up on AOL in 1996, and whenever anything particularly interesting and newsworthy happens on stage, like Joss Whedon declaring "I'm directing 'The Avengers'!" it's like an episode of "24" and somebody just set off a freakin' EMP that blows out all Internet AND cell phone reception within a 2,000-feet radius. You also lucked out because you didn't have to navigate the San Diego Convention Center's byzantine Comic-Con human-traffic flow system, which is like being trapped in somebody else's maze-dream in "Inception," where the goal is to make sure you take the longest possible time to get to where you need to go, and you end up arguing with a teenage volunteer who's standing between you and an open hallway and you're saying, "But-but-but where I need to go is RIGHT THERE," and he's saying, "No, you have to go back out, and walk allllll the way around, because that's the RULES." And god help you if you get hungry during all this because even though there's tens of thousands of people attending Comic-Con, there's only a couple carts selling soft pretzels, cookies and nachos -- how is that even possible?

No. It's fine. You stayed home and found out all the same news instantly on Twitter.

I swear. It's enough to make me want to stab somebody with a pen.

Anyway. Here's Hollywood Reporter's coverage of the TV panels. For film coverage, check out Borys Kit's Heat Vision blog. Plus, we still have some more Comic-Con related goodies coming in shortly:

-- Josh Schwartz talks Comic-Con (video)

-- ‘Castle’ season three sneak preview

-- Seth MacFarlane talks ‘Family Guy,’ ‘Ted’ (video)

-- Comic-Con fan reviews rundown: ‘The Event,’ ‘The Cape,’ ‘No Ordinary Family,’ ‘Nikita’

-- Comic-Con match-ups: Who won?

-- ‘Chuck’ cast talks Comic-Con (video)

-- Linda Hamilton joins ‘Chuck’

-- ‘Glee’ to do ‘Rocky Horror’ episode

-- J.J. Abrams defends ‘Lost’ ending

-- Barenaked Ladies, Wil Wheaton add ‘Bang’ to Comic-Con

-- Barenaked Ladies sing ‘Big Bang’ theme song (video)

-- ‘True Blood’ cast on sex, covering private parts

-- ‘True Blood’ second half of season video

-- The ‘Dexter’ season 5 trailer is here (video)

-- NBC’s ‘Community’ to parody ‘Apollo 13′

-- ‘Burn Notice’ prequel movie announced

-- ‘Vampire Diaries’ crew drop season two hints

-- The final ‘Smallville’ baddie: Darkseid

-- ‘Psych’ creator talks about possibility of movie

-- ‘The Event’ producer promises not to wing it

-- ‘Hawaii Five-0′ packs Comic-Con

-- Joss Whedon swears off TV — for now

-- 'Family Guy' panel: No more 'Star Wars' spoofs

-- ‘White Collar’ stars address character’s death … sort of

-- AMC’s ‘Walking Dead’ panel: ‘This is big’

-- ‘Spartacus’ from Comic-Con (video)

-- Bigger action, more cast for ‘Human Target’

-- ‘Chuck’ composer to score ‘Human Target’

-- Comic-Con panels: ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ ‘It's Always Sunny’

-- TNT gives sneak of Spielberg’s ‘Falling Skies’

-- Why the new ‘Nikita’ kicks more ass

-- ‘Simpsons’ producer knocks MacFarlane

-- Chiklis, Benz create ‘No Ordinary Family’

-- Hidden cameras film ‘Stargate Universe’

-- Ronald D. Moore: ‘Caprica’ renewal likely

-- Felicia Day joins Syfy’s ‘Eureka’