SDCC 2011 Wrap-Up – The Best TV Sneak Peeks of the Week

Ask anyone who’s been there and they’ll admit that television has overtaken movies as the big deal at Comic-Con (it should be COMICS, but that’s another conversation altogether). Why? Well, like comic books, television has more than one chance to get it right (despite Joss Whedon‘s track record). Movie do all sorts of promotion, spend millions of dollars, and we get 2 hours of screen time on which to judge their efforts. Television comes at us week after week, giving us characters we can get to know in the comfort of our own home rather than a room that we rent at $15 a pop and get shoe-horned in with a bunch of noisy cell phone talking idiots who seem intent on doing anything but actually experiencing the storyline laid out in front of them on the screen. And if a tv series comes up short in one episode or another, they can redeem themselves the next week or the week after. With movies, it’s all over the second the credits roll and whether we cared for those characters or not, it will be the box office that determines whether we’ll ever get to see them again. Hardly a great foundation for a relationship.

And that’s what good television is all about. Good television creates a relationship between the characters and story and YOU. Because that relationship is given a chance to grow. It gives you the opportunity to become invested. Even if it may seem flat an uninteresting beyond the obvious big juicy hook, very often a show can grow into something great given the chance. And that takes time. Usually longer than most network executives are willing to wait, but it’s still longer than most movies get in front of our eyeballs. Movies have to be love at first sight. Television has to get under our skin for the love to truly grow and last.

So Comic-Con does their best to bring out the stars from the hottest genre shows on tv right now. The cast shows up, they hand out promotional trinkets, they often talk of future storylines that will last longer than 2 hours, and fans eat it up. In the case of the following 3 clips shown at San Diego Comic-Con 2011, you’ll discover some of the best that television has to offer, teasing us with storylines and characters we can’t wait to spend more time with in the coming months…

Fringe season 4 (a look back at the Peter Bishop auditions)

The Walking Dead season 2

Dexter season 6

 
Oh, and for those of you still seeking closure from LOST, here’s a “lost” season 1 clip that debuted at Comic-Con for the faithful fans who went to the one year later panel…

LOST season 1 “lost scene”