(LJ is trying to drown me in comment notifications from all over the past month. It is most annoying. I wanted to answer people
before they, you know, might think I was blissfully ignoring them or not so blissfully turning into a mummified corpse. No love, LJ. No love.)
Before I commence acute squeeing over this week's
Atlantis, a couple of words about
( 'Epiphany'. (Spoilers!) )( And what Joe actually wanted it to be. )Not that we didn't get a
really good episode after that.
( More spoilers! This time for 'Critical Mass'. )And to end this looong post on another squeeful note... I GOT TO SEE ALAN LEE TODAY OMG! Well, more like yesterday, by now, but. The universe conspired to make me as late as possible, so I missed most of his talk, but I caught the Q&A session, and then had him sign my Mum's copy of
The Lord of the Rings (the one illustrated by him, of course) for her, since she couldn't come with me. He is sweet, polite, kind, sweet, funny, cute, sweet, patient, nice, sweet, humble, cute, still quite shy, gentle, and did I mention how sweet he is? In short, he's exactly how you see him in the DVD extras. Except maybe that I'd thought he'd be really
tall, and instead he's just, uh, normal-tall. Maybe in the DVDs I just saw him around hobbit-y people a lot. He answered even the most, er,
weird questions with extreme kindness, and then while he was signing stuff he shook everyone's hand, tried to exchange a couple of words with anyone who wanted to, and even let a few of us have our picture taken with him, in spite of the fact that it was getting late and he had to catch a flight back to London to be at the premiere of
King Kong. (Man, I really hope he made it. Why won't Teh Interweb tell me
anything?!?) I felt terribly guilty even stealing those twenty seconds I did, but I am so happy to have met him. He's a truly wonderful guy.