And I absolutely got fooled when Alan showed up and acted all Wash-ly at first lol. Well played, Joss.

Ah. This is a fan/people problem of fail, luckily one I haven't come across. Let me see, I remember reading an interview with Peter Jackson about how him and these two other directors - one was the director of Avatar - keep building on each other's work, like developing techniques that the next person can use to make their film better, or possible even, when asked if he felt like he was in competition. Or something like that. I just remember loving the idea of that, these bigshots getting their geek on by raising the bar for the next person not to jump over but to use to pull them all up. I'm sorry you met the other kind of people. They're really missing that point of being a Browncoat were even if you lose out on something that doesn't mean it meant nothing.