Lucky Sawyer getting to slumdog or is that upward dog with that great Shakespearean Joe Fiennes. Quick my channel changer for a horse.

Oh, yes, indeed, hanging with Joseph Fiennes was way cool … but it was also cool to hang with John Cho (Sulu in the new Star Trek), Courtney B. Vance (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Jack Davenport (Coupling, Swingtown), Tony winner Brian F. O’Byrne, and all the other amazing members of our cast.

Not to mention the terrific behind the scenes people, like director David S. Goyer (who wrote Batman Begins), producer Brannon Braga (of Star Trek and 24 fame), special-effects genius Kevin Blank (of Lost and Cloverfield), etc. etc.

(Oh, and Joe’s not doing Shakespeare this summer; he’s doing Cyrano under Trevor Nunn — got to watch him rehearse his lines for that between doing his takes for Flash Forward.)

Of course I’m going to watch. It is, after all, work created by you. Who could not be curious and hopeful. To riff some on Edward Gorey: May you carry the urn of reputation safely over the abyss of infallibility.