Strike May End Soon.

[TheSatyrIcon]

Of course it does. You think you could get away with anything less than professional writers to come up with original scenarios like "guy delivers pizza, sorority girls decide to tip him with something other than money" or "astronaut flies through a black hole and ends up on planet full of horny women somehow", or for that matter, brilliant dialogue such as "oh god, harder!" and "I'm cumming!"?

LOL!
:thumbsup:

Like I wrote, I'm glad the strike is ending soon.

The Satyr Icon

 

[Roughneck]

I don't recall the writers guild saying that we should ignore "war, poverty, murders, rapes" and "shit" like that in favor of reporting on their strike though, so I don't see a reason to be upset with them.

Uhhh... let me clarrify just in case.

I'm not "upset" with them.

Actually, I'm not angry/sad/mad/pissed etc. at all.

I just don't understand all the whole hoo-hah over what is after all a strike by writers. Maybe it hasn't registered on my daily-radar because I probably don't watch enough TV for it to matter. Maybe if I was a writer or a producer, I'd probably be bothered a lot more... :dunno:

Now if all the nurses in my state went on strike... or if the ambulance crews refused to transfer anymore nursing home weekend dumps... or if that idiot neighbor from down the street decided to run for town council - I'd be rightly concerned and up in arms too!

cheers,

 

[titsrock]

I don't understand why it's so hard to get my point. Millionaires complaining they want more money while millions of others suffer.

You are aware, I'm sure, that the vast majority of writers are not millionaires? The writers are the only Hollywood "people" I generally care about. They get shitted on by actors/directors/executives...their product is the FOUNDATION of Cinema and TV and it is treated like simplistic sentences that any person with a 6th grade education could come up with..."can't you just bang it out"...for example.

I can't say that Hollywood Unions garner sympathy from me as the hard labor unions do (like Auto unions, trade unions). A Writer's Union is more about protecting the "use" of the product and making sure that someone is paid fairly for his work. I have no idea why the Studios let this strike happen. They are the real morons here. The world is changing--nobody knows what the entertainment distribution model will be in 1 year or 5 years...Hollywood has been 3 steps behind the Technology Change...and that doesn't seem likely to change.

Most scripts start out as something and when the Studios buy it and change it in order to "fit our profit model" they become something entirely different...

 

[KungFuDude]

Mad anger issues.

Oh yes, the signs of that are all over the place. Yeah, I can't believe how much I lost my temper. Like when I was just talking and trying to get my point across.. WOW, I had totally lost it!

Thanks for the neg rep. That's as clever as you can get? You got some thin skin.

Of course you did say Fuck You to anyone who doesn't agree with you. Then you antagonized me with that pity comment, when I simply asked a question on your point of view. You blew up over nothing. And then you couldn't let it go. I'd say you got anger issues.

I come to this board simply to laugh and have fun. Lighten up.

 

[gunslingingbird]

I am not a millionaire, but I am affected by the strike. I work as a union stage technician. The way the strike affects me the rest of my colleagues is the fact that the hundreds of people who normally work on tv or movie sets don't have their normal jobs, and they have to go out into the pool of work that the rest of us normally get work from, namely conventions, corporate events, concerts, and plays. If those guys have their jobs, the calls made for tv/movie gigs are filled by tv/movie people, and the non-tv/movie calls are filled by non-tv/movie people. With those guys out of work the calls that would normally be filled by the rest of us have to be shared with them, meaning less work all around.

So, in short, the people most affected by the strike aren't the millionaire Hollywood broadcasting corporations; it's the people directly involved in the production of shows. We are just like anyone else in the workforce, most of us live paycheck-to-paycheck.

 

[trunk_monkey]

I need my television!

Some people have their own little things to relax and take the edge off during the week; my thing is television. You say that it's unimportant with all the crap going on in the world, but to me it is something that takes my mind off of it.

I just want this crap to be over so good luck to the writers because the studios sure as hell don't need more money. I just wish that you would have fought for free or cheaper television content instead of claims in the profits.

 

[theswede]

Give them their fucking money so I can leech my Colbert reports... goddamn hollywood.