Writers' strike rant
Jan. 19th, 2008 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeOkay, I'll say this much: I understand *why* they're on strike, or at least the part about them wanting a cut from DVD sales. But for the stuff on the Internet, I know this means we're going to have to pay to download archived episodes of stuff on, say CBS.com as a for-instance. I'm not looking forward to getting hit in the wallet when I want/need to watch an episode of something to catch up on the series. "Moonlight" and especially "Supernatural" are a good examples, since the stories have something of a continuous plotline.
The strike is almost at the three month mark and I wish they'd work something out soon. I can't help thinking of the guys and gals on the camera crews who've been out of work since production shut down on their regular TV show gigs. Have the writers thought about who they would be hurting by their actions? I think if I was in the WGA, I wouldn't be going along with the strike; I've been a minimum wage working stiff for too many years to do something that I know would hurt the guys and gals manning the cameras and rigging the lights and dressing the sets and making the costumes, the "people in the shadows, pulling all the strings and making [the show] possible", as Lambert Wilson called them.
I think these people should be grateful they have a job in which they can utilize their talents; I'd like to see one of them trade places with me, working a thankless retail job just to pay my bills and thus not always having the energy or the self-esteem to write after a long day of chasing other peoples' errant toddlers or wrangling with old ladies about the high price of eggs (though the Active Healing exercises are helping me deal with that). I think some of them may need to down-size their lifestyles: from what I hear, they make more money from a script than I make in a month, even when you factor in my disability check.
I'm sorry, enough is enough. I just want to be able to watch my shows and not get stuck with dangling plotlines. How is Sam Winchester going to break Dean's deal with the demons? Will Coraline's vampirism cure really work? And if they ever get "Shark" back in production, how are they going to handle Jeri Ryan's pregnancy; is there something we don't know about what her character and Sebastian have been up to...?
:: Uses the Morrigan icon because she's that annoyed::
The strike is almost at the three month mark and I wish they'd work something out soon. I can't help thinking of the guys and gals on the camera crews who've been out of work since production shut down on their regular TV show gigs. Have the writers thought about who they would be hurting by their actions? I think if I was in the WGA, I wouldn't be going along with the strike; I've been a minimum wage working stiff for too many years to do something that I know would hurt the guys and gals manning the cameras and rigging the lights and dressing the sets and making the costumes, the "people in the shadows, pulling all the strings and making [the show] possible", as Lambert Wilson called them.
I think these people should be grateful they have a job in which they can utilize their talents; I'd like to see one of them trade places with me, working a thankless retail job just to pay my bills and thus not always having the energy or the self-esteem to write after a long day of chasing other peoples' errant toddlers or wrangling with old ladies about the high price of eggs (though the Active Healing exercises are helping me deal with that). I think some of them may need to down-size their lifestyles: from what I hear, they make more money from a script than I make in a month, even when you factor in my disability check.
I'm sorry, enough is enough. I just want to be able to watch my shows and not get stuck with dangling plotlines. How is Sam Winchester going to break Dean's deal with the demons? Will Coraline's vampirism cure really work? And if they ever get "Shark" back in production, how are they going to handle Jeri Ryan's pregnancy; is there something we don't know about what her character and Sebastian have been up to...?
:: Uses the Morrigan icon because she's that annoyed::
shark
Date: 2008-01-20 08:25 pm (UTC)don't make me puke!
Re: shark
Date: 2008-01-20 09:40 pm (UTC)