QUOTE "These are screenwriters, so you haven't read their writing."
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jhe888, Oh, maybe that is the reason for such as passes for entertainment in recent years. What could go wrong there...actors that cannot act combined with writers that cannot write?

Hopefully it ends soon or all we'll have is reality tv.

I’m a non union writer. As far as I’m concerned, if you’re in the entertainment business and have to resort to going on strike, you’ve already lost.

What they fail to understand is, everyone is replaceable.

Didn’t reality tv get started because of a writers strike? That’s what allowed survivor to survive? Maybe now we’ll have anime generated by AI. No writers or actors needed.

I think AI is one of their issues. I'm sure studios are looking at things like ChatGPT and thinking it could replace most or all of them. And with the poor quality of scripts lately I can't say I blame them. A group of semi-literate homeless people could have put out a better product than the latest Star Wars drivel or Dial of Dissentary.

The studios next door to me are shut down.

I bet all those union employees that are out of work and not going to benefit from this strike are real happy working at starbux right now.

There are a lot of people that work on these shows that don't even make a living wage while the execs fly to meetings in their G4s.

A UPS strike would have more of an effect on me than a writers strike.

I saw a story where "160,000 performers in LA" will be affected by this strike.

I can't believe that "the law of supply and demand" isn't quivering in anticipation of the pending confrontation between opinion and market reality.

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Originally posted by bob ramberg:
There are a lot of people that work on these shows that don't even make a living wage while the execs fly to meetings in their G4s.

I am a kinda "slow" on some subjects.

Help me out with the impact that this has on their job security, please

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
A UPS strike would have more of an effect on me than a writers strike.

You may get your wish

If these writers are responsible for what is being churned out these days which appears on TV shows and movies, then, as far as I'm concerned, they can strike permanently. I don't delight in people being out out of work, but in the case of a strike, they've put themselves out of work. Perhaps their grievances are legitimate, perhaps not. The truth probably lies somewhere in-between. the stuff they're producing, though is, for the most part, garbage, and it serves the woke entertainment industry, and this country would be far better off if their product disappeared entirely.

At this point, someone will come along and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, because the effects of this strike extend far beyond silly network TV shows and commercials. That's probably so, but if all new movies, all new TV shows and all commercials stopped today and were never again produced in this country, life would be better. All of it is leftist-infected tripe.

I watch mostly British crime dramas. I watch very little US programming. The shows I used to watch (NCIS, Chicago PD) have gone to shit so I quit watching them.

Learn to Code.

The only disappointing part to this is it will push back production on season 2 of The Terminal List.

With streaming services on the rise, and DVD sales dwindling that is part of the change. And, change is coming. I have a problem with highly paid actors on social media doing the standard union playbook. You're not pipefitters or welders. You are not blue collar work-a-day folk. You are fabulously paid for what you do. Bugger off and leave me alone. I'm not interested in your made up fantasy world.

I can understand that some lesser known actors as well as the big name actors for their concerns about not making any residual(?) moneys used in film and tv productions without being properly compensated.... Also With the insertion of AI Imageing that their likeness being inserting into a production without their knowledge / permission / compensation payment......... Remember with the music industry with the booth juke box players in resturants and diners / elevator music playing and the recording artist got nothing / And with the bootleg movies that the artist ere not being compensated for........... People trying to get something without properly paying for it. ..................... drill sgt.

I’m quite sure that at some point in the past, a strike like this would have impacted me. Now…I honestly haven’t noticed.

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Originally posted by Goose5: I have a problem with highly paid actors on social media doing the standard union playbook. You're not pipefitters or welders. You are not blue collar work-a-day folk. You are fabulously paid for what you do. Bugger off and leave me alone. I'm not interested in your made up fantasy world.

The big name highly paid actors you see on social are lending their celebrity to the fight on behalf of the thousands of journey-men actors (and writers) whose names/images you wouldn't recognize. The big name actors/writers don't need the union; they can write their own custom tickets in negotiations. It's the less-famous actors/writers, who don't have sway in their contract negotiations, whom the union(s) truly protect from being taken advantage of.

Screenwriters, actors, and professional athletes are all way overpaid entertainers...fuck 'em.