The strike is OVER. The S is O!!

What do you think about the WGA Strike?

  • I support the strike

    Votes: 17 60.7%

  • I am against the strike

    Votes: 7 25.0%

  • I am still on the fence

    Votes: 2 7.1%

  • I could not care less

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • Total voters
    28
Re: The strike is on. The S is O!!

God, the producers are being such ****ing idiots...

But this is all interesting, seeing how the various guilds and unions work in tandem with eachother, and seeing the APTMA try to manipulate that (which shouldn't work)... It's going to be interesting to see how all this turns out.
 
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CBR:


WGA STRIKE WATCH: DAY TEN

As the second week of the strike soldiers on, the coverage begins to thin out. A Reuters report calls the strike's impact "negligible," which pundits on the other side would call public relations spin by media essentially owned by the studios.

Meanwhile, CBS faces a challenge as their news division inches towards a strike, which would further cut into new programming choices for the network.

So with television and movie writers and Broadway stage hands already on strike, across the pond we find that French transit workers are on strike as well, showing that labor disputes are at issue in many arenas of life.
 
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I read another interesting article today about the slowdown in DVD sales, and how studios aren't really making any money lately either. At least not compared to what they were making. All the money is going to the actors.
 
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E said:
I read another interesting article today about the slowdown in DVD sales, and how studios aren't really making any money lately either. At least not compared to what they were making. All the money is going to the actors.
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Is that because of the strike or just because it's a slow quarter?

EDIT: or am i totally off the base.
 
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Hibiki said:
Is that because of the strike or just because it's a slow quarter?

EDIT: or am i totally off the base.
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They were down last year too, so it's not something that's just recent.
 
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SSJmole said:
oh great it's going to effect my "Two and a Half Men"
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i knew you were on the fence! But yeah tomorrows Office is the last new episode. :( At least i still have my Still Standing and Reba reruns. Always sunny ends this week but it's the season finale anyway. still those were my top two and i'll probably miss south park tonight since i'll be at the TOOL CONCERT!
 
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SSJmole said:
nope I was/am 100% against this stupid strike.
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I wouldn't have expected you to be for it, anyway.


Hey mods, can we add a poll somewhere, something like are you on the writers side, the producers/studios side, or some third option (I don't know, maybe), and make it open for us to see who votes what? I'm curious to see how many of us are like our buddy mole here.

:)
 
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I support the writers because they deserve to be paid for their work, but I do not like that it's ****ing up the industry. I want Lost and Prison Break and everything else to go on normally.
 
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This sucks ***. The last new episode of Family Guy that FOX aired was the last episode that the writers had planned for the series before the strike....It's funny, you'd think "A show that got un-canceled isn't ever going to get canceled again." Well, if Family Guy were to go off-air for good, this would be the thing to do it....And McFarlane says that he'll be pissed if FOX continues the show without him.
 
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ProjectX2 said:
I support the writers because they deserve to be paid for their work, but I do not like that it's ****ing up the industry. I want Lost and Prison Break and everything else to go on normally.
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Exactly, but that's the network's fault too.

It sucks that it had to come to this, but in the long run it's a far better deal - a few months of no new TV versus the gradual dying out of the entire business as new technology takes a bigger and bigger role and the writers get dick all for it.
 
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ProjectX2 said:
I support the writers because they deserve to be paid for their work, but I do not like that it's ****ing up the industry. I want Lost and Prison Break and everything else to go on normally.
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Planet-man said:
Exactly, but that's the network's fault too.

It sucks that it had to come to this, but in the long run it's a far better deal - a few months of no new TV versus the gradual dying out of the entire business as new technology takes a bigger and bigger role and the writers get dick all for it.
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Agreed. Completely.

In the meantime, I'm going to be catching up on Battlestar, Lost, 24, and The Sopranos (I never had HBO. . .). So, I'm hoping that by the time I'm done with all of those, the Writer's Strike will be over.
 
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Well if the strike didn't make an impact and didn't piss us off because of all the short-lived seasons then it would have been useless.

They are basically already giving out the message. My only consolation is "Dexter" was finished before the strike.
 
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Lynx said:
In the meantime, I'm going to be catching up on Battlestar, Lost, 24, and The Sopranos (I never had HBO. . .). So, I'm hoping that by the time I'm done with all of those, the Writer's Strike will be over.
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This is a golden oppourtunity for people to check out shows they never got into while they have the time. I'm really tempted to start Dexter but I've sworn to myself to read the book first. In the meantime I still have a season and a half of Scrubs left on DVD.
 
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Dexter and Twin Peaks are the two shows I'm planning on getting into over the Strike period... We'll see what happens though.
 
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