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Favourite TV shows on hold
Everything I've seen and read suggests that most writers do dedicate their whole lives to being writers. Why would it be any more difficult than being an actor or a director for life? Those are both careers with lots of competition and constant cancellations. And all of the "big name" ones you're referring to seem to have been writing for ages before anyone knew their names. Joss Whedon has been working pretty steadily since Roseanne, Jane Espenson since Dinosaurs. Tim Kring's apparently been writing since Knight Rider. I don't think it's fair to say that writing is not a job one can make a career out of. The only reason it isn't feasible is when studios find ways to not pay the ones who can't afford to keep at it. Because "internet profits aren't real profits!"
Favourite TV shows on hold
I'm not saying he should get $200,000 a year. But while $50,000 isn't "poor," you're assuming that that's $50,000 that he can depend on getting every year. If you're on a show that does well, you can depend on maybe five years of steady work, and then you've got to find another job. Experience helps, but mostly that's going to depend on spec scripts, which means writing for free. $50,000 a year isn't quite as much money if it's having to support you for a year or two while you find a new job. Back to being a barista, I guess!
Favourite TV shows on hold
author=rcholbert link=topic=411.msg5359#msg5359 date=1195713294Averages give a really poor idea of what is actually "average" when you figure you've got people throwing off the curve with crazy salaries. There are enough people making serious cash to make the average deceptively high....not everyone is a show runner or a sought-after screenwriter. Most of them are no-names working on crappy cable sitcoms that are watched by about fifty people. Do you really think that those guys are bringing down $200,000 a year?
Yeah, those poor guys, making as much as you or I.
Wait.... Shadowtext, you make $200,000 per year? Because that is the average salary for a member of the WGA. Sure, some make over a million a year, but even the lowliest guys on the totem pole make over $50,000 (WGA's own statistics). I guess the $50k lowball doesn't count the over 50% of the WGA that doesn't have a job. They're on strike too, though!
I'm all for fairness in contracts, but this is as much a power play as it is trying to put food on the table.
Heck, for that matter do you think that, to name someone at random from Heroes' crew as listed on IMDB....Joe Pakaski is making $200,000 a year? And that's a very high-profile show. Tim Kring is probably making several times that, though.
Favourite TV shows on hold
author=demondestiny link=topic=411.msg5350#msg5350 date=1195694998It's more than just "a few cents per episode." It's a few cents per episode on dvd, but the main deal is new media. The writers are basically making nothing when the networks decide to put episodes online because they classify it as "advertisement," so the writers are not being paid their rightful dividends, which most of them depend on to survive. And since contracts last for a pretty long period of time, by the time their next contract comes around, internet might become the primary vehicle through which programs are shown. This is in addition to a host of other concerns, like the fact that writers for Reality programming aren't covered under the WGA contract, even though there's a lot that gets written down for those shows, even if it's not the dialogue, and that writers don't get any sort of compensation for web-based "extras" like Webisodes, in-character blogs, or ARGs, all of which they still have to write.
The other night i was watching prison break on tv and the episode stopped as usual at a great part. So i am ready to see what is going to happen next week when i found out that it doesn't return till late january next year. After all this i learn that it is happening to many great shows such as 24. I had read that the reason of this was because of a writers strike as the writers of these shows aren't getting the right money that they deserve which is like an extra couple of cents per episode.
What does everyone think about this? Is anyone as pissed off as i am about this?
This same thing applies to the actors and directors, who also aren't given any sort of dividends on this stuff, and whose contracts are up for negotiation next year. The actors and directors are with the writers on this because whatever the writers get, they're going to get next year.
And you have to keep in mind that most writers are not making much money. The show-runners, sure, they're probably making decent scratch, but the lower rung writers who you don't know by name (and that's 99% of them) probably don't make much more than you and me, and they're living in one of the most expensive places in the country. Even if they make a pretty decent figure per episode, they're only working about half the year, and they're not always guaranteed that they'll have a job next season. Royalties are a pretty huge necessity to them being able to live.
Yeah, I'm pissed, but I'm pissed for the writers. The studios are screwing them, and want to continue screwing them for as long as they can. And I'm even more pissed that this means the studios are going to start shifting to more reality television again.
For more information on the strike, the WGA's stance and that sort of thing, check out United Hollywood
Also, to hear the writers themselves sum it up, here's a YouTube clip from the writers of the Daily Show in classic Daily Show style: NOT the Daily Show with Some Writer.
Offset avatars???
author=kentona link=topic=399.msg5142#msg5142 date=1195248173Or more importantly STANDARDS-COMPLIANCE.
Some people just can't handle the awesomeness of TABBED BROWSING.
Politics
Anarchism relies on the same sort of unrealistic view of human nature that all utopian visions do. I'm all about idealism, but you have to have some idea of how people actually act if you're going to come up with a social construct. That's why fifteen year olds identify with it. They latch onto the freedom and have no real experience with what humans are actually like, so they convince themselves that it could really work.
But in reality, the Leviathan needs a head, even if it's not a very powerful one.
But in reality, the Leviathan needs a head, even if it's not a very powerful one.
Politics
Well if we're going to take the topic seriously...
My family considers me a liberal, but I think I'm more of a neo-conservative if anything. I'm fairly moderate as far as the liberal-vs-conservative thing goes, but I'm very heavily on the side of libertarianism rather than authoritarianism, which in the south translates to "Bleeding Heart Liberal" I guess. I'm in favor of the minimum amount of government possible without succumbing to anarchy, except in the case where if a government doesn't take the power, the corporations will. I believe that a capitalist economic system requires a healthy dose of socialism to keep from screwing the consumer and the worker, and that capitalism is to be preferred to any other economic system I've heard of.
I think that a revolution is taking place at the moment that people aren't paying enough attention to, largely because of the advent of the internet and other technologies, and that globalization is an inevitable consequence. I also think that many of the world's current political and economic systems are going to be lost entirely soon because of the realities imposed by new technology, and replaced with something new and hopefully better. I don't believe in utopias, though.
My favorite politicians of all time are probably Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson, and maybe Winston Churchill. I'm also sort of fond of Trotsky, because his first reaction to Stalin's intimidation tactics in the bolshevik party was basically to write essays about what a bastard he was. I was quite pleased to once be compared to Snowball from Animal Farm.
My family considers me a liberal, but I think I'm more of a neo-conservative if anything. I'm fairly moderate as far as the liberal-vs-conservative thing goes, but I'm very heavily on the side of libertarianism rather than authoritarianism, which in the south translates to "Bleeding Heart Liberal" I guess. I'm in favor of the minimum amount of government possible without succumbing to anarchy, except in the case where if a government doesn't take the power, the corporations will. I believe that a capitalist economic system requires a healthy dose of socialism to keep from screwing the consumer and the worker, and that capitalism is to be preferred to any other economic system I've heard of.
I think that a revolution is taking place at the moment that people aren't paying enough attention to, largely because of the advent of the internet and other technologies, and that globalization is an inevitable consequence. I also think that many of the world's current political and economic systems are going to be lost entirely soon because of the realities imposed by new technology, and replaced with something new and hopefully better. I don't believe in utopias, though.
My favorite politicians of all time are probably Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson, and maybe Winston Churchill. I'm also sort of fond of Trotsky, because his first reaction to Stalin's intimidation tactics in the bolshevik party was basically to write essays about what a bastard he was. I was quite pleased to once be compared to Snowball from Animal Farm.
Usernames?
I am named after a font choice. When I started using "Shadowtext" when I was eleven (this was twelve years ago), I thought it was a clever subversion on how everyone seemed to use a name with "shadow" in it to be all dark and mysterious, and I went with a name that references probably the lamest font option available.
Unfortunately, I think that in reality the joke is ignored and these days I look like just another shadow-whatever.
Unfortunately, I think that in reality the joke is ignored and these days I look like just another shadow-whatever.
Politics
author=rcholbert link=topic=368.msg4979#msg4979 date=1194931730NEVER! I will fight with great passion for my right to apathy.
When I become Emperor, everyone will be forced to vote under threat of fines. Some countries actually do this already, Australia for example. The irony will be that, since I am Emperor, your vote really won't count then. And I'll use the fine money to fuel my military war machine.
What do we want? Nothing! When do we want it? Whenever!
TOP TEN ANIME'S OF ALL TIME
author=WIP link=topic=381.msg4909#msg4909 date=119475775195% of everything sucks. Given the sheer amount of anime, you've got to figure that if 5% of it's good, that's a pretty impressive number of good titles.
95% of anime sucks.
Still, I don't really do top tens well. Mine would have things like Ouran High School Host Club, Haibane Renmei, Air, and Honey and Clover. FLCL would make it pretty high, but it's basically the only one I've seen mentioned in this thread that would make it into mine.
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