I love that skirt!
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Daisy Jane - Nov 16, 2007 9:54:15 am PST #8179 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Strega - Nov 16, 2007 10:10:02 am PST #8180 of 10001
It sounds to me like he's going in to make sure the final product turns out okay.
Yes. If he wasn't there, someone else would do the final cut. It might not be done the way he'd like, and that's why it's a sucky position to be in, but it would get done.
If the strike succeeds, he'll benefit from a sacrifice other showrunners made, and which he undercut. Publicly. He didn't have to talk to a reporter about it.
And there's also the part where, by saying "We feel we owe that to our fans," he's implying that other showrunners don't feel that obligation. That probably wasn't the intention, but that's why "maybe he was trying to be diplomatic" doesn't work to well for me.
Oh, and after some digging... it wasn't the Times, it was the WSJ: [link]
Polgara - Nov 16, 2007 10:24:05 am PST #8181 of 10001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
The guy is on the WGA negotiating committee, and he's crossing the picket line. The guy is a showrunner, makes millions of dollars, has a hit show that's in no danger of being cancelled, and he's stabbing his fellow writers and showrunners in the back. IMO, he's the scum of the earth.
But that might just be me.
Polgara - Nov 16, 2007 10:25:32 am PST #8182 of 10001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
AND! He's part of the leadership that pushed for this strike, that marketed for this strike, that called people and asked for their support for this strike.
Scum.
Jesse - Nov 16, 2007 10:35:32 am PST #8183 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Those gift bag delivery pictures are awesome! Go team!
Pix - Nov 16, 2007 10:36:43 am PST #8184 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I love the pictures of the survival kit drop-off!
The guy is on the WGA negotiating committee, and he's crossing the picket line. The guy is a showrunner, makes millions of dollars, has a hit show that's in no danger of being cancelled, and he's stabbing his fellow writers and showrunners in the back.
AND! He's part of the leadership that pushed for this strike, that marketed for this strike, that called people and asked for their support for this strike.Wow, I didn't know that. That...wow.
askye - Nov 16, 2007 10:40:48 am PST #8185 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
That's horrible! The Lost guy not hte gift bags, the gift bags rock.
I can't believe that he'd encourage everyone to strike and then at the least little bit of sign difficulty just break ranks.
Wolfram - Nov 16, 2007 10:41:47 am PST #8186 of 10001
Visilurking
At first I was "feeling for" Cuse, but after the last few posts I've changed my mind - the guy is an asshat. He's totally fucking the other showrunners who are letting their babies get mutilated for the sake of the strike.
Just because it's a hard decision, doesn't mean there isn't a right and wrong.
Kristen - Nov 16, 2007 10:50:10 am PST #8187 of 10001
Polter-Cow - Nov 16, 2007 10:55:02 am PST #8188 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
He's totally fucking the other showrunners who are letting their babies get mutilated for the sake of the strike.
If Shawn Ryan can keep his hands off his series finale and Michelle Fazekas can let her own show potentially die...
I wonder what Lindelof thinks of this, having published that op-ed piece. I'm also waiting to see if UH comments on it.
Strikes are messy.