Some hedge funds are starting to pay for films. It's exactly the type of high-risk/high-reward investment that they look for.

I think the point is twofold: one that it can take a long time for what you predict to happen. And secondly it can take even longer for studios to be spent as a major force. Remember that UA competed with the big studios. It did not replace them. So I doubt needing fair pay for what you do for the big boys is going to become obsolete soon. Maybe never.

Well, yes, multinational conglomerates will likely still be here for a long time to come, but everything goes away eventually. Even multinational conglomerates.

See, I think they, like the roaches, will survive anything, even nuclear war. They may not have the same names as they do now but there will always be multinational conglomerates. Maybe after armageddon, it will be down to just one. Like, The Cher Company.

SOMEBODY always controlls a bunch of the money and commerce. Once upon a time it was royalty, now its multinational conglomerates. As long as entertainment is profitable whomever is next will want a piece of it.

Strega, I was going to link that. Great minds and all.

I think that Rogers has a real good (and level-headed) view on what is and what isn't possible. He also seems to be less delusional about when things like this could happen and who might be the driving force. I like that he points out that not all writers want to be the kind of multi-hyphenate that could drive an ambitious project like this. Some folk just want to write and not become a one person studio.

Actually, I'm beginning to wonder just how relevant the issues of this strike really are. I mean, sure, they're very relevant, but there's a lot of ways in which this strike feels like mammals striking against the dinosaurs for not getting with the program and going extinct already, so the mammals can occupy their niche.

Okay, that metaphor isn't really working, and maybe the future isn't all that imminent, but a future is coming (or at least looking more and more likely) where these studios just aren't relevant any more. I think maybe the writers and other creative types should start thinking about cutting out the middle man, and it seems like some of them are already talking about it.

In the meantime though, I think it is relevant, because the conglomerates have already stopped re-running some shows on the airwaves, which means that even now, the writers are getting less in residuals than they used to. For example, just look at Lost. That sucker is never re-run on TV. It's re-run all the time, online -- ad supported, too. The writers get nothing. Five years ago, it would have re-run over the summer on TV, and during the winter hiatus, too.

The roaches won't survive without us in many climates where we're all that's keeping it warm enough for them.

I have no real use for that extension of the metaphor, but I'm sure someone can work with it.

he's not talking about moving in! Not, he's not talking about the linen.

I used to think he was not talking about the limit. I figured it out before this video, though. I was very proud.

I had to google.

I do think I thought it was the limit, pre-google. I just love the linen!