Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
[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.
What, you weren't moved to tears by the video, Allyson?
You didn't grab your nearest pencil, stand up and declare in front of your co-workers that you have been inspired to greatness by such a gloriously symbolic display of fan unity?
Sure, it doesn't appear to have gone anywhere, but hey! Lots of pencils! Erm... yeah. That's all I got.
For some of those show, can I mention that what they really need is better writers?
Aw, man, the Office Fans Christmas Fund fell through. Goddamn legal reasons. Well, I guess the Actor's Fund gets more money from me instead.
I don't understand why they can't divvy it all up into amex gift certificates and mail them to the crew.
I don't know what the issue is either.
All it needs is one person to cry 'Fraud' in any way, shape or form and it'd all kick off.
The studios didn't accept the pencils (surprised, you are not), so they loaded them back on to the trucks. That's direct action for wimps, man!
NO ONE EVER LISTENS TO ME
I feel like the Charlie Brown of fandom.
I think the pencils thing played out quite well, to be honest, as the direct action stuff is clearly getting the AMPTP in a tiss. AMPTP.com is genius, too -- I'm almost certain the AMPTP will try and sue to get the name now.
Watching people chant 'Thank you fans' on the video was pretty surreal and mildly scary, though.
It isn't having any effect at all on AMPTP. They basically issued a press release calling the WGA a bunch of childish clowns. The whole press release could have just had the word, "WhatEV" written 400 times. Complemented by a few @@ for punctuation.