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[TV] Isn't Quite Back Yet
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But hey, it's getting there. Talk about shows, talk about the entertainment industry labor actions, talk about the intersection of the two, do whatever, follow your bliss
Personally, I have been thinking about collective bargaining's unique way of allowing employees to have a direct say in matters of operation. When one is negotiating on their own behalf directly with management, at your annual review or whatever, one can generally only negotiate for an increase in pay. Maybe an expansion of pre-existing benefits. And that's... Kind of it.
But a union? A union gets to say things like, "You need to modify your entire fleet of vehicles to provide air-conditioning," if they're UPS. The fuck's one delivery driver gonna do to get management to retrofit an entire fleet? But a union, well. Now we're talking.
For the Writer's Guild, a lot of our concerns go beyond our paychecks and our healthcare plans. In our still-technically-ongoing labor action, we were also able to agitate for things that will make the art we create better for you. We can see the impacts corporate policies have already had on the medium, the deleterious effect bad business has had on good art. Bosses loyal to shareholders over customers (e.g., every CEO of any sufficiently large company) have absolutely no interest in or care for "product quality." It's a box on a spreadsheet, they don't actually give a shit how good the product is. Union action is a way to make them care - or at least get out of the way of the people who do.
Anyway. TV's cool, strikes are cool, unions rule, etc.
Personally, I have been thinking about collective bargaining's unique way of allowing employees to have a direct say in matters of operation. When one is negotiating on their own behalf directly with management, at your annual review or whatever, one can generally only negotiate for an increase in pay. Maybe an expansion of pre-existing benefits. And that's... Kind of it.
But a union? A union gets to say things like, "You need to modify your entire fleet of vehicles to provide air-conditioning," if they're UPS. The fuck's one delivery driver gonna do to get management to retrofit an entire fleet? But a union, well. Now we're talking.
For the Writer's Guild, a lot of our concerns go beyond our paychecks and our healthcare plans. In our still-technically-ongoing labor action, we were also able to agitate for things that will make the art we create better for you. We can see the impacts corporate policies have already had on the medium, the deleterious effect bad business has had on good art. Bosses loyal to shareholders over customers (e.g., every CEO of any sufficiently large company) have absolutely no interest in or care for "product quality." It's a box on a spreadsheet, they don't actually give a shit how good the product is. Union action is a way to make them care - or at least get out of the way of the people who do.
Anyway. TV's cool, strikes are cool, unions rule, etc.
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the pjs
now that everyone likes eddie murphy again they should do more the pjs
also reboot desmond pfieffer
I forgot about the PJs until I read this post
It's all rushing back to me now
Couple loose ends I expect to come up in the finale next week. One: Dickie leaving to call his manager after they say that they don't think he did it is probably something, and he flat out says that he couldn't prove it was him outside of the shop in the Cobro costume. Also: Ben said he was doing the sewing circle because it helped keep him off street drugs. Two: they've only really got a guess that the producer read the review and poisoned the cookie. The pieces are all there, but there's still time for a switch to who actually did it. Three: they're assuming that whoever poisoned him also shoved him down the elevator shaft, and I think they're going to reveal that the poisoning and the actual murder were two separate crimes. They might even end up revealing that the initial poisoning might end up being something like an allergic reaction, that didn't come out in the tox screens because Dickie covered them up assuming he was on drugs.
The actual murder could then spin off of "we thought he was dead before and saw an opportunity." His brother saw a chance to be free, someone saw a chance to be rid of him to save the play (the producer or her son), or someone saw the opportunity to work on a podcast that he really liked (thus also explaining why they brought Jesse Williams in, because so far he's had less to do than Cara Delevigne had to do at this point). Anyways: he knows their podcast enough to recognize characters from it, clearly wants to work on it, and was snooping around looking for clues. We also don't really know his deal yet.
Anyways, that's my murder mystery thoughts on the show, other than that it was a very sweet episode.
I always liked that bit but only now did it hit me that the mechanics of the joke is that, since the empire is staffed almost exclusively by Space Brits outside of Sheev and Vader that the reason he hears “aluminum” from “Millenium” is because they’re always saying the former as “Al-loo-min-ium” and he just transposes the two from there.
That aside, that line and “Go for Papa-Palpatine” as his response when picking up the phone will eternally live in my head rent free
Or I guess make it a video game, that could work, give me an open world and 113 escaped souls to find, sure.
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What about its spiritual successor, God Friended Me?
scabs are rewarded for their loyalty
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What about Bebe’s Kids?
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that was a cartoon movie and an absolutely awful video game
I should have remembered. I had a full size Bebe’s Lids movie poster in my bedroom.
(My dad knew a guy who ran a video store so I had a weird smattering of movie posters in my room.”
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Oh they had a hat store tie in?
That HBOmax doesn't have quality settings. It's just always on auto.
Which for me means that roughly ever 2 minutes the quality changes up or down.
It's like, really really bad. And really really annoying.
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one time I was trying to watch an episode of the new season of Clone High and it auto-selected the option to have audio narration of everything that happened in the episode that wasn't dialogue and you couldn't turn it off
that's one way to bring some spice back in your life
get some suck sessions in, obviously
Sadly I don't think that sirens call works anymore
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This show is very good.
Only finally started to watch it last night but these first 4 eps have been amazing. I thought the last season slipped a bit but wow this one is killing me.
The vote is expected to sail through, because the deal is fucking phenomenal. We got goddamn near everything we wanted.
I'm sure media outlets will cover it exhaustively, and a lot of the minutiae is kinda inside-basebally, so I won't run down the whole thing here. I'm happy to answer questions about shit if people have any. But the topline is, it's a great fucking deal, our negotiating committee is fucking superhuman, our strike captains are unbelievably amazing, strikes work, unions rule, fuckin' a
fuck YES brother
Writers have secured the following protections against AI:
• AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material
• A writer can choose to use AI but the studio can’t require the writer to use AI software
• Studios must disclose to writers if any materials given to them have been generated by AI or incorporate AI-generated material
• The WGA reserves the right to assert that exploitation of writers’ material to train AI is prohibited by the agreement or other law
To ensure minimum staffing in TV writers rooms:
• In development rooms, at least 3 writers (including the showrunner) are guaranteed 10 weeks of employment
After greenlit,
For streaming residuals:
• Studios provide the WGA details of a show’s viewership including total number of hours streamed worldwide
• Foreign residuals are now based on the streaming service’s number of foreign subscribers, a 76% increase
• Shows & films viewed by 20%+ of the service’s domestic subscribers in the first 90 days of release get a bonus equal to 50% of the fixed domestic & foreign residual
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