Ron Moore, BSG writer, talks about the strike.
Those webisodes they did? The studio wasn't planning on paying anybody involved for it. Just read what he says about that... it's upsetting to me, because it isn't fair at all. I'm a writer, I would eventually like to be a paid writer. The way these people who share the same passion for writing that I do are being taken advantage of is wrong.
Friday, November 9, 2007
WGA strike
http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/
There's a lot of information on that blog about why the WGA is on strike, and some videos from the writers of various shows (ones that I watch) talking about why they're on strike and why it's a big deal.
The writers don't get any money from new media (the internet). So watching shows online, which is all I can do, because I don't have a TV, is basically screwing them over. They're not getting paid for the stuff they're putting out. There are some things that people work on that haven't even been on TV, like The Office webisodes - the writers got nothing for that, because they aired on the internet. And apparently the writers even won a daytime Emmy for that.
If anyone has any questions about why this is going on, this website is very helpful and informative.
There's a lot of information on that blog about why the WGA is on strike, and some videos from the writers of various shows (ones that I watch) talking about why they're on strike and why it's a big deal.
The writers don't get any money from new media (the internet). So watching shows online, which is all I can do, because I don't have a TV, is basically screwing them over. They're not getting paid for the stuff they're putting out. There are some things that people work on that haven't even been on TV, like The Office webisodes - the writers got nothing for that, because they aired on the internet. And apparently the writers even won a daytime Emmy for that.
If anyone has any questions about why this is going on, this website is very helpful and informative.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Jack Vasser is a jerk.
1. I'm NOT going to start watching Bionic Woman, okay? Don't pressure me, NBC.com. I'm watching this online, and before Journeyman started they showed an ad for it.
2. Okay, I'm really hating the kid now. Not that he knows any better, but why would he tell anyone about it?!!!!!!!!! And WHY didn't Katie and Dan PUT IT IN A SAFE!! USE YOUR BRAINS GUYS!
3. Wooo theme music!
4. I don't like Alec Baldwin. I tell you this, because the commercials this time are for other NBC shows, and I just saw one for 30 Rock.
5. The FBI guy used to be on 24, where he was a huge douche.
6. I'm not sure I really get the whole heist thing.
7. Dan: "How do you know, you worked at the D.A.'s office what, like a year?" Livia: "A year longer than you."
8. So this is gambling Dan, right?
9. I'm still not going to watch Bionic Woman.
10. It's foggy and weird in this alley, so Future Dan could probably get away with more than usual.
11. Ha ha! He's fighting himself! That's cool!
12. How come the Past Dan can't figure out who he is? I guess he is drunk, but still.
13. THAT WOULD BE SO WEIRD. Rescuing yourself and stuff. COOL, though.
14. I'm really, really bored with Jack being suspicious of Dan. I'd like him to find out the truth so he can stop being annoying.
15. Oooh, we get to follow Livia a little bit in this episode. And she's in Katie's closet in the future.
16. Wow, I am STILL not going to watch Bionic Woman! This is third time I've seen this ad.
17. FOURTH TIME!
18. Do you think they'll put the money in a safe when Dan gets back? Or are they still too stupid to figure that out?
19. So obviously Livia is going to do something to get Katie to show up at the poker game to save him.
20. Or not.
21. Hopefully this doesn't mean Dan's going to start gambling in the future again.
22. I feel bad for Livia. But if she wasn't dead then I really don't understand why she didn't go find him again.
23. Wait... okay, so if it was Future Dan who was there in the second part of the game, and the Past Dan was sleeping that whole time, how did Future Dan remember that that was what had happened? I guess Katie could have told him...
24. So the FBI guy is a great big douche in this show too.
25. Blah, Jack. Come on. But does Dan even have the money anymore? Did it get left in the past or did he bring it back with him? I didn't notice if he had the bag with him.
2. Okay, I'm really hating the kid now. Not that he knows any better, but why would he tell anyone about it?!!!!!!!!! And WHY didn't Katie and Dan PUT IT IN A SAFE!! USE YOUR BRAINS GUYS!
3. Wooo theme music!
4. I don't like Alec Baldwin. I tell you this, because the commercials this time are for other NBC shows, and I just saw one for 30 Rock.
5. The FBI guy used to be on 24, where he was a huge douche.
6. I'm not sure I really get the whole heist thing.
7. Dan: "How do you know, you worked at the D.A.'s office what, like a year?" Livia: "A year longer than you."
8. So this is gambling Dan, right?
9. I'm still not going to watch Bionic Woman.
10. It's foggy and weird in this alley, so Future Dan could probably get away with more than usual.
11. Ha ha! He's fighting himself! That's cool!
12. How come the Past Dan can't figure out who he is? I guess he is drunk, but still.
13. THAT WOULD BE SO WEIRD. Rescuing yourself and stuff. COOL, though.
14. I'm really, really bored with Jack being suspicious of Dan. I'd like him to find out the truth so he can stop being annoying.
15. Oooh, we get to follow Livia a little bit in this episode. And she's in Katie's closet in the future.
16. Wow, I am STILL not going to watch Bionic Woman! This is third time I've seen this ad.
17. FOURTH TIME!
18. Do you think they'll put the money in a safe when Dan gets back? Or are they still too stupid to figure that out?
19. So obviously Livia is going to do something to get Katie to show up at the poker game to save him.
20. Or not.
21. Hopefully this doesn't mean Dan's going to start gambling in the future again.
22. I feel bad for Livia. But if she wasn't dead then I really don't understand why she didn't go find him again.
23. Wait... okay, so if it was Future Dan who was there in the second part of the game, and the Past Dan was sleeping that whole time, how did Future Dan remember that that was what had happened? I guess Katie could have told him...
24. So the FBI guy is a great big douche in this show too.
25. Blah, Jack. Come on. But does Dan even have the money anymore? Did it get left in the past or did he bring it back with him? I didn't notice if he had the bag with him.
HEROES! IT'S YOU! I missed you! It's been so long since you were yourself!
I think we're back on track.
1. Why did the white beard guy want to capture Hiro? That doesn't make any sense. He's just some dude, as far as he knows.
2. I still want to know about that painting of Hiro facing off with a T-Rex. When is that going to happen?
3. So does that mean Mohinder is going to shoot Mr. Bennett?
4. I HATE NIKKI. What a worthless, pointless character. I would rather keep the unbelievably annoying Irish girl around than keep Nikki.
5. Um, I don't think the CDC would attack and beat people like that and go "DO YOU HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS? ARE YOU SICK?" Unless the disease makes the people turn into zombies or something. Which is the entire plot of World War Z, this book I'm reading.
6. "G morning"? West, would it really take that much more effort to type three more letters? No.
7. Claire sleeps with makeup on?
8. West, seriously, you are going to get into so much trouble messing around with Mr. Bennett. Claire is trying to protect you by keeping you away from her family, but if you don't listen... look, I think you're adorable, and really really sweet, but you have extremely poor judgment.
9. Oooh, injecting Nikki with the virus. Does that mean we're sacrificing her? Oh wait, I misheard. Crap.
10. Nathan is asking the intelligent questions. Good job Nathan.
11. What's wrong with Hiro? Does he have a concussion or something? Oh hey, Mulan, hitting him in the face again is not going to help. Seriously, it's not.
12. HAHAHAHA! CAITLIN GOT DEPORTED!
13. So... the Shanti virus doesn't turn people into zombies...? That's disappointing.
14. So if they don't turn into zombies then why the excessive use of force when they captured Peter and Caitlin? I don't get it.
15. Molly's had an easy job the last few episodes. Just lie there and be in a coma.
16. Nikki, if you said OH OH OH DL! WHAT! YOU'RE DEAD! Oh no. Ohhhh no.
17. Oh, it was just Nightmare Man. I thought maybe they were going to steal the whole Baltar/Six thing from BSG. But they didn't. Okay.
18. What I was originally saying before DL interrupted me was if Nikki is so happy to be "cured" or whatever so that she can go back to her son, then why the heck is she still there working for the stupid Company?
19. "Peter is alive, Nathan. Your brother is alive." WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO!
20. Okay so this Adam person controls the weather? Is that what the newspaper headline had to do with it?
21. Okay Mama Petrelli, are you going to show us what your power is now? PRETTY PLEASE?
22. Oh, now Nathan's dead. He just can't win. So far he is 0 for 2 being alive in the future.
23. Is she making him remember? Well, he does remember, and she did something to make that happen, so was that her power in action...? I DON'T GET IT.
24. "Popsicles. Awesome."
25. Yeah, West. Claire seduced you, even though she tried repeatedly to get you to leave her alone, and it was all an elaborate trap set by the Horn Rimmed Glasses guy. That makes sense.
26. Why doesn't Hiro stop time and then go destory the guns?
27. Whoa. So let's see if Sark can come back from blowing up into a million little pieces.
28. Nikki's just punching holes in the wall. That's stupid.
29. Molly's been hanging out in a pretty nice apartment, looks like.
30. I'm really pissed off, because I have watched the same idiotic commercial every break. Which is five times. Thankfully, there are no more after this.
31. So... Hiro really is Takezo Kensei?
32. At least this time Hiro's girlfriend didn't get her brain cut out and eaten.
33. Hey, Mohinder has the thing on his nose now, like in the painting.
34. HA! Nikki's infected!
35. That would be really scary to turn around and see that thing on the desk.
36. Oh yeah, Mr. Bennett's first name is Noah.
37. Seriously, how is Claire going to be a cure? AND, why would we want to sacrifice Claire for stupid NIKKI?! Well, we wouldn't. We would not, is the thing. Get rid of Nikki.
38. OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SARK! IN THE FUTURE! HE'S IN THE FUTURE AND HE'S ALIVE!!!!!
39. Umm... okay, this show just got, like, seven thousand times better. How much you want to bet that somehow Sark and Claire are related? Somehow related to the birth mom. And HOW DID HE GET THERE? He's not immortal... is he? He would have still aged. Did Hiro bring him back or something? AHH.
1. Why did the white beard guy want to capture Hiro? That doesn't make any sense. He's just some dude, as far as he knows.
2. I still want to know about that painting of Hiro facing off with a T-Rex. When is that going to happen?
3. So does that mean Mohinder is going to shoot Mr. Bennett?
4. I HATE NIKKI. What a worthless, pointless character. I would rather keep the unbelievably annoying Irish girl around than keep Nikki.
5. Um, I don't think the CDC would attack and beat people like that and go "DO YOU HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS? ARE YOU SICK?" Unless the disease makes the people turn into zombies or something. Which is the entire plot of World War Z, this book I'm reading.
6. "G morning"? West, would it really take that much more effort to type three more letters? No.
7. Claire sleeps with makeup on?
8. West, seriously, you are going to get into so much trouble messing around with Mr. Bennett. Claire is trying to protect you by keeping you away from her family, but if you don't listen... look, I think you're adorable, and really really sweet, but you have extremely poor judgment.
9. Oooh, injecting Nikki with the virus. Does that mean we're sacrificing her? Oh wait, I misheard. Crap.
10. Nathan is asking the intelligent questions. Good job Nathan.
11. What's wrong with Hiro? Does he have a concussion or something? Oh hey, Mulan, hitting him in the face again is not going to help. Seriously, it's not.
12. HAHAHAHA! CAITLIN GOT DEPORTED!
13. So... the Shanti virus doesn't turn people into zombies...? That's disappointing.
14. So if they don't turn into zombies then why the excessive use of force when they captured Peter and Caitlin? I don't get it.
15. Molly's had an easy job the last few episodes. Just lie there and be in a coma.
16. Nikki, if you said OH OH OH DL! WHAT! YOU'RE DEAD! Oh no. Ohhhh no.
17. Oh, it was just Nightmare Man. I thought maybe they were going to steal the whole Baltar/Six thing from BSG. But they didn't. Okay.
18. What I was originally saying before DL interrupted me was if Nikki is so happy to be "cured" or whatever so that she can go back to her son, then why the heck is she still there working for the stupid Company?
19. "Peter is alive, Nathan. Your brother is alive." WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO!
20. Okay so this Adam person controls the weather? Is that what the newspaper headline had to do with it?
21. Okay Mama Petrelli, are you going to show us what your power is now? PRETTY PLEASE?
22. Oh, now Nathan's dead. He just can't win. So far he is 0 for 2 being alive in the future.
23. Is she making him remember? Well, he does remember, and she did something to make that happen, so was that her power in action...? I DON'T GET IT.
24. "Popsicles. Awesome."
25. Yeah, West. Claire seduced you, even though she tried repeatedly to get you to leave her alone, and it was all an elaborate trap set by the Horn Rimmed Glasses guy. That makes sense.
26. Why doesn't Hiro stop time and then go destory the guns?
27. Whoa. So let's see if Sark can come back from blowing up into a million little pieces.
28. Nikki's just punching holes in the wall. That's stupid.
29. Molly's been hanging out in a pretty nice apartment, looks like.
30. I'm really pissed off, because I have watched the same idiotic commercial every break. Which is five times. Thankfully, there are no more after this.
31. So... Hiro really is Takezo Kensei?
32. At least this time Hiro's girlfriend didn't get her brain cut out and eaten.
33. Hey, Mohinder has the thing on his nose now, like in the painting.
34. HA! Nikki's infected!
35. That would be really scary to turn around and see that thing on the desk.
36. Oh yeah, Mr. Bennett's first name is Noah.
37. Seriously, how is Claire going to be a cure? AND, why would we want to sacrifice Claire for stupid NIKKI?! Well, we wouldn't. We would not, is the thing. Get rid of Nikki.
38. OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SARK! IN THE FUTURE! HE'S IN THE FUTURE AND HE'S ALIVE!!!!!
39. Umm... okay, this show just got, like, seven thousand times better. How much you want to bet that somehow Sark and Claire are related? Somehow related to the birth mom. And HOW DID HE GET THERE? He's not immortal... is he? He would have still aged. Did Hiro bring him back or something? AHH.
Casey continues to be the best thing about this show.
1. Oh, this is the depressing one about how Chuck got kicked out of school. Bleh.
2. "So thought Frodo Baggins, my friend."
3. Basically, Bryce Larkin is a great big douche.
4. I really like Chuck's student ID picture. It's goofy.
5. "I'm sorry... Iceland does espionage?"
6. Morgan and Anna, the nerd herd girl, are totally going to end up together.
7. HAHAHA! They play Lord of the Ring-like music whenever Harry Tang comes in the room.
8. I LOVE YOU CASEY. Chuck: "You didn't offer to kill Harry, did you?" Casey: "No. Why, you want me to kill him?"
9. CHUCK WAS IN A FRAT?! I'm sorry but that seems bizarre and out of character.
10. The Harry Tang thing isn't funny anymore. It's just stupid now.
11. Haha Chuck stole a book from the Stanford library. That sounds like something Erin would do. Or has done.
12. Chuck: "I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I have to go back to Stanford." Casey: "Cool." I LOVE YOU CASEY. AHHH.
13. "You want to save the environment, huh? Take a shower, hippie." Casey seriously gets better every episode.
14. "Sorry I couldn't wipe the idiot grin off your face with photoshop."
15. Hmm, I bet Chuck's going to become a real agent eventually.
16. Ohh... Bryce got Chuck kicked out of Stanford to save his life. Well, that makes things a little different.
17. I remember Zork. Yes. Even though that's old.
18. I'm glad that episode wasn't as much of a downer as I was expecting it to be.
2. "So thought Frodo Baggins, my friend."
3. Basically, Bryce Larkin is a great big douche.
4. I really like Chuck's student ID picture. It's goofy.
5. "I'm sorry... Iceland does espionage?"
6. Morgan and Anna, the nerd herd girl, are totally going to end up together.
7. HAHAHA! They play Lord of the Ring-like music whenever Harry Tang comes in the room.
8. I LOVE YOU CASEY. Chuck: "You didn't offer to kill Harry, did you?" Casey: "No. Why, you want me to kill him?"
9. CHUCK WAS IN A FRAT?! I'm sorry but that seems bizarre and out of character.
10. The Harry Tang thing isn't funny anymore. It's just stupid now.
11. Haha Chuck stole a book from the Stanford library. That sounds like something Erin would do. Or has done.
12. Chuck: "I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I have to go back to Stanford." Casey: "Cool." I LOVE YOU CASEY. AHHH.
13. "You want to save the environment, huh? Take a shower, hippie." Casey seriously gets better every episode.
14. "Sorry I couldn't wipe the idiot grin off your face with photoshop."
15. Hmm, I bet Chuck's going to become a real agent eventually.
16. Ohh... Bryce got Chuck kicked out of Stanford to save his life. Well, that makes things a little different.
17. I remember Zork. Yes. Even though that's old.
18. I'm glad that episode wasn't as much of a downer as I was expecting it to be.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
this show needs to have a good long life.
1. Kristin Chenoweth is so, so skinny. I mean, she's tiny anyway, but she's just stick thin. I don't think she's anorexic or anything, but she is really, REALLY small. She's still cute and funny, but I'm just saying. She needs a couple of sandwiches at least.
2. I love that Jim Dale narrates this show. It makes me happy, because he's the one who reads the U.S. Harry Potter audiobooks.
3. Oh my gosh! That's the saddest thing ever! Ned's dad sent him off to boarding school and left him there, and got remarried to someone with two kids that he actually wanted to take care of and spend time with... POOR NED.
4. "It makes him moodier than a pumpkin full of PMS."
5. I'm with Ned. There is no need for that many Halloween decorations. Or any Halloween decorations at all. No decorations are necessary.
6. I love the subtleties of this show. A while ago they said Ned twitches his eye whenever he lies, and then he lies, and his eye twitches, and there isn't a mention of it, but it's still there very intentional. It's great.
7. Olive being a professional horse jockey... I can believe that, given how tiny she is. The horse probably didn't even notice she was there.
8. That's a really realistic green screen horse race. Yeah, not really. It was clearly on purpose though.
9. Ned looks like a vampire with that coat on.
10. Okay! It's been more than a minute!
11. No commercials! Yay.
12. So Olive fainted behind the counter and Emerson just left her there? Classic, Emerson.
13. Ugh, Chuck, you can't let Ned do anything by himself? What the heck.
14. A bar just for short people...?
15. "Yeah, different like purple and mauve."
16. I'm still not totally sure why Chuck needs to keep the fact that she is alive a secret from her aunts. Whatever though.
17. Haha, the old lady just insulted Olive's dress. I hate it too.
18. "What did you say your name was? Brandon? Butch?" "Chuck?" HAHAHAHAHA. And then Emerson laughed too.
19. This old lady is crazy. And mean. And bitter.
20. Ned, I love you. Lee Pace, I love you and I think we should get married. For real.
21. "I missed you for the two hours I was away from you!" Chuck, shut up.
22. Okay I timed it that time, and it actually was a minute. Hm. I don't think it is every time.
23. It's not a ghost. It's John Joseph Jacobs' mom, or grandma, or whoever that lady was.
24. Oh. Well, it's not a ghost, anyway.
25. What, he got a leg transplant? Is that even possible?
26. Poor John Joseph Jacobs. He's really nice and sweet. But, also slightly creepy.
27. Haha! He even walks kind of like a horse. (The legs were transplanted from his horse. Yeah.)
28. Ned: "Can you not sing." Gordon: "If I don't sing, I throw up." Emerson: "Sing."
29. OHHHHHH!!!!!! I WAS RIGHT! I WAS!!! IT WAS THE MOM! I AM AWESOME.
30. I really like the music.
31. "Tell Ned I love... his pies!"
32. "I love you shovel." Emerson.
33. Whoa, Olive kissed Ned!
34. If a trick or treater came to my door at two in the morning, they are SO not getting candy.
35. AWWW. I continue to adore this show.
2. I love that Jim Dale narrates this show. It makes me happy, because he's the one who reads the U.S. Harry Potter audiobooks.
3. Oh my gosh! That's the saddest thing ever! Ned's dad sent him off to boarding school and left him there, and got remarried to someone with two kids that he actually wanted to take care of and spend time with... POOR NED.
4. "It makes him moodier than a pumpkin full of PMS."
5. I'm with Ned. There is no need for that many Halloween decorations. Or any Halloween decorations at all. No decorations are necessary.
6. I love the subtleties of this show. A while ago they said Ned twitches his eye whenever he lies, and then he lies, and his eye twitches, and there isn't a mention of it, but it's still there very intentional. It's great.
7. Olive being a professional horse jockey... I can believe that, given how tiny she is. The horse probably didn't even notice she was there.
8. That's a really realistic green screen horse race. Yeah, not really. It was clearly on purpose though.
9. Ned looks like a vampire with that coat on.
10. Okay! It's been more than a minute!
11. No commercials! Yay.
12. So Olive fainted behind the counter and Emerson just left her there? Classic, Emerson.
13. Ugh, Chuck, you can't let Ned do anything by himself? What the heck.
14. A bar just for short people...?
15. "Yeah, different like purple and mauve."
16. I'm still not totally sure why Chuck needs to keep the fact that she is alive a secret from her aunts. Whatever though.
17. Haha, the old lady just insulted Olive's dress. I hate it too.
18. "What did you say your name was? Brandon? Butch?" "Chuck?" HAHAHAHAHA. And then Emerson laughed too.
19. This old lady is crazy. And mean. And bitter.
20. Ned, I love you. Lee Pace, I love you and I think we should get married. For real.
21. "I missed you for the two hours I was away from you!" Chuck, shut up.
22. Okay I timed it that time, and it actually was a minute. Hm. I don't think it is every time.
23. It's not a ghost. It's John Joseph Jacobs' mom, or grandma, or whoever that lady was.
24. Oh. Well, it's not a ghost, anyway.
25. What, he got a leg transplant? Is that even possible?
26. Poor John Joseph Jacobs. He's really nice and sweet. But, also slightly creepy.
27. Haha! He even walks kind of like a horse. (The legs were transplanted from his horse. Yeah.)
28. Ned: "Can you not sing." Gordon: "If I don't sing, I throw up." Emerson: "Sing."
29. OHHHHHH!!!!!! I WAS RIGHT! I WAS!!! IT WAS THE MOM! I AM AWESOME.
30. I really like the music.
31. "Tell Ned I love... his pies!"
32. "I love you shovel." Emerson.
33. Whoa, Olive kissed Ned!
34. If a trick or treater came to my door at two in the morning, they are SO not getting candy.
35. AWWW. I continue to adore this show.
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