Electric Dreamstate

As some of you may know, the Writers Guild of America went on strike at 12:01am this morning. If the strike lasts a week, we won't see many effects of it. If it lasts a month or two pretty much every new TV show that hasn't found its audience will be cancelled. If it ends up lasting until June, when the contracts with the Actors and Directors guilds are up ... well then it's a whole 'nother ballgame.

To put this in perspective I will use an obscure reference. Do you remember the season two finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation? For those who don't here is a refresher. Riker beams down to a planet and then gets pricked by the stinger of a creature that looks like a log. He then goes back to the ship and has a clip-show in his head. If the Simpsons episode where Bart shakes Homer's beer too much is the best clip show ever, then this is the worst. Clips are arranged in a nonsensical way and the entire proceeding is almost impossible to sit through. It was also, as mentioned before, the season two finale. The episode completely derailed the narrative momentum of the show. It was an episode created because there was a WGA strike.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I'm personally on the side of the writers. The fact that they don't get any money for shows sold on the internet is ludicrous (if someone is profiting, the writers should get paid), and it smacks of terrible Hollywood accounting. If there are any big updates I'll post 'em here.

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