The color talkin’ box thing
Well, the writer’s strike has certainly made a mess of television, eh? I totally support the screenwriters in this, but it is kind of a bummer. Stuff like the Daily Show will bounce back just fine, but it’s the dramas and other stories that will seriously suffer. Will there ever be more Scrubs? Probably not, since this was the last season anyway. Will Battlestar Galactica get to finish their last season? Who knows? That’s especially frustrating–it would be like if Babylon 5 suddenly ended halfway through the fourth season.
It’ll be most interesting to see how things affect film. Movie companies have hundreds of scripts laying around, so it’ll take a while. But with nothing new being produced, this may be a chance for the independent movies, free of union rules, to shine. We might actually see better movies as a result of the strike. Won’t those guild writer’s faces be red!
Anyway, here’s a few things I’ve watched lately and what I thought of them.
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