It's never a convenient time to make a stand

[anathemadevice]

A few people in the production industry have been griping about the Writer's strike. Fair enough, it's impacting productions that they are working, and therefore, their jobs

Comments

[neoliminal]

My take on artist, unions, distributors and what action the artist should take.

http://community.livejournal.com/polyliminal/

[anathemadevice]

Yeah, I despise the bloated corruption of unions. I belong to 2 of them, and that's strictly to get paid. When there are non-union jobs, I don't get paid. So, they are serving a purpose.

[goawayplease]

I generally don't like unions -- witness the 200-mile-wide traffic jam that is Paris today -- but I whole-heartedly agree with the Writer's Strike. The studios don't just exist to make money for their shareholders and the top .0001% of talent.

[dratomic]

I'm mixed on unions. Some are good, some are bad. Some do good things, some do amazingly stupid things that set the union movement back decades.

In the case of the writers, I agree with their cause completely. However, I'm not a studio executive, so I can't just give them their residuals so that BSG will start on time next year.

There is one potentially good thing that might come out of all this. If the writers' strike doesn't get resolved -- and I don't see why it would -- then we'll be forced to watch reality TV. This sucks... but, it might be such an overload of the crap that even the reality TV fans will start to understand why it sucks, which could in turn actually help kill the genre completely.

I haven't any idea what would replace it, but could it really be any worse...?

Maybe I shouldn't even ask.