Comments | cran: Link City

cran

Link City

Nov 08, 2007 20:59

I haven't updated in forever! Let's talk about some things.

First, the Writers Guild of America strike. I'm with nicole_anell -- the strike is my new fandom. Every day I see great new stuff... like this story about the Grey's cast, this one about showrunners and their fun signs, these videos (especially "The Office is Closed" and "Why We Fight" -- the latter ( Read more... )

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spectralbovine November 9 2007, 01:52:36 UTC

Paramore! I love "Misery Business," and I just heard a short acoustic set on the radio that included "Crush Crush Crush." The whole album is good, you say?

I like the new SPN girls too.

cran November 9 2007, 01:59:34 UTC

The whole album is awesome. I think "Fences" and "Stop This Song" are probably my favorites right now (aside from the singles, "Misery Business" and "CrushCrushCrush"). I also like "For A Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic" -- that is an awesome title.

cran November 9 2007, 06:21:27 UTC

I just watched tonight's Supernatural. I love Bela! And Dean. And their witty banter. Anyone who didn't love that scene where he comes down in the tux has no sense of humor at all.

spectralbovine November 9 2007, 06:55:42 UTC

I cracked up at "When this is all over, we should have angry sex." It's like they're reading the boards!

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ratzcrackers November 9 2007, 05:41:23 UTC

The WGA is my new favorite fandom too.

cran November 9 2007, 06:23:15 UTC

It's great because there is so much news about it, every day. And all of the actors, directors, and writers (of course) that I admire most support the WGA.

spectralbovine November 9 2007, 19:30:27 UTC

The LJ community wga_supporters is also cool, but I disagree with some of the stuff in their mission statement
Just for the record, they agree with you. I didn't really see anything anti-reality in their "mission statement" in the profile, so I was a little confused about what you weren't happy about at first. I've seen a few comments scattered that are trying to clarify this position on reality shows: watch what you watch, but DON'T watch the replacement shows.

cran November 9 2007, 23:00:43 UTC

Hm, yeah, but they're still saying that if a quality reality show does a season during the strike, airing when, say, Heroes or Grey's would, we should boycott it. I don't see the point in that. I'm going to continue to support quality television, whether it's scripted or unscripted. Supporting a show that was already popular before the strike and that I would like to see continue afterwards is very different from boycotting some crappy dating show they invent and stick in Heroes' slot. THAT I would avoid.

So far, no one from the WGA has said anything about boycotting reality programming -- they want us to avoid downloading from Amazon's Unbox or itunes and to refrain from watching streaming video on network websites. That is a great idea, and one the LJ community should be focusing more on right now.