I went to the big WGA meeting on Saturday night at the Shrine. It was packed. I sat through 3 and a half hours of it before I couldn't take it anymore and left. I was surprised at how well the deal was taken by the membership, I thought there was going to be a lot more yelling.
But nope, despite the flaws in the deal, I think people just wanna go back to work. That's understandable. There was one angry guy though, and he was awesome. He said he was going to play "good cop, bad cop", and then proceeded to only play bad cop. He did that thing where he'd go up on his toes for each high pitch yell. It's like, "I can only yell so loud while standing flat footed, to emphasize certain words I must get to my tip toes". He also said "fuck" a lot.
I won't go into the deal. We got some gains in "new media", some good, some not so good. It's okay, not great by any means. As a fan though, who cares? The important thing is that good shows (and bad) are coming back, and reality TV won't completely take over everything. And even more importantly, we should be getting those 8 more "Lost's" that got stopped by the strike.
I feel like they gave me a shout out this week with all the "Walt got huge" jokes. My favorite line of the episode was, once again, from Sawyer. He said this to Locke while arguing about what to do:
"Who are we to argue with taller ghost Walt?"
Back to work!
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Congrats! Can't wait for all of you writers to get back to work.
Congratulations!
I kind of love how Sawyer breaks the 4th wall frequently, the example most prominent in my mind is when he was like, "Paolo and Nikki? WTF?"
Yayayayayayaayay!
This is good news... though I'm really curious to know what show the guy who doesn't realize you need two people to play "good cop/bad cop" writes for.
It kind of sucks that y'all didn't get more of what you wanted, but I guess it's one battle in what will probably be an ongoing skirmish. Anyhoo, thanks for explaing it all in understandable terms.
Thanks, guys.
And Peter, funny you should say that, because there are a lot of people at these wga things that make you go "what the hell do you write?"
So happy to hear about the strike. Congratulations!
Also, that was by far my favorite part of the episode. Taller ghost Walt indeed.
I heard it was only 5 more episodes of Lost. They're going to figure out how to fit it all in and still have it end at the same place they intended. Which I guess isn't so bad. They've dicked around enough already, three fewer episodes isn't gonna kill them.
The 8 that have been finished and then 5 more, I mean.
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