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The Writer's guild Strike
Is anyone else paying any attention to the screen-writer's strike? I know Scrym doesn't care, they don't think anything good can come out of Hollywood, but I think it's interesting to see an act of organized labor that is going to effect a large part of the the American population.
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I knew Kensai would still be alive as soon as they revealed he was a "healer". I also knew Peter would be involved with him because he had been marked with the symbol of the Kensai.
Also, if you look back at the stories of the Kensai it is obvious now that the Dragon in the story is Hiro. At the end Hiro stole the Kensai's heart by kissing his princess.
Another question that now pops up is that if Kensai can survive being blown up and Peter survived going nuclear how do you kill these people? If Sylar had gotten to the cheerleader would she have been dead? Is there a certain particle that has to exist for the person to regenerate from?
What's with all the Star Trek alumni in the show? Am I going to see Shatner or Nimoy in an upcoming episode?
Plus I said exception on Claire's storyline. That boyfriend is creepy.
Stewart is paying them not to do the show, but to support the strike. The show will not be happening until the end of the strike.
My biggest fear for the writing strike is that networks will just go all reality shows, talent shows, and reality themed talent shows.
*grumbles about Heroes*
I TiVo the shows I want to watch and it seems like there are more comercial breaks and they are longer! An hour long show on TV can just about fit in a half hour time slot without losing much content.
This is probably one of the reasons that ideas such as the OAV haven't truly caught on in this country, because it's not one of the traditional markets. Movies are trying to sell on the strength of the product, but a good portion of the revenues that studios receive from their movie properties is from reselling the movie into other venues such as TV, where money is made from advertising.
The American attitudes toward media would have to undergo a very dramatic structural change to see less commercials in our media. Because our media is designed to sell commercials, always has been. Scott can rail against commercials as much as he'd like, but he's talking about the core of the American system of media, selling something.
And maybe, if DVR's and other time-shifting technologies gain a larger foothold in the US, we might see a change. But I don't think that's going to happen. I think if the American Mass Media moves to a on-demand model, we are going to see advertising in the product in some form or fashion that is going to be hard to ignore or remove.
I think if the American Mass Media moves to a on-demand model, we are going to see advertising in the product in some form or fashion that is going to be hard to ignore or remove.Awesome. People will either accept it or stop watching as they please. In the case of the former, I'll either get around it or stop watching. In the case of the latter, the industry will undergo a long-needed realignment to a business model that isn't as patently flawed.