Nothing against writers employed by the alphabet networks and major studios in Hollywood, but when I look at the amount of garbage produced year after year one has to wonder about the whole approach to ‘entertainment’ as the industry sees it. Watch any network series on TV and you’d be hard pressed to guess if it was written by a human o…
Nothing against writers employed by the alphabet networks and major studios in Hollywood, but when I look at the amount of garbage produced year after year one has to wonder about the whole approach to ‘entertainment’ as the industry sees it. Watch any network series on TV and you’d be hard pressed to guess if it was written by a human or AI. I for one don’t care to experience on screen a predictable retread fantasy world in which happy endings, mandated diverse casting, wokish morality lessons, political leanings masquerading as teachable (preachable?) moments, etc....are as mundane as reading a children’s bedtime story about a big furry monster who becomes friends with all the kiddies he/him/she/her/they/them/ frightened in the beginning. And ‘reality TV’? Even it is scripted. Superhero franchises? No thanks.
I’m assuming a fair amount of writers looking to stay employed are like so many highly skilled, jazz musicians who end up touring with pop bands making music for 13 yr. olds. Gotta make a living.
If it wasn’t for the streamers, who are still allowed to take risks and create less formulaic content that may take you to dark places and leave its audience uncomfortable, I’d have nothing to watch.
The imminent strike is yet another example of the belt tightening and attrition affecting all of us who aren’t part of the privileged few profiting mightily off our misery.
"Nothing against writers employed by the alphabet networks and major studios in Hollywood, but when I look at the amount of garbage produced year after year one has to wonder about the whole approach to ‘entertainment’ as the industry sees it."
1. I agree A lot (the vast majority?) is garbage. These are (I am told) the most Creative people out there.
2. Part of the problem is economics. When a Low Budget film cost 10 million, That's a problem.
3. Another problem on the horizon is CGI. It would not surprise me that soon (within 10 years?) a movie is released without 1 actual Living Human on the screen.
Nothing against writers employed by the alphabet networks and major studios in Hollywood, but when I look at the amount of garbage produced year after year one has to wonder about the whole approach to ‘entertainment’ as the industry sees it. Watch any network series on TV and you’d be hard pressed to guess if it was written by a human or AI. I for one don’t care to experience on screen a predictable retread fantasy world in which happy endings, mandated diverse casting, wokish morality lessons, political leanings masquerading as teachable (preachable?) moments, etc....are as mundane as reading a children’s bedtime story about a big furry monster who becomes friends with all the kiddies he/him/she/her/they/them/ frightened in the beginning. And ‘reality TV’? Even it is scripted. Superhero franchises? No thanks.
I’m assuming a fair amount of writers looking to stay employed are like so many highly skilled, jazz musicians who end up touring with pop bands making music for 13 yr. olds. Gotta make a living.
If it wasn’t for the streamers, who are still allowed to take risks and create less formulaic content that may take you to dark places and leave its audience uncomfortable, I’d have nothing to watch.
The imminent strike is yet another example of the belt tightening and attrition affecting all of us who aren’t part of the privileged few profiting mightily off our misery.
"Nothing against writers employed by the alphabet networks and major studios in Hollywood, but when I look at the amount of garbage produced year after year one has to wonder about the whole approach to ‘entertainment’ as the industry sees it."
1. I agree A lot (the vast majority?) is garbage. These are (I am told) the most Creative people out there.
2. Part of the problem is economics. When a Low Budget film cost 10 million, That's a problem.
3. Another problem on the horizon is CGI. It would not surprise me that soon (within 10 years?) a movie is released without 1 actual Living Human on the screen.