I know it's not cool of me to say this. Some may call me rude, some may call me insensitive, and some may call me a broke, arm-chair, Ahmadinejad. Like the infamous, much maligned, and much parodied president of Iran, what I'm about to say is akin in some circles to denying the holocaust, or the existence of gays in my country. He did both... he's an idiot. I however, am not an idiot. Just a blogger. ;-)
So the writers' strike is over. So what?
Why say that? Cause TV's a wasteland.
Seriously, why has no one brought this up yet? Yes, I am happy these people are getting paid again and can go back to legally doing what they love for profit and feed their families. That said, most TV writers excepting the late night sketch guys who are on fire night after night on Conan, Daily, Colbert, and Letterman, are untalented JERK-OFFS! Aside from the few truly great shows out there, and there are a few, (not quite enough to equal a handful, but getting close), most of the stuff card-carrying WGA members are responsible for is so lazily and unimaginatively written, it's worth more as toilet paper substitute, or makeshift prophylactic.
Ironically when they all found themselves jobless, we had bleeding hearts coming out of the woodwork! The told us of how the idealistic, integrity filled writer is on a daily basis, trampled, stifled, manipulated and abused, by simple-minded, corporate philistine fat cats, blinded by greed, and insensitive to the plight of the artist.
Maybe so, but these writers overwhelmingly comprised of caucazoid, male, 30 something lifetime Los Angelians, need, forgive me for saying, a polite kick in the ass! They need to be answerable for the cliche ridden, hackneyed, trite, stereotype furthering garbage, they shove down our throats EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
Yeah so they're back. But what do we get out of it? More Ghost Whisperer?
Posted by: Hannibal
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