Dude is a corporate centrist, he’s not some kind of old time liberal who actually likes unions. Do not expect him to back any union efforts.

*Rewatches original Blade film instead as it’s better.*

Reminds me of back when Marvel announced (to much fanfare) a book starring Blade’s daughter Fallon Grey. Shortly afterward, Tim Seely decided that maybe a middle-aged white man wasn’t the best choice of writer to debut a new teenage black girl character and took himself off the book. Faced with the daunting prospect…

It does undermine writers. She made some enemies. She can own that and go with it or she can learn from it. It’s never going to be a good look to talk about your VERY SUCCESSFUL show by categorizing it as being awful before you came along.

Yeah, the pithy joke they made on a sign about a specific person definitely translates to them saying it cannot possibly be improved upon.

I mean, I’m kind of hoping she’ll show that she can both take a joke and realizes that maybe her comments weren’t necessarily articulated in the best possible way and show up on the line! Plenty of actors have already. 

“Everything that she does, everything that I had to play, did not make sense for her character at all. Her being in a love triangle made no sense. There was a line about like, this dress that she has to wear for a school dance and she said, ‘Oh, my God, I love it. Ugh, I can’t believe I said that. I literally hate…

This is either apocryphal or I don’t want to look it up, but.... in the 30s Frank Capra was interviewed about his directing, and the “Capra touch” which made all his movies so wonderful. Capra went on and on without mentioning any screenwriters he’d worked with. After the interview came out, a writer - Robert Riskin,…

The biggest issue with Ortega, is that she took a standout character, made her own, and then also seemed to start thinking she WAS this character and ignoring that it was written for her. It’s a really thin line between her having ownership of the part, and her taking credit for the character.

This article is a pretty shameless framing of harmless, gentle jokes to try to get the public against organized labour and onto the side of people engaging in the exploitation of workers. This is pretty awful and I hope you rethink this!

Just so I’m clear, we’re supposed to feel sorry for someone who had to work 12-14 hour days while juggling other activities and who was expected to perform even when not 100% well all the while making $20k-$60k per episode?

Her comments were actively harmful to the WGA cause (highly visible star says writers were worthless and she had to ignore their work) so I think she can take a few mild jokes in return if it helps their cause now in any way. (Which it won’t, not to the degree I’m sure her comments hurt. There’s no way execs aren’t…

I thought the same thing when I read the quote. Don’t bring attention to one of he weaker parts of the production while taking credit for it.

I loved when she said that just because it was soooo stupid and bad for her career. I’m a hater!

Yeah it is weird how everyone just kind of takes her word for it that her changes were ALL for the best, and that ALL of the other writing sucked.

Maybe Jenna Ortega should get a job as a writer if she thinks she knows better than they do how to do their jobs. Just shut up and say your lines. Who do you think you are?

I love how this entire...”spat” seems so minor, yet this article makes it into a big deal. The guy who did the sign made a joke sign (about a show he had no relation to), but I doubt it’s one of the reasons he’s picketing. Ortega (probably) did some good on-the-fly rewriting of the script. What’s the issue here…

Aren’t they just making snarky one-liners? AV Club wouldn’t know anything about that.

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After seeing Ortega’s spiritless performance in Scream VI I’m not entirely convinced the writing was the problem with Wednesday.

What do her race and sexuality have to do with the writer’s strike