I’m in the WGA too and have been participating in the picketing. No need to lecture me, thanks. Although I can completely understand your rage and would share more of it online if I wasn’t so cynical.

You clearly have never fucking MET a writer. As much as we might complain about aspects of the work, we love it.

This just demonstrates how little anyone actually knows about film and TV writing.

This. I can buy that AI will soon be able to crank out scripts for super formulaic TV (like sitcoms and police procedurals) that are presentable enough. But there’s always going to be a way to detect that these scripts were written by AI.

If a writer can pull off high quality writing while using AI, but no other writer can, why would it matter how “hard” he works?

I’d imagine it’s the high risk of being detected and threat of being fired, shunned by your peers, and blackballed from the industry. It’s kinda like asking “what’s to stop them from just translating and recycling old Latvian TV scripts?” Like, sure, you could do that, and you might even get away with it for a while,…

Both of those outcomes lead to writers being replaced by AIs relatively quickly, though. As soon as it gets around that even Writer X thinks the robots can convincingly duplicate their output, they’re getting fired, and shortly after that, so are a bunch of other writers. It’s definitely in the writers’ interest…

Worker’s rights! Down with corporate greed. 👍

>>>And all due respect to Kirby, but if he was such a creative genius, then why wasn’t his solo work with DC better?<<<

Yeah I should have been clear Kirby never claimed that but modern fans who take sides sometimes don 

I am flabbergasted that the shameless self promoter is the one mainstream history gives the lions share of credit to in a collaborative effort.

Disney, the company who basically wrote Ub Iwerks (the co-creator of Mickey Mouse) out of history sidelining Kirby in favor of Lee? I’m shocked, shocked. Well, not that shocked.

This is very true.

However, I don’t think we know the scope, contract-wise, about either the degree of input that GRRM has, and more importantly, whatever potential veto power he has over narrative decisions made that Weiss, Benioff, or higher-ups at HBO. So while he bears some responsibility, given the changes to the…

You should’ve seen the two I edited out. Found myself theory-crafting a more suitable end to GoT haha

I have sympathy for that aspect of the situation (like, it’s clearly not a good situation to be in), but no sympathy for the fact that they subsequently shit the bed. They’re professional showrunners, they should either know how to write good drama or know how to hire people who do.

I had something much, much longer, written, but I’ll condense it as to why I don’t think Confederate, if made, would’ve worked from a narrative standpoint.

1. Assuming that chattel slavery would still be a thing, it isn’t self-sufficient, requires constant slave trade, and the reality of the world by the Civil War is…

No. No. It was their fault. They were the ones who wanted the short final seasons. They could have easily passed the show runner duties to Brian Cogman who absolutely loved the material. But no, they wanted to finish -their- show and rushed the conclusion. Fuck them.

Have you listened to these guys talk about, well, anything? These guys are literally the last people you’d want trying to make a show where chattel slavery still exists in half of the country. They are devoid of nuance or insight. That shit would’ve been a disaster. 

It wasn't their fault that the show outran the source material, but the crap of the last few seasons sure was.

Yeah, but ‘Confederate’...