SAG-AFTRA set to join writers' strike

[Aimless]

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/actors-gui...075545575.html

Afaict SAG-AFTRA will join the WGA strike. No acting, no press junkets, no active participation in SDCC (according to one source), etc.

Last time both writers and actors went on strike together was like over 60 years ago, with the immensely impactful action led by notorious communist and union leader Ronald Reagan:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...lywood/248391/

Anyway, a heartfelt congratulations to us all on the extraordinary boost to our productivity we're about to enjoy in 2024.

[Loki]

Time to catch up on the dozen good shows I missed from this year alone.

[Aimless]

There are no good shows or bad shows—there are only shows I like and shows Hazir likes

[Nessus]

Good for them, proper pay for work for everyone

[Dreadnaught]

Time to catch up on the dozen good shows I missed from this year alone.

Ironically part of the does seem to be an oversupply of Content...

I have lots of friends who are on strike right now, though admittedly a lot of them have had trouble finding work the last year because the industry already hit Peak Content in mid 2022. I feel bad for them. But I don't think even the best deal is going to change the business reality that there will probably be less stuff produced over the next few years.

I'm just glad we got The Expanse.

[Hazir]

There are no good shows or bad shows—there are only shows I like and shows Hazir likes

Thank God Succession already ended. I couldn't have lived without the closure season 4 gave. I could easily live with nothing new from Marvel for a while after trying 'Secret Invasion' before episode 2 was halfway through, my phone was juiced up again and the clear winner in the struggle for my attention

[Aimless]

I'm fast-forwarding through the episodes in solidarity with the exploited workers. The world and all our establishments are controlled by a cabal of shape-shifting reptilian refugees intent on replacing us—their gracious hosts—through deception and a savage race-war.

[Loki]

Ironically part of the does seem to be an oversupply of Content...

I have lots of friends who are on strike right now, though admittedly a lot of them have had trouble finding work the last year because the industry already hit Peak Content in mid 2022. I feel bad for them. But I don't think even the best deal is going to change the business reality that there will probably be less stuff produced over the next few years.

I'm just glad we got The Expanse.

The contract expired at a really bad time, with everyone freaking out about AI (in some ways, rightfully so). The pricing model of streaming companies doesn't really lend itself well to paying actors. Not sure how they can get around that.

[Hazir]

I'm fast-forwarding through the episodes in solidarity with the exploited workers. The world and all our establishments are controlled by a cabal of shape-shifting reptilian refugees intent on replacing us—their gracious hosts—through deception and a savage race-war.

Oh, now that you write it that way, I realized that's a full flung anti-semitic storyline.

[Aimless]

I can't believe they got it past the finish line in 2023... it would be so fascinating to learn how tf that happened. Everyone responsible must have been asleep at the wheel.

[Hazir]

I can't believe they got it past the finish line in 2023... it would be so fascinating to learn how tf that happened. Everyone responsible must have been asleep at the wheel.

Well, it is sleep inducing.

[Aimless]

Apparently the season finale was even worse than the aforementioned protocols of the elders of skrullos so I no longer know whether or not I support the writers