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OT: Anyone remotely concerned about the writers and SAG strikes?

92Pony

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Me, I say poop on all of 'em! There's A-PLENTY that I have yet to stream/binge. And if I finish all of that (LOL), then I'll find more than enough stuff to do outside. 😁

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www.reuters.com

Hollywood actors to strike at midnight, join writers on picket lines

Hollywood actors will go on strike at midnight on Thursday after talks with studios broke down, joining film and television writers who have been on picket lines since May and deepening the disruption of scores of shows and movies.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
 
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Prestonyte said:
A production team strike during college football season would be a totally different story 😬
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Uscg1984 said:
As long as there is no greenskeepers strike, my summer will continue as planned.
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Almost any other profession going on strike would have exponentially more dire consequences than actors. Plumbers, grocery store stockers, etc. There's a million kinds of jobs out there that simply have to be done. Actors contribute nothing to the functioning of society.
 
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18IsTheMan said:
Almost any other profession going on strike would have exponentially more dire consequences than actors. Plumbers, grocery store stockers, etc. There's a million kinds of jobs out there that simply have to be done. Actors contribute nothing to the functioning of society.
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The emperors 🎪 is just to cause a distraction. These pansy *** liberals just want more of your money.
 
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18IsTheMan said:
Almost any other profession going on strike would have exponentially more dire consequences than actors. Plumbers, grocery store stockers, etc. There's a million kinds of jobs out there that simply have to be done. Actors contribute nothing to the functioning of society.
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Actors are nothing more than people pretending to be someone else saying words they memorized that were thought up by someone else.

The world will hum along nicely without them.
 
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Crutcher said:
Three channels? When would you ever watch the Gamecocks? All we would see is Notre Dame, Alabama, Southern Cal, and Michigan, just like 40 years ago.
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Just wish there was a place to watch games. We should build something like that. Why not go back 70 years ago.
 
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Backscrather said:
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I looked briefly, but couldn't find it. I'll look again later, maybe.

It was not recent, apparently the N A had a strike on 2020? Or 2021? It was not then, this was years and years ago.

And when I search on NBA fans throwing things, I get a ton of recent stuff, so it's harder to find old stuff.
 
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Can't watch 90% of the stuff out of Hollywood anyway.
If I don't let people talk or act like that in my home I'm not inviting them in through the TV!
 
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Personally I don't care if all the writers jump off a cliff. I rarely watch any new shows these days anyway. There's so much out there to stream that there's always something else to watch.

The only current show I keep up with is Blue Bloods, and even that I won't miss to be honest.
 
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I would imagine most strikes wouldn’t be a concern to most people. They’ll get it worked out with only minor interruptions I’m sure. And if they don’t - people can always read more books, or go outside, or spend time with their families.
 
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ToddFlanders said:
I would imagine most strikes wouldn’t be a concern to most people. They’ll get it worked out with only minor interruptions I’m sure. And if they don’t - people can always read more books, or go outside, or spend time with their families.
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If UPS strikes, people will know and care.
Hollywood actors and writers, not so much! If at all!
 
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I do feel badly for the stunt men, carpenters, cooks, costume designers, lighting crew, extras, drivers, livestock wranglers, and all of the other tradespeople who work in the industry and don't have multi-million-dollar bank accounts to live off of during the strike. They are kind of like the stadium workers, and bar and restaurant workers who suffer when the millionaire professional athletes go on strike.

But, like somebody said above, there is so much content already on Prime, Netflix, Paramount, and the other streaming services that this strike could probably go on for years, if not decades, before I would run out of content to watch. Very few new productions impress me anyway. And my wife watches mostly British shows - are they even participants in the strike?
 
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Older people not caring is really not the issue that both sides have to worry about. The Millenial and Gen Z generations don't watch television or movies like Baby Boomers on up to the Gen X generations. Between video games and Social media, people under 35 barely have time to watch a television show or movie.
 
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Uscg1984 said:
I do feel badly for the stunt men, carpenters, cooks, costume designers, lighting crew, extras, drivers, livestock wranglers, and all of the other tradespeople who work in the industry and don't have multi-million-dollar bank accounts to live off of during the strike. They are kind of like the stadium workers, and bar and restaurant workers who suffer when the millionaire professional athletes go on strike.

But, like somebody said above, there is so much content already on Prime, Netflix, Paramount, and the other streaming services that this strike could probably go on for years, if not decades, before I would run out of content to watch. Very few new productions impress me anyway. And my wife watches mostly British shows - are they even participants in the strike?
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If the strike continues, then we'll see the results later. It's less about the popular actors than writers, production staff, trades, skilled labor. The lower end actors have the biggest stake in their futures in that profession. Not the bigs. They're set. It's the folks who that have no long term income that are struggling. They aren't the high earners who also may have Producer and Executive Producer titles.

It's a complicated set of circumstances that's come about in the streaming age. As a consumer there are a few shows I watch and am waiting for the next season. On time. Hope they can resolve this soon. It's not about what I can watch to stay occupied in the big universe of shows and movies even though I can fill up hours of viewing. I'm a consumer of entertainment that wants the disruption ended soon.
 
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Just thought of this thread when I saw a headline that recent talks have failed.

I honestly didn't know the strike was still going on, and I'm not sure I've started to care yet.
 
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