TV Strike talk...
Jan. 9th, 2008 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI've been thinking: I see people (understandably) freaking out about the writers' strike, and I realized that I completely don't care.
I mean, I will be sad if Battlestar Galactica doesn't get to finish its story, but it's been so long since S3, that I am sort of used to being Galactica-less. And I will be sad if Moonlight doesn't get its chance to continue, because it's the first new American show I've been interested in, in years, but I will be happy with what we have, and in any event, American shows don't really have a unitary arc so I won't feel left in mid-story. And I can't think of any upcoming movies I would die not to see, except for the ones already finished and thus the strike is immaterial to them.
Now, if e.g. Korean/Japanese/Taiwanese TV industry went on strike, I think I would have a nervous breakdown. I mean, I need to know how Hong Gil Dong will go from a ne'er-do-well of flashback to the awesome rebel of the present. I need to see Kame fall in love with a nun. I must find out how Lee Da Hae and her moppet will melt Jan Hyuk's cold crook's heart (and handsome exterior). I must must MUST participate in further developments of Zhi Shu and Xiang Qin's marriage.
Not to mention that Saiunkoku Monogatari must go on. And the Hanadan movie come out. And I am dying for Cain and Abel to start.
If Bollywood went on strike...you are kidding, right? Half of these movies feel like they have no scripts anyway :D But I would totally weep if it meant further delay of Jodhaa-Akbar, or Karan's upcoming project, or Aamir's Gajini, etc etc.
Hmmm.
I mean, I will be sad if Battlestar Galactica doesn't get to finish its story, but it's been so long since S3, that I am sort of used to being Galactica-less. And I will be sad if Moonlight doesn't get its chance to continue, because it's the first new American show I've been interested in, in years, but I will be happy with what we have, and in any event, American shows don't really have a unitary arc so I won't feel left in mid-story. And I can't think of any upcoming movies I would die not to see, except for the ones already finished and thus the strike is immaterial to them.
Now, if e.g. Korean/Japanese/Taiwanese TV industry went on strike, I think I would have a nervous breakdown. I mean, I need to know how Hong Gil Dong will go from a ne'er-do-well of flashback to the awesome rebel of the present. I need to see Kame fall in love with a nun. I must find out how Lee Da Hae and her moppet will melt Jan Hyuk's cold crook's heart (and handsome exterior). I must must MUST participate in further developments of Zhi Shu and Xiang Qin's marriage.
Not to mention that Saiunkoku Monogatari must go on. And the Hanadan movie come out. And I am dying for Cain and Abel to start.
If Bollywood went on strike...you are kidding, right? Half of these movies feel like they have no scripts anyway :D But I would totally weep if it meant further delay of Jodhaa-Akbar, or Karan's upcoming project, or Aamir's Gajini, etc etc.
Hmmm.
