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Every show you loved before streaming was the product of some of the best most experienced writers experimenting over the course of years and you just can’t do that anymore.
Whether as a staff writer, showrunner in production, or just developing a pilot, I always get my first check three months after it’s owed. Across all studios networks and services. No matter how ahead of the ball I get, how quickly the paperwork is done. Can set a watch to it.
1) If at any point you actually want to have a linear discussion you can stop overtopping me and just reply. But until you do, I'll play by these rules. Since you clearly don't understand the benefits of packaging to writers at the top of the producerial pyramid, here we go:
staffing season advice:
- read the script
- take notes while you read remarking every major character and what they are like
- use notes as reference so you can discuss characters by name during meeting & sound like you put in effort
1/
It’s the day of the show y’all
#StarTrekDiscovery
Ep12
How about a glimpse behind the scenes, sitting in my camera roll for monthsssss just waiting to meet you? Like this poorly lit pic of the Faux Mirror Disco’s registry plaque.
i don't agree with the WGA about everything, but our union isn't a buffet. you don't get to take the benefits of past collective action (credits, residuals, health & pension) and turn your nose at today's sacrifices.
fuck this guy.
I do not like Star Wars. I do not like Disney. I watched a four hour video that has me enraged about every way they dropped the ball with Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Jenny Nicholson is YouTube’s Homer.
home & tired after a long day breaking S2 of
#StarTrekDiscovery
but I MADE A PROMISE so here's a thread explaining emperor georgiou's titles in episode 12, Vaulting Ambition.
RIPLEY on Netflix is a complete surprise, a stylish and gripping recreation of 60s noir on a service that doesn’t do this kind of thing all the time. Out of the box but not too sweaty about it, fresh, delicious — frankly, I’m engrossed. Best TV of 2024 yet?
@dieworkwear
The lighting too. This kind of fake perfect light from nowhere illuminating everything evenly.
Midjourney also hates anything that doesn’t frame the figure centrally.
OPERAÇÃO ABAFA, edição brasileira de CATCH AND KILL, do premiado jornalista
@RonanFarrow
, sai pela todavia em janeiro de 2020. Disponível em e-book no dia 15 de dezembro.
Made my mom take me to see Judy Tenuta when I was 14. My first time in a comedy club. She was filthy, amazing, and all about her gay fans in the audience. Including little Judyists like me. RIP to the true domestic goddess.
...it's not canon until it's on screen so that's just one writer's opinion.
As for Centaurius, I figured it was the first system colonized by the Terrans since it's closest to Sol so it was a title the Emperor at the time took in tribute.
Hope someone found this informative!
END
On this
#PronounsDay
, a friendly reminder to my fellow gay men that the pronouns section of your
@grindr
profile is not your big break into the world of comedy.
This week’s warning for the
#StarTrekDiscovery
fam: watch this one ASAP and avoid social media until you do, have a change of undies ready for the ending.
🖖🏻
Iaponius is Latin for Japanese. This (in my fever dream) is a title Hoshi Sato adopted when she named herself Empress, to honor her homeland.
"So is Georgiou descended from Hoshi!?"
Well...
Hoshi was Empress.
100 years later, Georgiou is Emperor.
Georgiou took one of Hoshi's titles as her own to connect them. So Hoshi's legacy as Empress must be good and Georgiou must either be connected to her in a chain of succession or might want to create that connection.....
"All Hail her most Imperial Majesty, Mother of the Fatherland, Overlord of Vulcan, Dominus of Kronos, Regina Andor, All Hail Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius."
But what's it mean??!?
But they have different ethnic backgrounds. Hoshi is Japanese, Philipa is Chinese-Malaysian. So I don't think it's likely Philipa is a direct descendent like a great-grandchild. Cousins is possible. More likely tho...
- generally be candid, show your personality
- coffee if that's your thing
- never contradict the person you are meeting with
- show 1-3 stranger what you sound like talking about ideas for 30 minutes & what you are like in person.
5/5
- always be prepared to talk about where you're from, how you got into writing, who you have worked for, your favorite shows and movies (recent/all time)
- find a way to gossip without badmouthing anyone
- don't badmouth anyone, it's always a bad look
3/
...whoever inherited Hoshi's throne was someone she adopted as a child & heir, the way most Roman emperors did. And that Emperor adopted his/her heir, and so on, until we get to Georgiou.
And she is proud of the connection and flaunts it with the title Iaponius.
But...
- on a separate page, write down things you loved in the script. this way you can gush during mtg & be specific, not sound vague, uncommitted.
- story pitches! have some if this is your strength. if it isn't, don't. if you have even 2-3 good ones you will stand out a lot.
2/
I heard about a show where they tried to make the showrunner hire a producing director, then a non-writing producer - “to help out” - for more than the showrunner was making. When all he wanted (and eventually got) was one of his writers to help cover set.
Yes — and that’s why while writer pay was reduced by 24 percent over the last decade and writer jobs were being eliminated, show budgets ballooned by 50 percent. Because there weren’t enough writers on shows eliminating scenes and saving scenes from having to be reshot
@FilmUpdates
Just want this great account to know I have worked nonstop in TV since 2005 and I am always paid 3 months late. Even as a showrunner. It doesn’t matter how hard I work to get ahead of it. It’s always somehow 3 months.
- Dominus of Kronos: Terrans are very proud of conquering Qo'noS. Dominus is a harsher title the Emperor at the time took as a result (and Georgiou kept for herself). "We OWN them." Qo'noS mispronounced out of cultural chauvinism.
L’Rell’s Klingon meal! Fun fact: there was an apology announced to the crew before shooting over how gross this smelled. I couldn’t smell a thing even with my face up close to it. I’m flawed!
"Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius"
Philipa Georgiou: her given name and her family name, just like Prime.
Augustus: the Terrans see themselves as inheritors of the Roman Empire so their Emperors take the title of its first Emperor.
So into her titles:
- Father of the Fatherland is easy, we turned that into Mother of the Fatherland (even tho we de-gendered Emperor, it felt right)
- Overlord of Vulcan: an early conquest of the Terrans, they see themselves as their protectors. It's paternalistic / delusional.
- if you're funny, be funny. making someone laugh can tip the scales.
- be upfront about your strengths & weaknesses. no one is good at everything.
- if you state a weakness & the person explains why that isn't important, they are qualifying you and you probably have the job.
4/
- Regina Andor: Andoria is a jewel in the Terran crowd. Subjugated warrior race. Early Terran conquest, pre-Sato. The title was created to celebrate this achievement.
Now as for Georgiou's many names...
#StarTrekDiscovery
fam: of course you’re watching tonight. You’ll feel like a real asshole if you miss it. Questions answered! Massive assumptions from know-it-all fan base DEBUNKED! And stay tuned for After Trek where
#113
@karterhol
will explain all in his soothing baritone.
I was there for 2007-8 strike, only missed three days. 7 weeks in back then, numbers on the lines were way lower and so were spirits. This is special. This is different. Keep going ✊🏼
#WGAStrong
I heard from inside one of the major studios... The fact that the AMPTP hasn't broken the WGA's spirit yet is driving the upper brass NUTS and they HATE seeing writers having fun on the picket line.
As we head into week seven of the strike, keep your spirits up. It's working.
The negative rumblings about
#BeingTheRicardos
have done it a tremendous service, because it doesn’t just live them down — it soars to special heights. A sad and funny vivisection of Hollywood and yearning — Javier is buoyant, Nicole is (gasp) at her career best? Contenders all.
@nycsouthpaw
Frankfurt is a business town. Probably a huge focus of lazy business travelers with too little time to do anything more than order the hotel meal. And they’re on the company dime. Anyone price sensitive will look elsewhere. Plenty of corp types must not be. My guess!