This Christmas, don’t forget the writers who brought you your favorite shows: stay away from Hulu
- December 24th, 2007
- 10 Comments
Let’s say Santa tomorrow brings you Lost on Blu-ray or maybe a Simpsons or Seinfeld boxset or two. By all means, enjoy your new gifts, but don’t forget that the men and women who wrote the stories for those shows—”writers”—are royally screwed over and see very little money as a result of their sale. Yes, the writers strike is still unresolved and even though Conan and Leno and Co. and preparing to go back to work, please try not to forget those who truly made the shows work.
The same thing goes for new services like Hulu: the writers see jack from all that ad money. I recently was “invited” to join Hulu, but I shan’t be participating out of respect for the writers; I won’t be crossing that picket line any time soon. If you just have to see past episodes of The Office, I fully endorse going to the Pirate Bay and grabbing them from there. At least then you’re not earning more money for the greedy producers.
Jameson (Who am I?)
8 months ago
Well said, but I don’t think I’d use that jackass from Family Guy as the picture. He’s doing fine with all the Subway commercials.
Also, American Dad blows.
Zac Garrett (Who am I?)
8 months ago
Well, I did use hulu and it sucks. I got an invite from one of the mass invites about a week ago (got mine from gigaom). The service is absolutely horrible, its like the kid trying too hard to be cool and yet everyone still knows they are not.
This service is not worth breaking the picket lines.
sk (Who am I?)
8 months ago
Screw the writers. I’m downloading it all off bittorrent anyway.
marc (Who am I?)
8 months ago
i like hulu, great picture, done mind the commericals. Plus there are no new episodes of anything on tv so why not watch it on hulu?
Steve Jabs (Who am I?)
8 months ago
You know what bothers me about all of this press? The fact that we are all crying “boo-hoo” for the writers. Screw them. They make residuals from every rerun that airs during their strike. You know who doesn’t make jack? The crew. Think about their Christmas season! No money. No work. No hope of work in the foreseeable future. And here we are whining about the writers and their poor terrible lives. They should have never let this get by them in the first place.
Jimbo (Who am I?)
8 months ago
Get back to work you worthless fucks!
Alex (Who am I?)
8 months ago
Man! Piss on the writers.
Stay out on strike for as long as it takes to see what little contribution they make.
Gimme. Gimme. Gimme.
Pick up a shovel and dig a ditch. Learn what it is to have to work for a living.
JohnnyRed (Who am I?)
8 months ago
Are these comments for real? I mean real, thinking, functioning adults? Residuals for writers? The little contribution writers make?
Seriously. Retarded.
Give me 50 words on what it feels like to have a butt-plug inserted where the sun don’t shine. And I don’t mean your ass, either.
2playedout (Who am I?)
8 months ago
Seriously, Writers make enough, If they can afford to be away from work this long I don’t know what there problem is. Maybe its time they wrote better work maybe the studios wouldn’t mind paying them more. I agree Seth Mcfarland can’t write or voice act. Both of his shows are just terrible. Its not like the studios aren’t going to find other writers to make stories, everyone has a story to tell so there is plenty of ways to get people to write new stories.
Carl (Who am I?)
8 months ago
When I write code for software my company sells, I don’t get residuals everytime someone buys the software for the rest of my life even after leaving the company. This despite the fact my unique code makes up the underpinnings of said software.
Why in the hell should writers, who are being paid to write someone for a company in a work for hire situation, be paid perpetually for their services?
Greedy bastards You are paid to do a job, do it and shut up.