Yay, me likes! And some pondering...
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katikatYay, I found some audiobooks to Torchwood and they are read by the cast themselves! So far, I found three, read by John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Burn Gorman. I think that's a great idea to let the cast read the books!
And now me pondering the writers' strike...
I'm not sure I want the strike to end. No, hear me out. Even if it ended this week, they wouldn't be able to film more than two or three eps, four would be pushing it - Kripke's words in his latest interview for TV.com. And he also said that he had no intention to speed up the progress of the mythology storyline, that they would just find a good place for the season to end and continue the main story in S4.
So, looking at it that way, we would probably get some MOTW eps with some character/mythology development, no huge revelations or plot twists or the resolution of Dean's deal or anything like that. We would probably get the eps that the writers were already working on before the strike started, with some minor changes here and there.
But! While we would receive three eps of our show, other writers would be able to work on pilots for new series. And if TPTB pushed hard, they would probably get them on paper in time. And that could cause trouble for SPN because, let's face it, the CW isn't all that excited about the show. And if someone offered them another Gossip Girl, they would drop SPN like a hot potato! But if there were no pilots at all, the CW would just have to renew SPN for S4.
So, it's 2-3 eps vs. a whole S4...
And that's just me spouting about SPN. The same goes for Chuck and other TV shows that don't really do well and stay on the bubble all the time...
ETA: As I was saying about the pilots and "weak" shows...
Sunday was Superbowl Night, right? Did you see the CW's ratings for Sunday night? O.O
And now me pondering the writers' strike...
I'm not sure I want the strike to end. No, hear me out. Even if it ended this week, they wouldn't be able to film more than two or three eps, four would be pushing it - Kripke's words in his latest interview for TV.com. And he also said that he had no intention to speed up the progress of the mythology storyline, that they would just find a good place for the season to end and continue the main story in S4.
So, looking at it that way, we would probably get some MOTW eps with some character/mythology development, no huge revelations or plot twists or the resolution of Dean's deal or anything like that. We would probably get the eps that the writers were already working on before the strike started, with some minor changes here and there.
But! While we would receive three eps of our show, other writers would be able to work on pilots for new series. And if TPTB pushed hard, they would probably get them on paper in time. And that could cause trouble for SPN because, let's face it, the CW isn't all that excited about the show. And if someone offered them another Gossip Girl, they would drop SPN like a hot potato! But if there were no pilots at all, the CW would just have to renew SPN for S4.
So, it's 2-3 eps vs. a whole S4...
And that's just me spouting about SPN. The same goes for Chuck and other TV shows that don't really do well and stay on the bubble all the time...
ETA: As I was saying about the pilots and "weak" shows...
Sunday was Superbowl Night, right? Did you see the CW's ratings for Sunday night? O.O
CW aired CW Now (Viewers: 349,000; A18-49: 0.1/0), a repeat of Aliens in America (Viewers: 435,000; A18-49: 0.1/0), Life is Wild (Viewers: 749,000; A18-49: 0.2/0), and a repeat of Crowned: The Mother of all Pageants (Viewers: 727,000; A18-49: 0.2/0).This is really really bad for the CW! As one of the forum members of Pifeedback said: "All I can say for the CW is...OUCH! How much longer are they gonna let Ostroff blorq it up?" I really don't get why they keep Ostroff there, really. I mean, the overall TV ratings dropped approximately 20% (20% of viewers DVR stuff), but these numbers are ridiculous. She cancelled Everwood because she wanted to try something "different" that didn't stay on air even 6 eps, they keep neglecting their 2nd best rated scripted show to promo GoGi (not that it helps the show's ratings)... One really does have to wonder.
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Date: 2008-02-06 10:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-06 11:38 am (UTC)If the strike ended in December, I would say great, hurray. But as it is, this season is basically destroyed. Kripke himself said that there would be three eps max and that he has no intention to resolve Dean's deal this season.
So, the damage is done. But if the strike ends this week or the next, writers would still have the time to write the scripts for new TV shows. And with the CW's love for our show...
So, because of this strike, we will get 7 eps less than we would get otherwise, the plotline is not resolved but S4 is as uncertain as the year before. If the show is not renewed, which is a good possibility on the CW, we will get no closure, no real ending. And so I would like for the strike to do us at least some good, going long enough for the writers to not be able to finish scripts for the pilots because then, the CW would have to renew the show.