Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:25:00
By way of an apology - Heroes, Ariel and the Cuda concept
Not only have I not posted jack-squat since last Thursday...I just skipped Heroes this week. I actually liked it too, but by the time I felt like writing it all down it was late, and then I had to take Gus back to the vet Saturday, so I let the weekend get away and just chilled out.
So...Heroes last week then? Except for the ugly Irish girl who is British and can’t actually do the brogue for shit, I really enjoyed this last episode. First one that has felt less like placekeeping or treading water, but instead felt more like a real Heroes episode. From everything I read, the WGA strike might be the reason it picks up. They have up to episode 11 done, and they canceled Heroes: Origins. They say it was a money thing, but I think they needed to cram as many scripts in as possible, and couldn’t spare the time to work on Origins. Everyone knew this strike was inevitable. So, unless it is resolved very quickly, Heroes will have a mini-season ending with episode 11, which is also supposed to end Volume 2. They even shot an alternate ending to episode 11 that can act as a season finale, just in case.
All that is by way of saying I expect things to pick up on the show now as far as pace goes. Feel free to spoil away with theories and whatnot in the comments.
Now...the boobs. This is a NSFW gallery of Ariel from Met Art. She’s ridiculously hot. Enjoy that.
Lastly, my apology includes another retro-future muscle car. The new one is a Barracuda concept that Autoblog scoped out at SEMA.
Chrysler is doing these retro designs fairly well - in the looks department anyway - and should make some cash with them...as long as they don’t succumb to the temptation of making them (on the cheap) with identical interiors and mostly parts out of the common bin. This one is supposed to be an all carbon fiber body. We know that won’t make production. And the interior is just the SRT8 you can find in the Charger and so on. Hopefully a production version could customize the interior for this specific model. What is it with Chrysler and the shoddy interiors anyway?
Anyway. while the concept looks great, I think I’d still rather pay 50 grand for a fully tricked-out and over-muscled 1972 ‘Cuda. Something about that old 70’s steel just appeals to me. Maybe the advent of “modern muscle” will drive the prices on vintage muscle down a bit to where a normal human could afford one some day?
Posted by JimK at 02:25 PM on November 05, 2007
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#2 Posted by Christian 
on 11/05 at 10:08 PM -
My grandfather was a member of the Railroad workers union for 60 years, so what I am about to say will probably cause him to spin rapidly in his grave.
Unions sux. Unions suck the life out of every industry that they leach onto. They drive the price of labor through the roof, making them almost unable to compete on the world stage, as well as pushing their political beliefs on the workers they are supposed to be representing. Now, they are killing one of the few things that bring joy to my otherwise dreary retail life. Ugh. No “Origins”, and a short season for everything worth watching. And, worse of all, this means much mroe reality TV. Yup, hours and hours of Survivor/Big Brother Clones.
May they all die in a fire.
#3 Posted by Buzzion on 11/05 at 10:19 PM -
I don’t know I think that the union in this case might have a little bit of right to them. I mean the excuse that online video is too new of a technology to pay the writers with profit made during it, just seems like cheap shit to me.
#4 Posted by sindri on 11/05 at 10:59 PM -
If you really want to please us we need Ariel on that car!
Unions will be the death of this country. I hope they all starve while they are ruining our TV nights!!!!
#5 Posted by JimK on 11/06 at 12:13 AM -
I don’t know I think that the union in this case might have a little bit of right to them.
Generally I do not support unions, but in this case I agree, they are getting fucked out of royalties on DVD and digital distribution.
Example; Ken Levine the writer (Cheers, Mash, etc) says he has fifteen series on DVD that have his work on them. He hasn’t received any royalties at all.
The producers say we already receive royalties from DVD sales. There are no less than fifteen box sets of TV series with my scripts in them. I haven’t received a dime. I have gotten $0.19 from American Airlines for showing eight of my episodes on maybe 10,000 flights. If I save my AA royalties for 147 years I might be able to buy a snack box.
That’s pretty fucked up. If I was a writer I’d be pissed too.
#6 Posted by Buzzion on 11/06 at 12:17 AM -
Yeah and they even were willing to cut in half the dvd profits they were asking for on their last negotiations. But the producers don’t want to budge on their stance involving online distribution. The writers gave a concession but the producers didn’t.
And you’re gonna have a lot of stuff to write about heroes tonight.
#7 Posted by supercore 
on 11/06 at 12:49 AM -
The unions (as in, all unions) big problem is that, generally speaking, they don’t work in the interests of their members. The union bosses do whatever is needed to make sure THEY are needed, including ginning up anger and unrest in their members over issues that end up destroying the employers in the long run anyways. Short sighted decisions made to ensure holding onto POWER is what drives unions for the most part, not concern for workers well being.
Now, having said that, I think the WGA does have a case here. This is a matter of IP when it comes down to it, people should be paid royalties for money made off of their works. The argument is valid and is the whole reason people go into show biz in the first place. The studio execs believe they can starve the writers out by forcing reality and game shows on us. And they’re right. They absolutely can. It’ll just drive the 18-35 set even further away from television than they already are and the whole mess will go tits up in no time.
Hopefully, These Guys and thousands more like them will find some way to monetize their work and we can all give a big “fuck you” to hollywood anyways.
#8 Posted by Christian on 11/07 at 12:16 AM -
Ya’ll need to stop being so rational about the unions cause your really harshen my hatred buzz for them. Fine fine..I agree that they need to get a cut of the DVDS and Itunes and such. And why their not is a mystery to me.
But remember the last strike gave us all those marvy reality tv shows. We must stop this sooon.
#9 Posted by Buzzion on 11/07 at 01:02 AM -
Ya’ll need to stop being so rational about the unions cause your really harshen my hatred buzz for them. Fine fine..I agree that they need to get a cut of the DVDS and Itunes and such. And why their not is a mystery to me.
But remember the last strike gave us all those marvy reality tv shows. We must stop this sooon.
If it makes you feel any better, I in general will agree with you that unions have essentially served their purpose and now are more of a blight to employees and companies than they are an asset. Like the teacher’s union where the president lives a lot better than any of the members. Overall my patience will start to wear thin. But this is hollywood, and the dipshits the unions are negotiating with are hollywood liberals. And when the directors and actors go on strike in June my patience for them will be even shorter than the one for the writers.
Consider this to be the case of the exception proving the rule.
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 11/05 at 06:42 PM -
An 11 episode season of Heroes would suck. Not much else to say on that.