I’ll miss new trek, but it is more important that the people who make it are able to secure a living. Hopefully the studios will get their heads out of their asses soon.
I think this is a good time to end the studio system, if not now it will only get worse.
I agree they have some serious issues and inequality to work out, but I also concede that the sorts of productions we are talking about (science fiction in particular) tend to be expensive to produce. Having a large entity with deep pockets (like a studio) to foot the bill until money rolls in makes this easier.
We really need to get the powers that be to stop pretending that me consuming media streaming on my phone is somehow different than you consuming the same media OTA on television, or Alice watching on a laserdisc, or Bob on his home IMAX theater. The studios are either making content or they are not. They are either distributing that content, or they are not. And they are either paying the people who generate that content a fair, livable wage…or they are not. It really doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that, and anyone who claims it is likely has a profit incentive in the current system to do so.
Having a large entity with deep pockets (like a studio) to foot the bill until money rolls in makes this easier.
You understand, that’s not a studio anymore, that’s just a bank, a crappy bank that charges insane interest.
Let’s start moving away from this nightmarish Weinstein-esque model and move towards one that’s a little less orphan-crushing-machine.
Yes, money will be hard, especially at first, doubly-especially for scifi and similar expensive things, but it has to be better than this, and the fx studios are getting crushed by the studios as well.
All right, I gotta say that Rapp’s kid is freaking adorable.
Sean Aloysius O’Brien would be proud.
If the Ferengi could strike and force Quark to treat them like people, surely the humans here on earth deserve the same
