[ SECRET POST #5987 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5987 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I've never heard of this happening and I've been around for awhile. Was it really a common thing?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it was necessarily super common - it's more so that it was a thing that certain shows did, most famously a bunch of Star Trek shows but also others. I think there's a couple X Files episodes that started out that way.

It's really a shame it's not done anymore actually.

[(Anonymous)]

I know ST occasionally did.

[(Anonymous)]

I think submitting spec scripts as a form of resume, in the hopes of being hired on to write for an ongoing TV show, was a relatively common practice, at least back in the 90's and before. I don't think it was overly common for those spec scripts to actually get made into episodes, though it did happen on occasion.

[sabotabby]

In general screenwriting just used to be better. I remember reading "Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist" and marvelling at the number of people who walked into studios with a high school education, worked in the copy room or something, and then just wrote a script and had it made.

[(Anonymous)]

The world just used to be way more like this in general. In part because people just on the whole didn't get as much education as they get now; in part (IMO) because we haven't expanded the number of opportunities in our society to keep up with the pace of population expansion. and capitalism and underinvestment and everything too obviously.

[sabotabby]

1000%.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, a high school education was rarer than a bachelor's degree today, so the comparison doesn't really work. And by "people" you mean white men, almost exclusively.

[sabotabby]

And by "people" you mean white men, almost exclusively.

Not to downplay the racism or sexism of the era but no, I very much do not. You should check out the book.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding this.