[ SECRET POST #2465 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2465 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Twin Peaks]


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03.
[Doonesbury, O Human Star]


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04.
[Two of a Kind]


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05.
[Cleopatra/Elizabeth Taylor]


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06.
[The Final Descent by Rick Yancey]


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07.
[Attack on Titan]


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08.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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09.
[Whitechapel]


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10.
[Outlast]



















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I used to want to be a television writer because of Straczynski and Whedon. And then I knew people in the television industry and realized taht: television is not made by one person. It is made by hundreds, and sometimes shows really hit something beautiful and amazing, and sometimes they don't. It's not just the showrunner, but the showrunner and EVERYONE ELSE. Hundreds and hundreds of people.

Sometimes we just have to be okay with the one thing we got. Lightning rarely strikes twice. We're all human. We want to make amazing things over and over again and make money and have adulation.

But it's the exception, not the rule. Joss will realize this soon, and he'll get back to making nice things. :)

[nyxelestia]

Living in Los Angeles, it always amazes me how people always pin the credit/blame for everything good or bad in a show on just a few people. I've grown up surrounded by cinematography deconstruction, so it still surprises me that people forget there are more people to a show than just the actors, writer, and director. Do they not see how long the end-credits are when skipping past them? There are HUNDREDS of names on there, and for a reason.

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

There is also a reason the exec producer credit is in font four times the size of the others though. They get the fame if it goes well, but if the thing goes badly they carry the can too. The show runner credit should be renamed on the credits as "THE BUCK STOPS HERE!".

[crunchysunrises]

It may be the showrunner and everyone else contributing towards the final product but that doesn't change the fact that, at the end of the day, someone is in charge. And whoever that someone is is responsible for seeing that all of the different elements provided by all of the different people come together into one coherent whole. Saying that it's not X's fault because there were hundreds of other people involved in the operation is like saying it wasn't Custer's fault that his forces got decimated at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Custer was in charge. At the end of the day, regardless of how many subordinates he had, it was his fault. Whedon is in charge. If AoS isn't any good, it's his fault.

Otherwise, you're consigning all of those people who put out amazing products on a fairly consistent basis to merely being incredibly lucky (and ignoring that at least a portion of their luck was actually hard work) and letting others who frequently put out flops off the hook because if it's all a matter of luck and lightening, then nothing is their fault anyway... including their inability to write different characters with different voices or fill in gaping plot holes.

(And no, I haven't seen AoS yet. So none of that last paragraph was specifically about Whedon. I just really, really loathe the idea that it's okay to blame the subordinates for the boss's mistakes. They're just doing what they've been told to do by the guy who actually makes the decisions.)