There are well written stories that get ruined by execs for marketing purposes.
There are will written stories that get ruined by execs for propaganda purposes.
I hate it, but I can usually get on with both kinds. Like when it’s revealed at the end of a crooked cop drama that, after all, not all cops… the show can be fun right up till the last five minutes. So it’s not too bad.
But then there are poorly written stories that never had substance from the beginning because they were only ever written to be sold and to propagandise. In this situation, the writer storyboards ‘drama’, which just means characters acting as shitty as absolutely fucking possible to each other, just to create tension and drama that can be resolved in the denouement. In between these ‘plot points’ the writers try to storyboard pro-imperialist messages as if they’re trying to make a cult drinking bingo game for communists. It’s boring as fuck.
Almost everything nowadays falls into this latter category. I’ve not seen not even heard of Velma until this comment. So I’m talking in general.
It’s all always going to be commodified within capitalism. Unfortunately for viewers, the studios are now so far gone with the monopoly finance capital that there’s nobody stopping them from cannibalising the industry, the artists, and themselves with it.
There are well written stories that get ruined by execs for marketing purposes.
There are will written stories that get ruined by execs for propaganda purposes.
I hate it, but I can usually get on with both kinds. Like when it’s revealed at the end of a crooked cop drama that, after all, not all cops… the show can be fun right up till the last five minutes. So it’s not too bad.
But then there are poorly written stories that never had substance from the beginning because they were only ever written to be sold and to propagandise. In this situation, the writer storyboards ‘drama’, which just means characters acting as shitty as absolutely fucking possible to each other, just to create tension and drama that can be resolved in the denouement. In between these ‘plot points’ the writers try to storyboard pro-imperialist messages as if they’re trying to make a cult drinking bingo game for communists. It’s boring as fuck.
Almost everything nowadays falls into this latter category. I’ve not seen not even heard of Velma until this comment. So I’m talking in general.
It’s all always going to be commodified within capitalism. Unfortunately for viewers, the studios are now so far gone with the monopoly finance capital that there’s nobody stopping them from cannibalising the industry, the artists, and themselves with it.