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And in my opinion people should be allowed to do so without receiving heavy backlash... I suppose it does depend on situation however. Calling someone a twat off the cuff for their opinions, for instance, would probably not be a decent road to go down.Angelic Knight wrote:Was just giving my off-the-cuff first impression on the matter
As for the news- not surprised. I assumed a long time ago that most if not all of the writers for it were only in it for the money.
Denyer wrote:I think the thing is, as many fiction writers have put it, a lot of people want to have written rather than to be writers -- it's a very heavily romanticised activity, in ways people don't wax lyrical about, say, sanitation or advertising copy.
I'm pretty certain I made a point about exactly this being a reason for certain cartoon particularities to someone somewhat recently, hmm...Plain and simple, we were cranking out half-hour commercials to please the toy company, which always stressed to us to "push product." In fact, the toy company actually told us which characters to push in the particular episodes that we were writing -- sometimes characters that were totally inappropriate for the plot of locale (e.g., I was told to emphasize a snow-based character in a desert-based G.I. JOE script!) to squeeze in as many characters per episode as possible.
)... This one's just great because he's not especially trying to be polite and/or isn't edited... Hence "If the episodes did come out with a semblance of quality, it was mostly by accident."
