I'm a bit torn on this. I'm against cancel culture and it's a shame that his political positions are making it harder for him to find work.

At the same time, I can see why strongly aligning with Russia might cause tension between him and other members of the cast, making this by far the easiest decision to take.

It has to be in general cuz Paramount has been pretty good at putting out physical media, even for streaming exclusives most people don't watch like Joe Pickett and Rabbit Hole

They both sound WAY better in the episode than in the promos. Rick still sounds a little off when shouting, but he isn't shouting most of the time, which Harmon wisely pointed out in this interview.

I've sworn off piracy which is interestingly why I wish Netflix did physical media releases.

I'd rather buy a show than buy access to the show.

I don't really like Netflix though since they aren't very good at doing iTunes or physical media releases...

I'm probably a minority in that complaint though.

I love the Pebbles. I have a Pebble Time, just snagged a used Pebble Time Round 20mm from eBay so I'm looking forward to trying that out!

It's mostly Rick when he's shouting. Everything else is on-point. Even Roiland himself sounded slightly different last season so the transition isn't all too rough.

The way I see it, they have 3 options:

1. "Ice the kicker": Refuse to negotiate for several more months at least, and hope that the WGA comes back begging. I think this is most likely going to be the response of the WGA doesn't agree to the terms, as they have too many projects riding on union members.

2. Import writers and actors from other guilds. I wouldn't expect them to do this unless we get to 2024 and there's no deal. There are plenty of fantastic writers and actors all across the globe who could easily make great stuff for Hollywood (IMHO they could do it better than the Americans but I am perhaps a bit biased, and somewhat uncultured as well). Risky because Hollywood would need to either reboot or place on hold existing IPs, meaning no more direct sequels to stuff, nor further development on things such as Marvel movies, at least as we know them.

3. Switch exclusively to non-union American workers. This would be a last-ditch effort, I think, as this would cause big-name actors to work for independent American studios such as A24 or Angel Studios, causing them to rise to prominence and most likely overshadowing the major studios over only a handful of years.

Thanks! This actually is a Lotide instance! We're kinda like Lemmy and Kbin but we have more of a Hacker News type feel

I didn't even know that there were profitable streaming services

Yep, production is where the money's at. Paramount/Viacom figured this out long ago, with their CBS strategy of making cheap crappy shows with 25 episode seasons and then pawning them off on cable TV for syndication