The Guilds Insistence In Achieving A Minimum Guaranteed Staff Level For Episodic TV Was Considered An

The guild’s insistence in achieving a minimum guaranteed staff level for episodic TV was considered an extreme long-shot when the contract discussions began in March.

They achieved a new-model streaming residual formula that should help fellow striking union SAG-AFTRA in its quest to achieve a revenue-based residual. The WGA’s formula amounts to a bonus system based on pre-determined, high-bar performance benchmarks for individual titles. But it’s nonetheless more than industry dealmakers predicted the guild would secure when the first round of WGA-AMPTP talks began in earnest last spring.

The nitty-gritty details of language around the use of generative AI in content production was one of the last items that the sides worked on before closing the pact.

They did it.

Solidarity works.

Unions are our only tool against capitalistic greed.

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It's saturday now, so I think it counts.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

Genuinely made me smile, I felt warm inside, and that's what matters to me.

A little video we all should take a moment to watch and think about. 

Instead of thinking about what divides us we should think about what we have in common…

I mean, I am hungry tho.

Am I LGBT? Uhh Yeah-

L-oving

G-ood'ol

B-ildad

T-heShuhite

Ok, be honest, what do you mean no one else has posit this?

Literally what was worrying him and why he didn't want to wait inside.

Also, he started actually being nice to Jim as soon as he confirmed that it was, indeed, real amnesia (and thus, his intention wasn't to cause Crowley or Aziraphale any real grief).

I've seen two takes on Crowley telling Gabriel to jump out the window and they go like this:

1. Haha Crowley dislikes Gabriel so much, but then decided at the last second not to let him kill himself because Aziraphale/guilt/whatever

2. Crowley was su*cide baiting him out of spite/vengefulness and hate and that's a big bad character flaw

But I haven't seen this take, which is my Hot Take, which is:

Crowley was testing his theory that Gabriel was faking his amnesia. Crowley just got done telling Aziraphale that he's worried about this, "what if he's faking it?" We're all distracted by the following lines about being smitten, but Crowley is actually trying to express his fear and anxiety to Aziraphale that Gabriel could either spontaneously regain his memory, or that he never lost them to begin with and is just pretending.

I think Crowley reasons that the "real Gabriel" (fully cognizant archangel fucking Gabriel without soap opera amnesia) would definitely not discorporate himself, not even for a bit. Crowley doesn't expect him to jump out the window.

So Crowley tests him (not to destruction!) and when he realizes that Gabriel is truly about to jump, he stops the test. He even says "if you're not him, then what are you?" right after this, implying that "Jim's" willingness to harm himself proved to Crowley that he isn't "really" Gabriel. After this, Crowley moves on with his memory interrogation, trying to help "Jim" locate Gabriel's memories.

It certainly was not a nice thing to do, but it was pretty smart, and ultimately harmless.