āWait, there are people blaming the writers?ā
Are you surprised? Fandoms have become notorious anti-writer spaces. Studios love you guys. They can cut the budgets, cut the number of writers, cut the wages of the writers, and you guys always blame the writers. āThe writers ruined the show!ā Itās never āthe studios ruined the show.ā
I hate to break it to you: more than half the shows you complain were āruined by the writersā, were ruined by the studios. Studios cut the scenes and arcs you were excited for. Studios cut the budget of the show, or even raise the budget of the show and force a ābigger, louder, bolderā tone on shows that were unexpected hits (this is where we get āthe Netflix lookā on every show post-Stranger Things and Queenās Gambit).
You guys do not do your research. Half your fanfics are tagged with bad faith digs at the writers, when a few searches would reveal how strapped that show was and how poorly the writers were treated. Writers are being given a 10 weeks to write 10 episodes. How are good arcs and scenes supposed to happen under that time limit, with a max of only four writers?
Tumblr, the self-proclaimed āpro-union, pro-worker, pro-artistā site is also a major fandom site. You guys rarely practice good faith consumer etiquette for television and film writers, because your fandom salt always turns you against writers. And studios love you for it.
Yeah, individual writers do create bad writing from time to time. But so do painters, chefs, and musicians. Directors and actors sometimes refuse to film certain scenes or follow a showās projected style and arc, and the writers always get the crap for a bad performance or a poorly directed episode. This isnāt to blame actors or directors; itās to point out that you guys have one villain, and itās always the writers. You guys never give writers the same grace you give animators, designers, directors, actors, composers, and editors.
Studios love you every time you say āthe writers ruined the show.ā Every single popular fandom is guilty of this. View any of the āwhy did the writers cut this scene, they hate my charactersā talk when leaked scenes hit the internet. Writers barely get paid for what they do write. You think theyāre writing scenes and then happily throwing them in the shredder? You guys just eat the talk that studios put out. Always have.
