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inthedarktrees · 2 years

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Cooling off after-hours on CBS color set, Adele finds relief from the blazing lights which have raised the temperature of the studio to over 100°

Lisa Larsen, "Busiest Cog in Television,” Life, Oct 29, 1951

#1950s #1950s fashion #lisa larsen #vintage fashion #life magazine #vintage #50s #television production #script supervisor #script girl #production assistant #new york #cbs #television studio #heat #heat wave #photography #black and white #photo edit

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babyspacebatclone · 3 months

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This is in regard to this post, and became a monster so I’m putting it in a new post to save the other thread’s op.

Yes, I will agree with part of this version of your post:

There is no reason Catra should have remained as static as she did throughout canon; other media has provided excellent templates on how it could have been achieved.

But I am going to fiercely argue against the mentality fueling your reasons why.

This rant got long, so there’s going to be a cut.

It’s also stream of consciousness, so please bear with me.

@1023sstuff or anyone else willing to ask for clarifications of points, please do.

I’m not going to hold a single person responsible for Season 5 making air in the state it did, because television is never made in a vacuum by one single individual.

But here’s someone I’d put more blame about SPoP reaching air in the state it did instead of Nate.

(we’re talking single digits of percentage, but it’s still more)

Chuck Austen was co-showrunner on SPoP from season 2 onwards, according to Wikipedia.

He was in his late 50s when he started work on SPoP for season 2, and had two other notable television projects under his belt at that time, including being one of the producers for Season 1 of Steven Universe.

Nate, on the other hand, was not prepared for being a showrunner.

Having read his Memoir “The Fire Never Goes Out” makes that abundantly clear, with the tiny hints he let himself be honest about.

And the lack of honesty was, in my interpretation, entirely fueled by his feelings of guilt and imposter syndrome, feeling obligated to fulfill the giant dreams of catching lightning in a bottle that had been placed on him, from a job offer that I’m sure everyone was telling him he was insane to reject.

I fully expect Dreamworks didn’t want Nate to make the next Steven Universe, by the way.

I think they wanted him to make the next My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Nate was not prepared for that.

Let alone at that time of his own self-healing and understanding.

Remember: this is before he transitioned, and if I was reading the timeline of the memoir correctly he didn’t get his bipolar disorder diagnosis until part way through SPoP.

Nate, by all evidence I have, was not in a position to make a healthy depiction of recovery from abuse.

Because he, himself, was still learning what recovery meant for him.

This is not to say I 100% blindly believe Catra’s “on a silver platter, undergo extreme trauma get redemption for free” arc wasn’t wish fulfillment for Nate.

Because I don’t know him.

But I also wouldn’t be surprised if people who do know him do believe that.

Nevertheless…

That’s the story of one person, swimming in trauma, and that last part I can say with full confidence.

That explains some of Catra’s arc, and a fair bit of the snowball that came afterwards.

But that does not explain Season 5 making it to air.

Someone.

Should.

Have stopped this.

Someone should have supported Nate, helping ease the burden of being showrunner.

I don’t know if no one did, although Chuck Austen coming on board strongly suggests people at Dreamworks did try.

I do not know how much Chuck knew of Nate’s fears regarding the show (which I am extrapolating here, and I could be wrong), let alone how much he did do to help Nate.

I am not blaming Chuck for not helping Nate in a manner I want, because I don’t know what went on and besides Chuck isn’t a therapist and doesn’t deserve to be put in that position.

I strongly, strongly suspect people with money wanted to ride the Catra train for clout, and their dollars won over the dollars of people who didn’t want a huge lesbian romance in a cartoon on their resume.

And I suspect those people, fueled by past successes such as Avatar and Steven Universe and MLP: FiM pushed for Nate to be able to achieve his vision.

And people who knew better should have stopped that.

And it didn’t happen.

And I don’t know who to blame, because I was not there.

I don’t even blame Chuck, I repeat in all honesty, because I can’t see how a guy of his background could have made a difference.

But I’d still place the showrunner with 25+ more years of life experience and any experience in creating television as more (single digits of percentage) responsible for Season 5 making it to air in the state it was than the under 30 year old uncloseted trans man who was mere years into treatment for bipolar disorder.

I want a world where someone other than Nate was responsible for crafting the timeline and events of Catra’s redemption arc.

But I do not fucking blame Nate for us living in this one as though it was his intention all along.

Now, if Nate still thinks Season 5 was acceptable in 2040 as a 50 year old, then I’ll had different opinions.

#television production #executive producers #show runners #cartoon production #trauma #bipolar disorder

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verlierer-is-lost · 2 months

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Took a visit to my schools communications building today. They have multiple professional studios, an expensive radio room, and a window where they display their EIGHT Emmys.

Meanwhile in the history department, I’m not even sure we have functioning toilets. One of my first history classes was taken in the basement of the freshman dorms. Nice to know all my tuition money is going to future Oscar winners 😐

Jk I do love my school(kinda) and all my professors are awesome people(kinda)

#history major #communications #college #university student #university #college struggles #college student #tv production #television #television production #emmys 2024 #oscars

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jhsharman · 5 months

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seeing cable tv stars

Unspecified call letter and network-less Cable channel 18 becomes UBS WPBJ cable channel 10. There has to be a reason for some of that, doesn't there?

Curious to note, the backdrop changes twice in quick succession. Evening becomes afternoon.

The call letters wpbj do not exist tv. In radio, I can quickly find four stations that have been affiliated with the call - letters (w or k -- either part of the country just really wanting to get in the peanut butter jelly) -- one, a Providence station in the forties a book on farm radio broadcasts takes note on, two is one that may or may not have come into being, three is some station in Texas, and the most recent (current holder, I think) is one in upstate New York -- had been Radio Disney but flipped to Music of the 1980s. A fifth KPBJ falls outside the law. On the new network affiliation -- if it is UBS, that is the fictional network Howard Beele hosted a newscast on Network. If it is UPS, they have a package for you.

A handful of panels with weird added squiggly lines added.

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grandmasterpotent · 1 year

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frankjfernandez · 3 months

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#frankjfernandez #cafeconleche #ashleynorth #sag aftra #wga #deadline #television #television production

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windsails · 4 months

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how to make a dream real

make a mistake. create a messy approximation full of flaws and errors and neuroses and problems

seek the feedback, try to learn from the idea's mistakes

try to figure out what the idea's problems are by exploring the mess it makes, explores the mistakes to see what they're missing

what would have to be different about these mistakes for them to be good? lets try that one next. i'll modify my original mistake or perhaps add on an entirely new module to the project

whenever it gets too much, take a break and start another project or simply take a vacation from it and do something relaxing or fun

keep on sculpting. add stuff and remove stuff. let them live. always keep looking for what you're missing. let it go

repeat

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inspectorspacetimerevisited · 6 months

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The unfortunate thing about television production from the 1960s is,

the writers usually retained the rights to the serials they wrote, meaning their estates can revoke the rights to rebroadcast their works in the future.

#Inspector Spacetime #British television #television production #1960s #1960s television production #the writers #scriptwriters #retained rights to #the serials they wrote #meaning their estates can revoke #revocation of rights #to rebroadcast #like what happened to that ripoff

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mrichotumblings · 2 years

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#big boolins #big boolin #big brazy #botswana #bw #mrichobrackins #bdub #gaborone #mrichoboolins #mrichotumblings #mricho #television production #televison

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urbanfashionsense · 2 years

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Urban Fashion Sense Presents: Lowrider Bike Set Props Press Reel '22

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