The big problem that will arise beyond House of the Dragon's *existing* problems is that they won't be able to do any re-writes.
No re-shoots, no changes to ADR, nothing.
And when that happens, the end results tends to be messier than usual.
I don't think people realize how much an episode can change in post.
Have you ever watched a show and heard a line of ADR that explains or alters a plot point you're watching? Sometimes they fuck up and try to correct it or they're accounting for a cut scene.
Can't do that now.
Cut content accounts for a lot of it, in fact.
If you have to cut a scene but also need just a sliver of plot information from that scene, you have to stick it in somewhere. Re-writes and re-shoots are how you do it.
Can't do that now.
With the strike, the only thing they can do is film the script as it is. They can cut stuff, sure, but they can't change anything and they can't add stuff later.
And when that happens, you get Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Which is the mindset that caused season two of Heroes.
But it was so disappointing that it caused a stir behind the scenes. These companies and the big franchises don't want to just "get by," they're motivated by quarterly growth.
AI is not artificial intelligence. It's an aggregator that uses statistical analysis and pattern recognition to identify elements of a photo, of writing, or whatever task it's being used for.
Think of how many people here on social media can't grasp that.
Neither can CEOs.
Everything produced by what they call "AI" is just a collage. Oh, it's a very complex and complicated collage, but a collage none the less.
There's nothing original. What's produced is just a series of rehashes and further the system doesn't UNDERSTAND what it spits out.
And that's the crucial element: without comprehension, the product of AI is gibberish.
It's complex gibberish that doesn't present that way at first, but as you go longer into the work you realize it doesn't actually make any sense.
Ooooooohh speaking of Marvel, I just realized: if Disney wants to air season two of Loki this year, they have no choice but to keep Majors in the scenes already filmed.
Even if worse information comes out.
Replacing him in post without re-writes would entail huge contortions.
They swapped Chris D'elia out of Army of the Dead and replaced him with Tig Notaro during the pandemic.
It cost a lot but it was doable.
Trouble is, it required minor re-writes and adding a few new bits to even out the swap.
So Star Trek Online has a new story arc coming, and while this is pure supposition I think I know what's about to happen: they're finally going to officially disengage STO from being the "prime" timeline.
It makes sense, honestly. The original developers behind STO never expected Trek to return like this.
At the time it was released, it looked as though the only new Trek going forward was going to be the Kelvin Timeline films and that the old timeline would be free to use.
But now there's been Discovery, Lower Decks, Picard and even Strange New Worlds and Prodigy ...all of these are new canon entries and ALL of them have specifically contradicted Star Trek Online in major ways.
Hell, Prodigy undermines a huge chunk of the Delta Quadrant expansion.
The monarchy is meaningless in terms of much beyond defining the feel of an age.
We're twenty years into it, but for a lot of people in the UK the coronation of Charles will really officially be the end of the 20th century and it leaves one with a bleak impression of the 21st.
Elizabeth was at least sympathetic, or she had a sympathetic narrative. The scandal, the war, the stalwart queen. You could sell that.
But Charles.
Fucking *Charles.*
Even his name sounds like a defeated, disgusted sigh.
What colors the perception of Charles is that he's in his 70s. People have seen him all his life and know exactly who he is.
He's not his mum. Hell, his children are aristocratic prats and they're still better men than he is.
So you know how this works: if episodes of a show or film isn't already in post-production it's halted.
It'll resume after the strike ends but anything that might require writing or *re-writing* is on hold. If it's a union (and just about every major production is), it's paused.
How much or how little it'll affect a production depends on how long the strike lasts.
A short strike, shorter than 30 days, shouldn't disrupt much. A longer strike might shorten a TV season. A really long strike can kill projects dead.
Just have to wait and see.
Contrary to popular belief, almost every reality show *does* have writers of some kind or another.
The reason they thrived during the last strike isn't because they didn't have writers, it's because many of them are non-union productions.