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Thanks for the support, everyone.

As for the emergency season finale, I believe that episode was slated to reveal who the killer was and why. So now, I'm assuming, they will probably rewrite it to make it a final confrontation with the Heroes Killer, because that's the only way I can think they would wrap up "Generations" which is essentially about the lives of the previous generation of heroes.

Haha, Tron. Yes, yes it will be me. Call me leader and bring your lovely women to me.

Just kidding. I don't have the cognitive capacity to lead.

I know better to think that something this small is going to change people's viewing habits. This is America, where people will sit and watch anything put on it front of them because they're simply too lazy to give a damn. I just feel bitter that whereas they might normally be submitted to some quality programming now and then, soon they won't even have that.

As for 5% of American TV and Cinema being good? I actually think you're being rather generous. Depending on the year and what trend is currently "hot" at the moment, I would say it's in the 1%-5% range.

Man, I really hope you guys get the good US TV, and not the bad US TV...

Thanks for the comment, SilvRS!

I don't think that writers should be paid less than everyone else involved. Trust me, I have a whole websites worth of rants about how actors get paid waaaaay too much. I do, however, believe that writing should not be a cushy job. It should be hard. It should pay the bare minimum it can until you get to be one of the "lucky" ones, who aren't really lucky at all: they're talented. They've made enough of a name for themselves based upon the strength of their writing that they deserve the higher pay.

And beside that, I'm not really even arguing that writers shouldn't get residuals. I'm only arguing that they shouldn't be guaranteed residuals. That should be something that is dependent on what company you work for, or what show you write for. It should be mandated by the terms of your employment, not by your choice of profession.

Another reason I'm anti-strike is because I agree that internet distribution is still too new of a medium to establish a reliable payscale upon. It can prove to be very lucrative (which is what is fueling the need to be paid for it) or it can be completely worthless. It could make a lot of writers rich, or (more importantly) it could just cost the user/fan/subscriber/viewer more money. It's exactly the same thing that is killing the recording industry: too many fingers in the pie. The more money people have to pay out to make a television show in a production climate that is already increasingly expensive, the more money they eventually have to make just to break even. And, when shows cost more money to write and make, studios are less likely to take a chance on shows like Pushing Daisies or even Heroes (no one knew if it would last more than 3 episodes when it first aired). I don't feel like paying more money just to watch bland TV or movies because of the WGA's overinflated sense of entitlement.