I think the writers anticipated that the effects would be felt by consumers in a more profound and immediate way. But as Yvonne noted, for the most part it hasn’t been that big of a deal to most consumers. It can only get worse though.

This thing has to resolve itself soon.

I was urged to check out the latest Lost recap episode because they were doing something new and exciting this time. Result? Not new. Not exciting. Essentially it was a bad implementation of Pop-Up Video with commentary at the bottom of the screen. It might have been tolerable, even ignorable, but the actual commentary was written so badly I only lasted four minutes before I ran out of the room begging for an end to the strike. I can handle no writing and no shows. I can’t handle time-wasting bad shows. If the networks want to play reruns written by professionals that’s one thing but if they are going to be churning out more content-free crap from talentless hacks they might as well throw in the towel right now.