The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

You Netflix binge viewers might be more than a little concerned over this Hollywood writers’ strike going on right now. Folks like Prime and Hulu, Disney and most of the rest of the streaming outfits who make, oh, let’s put it in the billions, really don’t want to negotiate with the writers’ union. Who can blame them? They can see the day, not long from now, when the bots will write scripts for series at least as good as those crybaby union humans. Geez, you think most of the movies and series are beyond the reach of robot authors? C’mon, with a few exceptions, the pablum out there could be written by a middle schooler.

I mean really, take a walk down memory lane for what counts as entertainment in the history of video. Gomer Pyle? Green Acres? Baywatch? Half the mindless crap we filled our heads and our hours with over a lifetime of late night television wouldn’t take a chatbot six minutes to crank out an entire season of drivel.

Not to say there isn’t some very good stuff too…. Maybe not even an artificial intelligent bot might write the Star Trek or Big Bang. But really, you think the studios aren’t planning to outsource their creative departments to the droids? They work late, they steal storylines from every schlocky television show that ever hit your big screen TV, they could probably write The Wire with a new twist using similar characters and different settings and you would never know the difference. Who needs a bunch of yahoos taking lunches and interviewing starlets when these bots have a rolodex for a brain?

Plus … and here’s the thing … they work cheap. And they would never strike over wages or royalties or benefits. Probably because they’ll be a little too busy planning to take over the networks and studios. After all, who needs bosses who never understood where their profits came from?

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