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Writers’ Strike on YouTube: Fan Slams BSG Producer David Eick

by Margie

We have had several weeks of fans cheering actors and producers who are supporting the writers’ strike, but it was only a matter of time before fans started to look around and notice who is not on the picket lines in support of their favorite shows.

David Eick

Thus this video from YouTube, which pokes fun at BSG producer David Eick for his absence and seeming lack of support for the writers during the strike. 

The young fellow in the shower captures the baby-faced slickness of Eick while also building on the popularity of the darling Bamber Bunnies clip that took YouTube by a storm a few weeks ago.

BSG head writer Ron Moore has been on the forefront of the strike efforts and helped forge a bridge between fans and writers through his blog, by helping raise the profile of fans4writers.com, and working on the famous pencil campaign.

His partner and producer Eick, however, has been noticeably silent, and it’s not much of a stretch to see him cheering the AMPTP.  As the strike drags on we will probably see more of these videos about various silent show runners, as frustrations mount and the strike drags on longer than anyone had hoped.  As always, for strike coverage with a BSG focus be sure to check out GalacticaSitRep.com.

Origin of a Joke

Battlestar Galactica Ron Moore is My Master Now Tshirt

Scifi fans are funny folks, thriving on a digital culture that has a lust for new information.  As they anxiously await the conclusion of the writers’ strike and the start of season four, it’s easy for the Battlestar Galactica fans on various forums and blogs to develop layers of jokes even more quickly than usual.  Jokes and references develop layers that seem hysterical to the fans but whiz over the heads of the average viewer.   

Take this t-shirt for example, which is a parody of a t-shirt that was inspired by a web comic that was inspired by a prequel to a scifi movie.

There is an old saying that if you have to explain a joke it is not funny, but that saying never met a blogger … or a scifi fan.  For us, explaining the origin of a joke is part of the fun.  It’s not enough to get it, we want to know the details.  So if anyone has the specific blog or forum thread that inspired the YouTube clip above, please contact me because I would love to know!


Posted in David Eick, Strikes on January 8th, 2008

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