Originally posted by: Zion
Wow. Am I the only person here who understands what a union does and why they are necessary? Let me ask you this. Imagine your favorite fast food chain suddenly doubled all their prices. Would you get pissed at the restaurant, get pissed at the beef distributors nationwide who are causing the price hike, or perhaps you'd just say, "fuck those stupid cows, it's their fault because they taste so good."

Anyway, I can't wait for Lost to come back on January 31st. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't showing the commercials every 5 minutes on ESPN.

That's oversimplifying a more complex situation. Unions were good back in the day (decades ago) because they kept big business in check and levied privatization. However, their usefulness has run its course, and now they are mostly a negative influence on the world of business. Believe me, I have seen and been part of many of them, and they actually, in the long run, end up hurting the people they are supposed to be helping, much less creating collateral damage (in this case, us not getting new shows). Do you really think it's the little Joe Schmoe writer that has instigated the strike? Just my opinion of course, and I have sympathy for the writers who are getting screwed because they are forced to be part of the union.

Back to Lost. I read something where the writers said that the strike shouldn't affect the flow of this season too badly, in that they cooincidentally created something of a cliffhanger for Episode 8 before the strike even began. They said it's kind of a mini finale in and of itself.