What’s hilarious is that, because they wouldn’t pay union rates for SAG writers, all their scrips came from untested non-SAG writers, and they all fucking sucked.
And because the early ones sucked, they tried upping their pay to see if they could increase the quality of the scripts. It didn’t work so they just kept pouring money into their script bounties until they were paying 1.1m for an 11 minute script.
They ended up paying above union rates for below-union quality.
God bless the free market
(Source: dr-archeville, via lurkerviolin)