Writers' Strike

[appositival]

When life gives you a Writers' Strike, snark about the Writers' Strike. I mean, it's not like I can snark about my usual shows, Mais oui?

So, there needs to be an objective measure of a writer's right to earn the big bucks. Humor, drama, the realism of the show's characters' emotional interactions, these are highly subjective, but the physical things and actions in the show are easy to verify objectively.

Did some character drive from the Philadelphia airport to constitution hall in under two hours? Unless it's 2AM or after a zombie infestation has burned itself out (whether the zombies can or can't eat zombie, brains are a scarce and nonrenewable food source either way) this seems unlikely and I don't even know where Philadelphia is (somewhere in the right-hand 'scrunchy' part of the USA, I believe).

• A writer will start out with the maximum amount for the time and script difficulty, where script difficulty is increased by things like having the ever-vigilant hero plausibly miss the elephant in the phone booth (idiot balls need not apply).
• Then we subtract a percent (so the writer never gets nothing for a job), for each mistake discovered by teams of basement nerds with nothing else to do.

The result will be both fair and beneficial for reasons that are hopefully obvious.

In summation, please bring the mind numbing dreck back before I think again.