Vidiot pretends he read a book

Lol, who lies about shit like that?

STeVE would have made Odenkirk suck it up and put half a Xanax under his tongue.

Plus, on a TV show (cinema doesn’t have a writers room), it’s the showrunner who decides these things. The director for an episode never has this kind of freedom and autonomy, especially as, until streaming happened, episodes had to stick to a determined length. The director has input on casting minor parts, performance choices, framing the shots and deciding on altering a few lines, especially when a cast member makes a suggestion, on set, but they seldom have control over editing and the rest of post. More important demands over a script would be voiced during a read through, with the choices being made by the showrunner. Besides pilots, where directors contribute to establish the look and feel of the show and create a template (which can get them an executive producer credit for the rest of its existence, even if they don’t do anything beyond the pilot), they’re just employees that can be easily replaced if needed.

Television is a form of media where the producers and the writers have the upper hand over the directors, which are only hired hands on shows (even name directors who guest on TV such as Quentin Tarantino). They basically have input about the tone of the performances and the camera work for a particular episode, but can't change freely the script or have time to come up with something supposedly better during production, as the schedule is very tight, and overtime very expensive. So, if the producers still insist on shooting the original script, the scene could be pushed back at the end of the week and eat a lot of the budget.

Editors do fine-tune the footage, but it's one thing to make adjustments when the pace of some scenes went a little quicker or slower than written on the pages and another thing to fill two or five minutes just because the director for the episode made the choice not to shoot a sequence and to replace it with something much shorter.
Besides, exposition on television tends to be quite redundant, because people are supposed to miss an episode or not necessarily "binge" on a season, and still understand what's going on with the plot. If you remove useless exposition for soap operas, where scenes almost always play twice, it would be a disaster to put together.

Of course, I'm speaking in very broad generalities. For shows such as Veep, that rely a lot on improv, there's much more work to do in editing, given the variations in delivery and lines from take to take. But once again, the main role of the director for such a show is to make the cast comfortable and to keep a steady pace, not to introduce innovations into a well-oiled machine.

51 is the new 90.



That thread is filled with Vidiot being a Vidiot. Of course Mr Clogged Arteries can’t fathom why people wanna do stuff. 

So, if I understand this correctly, had this accident happened to someone outside of “the biz” it would be perfectly fine. However, since it happened to someone who apparently is worth $80mil then we can’t have that. It’s a shame it happened, I wish Jeremy Renner all the best on his recovery, but it’s something that could have happened - and I am sure it has - to professionals and the “poor.” Then again, what value would the world have with Vidiot? I mean, what would we do without perfect color saturation on reruns of Sheriff Lobo and Laverne and Shirley?