Hey, Jason.
So, you finally couldn't restrain yourself. Must have been so hard for you all these months, obsessively logging on to see what horrible things these heartless philistines might have been saying about you and your misunderstood work. Wanting desperately to lash out at the cruel bastards, but knowing (because anyone who knows that you do this and has even an ounce more concern for you than you seem to have for yourself would have told you so) that to do so only plays right into their game and makes you look like even more of an idiot.
Congratulations on the script. Did you submit this for The Wedge? I'm surprised they didn't snap it up. But then, it's actually quite funny, so probably would have been rejected on that basis alone. It's important for a TV show to maintain consistency, after all.
Personally, I think it just might be your best work, and that you should feel very proud. That'll teach those 15 year old kids to lock horns with Jason Gann. Such wit, such scathing scorn you poured upon Dslah's paltry creative endeavours. It'll be a long time before he's ever again presumptuous enough to actually post his work on the net. That kind of initiative really needs to be stamped out of the youth of this country, doesn't it, Jason. Hey, but let's not forget that he did have the nerve to actually go onto a public forum about a professionally produced, nationally broadcast TV show and say that he (gasp, horror)DIDN'T LIKE IT!!! So the guy clearly deserves to be ridiculed and slammed. Didn't he realise you were involved in the show? Didn't it occur to him your sensitive feelings might get hurt? What a bastard!
I was rather disappointed that I didn't appear as a character. Can you rectify that in the next episode? Can you make me really skinny with bad skin, and please be sure to make it absolutely clear that I've never been laid. Oh, and I reckon I should be saying really nasty things about you behind your back, but then you show up and I'm completely star-struck and just want to be like you.
Now I'm going to drop the sarcasm and get serious for a minute. I'm going to choose to believe that you are not an intrinsically nasty person. You are just a person who feels very hurt. That is understandable, but seriously, you need to let this go, Jason. For your own sake. It's just fun for these guys to watch you do this to yourself. They want you to keep doing it. The only person you are hurting is yourself. What you are doing is just not healthy. You are angry and bitter about something that is just not worth being angry about. The Wedge is behind you. It is over. It will live out the remainder of its existence quietly racking up those local content quota points in timeslots that make it pretty easy for everyone, including Ten, to ignore. Even the most passionate haters have lost interest (see how little activity there is on this board these days) In a year or two nobody will remember that you had anything to do with it. You have the rest of your life to do better work. The reputation of having been in a stinker of a show is something you can rise above. Arguably, Cal, Kate and Rebel are already doing that.
However, what is going to be harder to rise above is the other reputation you are getting for yourself. You might think that the people who post on this board are just a handful of dudes and who cares what they think of you. And you'd be right. But for every person who posts messages there are countless others who only read, and every one of those people has a life outside of the net where they talk to their friends. And I have to tell you that you make a pretty amusing party anecdote, Jason. And the people who are most likely to be checking out IMDB boards are people in your industry. I know people in your industry, Jason, and this stuff has been noted. If I was a casting director or a commissioning producer thinking of working with you, I'd be hopping onto the Jason Gann, Wilfred and Wedge boards to see what the vibe is. The vibe isn't good, Jason, and it is primarily your own actions that have made it so.
So just let who ever wants to hate the wedge go right ahead and hate it. The best revenge is to be happy, and you are clearly not happy. If you want to believe we're pathetic losers, then do so. That should make it easier to ignore us. What the hell do we know? Maybe you're a genius and we're just not sophisticated enough to see it. Maybe you're ahead of your time and one day we'll realise how wrong we were. But for your own sake, stop torturing yourself, and get a life.
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