For Your Lack Of Consideration

Just like the producers, directors and actor, the Writers Guild--the one group of above-the-liners you might thing would do it their own way--picked just what everyone expected them to.

For screenplay, The Social Network (adapated) and Inception (original).  Okay, Inception was a little different, but with no King's Speech available (every year the rules seem to eliminate a likely Academy winner), it was anything goes in that category.  (A great comment from the link calling Inception "Exposition: The Movie.")

Much worse, Inside Job, the simplistic tale of our economic mess that told Hollywood what it wanted to hear, won for documentary screenplay (they have screenplays?).

For TV drama, Mad Men won two awards.  I like Mad Men (see below), but can't we try something else occasionally?  And that something else should not be the new toy on the block, the dull Boardwalk Empire, which won for new series, or The Pacific, which won for long form.

For comedy, the winners were Modern Family and 30 Rock. Hey, good shows, but once again, it'd be nice to see something win that hasn't won everything else. Say, Community, or Louie?

For comedy/variety, we get The Colbert Report.  Isn't this sort of one joke?  If you've got to pick something from Comedy Central (and you shouldn't), Jon Stewart has it all over Colbert.

For animation, an episode of Futurama?  Really?  It wasn't a great season, and there's plenty of stuff from other shows--Family Guy, to pick an obvious choice--that was better.

So there you have it.  I don't want them to make the obvious choices, and when they pick something else, I'm still unhappy.  Damn writers.