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Tiktoker: How has the CW not made any money since 2006?

Adam Conover: Okay, this is gonna be super fun to explain. It’s likely because of something called “Hollywood Accounting”. See, the CW network doesn’t actually make the shows it airs. Instead, they’re made by a studio that’s part of the same parent company, and the CW network pays that studio to air the shows. In that way, they’re able to show a loss even though the entire company is making money off of all those sweet superheroes in love.

Now why would they go to all that trouble? Huh. You think it could be because it allows them to reduce the amount they pay in taxes, royalties, and other profit-sharing agreements? Actors, writers, directors, and producers are often entitled to a backend - a percentage of the profits that a show or movie makes. But if the show or movie lost money, then the company doesn’t need to pay those people. That’s why, according to Lucasfilm, Return of the Jedi, one of the most popular films of all time, has supposedly never gone into profit. And why stars like Harry Shearer and Peter Jackson have had to sue movie studios just to get paid.

So short answer, these companies are cooking the books in order to cheat on their taxes and cheat their own talent out of money.

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Perhaps a proper, modern television show would be a good way to bring back a younger, but adult Indy (with perhaps flashbacks littered throughout).

You can also get away with a lot more content (definitely aim for TV-14) and characters who are allowed to be flawed. Relationship dramas are serialized storytelling’s forte in a way that is disappearing more and more from blockbuster films. Complicated characters are better left to television, as the audience expects and allows for it because of the nuance and depth the serialization affords. The complicated, messy story of Abner and Marion is a story best left to being explored only after the characters have some real complexity and development. It also wouldn’t be forced to play to the mass audience of under-13s that makes modern PG-13 often meaningless. In comparison, TV-14 actually pushes up harder against its limits regularly–not just violence, but also with innuendo and sexuality minus nudity. The amount of historical-style, pulpy violence, not to mention potentially comically gruesome deaths, in Indy would also necessitate the rating.

Indiana Jones might be niche enough at this point with an audience veering towards adults who grew up with it (Gen-X and the older end of Gen-Y), while Gen-Z has little awareness of it, that Disney wouldn’t be forced to make it a total kiddie property. It’s not the same situation as back in the early ‘90s with Young Indy being aimed at older kids who had recently seen Last Crusade in the theater. They could reboot it for television with a young adult Indy who potentially could grow into a fully adult version. And I wouldn’t try too hard to not step on the trilogy’s toes with the timeline. Just let it live in its own developing continuity.

Use of long-running supporting cast (parents, Remy and returning guest stars aside) would also be a big difference from Young Indy. Characters like Belloq (could potentially go from friend to antagonist, akin to how Smallville handled Lex), Sallah, Henry, Brody, Abner, Marion, etc… could actually be around a lot more than just for an adventure here or there. These are all characters Indy had clearly known for years. Actually put the show into a seasonal, serialized format that isn’t a new cast every episode. You could also stick around in locations a lot longer this way, which would help with budget.

Another thought I’ve had since watching an absolute ton of fantasy/sci-fi dramas in the last few years is that the influence of Indiana Jones is actually pretty apparent in a number of pretty famous characters, sometimes overtly and sometimes a bit more subtly.

Harrison, Indy or Raiders in general are outright name-checked in quite a few places, often by scrappy action hero types who tend to take hard beatings (the kinds of characters who should’ve died a hundred times over) while in situations they’re way over their heads in or literally impossible odds they can’t win. Like Indy, the intended prize isn’t won at the end and, outside of a few gruesome baddie deaths, the shady, corrupt or evil barely get a dent.

Fox Mulder and Dean Winchester are two characters who name-check the comparison overtly and you can see the writers and actors both having the influence in mind. It’s obviously a male fantasy, too. The influence on The X-Files and Supernatural is definitely there. Supernatural is chock full of biblical MacGuffins (not to mention having angels and demons as most of its recurring supporting cast), so it would be a hard comparison to avoid. Raiders came up in the WWII Nazi submarine episode with a piece of the Ark onboard (it’s subsequently a show to raid for Indy ideas, because they pretty much mined everything biblical), for example. The X-Files likewise was dealing with shady government officials and pretty blatantly copied the huge warehouse of government secrets loaded with alien relics (and then repeated the Cigarette Smoking Man’s warehouse reveal with the tunnel of filing cabinets stretching on forever). Mulder was also very much a one-man army a lot of the time when it came to the alien conspiracy (no offense to Scully). Moments like him climbing/riding the tops of sky rides, trains and escaping the spaceship were total Indy-esque moments. Sam and Dean had literal God-tier levels of plot armor keeping them alive (repeated resurrections included).

Angel is another one that, unlike Mulder and the Winchesters being very human, is a supernatural character (subsequently his level of pain tolerance and durability is at the level of regular impalement, defenestration out of skyscrapers and being set on fire), but the comparison still holds because of how often he’s getting decimated and fighting forces way beyond his pay grade. Wolfram & Hart, the Shanshu and seeking redemption with the Powers that Be, like the mytharc conspiracy/alien takeover and literal God a.k.a. Chuck, is another endless, unwinnable fight that is so far beyond all the protagonists that there’s no win/happily ever after and they’d be lucky just walking away from it with nothing. Angel also name-checks Indy with a blatantly Indy-inspired fantasy dream episode (Awakening in season 4) with Angelus making a crack about the Raiders fantasy. George Lucas actually visited the Angel set back in 2000 and was interested in how they were making mini movies every week and doing some pretty huge stunts on television. David Boreanaz had lunch with Lucas and has talked about it a few times over the many years.

I mean, these are all shows starring action-oriented leading men and writing staffs of relatively similar age. Mostly Gen-X males with a few Baby Boomers (more so on the writing staff) with an audience that’s primarily Gen-Y but appealing to a pretty broad age range (and probably a lot more female than originally intended!). Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford films in general were very formative to that generation. Harrison Ford is the ultimate leading man action star to a certain generation. Gen-Y got their familiarity with all of that by being the original home video/VHS generation and subsequently a lot more familiar with retro media (including things that were made before they were born or around that time) than Gen-Z. '80s movies have a lot of currency and familiarity still with Gen-Y, even if Baby Boomers were the stars of them and Gen-X were the ones who saw them in theaters. Gen-Y fangirls absolutely dominate the fandoms of many iconic television supernatural/sci-fi franchises (many are admittedly aging franchises). The WB/CW have catered to this group of fans for the last two and a half decades.

If you’re going to be reviving the character as a mid-20s-to-30s version (if the show lasts long enough, it probably will be stepping on the trilogy’s toes timeline-wise by the end), I’d absolutely be aiming for this same audience and their tastes. They’re also the audience who would be most receptive to and familiar with the character, IMO.

If I were going to reinvent Indiana Jones for the television landscape, I would definitely be looking at those sorts of shows that have influence from the character already in their DNA. I think for the target audience, they’d definitely need to be aiming it at the same fanbases. Young Indy mostly tried to avoid stepping on Raiders’ toes (despite Temple of Doom and Mask of Evil already making it ludicrous) by limiting the amount of supernatural elements, but I think a show would have to go all in on it. Indy would have to be transformed a bit in regards to trying to line him up with a character who would still be skeptical after all he’s seen. Young Indy ended up forced into being a straight period drama with educational elements, which is very counter to what the audience wanted. There are things to keep from that approach (meeting historical persons, being a WWI veteran and witnessing history could absolutely be mined as backdrops to the stories), but the supernatural elements would have to exist in a revival now to get the audience who I think would be most receptive to it.

While I would aim for a serialized drama format that would mean the globetrotting wouldn’t have to completely change locations every episode (have it instead in arcs with some bigger MacGuffins and baddies perhaps crossing entire seasons), it’s true that there would probably have to be more location filming than good, ol’ Vancouver, but Disney is one of the few who could afford it (though Covid certainly would throw a wrench in it and political situations could potentially kill off certain locations). There’s only so much green screen that Indy could get away with, though I imagine that a fair amount of it would have to be used for period piece reasons alone. There are a lot of modern intrusions even in historically-intact cities (Eastern Europe comes to mind as having a lot of its architecture intact and is affordable to film in) and around iconic landscapes to paint out.

But at its core, it probably would need to bulk up its focus on the relationship dramas. Indy tends to have a girl at every port and to a degree you would introduce some of these love interests, but there’s still a lot of relationships of every kind that could be developed and serialized. Certainly throw in a few femme fatales and tragic losses, given the Smallville-esque situation of there being an inevitable Indy/Marion endgame that should be kept–it thus becomes about the journey when it’s a set conclusion. Absolutely have a strong recurring cast of Henry and friends new and old. The films actually have a lot of characters that Indy didn’t just meet yesterday and could be developed to a huge extent. For a show to work now, there’d have to be a lot more connectivity to how often the recurring cast appear. Young Indy had a lot more of an anthology format with little chance of us getting attached to most of the revolving cast outside of a very tiny few. That’s the biggest thing I’d change. You need characters to become regulars beyond just Indy if it were revived for modern cinematic television (the true successor to the film serials of the '30s!) in a way that isn’t necessary for film installments.

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The Mandalorian S01E01 (2019)

The Mandalorian S01E01 (2019)

Despite the differences between The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, there is one thing these two shows share that I love. The world building, and the expansion of the GFFA as a universe with different planets, inhabitants, cultures and factions. 

Every time I watch an episode, I feel immersed into another world that is vast and interesting and alive. I thank Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau in equal amounts (as well as George Lucas) for making Star Wars feel like a living breathing entity, in spite of what the ST failed at.

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Riley Howell, 21, was killed earlier this year when he tackled a shooter at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. Howell “took the fight to the assailant,” said a police official of the April 30 attack that killed two people, including Howell, and wounded four. “Unfortunately, he had to give his life to do so, but he saved lives.” 

“Ri-Lee Howell” is now described in the new book “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Visual Dictionary” as the Jedi Master who assembled the sacred texts featured in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” The character is particularly appropriate for Howell, who had an encyclopedic knowledge of “Star Wars” (and amassed a “legion of Jedi action figures”). “Riley’s courage and selflessness brings out the Jedi in all of us,” said the letter from Lucasfilm to Howell’s family in May. The letter expressed condolences and informed the family of plans to incorporate Howell into the “Star Wars” canon. 

In an emotional TikTok, Howell’s girlfriend of six years, Lauren Westmoreland, wrote: “Thank you for giving my love the best Christmas gift ever, and making him part of the Star Wars universe forever.” She added: “Long Live Ri-Lee.” 

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