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[olivermoss]

* One of the rejected SAG-AFTRA asks involves additional compensation for 'restrictive corsets or other binding outfits'. Will someone else do a write up on tumblr as to why this is being referred to as 'The Jeri Ryan clause' so I don't have to, so I can just reblog it? If you don't know, one of her outfits on Voyager was so tight she needed supplemental oxygen. Per her twitter, "Just to be clear, the corset had nothing to do with my needing oxygen — that was the full-Borg rubber suit, which initially pressed on my carotid artery". Her more usual corset was also brutally tight, just not 'needs supplemental O2' tight.

* The Flash is going out as an historic flop and the CEO of WB has the most eye-watering salary on the list of top Hollywood salaries. For 2018-22, his cumulative pay was nearly a half billion.

* Next weekend is Wonderwood Springs Pride. Wonderwood Springs is the, uh, fictional fantasy land you can get to through a door in St. John. Here's hoping the weather isn't terrible, because I want to see how that shakes out.

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

Holy hell, I'd never heard about the whole "Jeri Ryan needing supplemental oxygen due to costuming" thing. Yikes.

I'm so glad The Flash has done so badly. Like, I guess that's mean-spirited of me, but fuck 'em. But that does make the CEO's just obscene compensation feel especially atrocious.

Huh. That's interesting.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, Star Trek is a big offender for having girls in catsuits and heels, Jeri's typical outfit also used a lot of rigid materials, and then the boys are in space pajamas.

I love The Flash crashing and burning and don't feel bad about it, between the Ezra Miller problem and deep faking the dead, etc. Whole project should have been pulled.

[mistressofmuses]

Oh yeah. I know they're a pretty big culprit behind the pretty gendered differences in how they costume their cast. And I remember watching Voyager, so I certainly remember what her typical outfit looked like. It's not a surprise to find out it was pretty awful, but YIKES, I'm surprised I'd never heard it was that bad.

Lol, very much agreed. The whole project shouldn't have happened, and they piled bad decision onto bad decision to try and make it Their Big Thing. I'm *glad* their hubris didn't work out for them. (It feels mean-spirited to feel so gleeful at a project failing... yet they didn't earn an ounce of good will, so I guess it really *isn't* that mean.)

[olivermoss]

I never really watched Voyager. I mostly know her from Leverage, and from Kane concerts where if she got recognized she'd go 'hey, that's me! What's up?' and join the conversation.

[mistressofmuses]

My mom liked Voyager and I watched it with her sometimes as a kid. I definitely had a major crush on Seven of Nine, so it's sad to find out just how rough that role was in some ways.

Seeing her when I watched Leverage was great!