I'm currently getting my MFA at UNCSA in screenwriting. But my background is as an indie filmmaker. Despite my course of study, I don't agree, they are not literary artifacts or have much intrinsic value at all. They are simply the outline for the film. You could argue the dialog in a script since like a play, it is then spoken. But screen direction and the rest, no matter how snappily they are written, they are discarded and often irrelevant. A film is written three time, first in script, then on the shoot, then in the edit. It's the edit that matters the most and shooting is more important than the script. If you need hard data, just look at the "if George Lucas directed 2001" or "if Kubrick directed Star Wars" or "The Shining" as a romcom etc. Editing, direction is what truly determines a film. Storyboards, scripts, treatments, they are basically "for internal use" only and don't say much about how a film actually turns out unless the shooting and post are done with little effort and creativity.

I think that channel needs to look up what "films" and "filmmakers" means in the dictionary. Completely useless comparison for filmmakers. "Casual online videographers" more like it.

I much prefer my XPS 15, 4K OLED, more ports, large screen, very easy upgradable RAM and dual SSDs, CUDA GPU, very thin bezels. Sure, it runs hotter and less power efficient than Apple Silicon but also much cheaper even with upgrades. And all-day battery when writing. The only real advantage the Apple Silicon has is performance on battery i.e. if you have to edit or run CPU intensive stuff on battery, it's performance per watt is impressive. But plugged in, it's wash according to benchmarks. My year old XPS benchmarks as fast as the previous M1 Air and I suspect this M2 won't be faster than 12th gen Intel with dedicated GPU.

Plus from a hardware view, they are just iPad Pros. You cannot upgrade a single part. Want more RAM? Buy a new one. Want more storage? Buy a new one. Good for Apple and shareholders, bad for users.

SoC designs are great for casual users, highly questionable for power users.

This is part of the internet hive mind that GOT last two seasons are broken or wrong. But GOT last two seasons is mirror of people that were not paying attention to the show and in some serious denial of what the was and is i.e. it's a tragic story about the nature of power. Just look at the tThe huge numbers of people that were "fans" of Daenerys Targaryen down to naming children after her yet who was a murderer from Season one (a truly great character, but never was heroic unless you were in denial i.e. she's Macbeth not Ironman). This essay and article is factually wrong about Drogo (treated by Mirri Maz Duur, who hated the Dothraki and it's implied she poisoned him or caused the infection) Talisa was stabbed multiple times, and even if she lived more than a few minutes would never have escaped that room alive. Arya was treated very quickly after her stabbing and with all the Starks in particular are setup as very healthy, hardy and strong, especially Arya). It also totally disregards Arya's end arc with Sandor and her experience in during Daenerys' destruction and a number steps along that way in return (encounter with Nymeria etc.).

GOT did not "fall from grace" in any factual way, that's just idle, poorly researched opinion yet it is stated here as fact. Many people (myself included), think it was brilliantly written from soup to nuts.

I wrote a 10 page essay on pacing and structure of GOT seasons and how perfectly it matches other great scripts (I chose T2 as the model).

The reaction of the vocal internet fans to GOT reveals a lot about those fans and very little if nothing about GOT.

Season 7 and 8 perfectly conclude what was built so carefully and brilliantly in 1-6, but I clearly a lot of people are trying to force there own spin on what GOT instead of experiencing what is actually there.

I think the answer for smart indies is "not a Mac". I sold my Intel Mac, iPhone and iPad this year as Silicon is great for Apple but not great for anyway who has a passing interest in financials consideration. Mac Studio is a very fast... iPad/iPhone as it's SoC that cannot be upgraded in any fashion, so you have to max it out for your needs down the road. Apple wants people to upgrade desktops like phones to stay current every 2 to 3 years. We might want to do that for phone, but a $7000 desktop? And the performance numbers being reported are not fast enough that editing a film will be significantly faster than a half-price PC running Windows 11 or Linux (Resolve runs great under Linux).

The big factor is that the $5 to $10K you spend on one of these Macs is enough money to shoot a microbudget feature (just shot a $7K microbudget sci-fi myself). That's why I'm completely out of the Apple product line. The impossibility of buying just what you need know and upgrading over time is completely gone except for the Mac Pro and it's very, very unlikely a Mac Silicon Pro with upgradable CPU/GPU/RAM/SSD will be announced. At this point it's just for those that for comfort/status/ego/hype continue to purchase a device that is no longer suitable for workstation ROI.

Uh, nothing against The Sopranos but Twin Peaks and X-Files are both more cinematic and much earlier. And they were on broadcast TV to boot. And most sources credit Twin Peaks as the turning point in American TV drama a decade before this show.