Tuesday, December 27, 2005

12 Reasons to Hate Palpatine

12 days of Christmas (or 12 days of Yule, for all you pagans out there). 12 reasons why Palpatine is so deserving of hate and contempt.

1. Insists on changes to scripts for no reason, takes out integral scenes, ends up having scripts that make no sense at all, and thinks they're much improved.

2. She's a person that doesn't know what's funny (because she lacks both intelligence and a sense of humor) doing comedies, and hence removes all traces of funnies from her shows.

3. Claims her shows have heart, but they're actually hollow shells aimed squarely at a ten year-old audience.

4. Serves no real function at work - she doesn't even check her own email.

5. Has an entire "career" built upon lies.

6. Loves the sound of her own voice and is incapable of shutting up, yet posseses a mind that has more holes than a heroin junkie's arm.

7. Supposedly espouses team spirit, but doesn't know the meaning of it. Her team is always screaming at each other and backstabbing, and to her that's "constructive criticism".

8. Only likes people who suck up to her (because she's a huge sycophant herself) and has her own personal entourage of bootlickers.

9. Calls meetings for ostensible reasons only to have the real reason, always something silly and petty, come out of nowhere. For example, "Who gave you permission to direct?" and "Why wasn't I invited to the brithday celebration for Susie?"

10. She's a petty, vindictive person who will not hesitate to backstab you or to abuse her position of power to get back at you, for example, kill a show that you're planning, citing a "lack of budget" which somehow managed to not be lacking for the months prior to you having a big fight with her. In Chinese we have a very apt phrase for it, "公報私仇", which (badly) translated means "taking personal revenge in the public realm - i.e., at work".

11. To use an old colleague's words: With her, it's wrong to be proactive, to work independently, to be creative. This is because she wants it to seem like she's controlling everything, so that if something's a hit, she can take credit for it but if it flops, she can distance herself from it.

12. And finally, the most important reason to hate her: Because she hates me.

There are many, many other reasons to hate her, but I'll stick to tradition and have only 12. They're good enough to give you an idea of the evil I'm dealing with. For the future of the entertainment industry, pray for her downfall soon.