"They"

Has anyone else noticed just how much "they" get brought up? You know "they". Those guys. Them. They did that thing that you liked, or hated. They're casting Captain America as we speak. Or they're choosing who gets killed off in the next issue of FINAL CRISIS or whatever. Or they're giving the green light for another season of your favorite new show. You know who I'm talking about. Or do we?...

See, I've just recently found it kind of funny how much of our "lives", you know, our recreational sides are spent talking about "they". What direction they're going with our comics, what remnants of our childhoods they're resurrecting in motion picture form, or even what laws they're trying to pass. All these "invisible" people getting so much of our breaths as we discuss amongst ourselves what they're doing and how it affects us, and yet we probably haven't met a one of them. Hell, we probably can't even call them out of a lineup if they were in front of us. Really, does anyone else find this kind of funny?

Editors, producers, writers, musicians, artists, senators, colorists, republicans, democrats, directors... creators and those guys behind the creators, all in their magical little lands, making the world go round in their own little or big ways. We talk about them so much. We praise them for their creativity when it amuses us, we damn them for wasting our time when they fail. We curse them when they cost us money, we begrudgingly nod approval when they send us $600 checks. We call them geniuses, we call them hacks, we say they're somewhere in between. Some we don't even talk about at all because they're just "little guys" in their own right, but they make the process happen with their own contributions so we throw them in the overall use of the term, but we have no idea who they are unless you sit all the way through the credits.

Who are all these people? What do they do in their free time? Do they think about the next project? Do they go out on the porch to enjoy a cold beverage and the sunset like us? Do they stand around their own water coolers talking about something a fellow creator or man of power did before they go and try to either outdo that person, or borrow from them? What do we have to do to become one of them?

Do we even want to? Seems like a lot of pressure in some of these cases. Even for someone as "lowly" as a comic book writer. People can be fickle; I should know, I'm a person too sometimes.

It's something to think about isn't it? Well, maybe later it will be. The season finale of LOST is coming on. I want to see what kind of shenanigans they pull out next...

Cheers...