Talk:Seddie/@comment-3180503-20140522231528/@comment-14284535-20140523003518

@Cartoonprincess - well, they all did have other paying gigs and/or offers, so whatever the reasons were for them leaving, they weren't going to starve.

Your idea about the specials and pressure would seem to have merit. Most guys who write for these shows are used to being able to work within a known format with little direction from above aside from the script bible. If someone is putting all sorts of other conditions upon you, you might just opt out.

Similarly, we know that Dan Schneider did a lot of rewriting of episodes just before and even during filming. If I am a writer who sees something I liked just mangled like that without going through the standard script-editing process, I would get very upset as well.

Another thing is that Dan Schneider might have calculated that with only about 13 episodes per season per show, he didn't need a bit writing staff. This is monstrously stupid becaust he then wrote or co-wrote virtually everything. He is not J. Michael Straczynski, who wrote almost three complete seasons of Babylon 5 in a row. Nor is he Gene Coon, who could crank out decent television scripts overnight (e.g., Star Trek's "Metamorphosis").

Heck, it could be as simple as they just didn't want to renew because their other offers were better. Still, having so many writers leave all at once - and then not bringing other people on - smacks of something less innocuous.