I do too, writers there have gone on to make other really good content. Change it up and see how it goes from here.
I heard or read here or somewhere else the technical definition of pedophilia and it's not what this guy is alleged to have done. These girls are too old.
Technical "pedophilia" requires attraction to prepubescent children. There is something called hebephilia which is attraction to children just entering puberty, and ephebophilia which is "the primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19". So in the most technical sense you are probably correct. In common parlance "pedophilia" is used to refer to all three problems, but pedophiles are technically only attracted to children that haven't entered puberty. My general sense, however, is that if you are parsing the clinical definition of pedophilia to provide a way for someone to apply a less offensive term to themselves, you're probably way out on a limb to begin with, and maybe need to take a step back. All three are gross if you are a grown ass 42 year old man. I don't see much difference between a creeper that molests 9-nine-year-old children and one that "only" molests 12-year-old children.
The article reads like studio damage control. They did nothing before with sexual harassment allegations, enabled him like Harden, and now it's all on him... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t...n-empire-implosion-rick-and-morty-1235319366/ At some point during the third season of Rick and Morty, multiple sources say Roiland simply stopped showing up — and when he did turn up in the Burbank offices, he’d typically avoid the writers room. In fact, Roiland’s colleagues often knew he was there only because they could hear his dogs. Or they’d hear his remote-control toy car, which had a microphone on top of it, zooming around the office. At least once, Roiland sent it into the writers room, says a source. “You wouldn’t have seen him in weeks, and then you’d see the car come in, which was insane.” Roiland would make exceptions to bring through famous fans, of which Rick and Morty has legions; at various points, his visitors included Kanye West, the comedians on Impractical Jokers and p*rn star Riley Reid, who gifted the room a succulent. By that time, Roiland had a girlfriend, who became a fiancée, and he would talk openly about their penchant for threesomes. “It was something we just ignored because it was disgusting,” says an insider. Multiple sources say it was also during that period that Roiland sent a female employee a “really creepy” text, late at night, requesting that she come to his home (they declined to name the staffer). “She didn’t want to run it up the flagpole,” says one of the sources, “and then it was just this really ****ed-up, awkward thing.” In the meantime, the relationship between Harmon and Roiland had grown so acrimonious that the show brought in a mediator to try to salvage what was once an inspired partnership. And though those efforts were unsuccessful, the pair was able to put aside their differences enough to secure a massive, 70-episode renewal from Adult Swim in May 2018. The pact, which ensured that the show would run for several more seasons, appeared to reward Rick and Morty for its precedent-smashing ratings for Adult Swim; by season five, the Emmy-winning series was reportedly generating hundreds of millions in merchandise revenue alone. In the years since, Roiland’s involvement on Rick and Morty has largely been relegated to voicing characters, for which he’d take no direction and record from his home. In fact, it has been years since anyone can remember him stepping foot in the show’s writers room, even when it’s been virtual. Recently, a similar situation has occurred on both Solar Opposites and Koala Man, according to multiple sources. On the former, which he co-created, he had, until mid-January, voiced one of the show’s leads. “He knew the power of being the voices,” says a source, noting how Roiland had revealed early on that he believed securing key voice roles would safeguard him from being fired one day. On Koala Man, on which he’s simply an executive producer, he was given a character to voice in the show’s third episode but, per two sources, the writers almost blew their deadline waiting for him. The character was killed off at the end of the episode.
Well this explains why episodes after that contract are pretty hit or miss, but most edgy adult cartoons have a pretty short life before they start running out of ideas.
So does he get his job back now or what. Im pretty sure both of these guys are human garbage but if he's fired for a crime that has been dropped how does that work. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65049814.amp
I doubt it, even though the case was dropped probably doing damage control from the other stuff. Obviously it's technically possible now, but being that he's still getting paid on the contract iirc, I bet he'll just do something different on side since he is probably getting nice pay. If he ever did return/get offered it'd probably be if the show crashes/burns, but it sounds like the situation was getting pretty toxic at the studio.
