Mystery Science Theater 3000: C/D, S/D.

xxpost -- Yer welcome. Be interesting to see what people think tomorrow.

Kickstarter backers who ponied up to a particular amount will get (in fact I think are already getting) full downloads of the season now, and there was a Blu-Ray set planned too. Presumably these will also be available to the general public separately.

As for that tattoo, I assume that is Eric H.'s

Not yet, but consider it stolen.

tom servo of finland oh i get it haha

Servo could get it too.

And...we're back.

Wikipedia has a full list of the new episodes plus guest stars already, of course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mystery_Science_Theater_3000_episodes#Season_11_.282017.29

Going on vacation tomorrow for a week and a half so I think I'll dip into these here and there along the way.

they're seated on the right side of the theater and it's driving me crazy

...but that's where they've always been seated.

they keep talking while the movie is playing!

Jerry Seinfeld guest stars.

wait didn't they use to sit on the left side

n/m i'm crazy

Bones?!
JIM!
FOSSIL bones?!
FOSSIL JIM!

Synergy!

http://io9.gizmodo.com/mystery-science-theater-3000-casts-its-riffing-eyes-on-1794340882

Slew of other stories and things this week but having mentioned Shout! Factory's role in all this, this is worth a read:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-company-behind-the-mystery-science-theater-3000-revival-1492029705

lol gbx

the only thing thats giving me a bad trip is the robot voices. it also sucks that every ep is written by a different group of hollywood ppl rather than a room of weirdos in mn but whatcha guna do.

Detail from that WSJ story worth noting:

Ownership of “MST3K” (and the right to produce new episodes) belonged to Jim Mallon, the executive producer who originally launched the show in the Twin Cities. Decades later, “Jim was very happy living in Minneapolis and going to his mailbox every few months and getting a nice check from us. What more did he need?” Mr. Emmer said. “But we wanted the freedom to expand this very underutilized asset.”

In partnership with Mr. Hodgson, who left the show in 1993, Shout bought “MST3K” for an amount in the seven figures, a deal that took about six years to negotiate. Next came the Kickstarter campaign, intended to not only raise cash for a new season, but also to get fans personally invested in its success.

“Is there a lot of trust for an entertainment company in L.A.? Not really,” said senior vice president of business affairs David McIntosh. “It would be a nightmare scenario if the fans turned on us.”

Also, massive new post from Joel on the Kickstarter page

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k/posts/1859562

only MST3K event i went to was a Dragoncon thing where a couple people from the show introduced a new DVD and hundreds of us all sat in a conference room barely able to see a screen at the back of the room as it played a DVD. i ducked out after 15 minutes cos it was a huge waste of time but it was standing room only. pretty sure they have nothing to worry about.

is this "nightmare scenario" no more crowdfunding your Netflix series

I see that as more fear that they would fuck up the end result BADLY.

"i assume there will be DVDs eventually...

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), "

I wouldn't assume that, but maybe

I answered this already! There are going to be DVDs and Blu-rays.

Just finished Reptilicus. What a great bad movie! I laughed a lot. Loved the intro, skits were mixed. Riffs generally solid, but too frequent -- they try to riff on every single line whether they have a joke or not. Rifftrax has this problem too.

Huh, I'd have to disagree re riffs on this point -- definitely some busy parts but there were other stretches, especially near the beginning, where I thought they were too quiet!

My son and I laughed pretty much straight through the entire episode.

i hate this so much

Still need to watch the new one

Lots of good times watching the old one in the 90s

yes this show will always be classic. i recall watching this with cereal in the morning before school.

i am very happy for their crowdsourcing success and new series rebirth, they deserve it. they had the tape thing going, and they were doing this geeky culture obsession years before youtubers were even born.

very happy to hear that the letters to the crew are still in!

Based solely on Reptilicus, S11 seems on par with the Sci-Fi years, albeit never reaching any of the heights of those seasons. Noticed Joel was one of the writers on this episode, and not sure if he's there throughout.

Way funnier than I expected: pretty great!

I even liked the monster song

i watched reptilicus a couple years ago. it is kind of an amazing, bizarre, wonderful film even w/o any riffing.

It was pretty great. And the sweating!!

they should have cut the ikea jokes. wrong kingdom guys.

halfway thru 'cry wilderness' and i gotta say...it's good!

the ep/riffs, not the movie, the movie is garbage

Watching the 2nd ep, the rhythms have matched up to the originals to a degree my obsessive ass is ok with

Agree

And I say this as a fan who did tape-trading thru Usenet my freshman year in 94/95

Why does Netflix in my country not have this ;_;

Ep 3 Avalanche is a treat

"every country
has a monster
they're afraid of
in their nation"

absolutely delightful

ep 5 is a sloggggggggg

I napped through parts of ep 2, that movie was rough

see I liked ep2! the movie sucked but the riffs were good, ep5 is a worse movie with less-good riffs

Yeah it was mostly the movie that made me nap not the show itsellf

1/2 way thru ep 5.

new people order:

Day
Oswalt
Ray (is kind of a non-entity so far. i'm not sure what the shooting/showing order is so maybe he grows into it)

Host segments are pretty spot on in terms of attitude; could do w/o celebrity cameos (N.P. Harris was good because he's talented but too fan service-y imo. OG cast etc is cool if they want to do it)

new servo voice seems like a weird/bad/lazy choice. not close to Murphy; reminds me alot of the KTMA/Weinstein Servo, which is not a compliment. Kevin Murphy was just that good I guess. also between jonah/crow/servo it's kinda hard to differentiate between their voices, but that might just take some time to figure out on my end.

agree that the riffs are a little TOO timed/on time and it makes it feel like they've seen the movie before. also sometimes I think they try and cram a wordy riff in where it really doesn't want to fit but ymmv.

like that the bots are more articulated/muppetish. like new gypsy and the direction they've given her

that said I am totally satisfied with my new MST experience! all the movies have been pretty watchable except for cry wilderness which was fun by drifts way hard into the late sci-fi movies where they are completely inscrutable.

My biggest laugh from Cry Wilderness was when the actors walked past a very tame fox, which didn't need a great riff... neither the movie nor the riffing were on the level of The Final Sacrifice, but it was enjoyable.

I agree with Jonah being a non-entity, but at least I don't want to punch the smirk off his face. I wouldn't mind if they swapped out hosts every season.