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

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Hmmm.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link

having their own app seems pointless, why not just put it on Shout Factory's thing or even just their Youtube channel?

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link

Yeah the fact that Shout Factory coowns MST3K with Joel is my big sticking point here.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link

I mean, I have multiple sticking points at this point of sticking.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link

Well, that too!

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link

I suspect I'll do exactly what I did with the last one -- contribute $1 and see what the updates say.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link

The first time around, I definitely gave good.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link

the Pluto TV app for Roku has a channel that shows MST3k 24 hours a day year round

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link

My go to when firing that up for background noise while working but I’ve noticed they do seem to be rerunning some of them much more frequently than others. Especially the coiley short.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link

Anyway, up and running. Now, who has a spare $25,000?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/makemoremst3k

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link

I’ll take a servo @ 7.5K (i do not have that money)

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link

You've got kids, make them earn their keep

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link

I do not!

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link

smh at Ned's .xls error

Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link

Corrupted data. I blame society.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link

Anyway I do appreciate the cost breakdown

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link

Also they're already up to about half a million so I suspect they'll hit their 6.6 million ultimate stretch goal with ease.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link

$25k doesnt include shipping on the various merch rewards, so really its like $25,012.50 - nice try, Joel

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link

I’m sitting this one out.

In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link

am I blind or is there no confirmation of any of the cast for this?

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link

Well per the video it's the returning SoL Netflix crew at least, and presumably the photo of Oswalt and Day in the promo image confirm them.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link

just seems weird that they want money for a TV show but won't state clearly who is going to be in the TV show. wiggle room I guess.

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link

starring... Shane Gillis and Michael Richards

Dana Jel Pey (DJP), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link

Which makes me think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN84P7OISmc

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link

lost it starting with "Thomas Aquinas!"

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link

I hope they learn from their mistakes and listen to viewer feedback this time.

wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link

maybe the viewers can feedback via little talking heads at the bottom of the screen

Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link

Interview with Joel here:

https://tv.avclub.com/exclusive-joel-hodgson-says-it-s-time-to-makemoremst3-1846634073

Also they're approaching $1.5 million and it's not even been twelve hours -- for the first time around the day one total was $850,000. This might all be more of a big blowout than we realize!

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 01:39 (three years ago) link

Interesting vibes there. The comment about not having to pitch it to a suit .... I wonder, has anyone from the Netflix era ever indicated anything about the show that was in any way pushed from the Netflix end? Or did the nature of the deal give them creative freedom?

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 8 April 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link

MST will be an NFT.

In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 8 April 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link

Just what we needed.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 02:15 (three years ago) link

In terms of the vibe -- Netflix is clearly in a position of not having to answer to anyone about their choices, so no, to my knowledge nothing has surfaced, probably only a bland statement or two. It's worth remembering that the previous Kickstarter got the show filmed and the Netflix deal happened after the season itself was in the can, so it can't have been that Netflix thought they spent too much money on the production straight up, though presumably there was some further deal. I'm sure Shout Factory and Joel were more than a little miffed at the opacity in the end.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 02:18 (three years ago) link

It’s been reported that Netflix finds that seasons beyond the 2nd of their original series generally don’t have a measurable effect on subscriptions iirc

Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 8 April 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link

I thought it was three rather than two? Seems to be a magic number.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 02:25 (three years ago) link

it is crazy to me that anything at all has any effect on their subscriptions. everyone i know, whatever else they do with their lives, also has netflix. to my knowledge no one ever cancels it or subscribes to it. like the fact that they shovel out content at the pace they do blows my mind because surely they could halve it and experience no measurable drop in income.

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 8 April 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link

Fun detail -- Jonah is responding to a number of the comments on the Kickstarter page.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link

Anyway initial funding goal reached in a little over a day, so I'm guessing $5.5 million will happen when all is said and done.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link

Msties are indeed the craziest of fans, in a good way.

avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link

yeah, the average donation is currently hovering around $190, which is pretty absurd.

Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link

I did like Jonah's comment a few minutes back: "Wow, look at all those pledges... PREEEEETTY NIIIIIIICE!"

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link

Actually what's kinda fucking crazy is that they've since added almost another $50K. Allowing for late evening/early morning slowdown that still puts them in range to hitting $3.3 million conceivably as early as late tomorrow or the weekend? But we'll see how this shakes out, normally there's a big initial rush then a ticking along before a final rush.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link

First note from Joel from it all:

The last 24 hours have been so crazy that I don't know what to say. When we decided to come back and do another Kickstarter – and to do it after a year-long worldwide pandemic – we weren't really sure how things would go.

The last time we tried this, it took us almost a week to reach our first goal, and make three episodes... so I guess I figured if we could do that again, we'd be off to a really good start.

But yeah, as you might have noticed, things went a little faster this time...

And it goes from there. I hadn't remembered it had needed a week for the first goal last time out, I don't blame him for being surprised!

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link

New update from Joel clarifies some further details and reconfirms the (kinda) obvious, that it's the returning cast from the last two seasons but also dropped a pretty heavy hint that Emily from the live shows last year will be involved too, a good thing.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 April 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link

Chugging along and about to hit halfway to the main final goal. New update with some details

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/makemoremst3k/posts/3158936

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link

Meantime on tonight's Mads are Back stream (with Kevin Murphy as a guest), one of the questions the moderator passed along -- saying they were getting a lot of people asking -- was whether either of the Mads or Kevin were involved with this new effort. Kevin politely begged off and noted he had Rifftrax but let's just say it was PLENTY clear that Frank and Trace still feel some ill will over everything that happened, though they tried to keep it relatively smooth. (Trace, not entirely.)

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link

Kickstarter still chugging along -- should reach the next overall goal of $3.3 million in a couple of days -- but in the meantime, enjoy an oral history of the movie

https://film.avclub.com/mystery-science-theater-3000-the-movie-the-oral-histo-1846694612

Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 April 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link

really good read, thanks for linking! confirmed a lot of what i've probably been carrying around since Usenet FAQ days, but with a lot more detail - and a few lighter notes leavening the familiar nightmare of interfering studio suits.

sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link

yeah that was great

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link

Very much makes me want to finally get the Shout Factory Blu-ray edition of the movie, long overdue there. Still working off the original random DVD!

Friends on FB commented that they were very much like Jonah in being obsessed with the movie in particular when young. To quote one of them: "when my mom first married my stepdad he had a ton of figurines and stuff from comics and old sci fi movies and he had a set from This Island Earth and I was like YES OMG YES SCROTOR IS IN MY BASEMENT"

I was lucky enough to catch in a theater like Jonah; unlike Jonah it wasn't as random as all that because it ran for a week in the multiscreen theater across from UC Irvine where I was living/going to grad school at the time. That was a treat.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 April 2021 22:47 (three years ago) link


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