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I didn't like it and stopped watching after 4 episodes. They tried to force a joke after every line of dialog and the whole thing feels cramped, and most of the jokes are throwaway pop culture or videogame references/attempts to appeal to the youth (this is more of a systematic Netflix problem though, they did the same thing to Bill Nye). The original MST3k had very subdued humor that didn't require any outside knowledge of any pulp culture media beyond the movie they were watching and was full of the love of the production crew, the new one feels more like it was designed by focus group with specific callouts to various hip young audiences.
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that is only partially true, i mean the original had more pop culture jokes than you might remember. just off the top of my head , i can remember frequent jokes about popular music (like singing a few lines of a well-known song that make for a funny joke about what's happening in the movie), famous actors, famous/classic movies and tv shows, i even remember my mom explaining jokes i didn't get because they were about howdy doody time or things like that that were before my time
i'm a big nerd so i even have the old mst3k book and episode guide and they have a goofy list (with explanations) of their 50 most obscure references so i even have actual citations from a real life book that there did indeed used to be refs that needed outside knowledge
that being said it does feel like they've gone from (to make up some numberS) maybe a 25/75 mix of pop culture / non-outside knoweldge-requiring, to maybe 50/50, and your criticism is at leats partially true imo.
i've only seen the first ep of the new one and i liked it but not qutei as much as the old one, but enough taht i'll watch more
That's true I guess I just don't identify with the kids these days and what vibeo gains they're playing or the UTubes and... what is it, dab music? I guess I always saw the original as classic/timeless references to icons of cinema and things but that's because they were my icons of cinema and things.
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Apr 30, 2017 01:00
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It's like if you always hung out with your friends as kids to riff on bad movies but then they all moved away one summer, and now you're an adult and you found out some of your coworkers like to riff on bad movies too so you go join them one night but it's just not the same.
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