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I loved it and I've seen it all at this point. My only complaint is they occasionally got the timing off on like a few notable locations. They had that happen in the original series as well, but yeah, it's a fairly minor quibble. The old series was very joke-dense too. Rewatching old eps of MST3K, you realize there was dozens of jokes that just flew right over your head. It was a very formative show for me and massively influences my idea of humor and I feel like they've done a good remake and I'm satisfied with all the characters and the writing in general. I think my fav ep is either Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 1 for the jokes or Cry Wilderness for absolute insanity of that horrible, horrible movie. BANG!
Anyway, I assume it'll totally get renewed at this point. Looking forward to more next year!
The hallway sequence is amazing, and uses technology not possible on the old show. However, no matter how cool the concept, the CGI was choppy and sub-par. Besides, a huge part of the charm of the old show was the cheap, cheesy, hand-built vibe of it all.
The bridge of the SOL looked . . . like mediocre CGI with little imagination behind it.
The bridge is a practical set.
http://www.trbimg.com/img-58ed84d8/turbine/la-et-hc-on-the-set-mystery-science-theater-30-012/900/900x506
The doors are stop motion by the miniatures team afaik. There's a lot of obvious CGI in the show open and such but they use practical effects and actual sets in a lot of stuff.
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Jonah is definitely not midwestern, but there's still some clear minnesota influences coming down from on high. Tom does several Prince jokes throughout the new season for one. there's prolly some others. but yeah, not quite thoroughbred north midwest anymore. I don't mind it though, Jonah is definitely fine by me. After the Joel / Mike wars during some of my first foruming ever, it was a relief to see nobody get really up in arms about him. If you guys don't know, during the MST3K original run, when Joel left and Mike Nelson (who was a writer for the show during that period and appeared on the show several times before his ascendancy to test subject), the various fan forums were loving lit up with arguments about how loving horrible Mike was, or later how Mike was the better host (or at least he had won the hearts of those that were still watching).
The History of MST3k posted:
By late winter, the Joel vs. Mike strife had subsided, not because one side or the other had "won," but because of a growing consensus to simply forbid the topic. "No Joel vs. Mike discussions" became General Order Number One in MST3K forums all over the internet. As forum leaders began trying to impose this rule in each community, two new opposing factions emerged: In essence, the communities were now divided between those who valued the community more than the issue, and those who felt the issue was more important than the community.
As tempers cooled and combatants wearied, Mike partisans and those neutral on the issue succeeded in making common cause with Joel fans who were, despite their feelings, anxious to salvage what was left of their shattered communities. Opposing them was an odd confederation of hard-line Joel partisans (still determined to criticize the series at every opportunity) joined by outspoken libertarians and free speech proponents (who simply resented any abridgement of their rights to do as they liked in any forum), and a gaggle of self-described trouble-makers (who enjoyed provoking arguments and who did not wish to see an end to their fun). By spring, increasing pressure from the former group caused the latter group to throw up its hands and depart the communities.
The new communities that emerged from the terrible struggle were made up largely of those who had been on the Mike side of the argument, mixed with a smattering of Joel loyalists who were willing to bite their tongues in order to enjoy the pleasures of the community. Now at peace, the forums began to again gain new participants, equaling and then far surpassing the number of those that had departed.
quote:Q: I thought Mike did a great job, and Joel was great, too. Do people seriously argue about which one was better?
A: It doesn't happen much anymore, but immediately after Mike took over in the fall of 1993, and continuing for about a year, the Great Joel vs Mike Flamewar roared out of control everywhere in MSTie cyberspace. The enduring legacy of that time is that bringing up the issue in public forums is something of a taboo. |
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