Aggravation of the Day

It was irritating to run into another dose of anti-Special Editions comments on an anime message board yesterday (taking the usual stance that two five-second changes bring the Star Wars movies crashing down in utter ruin), but of course it wouldn't be worth mentioning... except for that the day after, I woke from a dream in which an old web site I used to go to (one of the subsidiary MSTing sites) had returned, only to have its front-page item be more anti-Special Edition comments somehow based on creating versions of the cantina scene. That made for a dark morning. (Still, when you dream about an old web site returning from the ether, you do have to wonder how exciting your life is...)

The Once-in-a-Blue-Moon-"Rifftrax"-Related-Post...

I was looking at the Satellite News site to see if its now-regular series commenting on the episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000's fourth season had added any updates, and noticed an item that Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy are going to release an audio track "riffing" on the movie Cloverfield. That somehow broke my usual crusted disinterest in the whole process, and I decided to see what the comments were like... and there was a considerable amount of nasty "it deserves it" snarking on the movie, something that casts an ambiguous light on my slight feeling that the conclusion of the movie was sort of a "downer." Somehow, I was troubled that my suspicion that the "Rifftrax" are somehow nastier than the series and help feed an attitude of "All pop culture is inherently flawed and unsatisfying, except for our attacks on it" got something resembling even oblique confirmation...