Mystery Science Theater in High Definition

As I got around to the fancy new Blu-Ray of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Shout! Factory has just released, I suppose I was reflecting a bit on my own little odyssey involving that little slice of the series. I started off getting my grandparents to tape it off their movie channel so I could put visuals and voices to what had been almost cryptic names attached to script-format MSTings (I gather they didn't quite get the experience, but I was glad they'd done it anyway), but after a while the videocassette went missing. Then, though, I was able to buy an "official" tape from a local video store's "collection sell-off rack" (the store is long gone, swallowed by modern trends, but I do still have the cassette), even if I might have been aware by that point I'd missed my chance to buy the original DVD for any sort of reasonable price. In any case, right after I'd finished watching every episode of the series I went back to where it had started for me. A while after that, another DVD was announced, but this time people most seemed annoyed at how it didn't have any extras included, and that right when Shout! Factory was just starting to release the show with lots of additional content in every set. At last, though, things seem better that way.
( Bonus features )