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With the "twenty-fifth anniversary" DVD set beginning to ship out, I might have been a little more expectant than of late that the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes of the set to follow would soon be announced. Seeing their names first in the "Twitter feed sidebar" of Sean Gaffney's manga review site was still a surprise, though, and I went pelting to Satellite News for a follow-up.
The trend of including a Universal movie from the eighth season continues with "The Thing That Couldn't Die," strictly speaking not quite as "science fiction" as the four movies that preceded it, and a newer trend of including a Warner Brothers movie from the first season now seems established with "Untamed Youth," where the show started really expanding what genres it would include. That just might mean the final episode of the first season not released on official DVD will be released too, although that leaves me wondering if Shout! Factory is about to exhaust a "go-to source" for episodes to fill out sets. "Hercules and the Captive Women" hurls yet more muscles and mythology at us, but the standout of the set seems to be "Pumaman," a dubious entry in the 1970s' own "superhero boom" which I've kept overhearing as an episode that would be difficult to get the rights to. Once more, people seem to be looking forward to what's to come, just as I am too of course.
The trend of including a Universal movie from the eighth season continues with "The Thing That Couldn't Die," strictly speaking not quite as "science fiction" as the four movies that preceded it, and a newer trend of including a Warner Brothers movie from the first season now seems established with "Untamed Youth," where the show started really expanding what genres it would include. That just might mean the final episode of the first season not released on official DVD will be released too, although that leaves me wondering if Shout! Factory is about to exhaust a "go-to source" for episodes to fill out sets. "Hercules and the Captive Women" hurls yet more muscles and mythology at us, but the standout of the set seems to be "Pumaman," a dubious entry in the 1970s' own "superhero boom" which I've kept overhearing as an episode that would be difficult to get the rights to. Once more, people seem to be looking forward to what's to come, just as I am too of course.