Viking Colossus and the Undead Creature (a surprising MST3K announcement)

This is the weekend for many pop culture-related announcements to be made at the most grandiose convention of them all; while hearing the original manga for "The Rose of Versailles" has been licensed did get my attention, there was also some surprise along the way when I checked Satellite News just to see what the "weekend discussion" was about and saw the episodes for the next official set of Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVDs announced. There'd been some buildup to the previous announcement, but this was more unexpected. This time around, every episode is a black-and-white movie from the 1950s, which seems from the discussion to have something to do with a new block of movie rights being worked out. Things will be split between the third season and the "Joel years" and the eighth season and the "Mike years," though. Going by episode number, the first episode in the set is "Viking Women and the Sea Serpent," which is interesting enough to me what with its short "The Home Economics Story" and "host segments" obsessing on waffles. "War of the Colossal Beast" perhaps reminds me of how "The Amazing Colossal Man" was included in the very first set of episodes officially released back on videotape only to almost immediately be pulled in a kerfuffle over rights. On the other hand, the sequel movie does include the iconic short "Mr B. Natural." As we get into the "Sci-Fi Channel" era, it just so happens that both "The Undead" and "The She-Creature" are attempts to cash in on the "past life regression" phenomenon of the 1950s. These just might be episodes I'll be able to "remind myself of" when I get back to them.