Turkey Day Indigestion
Nov. 29th, 2019 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerMystery Science Theater 3000 is indissolubly linked to the American Thanksgiving, but as that Thursday in November is just another day for me I didn’t think to visit Satellite News until late. The site, though, was passing along a message from Joel Hodgson there wouldn’t be any more episodes of the revival made for Netflix.
I suppose I thought not so much of the original Mystery Science Theater leaving Comedy Central after the six-episode seventh season (which happened around when I was just becoming aware of the series through MSTings) but of the Sci-Fi Channel pulling the plug two decades ago now, by which point I’d at least seen a few actual episodes on the first official videotapes and was much deeper into the MSTing community, which carried on for about three more years before just sort of drying up. While I know the revival has been performing live shows (the end of “The Gauntlet” did touch on that, although I’d started thinking almost from the moment I saw it could be taken as something of an “our heroes escape” ending), I don’t know if there’ll be any chance of actual episodes being made for any other video service. My own reactions to the revival were somewhat uncomplicated: it wasn’t throwing in blatant putdowns of the familiar targets for “every fan” every episode, so I was able to watch it. While I have found a legitimate source for Rifftrax productions and the now decade-old “Cinematic Titanic” on the streaming site Tubi, I’m still leery about both of them that way. This is a moment, though, where I’m at least trying to be thankful for what I did like.
I suppose I thought not so much of the original Mystery Science Theater leaving Comedy Central after the six-episode seventh season (which happened around when I was just becoming aware of the series through MSTings) but of the Sci-Fi Channel pulling the plug two decades ago now, by which point I’d at least seen a few actual episodes on the first official videotapes and was much deeper into the MSTing community, which carried on for about three more years before just sort of drying up. While I know the revival has been performing live shows (the end of “The Gauntlet” did touch on that, although I’d started thinking almost from the moment I saw it could be taken as something of an “our heroes escape” ending), I don’t know if there’ll be any chance of actual episodes being made for any other video service. My own reactions to the revival were somewhat uncomplicated: it wasn’t throwing in blatant putdowns of the familiar targets for “every fan” every episode, so I was able to watch it. While I have found a legitimate source for Rifftrax productions and the now decade-old “Cinematic Titanic” on the streaming site Tubi, I’m still leery about both of them that way. This is a moment, though, where I’m at least trying to be thankful for what I did like.