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A New Gizmoplex Sample (and fateful hands again)
Along with a new season of episodes, the just-started Mystery Science Theater 3000 streaming service promised “special presentations.” The first of them was announced to be a tribute to the infamous “Manos: The Hands of Fate,” obvious enough in a certain way but at least letting me suppose I could try it out as I’d tried out the opening episode. In the lead-up to the presentation, I was also informed one of the new riffed-on shorts that had been one of the several stretch goals reached in the crowdfunding process would be shown off, and then learned that would lead off the presentation. Hoping this would look further back than the current emphasis on “widescreen movies” might result in, I remained intent on taking in the presentation.
Things started much sooner than they had with the opening episode (although there was a moment’s reference along the way to the “White Dot” that had grabbed attentions in the live chat I hadn’t been logged into). Mary Jo Pehl does now seem to be well involved in the new productions, and the short did get back to “Academy ratio.” While the riffing had me thinking of my impressions from two weeks before that this wasn’t a relentless barrage of jokes, there was a bit of “cultural commentary on the way things were manages to comment on the present day too.” I suppose I was also thinking of how “Rifftrax” turns out shorts on a regular basis, and how I still haven’t really taken more than one chance on what that group might be saying.
Presenting an old episode does tackle how I hadn’t found the time to keep revisiting the series. Getting to juxtapose the new short with “Hired (Part 2)” might amount to a vote of confidence in the new work, although I did get to contemplating how it had taken me a while to see the first half of the old short as well. Before I’d got very far into the movie itself, though, my phone rang, and I hit “pause” on my Apple TV remote automatically. It wasn’t that long until I’d returned, but on unpausing the video I noted it didn’t “jump ahead.” It did, though, start having motion and sound drop out every so often. I was concerned this was a new sort of technical difficulty until, now a bit distracted, I hit on the thought of backing out from the video and starting it again, and now the last part of the episode did play out without delays.
The special discussion following the episode had promised a special guest, who turned out to be Jackey Neyman Jones, who’d played Debbie, the little girl in Manos. With her having been so young at the time I had wondered what she would offer to the discussion. Getting to how her father, who’d played the overpowering “Master” in Manos, had already been a Mystery Science Theater fan when the show had got around to the movie they’d appeared in did make for an interesting addition; the recent restoration of the movie and its puppet adaptation also got mentioned. With new episodes and presentations now sampled I am ready for the presentations to continue, even if they’re just a bit more of a “late show” than my “early to bed, early to rise” habits make a regular occurence of.
Things started much sooner than they had with the opening episode (although there was a moment’s reference along the way to the “White Dot” that had grabbed attentions in the live chat I hadn’t been logged into). Mary Jo Pehl does now seem to be well involved in the new productions, and the short did get back to “Academy ratio.” While the riffing had me thinking of my impressions from two weeks before that this wasn’t a relentless barrage of jokes, there was a bit of “cultural commentary on the way things were manages to comment on the present day too.” I suppose I was also thinking of how “Rifftrax” turns out shorts on a regular basis, and how I still haven’t really taken more than one chance on what that group might be saying.
Presenting an old episode does tackle how I hadn’t found the time to keep revisiting the series. Getting to juxtapose the new short with “Hired (Part 2)” might amount to a vote of confidence in the new work, although I did get to contemplating how it had taken me a while to see the first half of the old short as well. Before I’d got very far into the movie itself, though, my phone rang, and I hit “pause” on my Apple TV remote automatically. It wasn’t that long until I’d returned, but on unpausing the video I noted it didn’t “jump ahead.” It did, though, start having motion and sound drop out every so often. I was concerned this was a new sort of technical difficulty until, now a bit distracted, I hit on the thought of backing out from the video and starting it again, and now the last part of the episode did play out without delays.
The special discussion following the episode had promised a special guest, who turned out to be Jackey Neyman Jones, who’d played Debbie, the little girl in Manos. With her having been so young at the time I had wondered what she would offer to the discussion. Getting to how her father, who’d played the overpowering “Master” in Manos, had already been a Mystery Science Theater fan when the show had got around to the movie they’d appeared in did make for an interesting addition; the recent restoration of the movie and its puppet adaptation also got mentioned. With new episodes and presentations now sampled I am ready for the presentations to continue, even if they’re just a bit more of a “late show” than my “early to bed, early to rise” habits make a regular occurence of.