Will Fandoms Collide?

[krpalmer]

After noticing in one (previous) day both a thread of unimpressed reactions to the first of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 "animations" and a critical review of one of the "Film Crew" DVDs, it was mildly refreshing to hear about a new post from Joel Hodgson on the "Cinematic Titanic" site. In the post itself, Joel mentioned how an interview with him is going to appear on the official Star Wars site. Unfortunately, I couldn't help but start wondering if this is going to be one of those reviews I only hear about, where the official site-runners let someone get away with bad-mouthing half or more of the saga... Still, that's hardly worthy of the essential optimism Joel Robinson and the bots faced those five and a half seasons of cheesy movies with.

Comments

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Let's hope Robinson's interview isn't another PT-sucks meme.

[krpalmer.livejournal.com]

I have the troubling thought that if Joel Hodgson doesn't attempt to crack wise (with or without the aggravating standard addition "of course the stuff I saw when I was a teenager is still great,") people will worry there's something wrong with him... still, I can start to wonder about the hazy possibility of managing to rib at the new movies without it coming across to me as flat condemnation. At least he's getting it out of the way early on, and I doubt a good deal it'll affect my appreciation of his previous work.