Comments on: MST3k the legacy series?

By: GizM

GizM — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:43:35 +0000

20th Anniversary of the KTMA season is next year…there’s always a possibility.

By: GersonK

GersonK — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:58:26 +0000

I stand corrected - with the Cinematic Titanic bombshell, almost all of the on screen talent is now in the category of “Brains interested in carrying on the MST banner”, but the fact that they’re in three camps and five projects means I’m just gonna sit back and enjoy CT (interesting initials, but no exclamation mark) instead of holding my breath for the one-true-reunion.

By: GersonK

GersonK — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:08:46 +0000

I’ll admit, the legal stuff is second hand, this is the best link I could find on it. There are some doubters that Mallon was behind the legal action, though the conventional wisdom blames him and he would seem to be towards the top of a very short list of suspects.

By: UpSky2

UpSky2 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:18:09 +0000

Well (as to what Fred just posted), at least it will be certain to produce, at minimum, an artsy and ironic distancing - if it manages to be lame, it will manage to do what most of the material the original celebrated did not fail at. Thus making the materials for a further receding level of … ferocious jokes at something lame’s expense.
Really brilliant lameness wouldn’t be an absolute failure. Let’s see how it goes… and save a few tomatoes where they’ll *ripen*.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:25:43 +0000

I think I completely missed the whole “legal wrangling” over the Film Crew. That’s what I get for not keeping up with the news. Do you have any links or more information?

I’m curious about this new endeavor. It has the potential to be an exceptionally lame take on the series, unable to recreate what made it special or just not getting it altogether. But I’m very curious.

By: GersonK

GersonK — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:07:37 +0000

Of course, the 4th response at the (for now) official message board was “I hate Crow’s new voice”.

All the things you note are good baby steps. But given the legal wrangling between JM & the Film Crew over their DVDs, and all the other conspicuous absences in the cast and crew, I’m not too optimistic that the Brains most interested in carrying on the MST banner are going to end up on the same page any time soon.

By: GizM

GizM — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:15:59 +0000

Legacy Series? That’s like Lucas calling the original 1977 Star Wars “Episode IV: A New Hope” and having Greedo shoot first. Are they going to make KTMA an “official” season at long last? Let’s just make sure Jim doesn’t replace Josh’s Servo with Kevin. Not sure I could deal with Kevin saying “Nobody drinks from my gal!” I kid, of course.

But, then again, this may give that one person another chance to print out and mail in a banner heralding “I hate Tom Servo’s new voice!” Or maybe they’ll email it now.

So let’s see, Jim’s getting the band, er, bots back together, there’s the Film Crew, the original Mads of Trace and Josh are leaving AFHV, and Joel and Frank are working together on Cartoon Dump. Can the stars align for synergy? Online/DVD MST is now much more plausible than it was when first thought about immediately after the Hammer struck.