MST3k the legacy series?
Remember Tom Servo, Crow, and Gypsy? Well, they’re coming back, in cartoon form. Read about it at mst3kinfo.com, the official mst3k site until this animated thing replaces it. Original voice of Gypsy, exec producer, and rights holder Jim Mallon is in charge of the project, and writer/performer/not one of the previous voices of Crow Paul Chaplin is also on board as a writer and Crow’s voice. No word yet on who’ll be playing Tom. But the site will also be making material from The Original Series available. Sorry, The Legacy Series. Apparently, it’s a PITA software system that’s only being kept around because it’d be too much trouble to replace.
October 30th, 2007 at 1:15 am
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.
October 30th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
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.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
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.
October 30th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
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*.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
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.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
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.
October 30th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
20th Anniversary of the KTMA season is next year…there’s always a possibility.