With only two episodes to go in season three have you ever announced what is next. Since this trek began with season four several years back we will now have completed a complete circuit having a full weekly discussion of the full run of the show. I’m assuming you will not repeat the loop. I don’t know what else there will be to say after this run.
Would this be replaced by discussing Cinematic Titanic DVD’s? That could easily be done in a couple months. Perhaps tackle RiffTrax? That would be harder given the large volume of those out there. Perhaps there could be voting on which ones to tackle? Or do you have another plan in mind? I’d miss this weekly ritual if it goes away.
You’re reading my mind, Dan. This has been on mind quite a bit lately. As the saying goes: this is not a democracy, and I do have a tentative short-term plan, but I am interested in getting feedback from our readers/commenters on all of this.
After we finish season 3 in two weeks, I will have done every episode in the expanded format. That said, I’m not really happy with the episode guide entries starting in season 4 and continuing for several seasons after that. The format of the episode guide entries evolved over time, and I now need to go back through them and make them consistent (and, frankly, to clean them up a bit).
But doing what we have been doing up till now — one episode a week — will take 2 1/2 years. I don’t want to do that.
So, my plan for the cleanup of these entries is to do two a week, and to move them to the weekends (one on Saturday and one on Sunday). (By the way, I still plan to do a weekend discussion thread.) For each one, I’ll re-open comments for seven days allowing latecomers to weigh in and long-time commenters to revise and extend their earlier remarks. It should take about a year, maybe a bit more, to get through these and get the episode guide where I want it to be. I can live with that time frame.
And so, as the title of this thread suggests, the remaining question is: whither Thursdays? I too have grown fond of the ritual. I only have definite plan for the next few months. First, we will do the Best Brains video releases: “MST Poopie,” “MST Poopie II” (should we do both Poopies together?), “The MST Scrapbook” the “Play MiSTie for Me” DVD and “The Last Dance – Raw”?
(Should we also do all five volumes of “Tom Servo’s All Time Favorite Host Segments,” and if we do, should we do them as one entry or five? If we do them, it may require me to plug my VCR back in!)
Whatever we decide, from there I will first do the four “Film Crew” episodes.
After that I will do the Legend Films solo riffs that Mike did in 2004-2006. (Note: even though the Film Crew DVDs came out AFTER most of the Legend disks, they were made before, so I think that’s the order we should follow). That will take us well into 2012.
From there, I think it’s obvious: RiffTrax and Cinematic Titanic. The question becomes: how do we space them out, considering that RiffTrax put out 50 episodes (not even counting shorts) before the first Cinematic Titanic DVD came along, and there are currently a total of nine ten episodes of Cinematic Titanic available, while there have been 120 RiffTrax episodes (again, not counting more than 150 shorts). I don’t want to give Cinematic Titanic short shrift by any means, but the numbers are what they are.
I would really like to get your thoughts on the best and fairest way to approach this and on everything I’ve talked about here.
Some thoughts I’ve had: Maybe we should just separate the two streams completely and do Cinematic Titanic on, say, Tuesdays, and RiffTrax on Thursdays. Cinematic Titanic will end in a couple of months (until the next disk comes out), but at least they’ll get an uncluttered hearing. Or maybe we should just start with Cinematic Titanic on Thursdays and then move to on to RiffTrax.
One final crazy idea: Maybe we shouldn’t do the RiffTrax in chronological order but instead do them in groups, like do all the franchise movies together, i.e. all the Star Wars movies in a row, all the Harry Potter movies in a row, like that.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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#49 – I understand but it still isn’t MST3k.
We have do to the Rifftrax-ers that are blockblusters and blockflusters as well. For no other reason than my golden chance to finely enthuse about one of their finest hours: High School Musical. Seriously, it’s great and I can’t quite figure why it hasn’t had an instantaneous cult following.
I would like to see the 1 MST3K episode per week kept, but how about also doing one CT or Rifftrax movie on the weekend or something? Alternate between CT and the RiffTrax DVDs/Vods until you run out.
That would even things out a lot. And frankly, I think a lot of the charm of the riffing concept is lost when it’s done to a Hollywood blockbuster. Is it sort of funny? Sure. But it’s still attached to a product of a soulless bloodsucking vampire of an industry.
Like Weird Al doing parodies of the latest autotuned (former) Disney star
And let me add, I kind of think of this place as a book club – everyone watches that episode and then talks about it that week. So I don’t mind the repetitions
You asked so… I would like to see you continue to cycle through the MST3K episodes every Thursday pretty much forever. There are always new viewers, new insights, the one qualification being that we might be able to see the comments broken out by year.
I wouldn’t mind covering the Film Crew eps, they were pretty good and very much in keeping with the spirit of MST3K. But the other 2 I don’t care about.. I don’t do rifftrax and I don’t like CT.
The RT titles outnumber the CTs by far, but if you narrow the RT list to standalone DVDs only (ex., “Planet of the Dinosaurs”) then that evens things up a bit.
#27 Steve – I don’t understand the logic here. Why would you need to review the live shows? 99% of the audience hasn’t seen then. If Sampo went nuts and said that every Monday we’re chatting about Coldplay albums, it wouldn’t follow that we’d also need to talk about their concerts too.
#35 Fred- Classic RT? Quite a few. But this isn’t a Rifftrax thread, so I’ll just note their existence.
Sampo, personally I’d go with the 2 episodes a week format, with a third “potpourri” day where you discuss a CT/RT/Film Crew subject.
Man I hate Coldplay. I don’t really want to discuss it anymore.
Matt B #57> You need to review the CT live DVD’s as live is the only way titles like “East Meets Watts” is available. It’s that or nothing.
I’m also in favor of doing Rifftrax in chronological order. There’s a lot of callbacks that would be missed if we jumped around.