{"id":683,"date":"2008-06-28T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2008-06-29T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T14:48:43","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-lamest-heroes-in-a-msted-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Discussion Thread: Lamest Heroes in a MSTed Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Sorry for the late start. Our topic this week is: Lame heroes in MSTed movies. There are, of course, so many of these to choose from, getting your list down to ten will be tough. Show your work.<\/p>\n<p>In episode order:<br \/>\n\u2022 310- FUGITIVE ALIEN\/ 318- STAR FORCE &#8211; FUGITIVE ALIEN II&#8211;Starwolf: Full of self-loathing and self-doubt, he is ultimately useless in virtually every challenge he faces, but then the Bacchus 3 crew set the bar pretty low&#8230;<br \/>\n\u2022 408- HERCULES UNCHAINED&#8211;Herc, of course: Let&#8217;s face it, he spends a good deal of the movie asleep.<br \/>\n\u2022 422- THE DAY THE EARTH FROZE&#8211;Lemminkainen: o\/` He&#8217;s a failure, la-la-lah&#8230;o\/`<br \/>\n\u2022 501- WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD&#8211;Paper Chase Guy: As discussed this week, a whiny incompetent.<br \/>\n\u2022 512- MITCHELL&#8211;Mitchell!: &#8220;Our hero, ladies and gentlemen&#8230;&#8221; Sleeps with hookers and drinks with his toes, the ultimate lame hero.<br \/>\n\u2022 704- THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN&#8211;DOCTOR TED NELSON!: Repeatedly drops the ball throughout his entire investigation.<br \/>\n\u2022 808- THE SHE CREATURE&#8211;Lance Fuller: Dead-eyed and comotose, the hero that just sort of stands there.<br \/>\n\u2022 816- PRINCE OF SPACE\/ INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN&#8211;yes, I know Prince of Space and Space Chief are technically different characters, but really we&#8217;re talking about the same archetype, and while our weapons are useless against them, lameness surrounds them.<br \/>\n\u2022 910- THE FINAL SACRIFICE&#8211;Rowsdower. Nuff said.<br \/>\n\u2022 1006- BOGGY CREEK II&#8211;Charles Pierce: He plays a smug, self-righteous callous jerk&#8211;and he wrote the movie!<br \/>\nHow about yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Sorry for the late start. Our topic this week is: Lame heroes in MSTed movies. There are, of course, so many of these to choose from, getting your list down to ten will be tough. Show your work.<\/p>\n<p>In episode order: \u2022 310- FUGITIVE ALIEN\/ 318- STAR FORCE &#8211; FUGITIVE ALIEN II&#8211;Starwolf: Full [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msties","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}