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Posted by DexterBG on 12/2/2007, 1:41 am, in reply to "DBNS: An Embarassment of Riches?"
I think this is all a very clever plot by Mr. Hand (Mr. Bill's nemesis) to silence this board. Could Sluggo be waiting in the wings?
:
: I have to say I’m a bit worried. Don’t get
: me wrong, it’s not the appearance of these
: groups that worries me. No, my worry comes
: from the perception I’ve seen in a couple of
: quarters that this will result in some kind
: of a three-way split in the MSTie ranks.
: And I’ve seen enough of these kinds of
: inter-fandom conflicts (TOS vs. Net Gen, OT
: vs. PT, lots of “Doctor Who” feuds) to know
: that this sort of thing won’t benefit anyone
: and will only cause loads of unneeded hassle
: all around.
Those examples that you sited are mainly "generational" fan feuds. Old school Trek vs new school Trek, old Star Wars vs new Star Wars, etc. The only same generation scifi feud I can recall was ST:DS9 vs B5. The deal with these new incarnations of MST3k is that they're more complementary than competitive. And not a generation apart.
If anything, people who never saw the original show, might think the new ones are better than the old show (if they see it on YouTube or DVDs). But I suspect that the MST3k fan is a different breed, over the vacuous fans of the big budget Tv and movie scifi productions. I know that I've always felt a bit uneasy being counted a fan of either Star Trek (any gen) or Star Wars. But not uneasy with MST3k fandom. I've been right at home with you guys since 1996.
In fact I've only been embarrassed that I wasn't onboard long before that. But then cable Tv in my locale wasn't kind to the show, or the network carrying it. By the time we got TFNWSRN, MST3k was cancelled. I only saw what I did of season 7, and a few dozen season 4 - 6 repeats, via my sister's cable Tv franchise (45 miles away) on video tapes. And also those syndicated "hour" episodes, via a very low power independent station (now of "CW").
And if I hadn't explored the MST3k newsgroups, after being bored with the feuds going on in all the other scifi newsgroups. I wouldn't have learned about the show at all, before TSNWSRN had picked it up. I still have most of those monthly episode schedules that were posted by the few MST fans who were privy (somehow) to what TFNWSRN was up to. And the IMDb still has the "MST3k" tags on all of the movies in question, that some fan(s) must of spent weeks (or months) submitting the entries for.
:
: Well, look at it this way. The way I figure
: it, I think I’ve got enough material to last
: me until the next Great Drought anniversary
: in January. So, I’ll give it some thought.
: And, at that point, I’ll decide on whether
: to close the case, start it all over again,
: or something else.
Well that up to you, of course. I still think that by "Great Drought", you meant "no MST3k series on Tv". Or at least no regular production on Tv, the internet, or via direct marketting. While Rifftrax and The Film Crew's efforts are welcome. They're hardly "regular" compared to the usual Tv series standard. No more (or not much more) so than Rhino's occasional output of a volume or two of old episodes a year, constitutes an end to the drought (not even if they tripled their output).
And if you close this board next January, I'll only have managed to review the season 1 experiments that I've gotten hold off. But I probably won't have time to finish my "Jules Verne: Around the Moon" review. The problem is that Verne rewrote the same story a couple of times, and many studios made a movie based on some version of it. It's a very eclectic and boring mess. But at least one version deserves a critical review here. Even if there's not enough time to compare the Verne novels, and other movies, to it.
And besides all that, by your count there's still over 362,340-some days until the year 3000. You can't quit now, when you're so close.
-Dex-
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