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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Aug 18, 2014 15:07:59 GMT -5
Great stuff, Treadwell. Like others have said, your chat seems to have confirmed quite a lot of what's been conjectured here. I'm guessing Mallon would just let it happen. I mean, what does he have to gain from stopping it? They could just buy him off with a percentage if they don't want him involved in production. MST: The Next Generation
Actually it would be really funny if the show had Forrester and Frank (each somehow reincarnated) sending a young guy back into space, and Joel and Mike learned of it, teaming up with the original bots to try to foil them and rescue the poor guy. Those would make for some interesting host segment cameos. Or of the mads were "new mads," , then Frank and Forrester could do cameos as themselves. I'm all for a new cast but I'd like to see the orginal guys now and then too.
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Post by Triple_sSs on Aug 20, 2014 13:43:30 GMT -5
These descriptions of the 'Bots are making me wonder if they'll still be using strictly practical FX, or if some degree of CG will be involved. I've been thinking animatronics or the like could be an option, provided that it isn't too expensive.
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Aug 20, 2014 14:39:11 GMT -5
My assumption is that Joel's strong preference would be practical FX, because CGI would remove a lot of the home-made charm of the show that made it so special the first time around. And Joel does lots of cool stuff on a shoestring with practical FX because, well, he can.
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Post by RedTom on Sept 4, 2014 4:22:42 GMT -5
Mike did make the comment that they may do CGI when dinosaur CGI cost 20 bucks for a T-Rex effect. I'm sure he was just kidding though. You are correct though, Brother Servo, the show would lose a great deal of its novelty if it resorted to CGI effects, even if it were cheap CGI it would still not be a welcome change.
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Post by tomservofan on Oct 6, 2014 19:22:26 GMT -5
Sometimes things are better left alone so when people think about it they have nothing but good memories. Look at what happened to Bret Favre...while I'd totally love the show to come back I'm scared without the same crew and cast it might fall flat. The original started out on a shoestring budget on public access...it just wouldn't be the same. As a previous post stated everything and everyone came together at just the right time to create my favorite show of all time. It would be worth a try I guess-I'd love to have some new Joel episodes!
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Oct 8, 2014 10:24:37 GMT -5
I say bring it on -- if it's great, great! If it's not so great, well, Godfather 3 doesn't make me like Godfather and Godfather 2 any less!
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Post by Mod City on Oct 8, 2014 11:40:29 GMT -5
Sometimes things are better left alone so when people think about it they have nothing but good memories. Look at what happened to Bret Favre...while I'd totally love the show to come back I'm scared without the same crew and cast it might fall flat. The original started out on a shoestring budget on public access...it just wouldn't be the same. As a previous post stated everything and everyone came together at just the right time to create my favorite show of all time. It would be worth a try I guess-I'd love to have some new Joel episodes! Good points, all, tomservofan. I'm also of the set that thinks good old fashioned cheap practical effects are more than fine for the show in any incarnation. And just to clarify, the show started on a UHF station, not public access
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Post by tomservofan on Oct 8, 2014 21:08:35 GMT -5
UHF-public access...pretty much the same in my book. Do they even exist anymore in today's so-called 'information age'? (In which people are closer yet farther from each other at the same time.)
Cheap, cheesy sets and props added to the overall charm since the movies mercilessly gutted usually had the same effects quality wise. (Except 'Puuu-ma Man'. Mst3k even had better props.)
I say put Joel in charge of the creative department and make Mike head writer again-and definitely get Kevin Murphy in on it also. Things couldn't go wrong...
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Post by Treadwell on Oct 10, 2014 23:55:51 GMT -5
Hardly the same thing. A UHF station was still a TV station, with all the inherent need for viewership and profitability. Public access is just some time and facilities given to people for free, without any care about whether anyone watches it.
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Post by Triple_sSs on Oct 12, 2014 20:56:54 GMT -5
Just read someone's comment on Facebook that said at Philadelphia's RetroCon a week or two ago, Joel said at a Q&A that we should hear more about the revival in November (perhaps around Turkey Day?) and it'll start out as a Kickstarter campaign.
So uh, wow. This could really be happening.
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Post by Diet Kolos on Oct 14, 2014 9:44:41 GMT -5
It'd be a great idea to start off a Kickstarter campaign in conjunction with the marathon.
Also: Per Tweets, Joel, Trace and Josh recently had lunch together in the Twin Cities area. Maybe unrelated, but...
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Post by tomservofan on Oct 15, 2014 5:33:27 GMT -5
Sorry I'm new to the whole Turkey Day event. What is it-Joel hosting the marathon on TV or just with Twitter? My wife and I would love to participate if possible. It would be such an awesome gift to fans to announce a reboot during this!
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Post by Shark on Oct 15, 2014 13:19:05 GMT -5
Sorry I'm new to the whole Turkey Day event. What is it-Joel hosting the marathon on TV or just with Twitter? My wife and I would love to participate if possible. It would be such an awesome gift to fans to announce a reboot during this! It was streaming online last year with Joel doing host segments.
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Post by tomservofan on Oct 15, 2014 19:22:40 GMT -5
Streaming online where exactly?
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Post by gerswin on Oct 15, 2014 22:29:04 GMT -5
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