Post by mylungswereaching on Nov 15, 2019 19:28:32 GMT -5
In my case, the Reboot brought me back to the show. I hadn't really watched MST3k at all over the previous ten years. But I still prefer the original episodes, especially now that the Reboot appears to be cancelled. Its premature death has tainted it for me somehow. Whereas before I thought of it as the new MST3k for a new generation, I'm now starting to see it as the short-lived reboot that never got a chance, a strange anomaly in the history of MST3k, like the Flash cartoons or the PlayStation Underground promo.
I'm not sure why it's a premature death. The SciFi days only lasted 3 seasons. The Netflix years lasted two.
Compromise is a dirty word now a days. But I think one of the things that made the original MST3k was teamwork and compromise. Joel created the show but the show that ended up being made is as much the work of Trace and Kevin and Josh and Frank and Mike and Jim and a whole bunch of people behind the scenes. Joel had to compromise his vision with the people he worked with to make the show. But the sum of the parts made a better show.
The new show was Joel and a bunch of part timers and hired hands. There wasn't that compromise that made things great. It was corporate and sterile. He had a lot more money but no creative feedback.
Joel needs to form a new team to make MST3k better. He can keep some or all of the on screen people but there has to be a team of full timers who work as a team to run it. Keep the mads for the publicity and name recognition. They're only in the show for a short time. The people who are in the theater need to be full timers. If they are willing fine. If not get new people who are.