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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Feb 18, 2024 13:16:56 GMT -5
I understand that. It’s the way this country has presented itself in recent years from everyone why I’ve grown to dislike it.
But anyway, let’s wait to hear what the deal is with this episode.
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Post by starschwar on Feb 18, 2024 16:02:08 GMT -5
I'm going to respectfully withdraw my question and politely ask that we redirect the rest of the topic back towards KTMA. Internet political discourse is frustrating and really doesn't belong here. Let's get back on track for our own sakes and anyone else reading the thread.
Anyhow! Yes, polite reminder in a week or so. After that, back to the waiting game. Either he'll get it digitized eventually, or he won't, or he never had it to begin with (still the most likely version of events in my mind). Or Shout/Gizmonics (or whatever Joel calls the company now) got to him first and they have it and will probably prevent us from seeing it for a long time. I think those are all permutations.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Feb 18, 2024 16:24:44 GMT -5
I’m accepting of whatever the situation may be. I can even accept an “Oh, this actually turned out to be K12 mislabeled” as a response, even if it may be a disappointing one.
I’m just not a fan of being ghosted, even if I’m not the one who’s directly contacting Alex. I mainly feel the second-hand frustration from Kolos of just being left on read. It’s especially frustrating when it happens with my directly because I have anxiety and being left on read (regardless if I’m not entitled to a response) and a bit of chronic irritability that it makes me nervous if I’m possibly just coming off as an annoyance to whoever I’m contacting and irritability with just the feeling of my time being wasted.
But……. I don’t know. We’ll know what the answer is soon enough hopefully.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Feb 18, 2024 17:55:38 GMT -5
Seeing that last sentence, again, I don’t think Shout purposely keeping the episode away from us seems likely cause again, Ivan Askwith himself DID confirm that if they had the episode, “they would have released it by now.” So that TELLS me getting K03 out there would definitely be something they’d like to do, and from what I know, Shout still has the rights to the Tsuburaya stuff so they really could give it a similar “under the radar” digital release.
I mean I don’t think Ivan was just saying that to get fans off his back, but who knows what the deal honestly is. I’m going to make a fair assumption that he meant what he said with that, unfortunately it’s just out of their control with the fact that they don’t have the physical tape. And Shout or Joel randomly stumbling upon Alex’s twitter profile just seems…… extremely slim, unless they do daily “K03 Mst3k” searches on twitter which again…… doesn’t seem likely at all to me.
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Post by starschwar on Feb 18, 2024 18:16:13 GMT -5
If someone from the powers-that-be were aware of the tweet, they would have been made aware by someone in the fan community. There's no way they are actively trying to hunt down the lost episode. The kind of effort involved with that, as well as the level of communication with the community it would entail doesn't really match up with what we've seen from recent engagement (fundraising efforts).
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Post by Diet Kolos on Mar 9, 2024 12:02:56 GMT -5
Sent another message on Discord.
"Howdy, its been awhile. Just wondering if there was anything new you'd heard from your cousin about that copy of K03?"
If I don't get a response within the next month I'm going to try and reach out to the cousin directly, or get someone like Gilchrist involved.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Mar 9, 2024 12:22:25 GMT -5
Well…… I’m curious to see where this can potentially lead….
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Mar 9, 2024 17:46:46 GMT -5
Sent another message on Discord. "Howdy, its been awhile. Just wondering if there was anything new you'd heard from your cousin about that copy of K03?" If I don't get a response within the next month I'm going to try and reach out to the cousin directly, or get someone like Gilchrist involved. I’m sorry to ask this, but do you indeed have contact information with his cousin? I’m sure you know what to say if it does come down to that, my only concern is if Alex isn’t aware of this and suddenly decides to respond and accuses you of creeping on his family info considering how silent he’s being with this if he doesn’t know you know his cousin’s contact information.
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Post by Diet Kolos on Mar 10, 2024 9:19:37 GMT -5
I have a few solid contacts.
And understandable concern, but on the other hand...
When one leaves someone on read for ~4 months on a topic that is very evidently important to them and a lot of other people, you can't be surprised when people start going around one to find answers.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Mar 10, 2024 9:25:40 GMT -5
Oh for sure, unfortunately none of us know what Alex is like personally that we can’t predict how he’s going to respond. And people in general are just strange. I’ve had instances where good friends I’ve met online all of a sudden blocked me with no explanation when I’ve done absolutely nothing to them. So you never know.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on May 3, 2024 19:38:06 GMT -5
Well……… it’s May at this point.
Any possible progress with acquiring this tape?
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