From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu
dgates writes:
>On 21 Oct 2008 09:09:09 -0400, nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
>> You know, remember back when Mystery Science Theater went off
>>the air and the group kept coming up with these ludicrously impractical
>>methods by which they could Keep The Riffing Going, like releasing their
>>own audio tracks to go with shows or making riffs without silhouettes or
>>without theater segments or so on to save production costs ... has the
>>world really changed *that* much since then?
>I'm sorry to be dense, (I'm actually not feeling well today), but I'm
>not sure what you're saying, or which parts of your post are supposed
>to be ironic.
I'm not trying to be sarcastic or ironic or anything in
particular. I'm just marvelling that there is this abundance of
Mystery Science Theater 3000-based comic-riffing material so long
after the original show went off the air. And wonder and delight
at how they're able to produce this stuff by selling the riff audio
separately from the movies, or doing live shows, or selling stuff
directly to the fans.
>Are you saying that the group's methods really were "ludicrously
>impractical?" Or that, in fact, they weren't?
I'm delighted that pretty much every plan to keep the flame
alive in 1999, apart from taking the show to American Movie Classics
for some reason, has turned out and happened and works reasonably
well enough. I don't think something like Rifftrax would have worked
in 1999, and I wouldn't have thought direct-to-video sales would have
worked, but ... I mean, isn't it wonderful that it is?
>Are you now happy that the riffers are still out there, some of them
>doing silhouette-free riffing?
Delighted. I miss the original, of course, but these are
comfortable successors.
--
Joseph Nebus
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