MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life

New submitter kevin lyda writes: The creator of MST3K wants to bring it back. Anywhere from just three episodes up to a full season. Joel is also including options to make it DRM-free. Wired reports: "Hodgson officially launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund new episodes of the series. The initial goal of $2 million would fund only three episodes, but if the campaign does well enough, the project could make as many as 12 episodes (that maximum order would require $5.5 million). The rewards run the gamut from the typical t-shirt all the way up to fans contributing riffs to the episodes or hosting live installments of the show. But the real fun begins if MST3K finds an angel investor willing to splash some serious cash: 'Finally, if we raise $1 BILLION—stay with me on this one—we’re going to adopt a real live teenage boy and "Truman Show" him into believing he is the Pumaman!'"

Comments

Re:Please don't bring it back

[geekd]

"I don't like it so NO ONE should like it!"

Re:Acronym

[kimvette]

I doubt there is anyone visiting /. who hasn't any idea what MST3K is... or at least how to google it

Re:Please don't bring it back

[jellomizer]

We really need to get off our nostalgia kick. Nostalgia isn't productive. The edgy funny shows of the past are now cliche and these attempt to bring them back will only fail to impress, as we look at these new shows now with our more experienced eyes.
Red Dwarf was an excellent show. But we shouldn't bring it back. They had a few episodes made a couple years ago, and the show had lost its edge. The main characters are getting old, they really don't have the same appeal for the shenanigans they did 20 years ago. Bringing it back even with excellent writers won't save it.

Same with Mystery Science Theater 3000 (I am not going to abbreviate it, at it took me 10 minutes to figure out what the heck they were talking about) When it was new it was good. Today not so. You want you commentary on stuff go to sites such as channel awesome But this bringing back the things that we loved in our childhood - early adult just isn't cutting it anymore. New episodes will not have the same charm any more. Because we don't get charmed the same way any more.
As a Kid, I Loved Star Trek, as an adult, I like it on a nostalgic kick, but not in the same way. The reason why Voyager and Enterprise didn't appeal to me, isn't about bad writing direction or acting. But the fact as I got older my tastes changed, what is new and exciting became predictable. Now I may watch a new show (or even an older show that I haven't seen before) and get interested in it, but after it is done reboots and spin offs appeal less.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Has been replaced with You-Tube commentaries. The fact that there are two Puppets giving commentary will not add much, compared to the variety of quality that we can get online.