1201 - TBE - Spoiler Thread

[Edward J Grug III]

Post discussions of season 12 episode 1 here. Title and first post to be edited to allow people to discover the episodes for themselves.

[MrTorso]

Too bad they were forced into this gauntlet nonsense. Never saw Mac and Me before but it seems to be chopped heavily to fit the mandated format/time frame.

Whatever happened to "the right people will get it" attitude they had?

[Pak-Man]

I don't know that they were forced. This is actually one of the only Netflix shows that tries to adhere to standard episode lengths.

[MrTorso]

I think that trying to make MST3K mainstream just will never work. People either get it or they don't. I don't think that shortening the episodes will make much of a difference to a new viewer.

From Kickstarter:

So, this time around, the entire "concept" of the season will be a little different, and warped in a really fun way, which I think will make the whole series of movies "hang together" as a season. I'm not going to tell you the concept yet, but...

I like the "concept" of the season. Every movie is a knock off version.  I can't wait for Killer Fish.

[Edward J Grug III]

I really like the premise/format, and have never had a problem with them editing movies.

[eegah]

Really good episode! Some great riffs.

Anyone catch Jennifer Aniston's cameo? Blink and you'll miss it.

[Edward J Grug III]

Yes, an excellent episode - I forgot to say that. Looking forward to ep 2 tonight!

[eegah]

What I meant to say was: Preeetty niiice!

[CJones]

As I was watching this I thought to myself that the music in this is WAY too good for such a stupid movie.

Not 5 minutes later Crow says "I want to see the movie this composer thought he was writing the score for"

[CJones]

Too bad they were forced into this gauntlet nonsense. Never saw Mac and Me before but it seems to be chopped heavily to fit the mandated format/time frame.

Whatever happened to "the right people will get it" attitude they had?

The run time of this movie in only 95 minutes, and I'm almost certain that dance party at McDonalds was WAY longer in the unedited version. Granted it's been 30 years since I saw this movie, but even back then I remember thinking "how is this not over yet?" So you're not missing much. Still, I can't help but agree.

One thing notably missing compared to season 11 are the "commercial break" eye catches. Which is a shame, I liked them.

[ihavemyreasons]

I like the gauntlet premise. Jonah and the boys very rarely acting frustrated with the experiments was one of my major pet peeves with Season 11 and Season 12 rectifies that.

[ihavemyreasons]

I'll add the premise is similar to the premise that was used for the first Turkey Day in 1991. Except that was 30 hours instead of around 9 (but TD '1 would have come in at around 23 hours without commercials).

[Pak-Man]

"He knew that would work because he saw the first scene!"

[BathTub]

Yeah a good kick off episode, I wish they didn't cut so much out, but I don't think it'd because of the gauntlet gimmick directly.

[BathTub]

Oh was there really no Angela Lansbury references? The alien mother totally looked like her.