Mystery Science Theater 3000: C/D, S/D.

The best spirit-of-MST these days has easily been The Mads Are Back livestreams that started up last summer. One a month and they've all been delights.

I do follow Rifftrax and yeah, that's a partnership that's been pretty great. (That said, per upthread comments when Mike's more questionable choices blew up again last summer, sometimes you gotta wonder about that family.)

KS video leaked early
https://v.kickstarter.com/1617903926_640398c78adac4003fe3378e86fef2106aae5f04/projects/4107364/video-1097343-h264_high.mp4

Hmmm.

having their own app seems pointless, why not just put it on Shout Factory's thing or even just their Youtube channel?

Yeah the fact that Shout Factory coowns MST3K with Joel is my big sticking point here.

I mean, I have multiple sticking points at this point of sticking.

Well, that too!

I suspect I'll do exactly what I did with the last one -- contribute $1 and see what the updates say.

The first time around, I definitely gave good.

the Pluto TV app for Roku has a channel that shows MST3k 24 hours a day year round

My go to when firing that up for background noise while working but I’ve noticed they do seem to be rerunning some of them much more frequently than others. Especially the coiley short.

Anyway, up and running. Now, who has a spare $25,000?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/makemoremst3k

I’ll take a servo @ 7.5K (i do not have that money)

You've got kids, make them earn their keep

I do not!

smh at Ned's .xls error

Corrupted data. I blame society.

Anyway I do appreciate the cost breakdown

Also they're already up to about half a million so I suspect they'll hit their 6.6 million ultimate stretch goal with ease.

$25k doesnt include shipping on the various merch rewards, so really its like $25,012.50 - nice try, Joel

I’m sitting this one out.

am I blind or is there no confirmation of any of the cast for this?

Well per the video it's the returning SoL Netflix crew at least, and presumably the photo of Oswalt and Day in the promo image confirm them.

just seems weird that they want money for a TV show but won't state clearly who is going to be in the TV show. wiggle room I guess.

starring... Shane Gillis and Michael Richards

Which makes me think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN84P7OISmc

lost it starting with "Thomas Aquinas!"

I hope they learn from their mistakes and listen to viewer feedback this time.

maybe the viewers can feedback via little talking heads at the bottom of the screen

Interview with Joel here:

https://tv.avclub.com/exclusive-joel-hodgson-says-it-s-time-to-makemoremst3-1846634073

Also they're approaching $1.5 million and it's not even been twelve hours -- for the first time around the day one total was $850,000. This might all be more of a big blowout than we realize!

Interesting vibes there. The comment about not having to pitch it to a suit .... I wonder, has anyone from the Netflix era ever indicated anything about the show that was in any way pushed from the Netflix end? Or did the nature of the deal give them creative freedom?

MST will be an NFT.

Just what we needed.

In terms of the vibe -- Netflix is clearly in a position of not having to answer to anyone about their choices, so no, to my knowledge nothing has surfaced, probably only a bland statement or two. It's worth remembering that the previous Kickstarter got the show filmed and the Netflix deal happened after the season itself was in the can, so it can't have been that Netflix thought they spent too much money on the production straight up, though presumably there was some further deal. I'm sure Shout Factory and Joel were more than a little miffed at the opacity in the end.

It’s been reported that Netflix finds that seasons beyond the 2nd of their original series generally don’t have a measurable effect on subscriptions iirc

I thought it was three rather than two? Seems to be a magic number.

it is crazy to me that anything at all has any effect on their subscriptions. everyone i know, whatever else they do with their lives, also has netflix. to my knowledge no one ever cancels it or subscribes to it. like the fact that they shovel out content at the pace they do blows my mind because surely they could halve it and experience no measurable drop in income.

Fun detail -- Jonah is responding to a number of the comments on the Kickstarter page.

Anyway initial funding goal reached in a little over a day, so I'm guessing $5.5 million will happen when all is said and done.

Msties are indeed the craziest of fans, in a good way.

yeah, the average donation is currently hovering around $190, which is pretty absurd.

I did like Jonah's comment a few minutes back: "Wow, look at all those pledges... PREEEEETTY NIIIIIIICE!"

Actually what's kinda fucking crazy is that they've since added almost another $50K. Allowing for late evening/early morning slowdown that still puts them in range to hitting $3.3 million conceivably as early as late tomorrow or the weekend? But we'll see how this shakes out, normally there's a big initial rush then a ticking along before a final rush.

First note from Joel from it all:

The last 24 hours have been so crazy that I don't know what to say. When we decided to come back and do another Kickstarter – and to do it after a year-long worldwide pandemic – we weren't really sure how things would go.

The last time we tried this, it took us almost a week to reach our first goal, and make three episodes... so I guess I figured if we could do that again, we'd be off to a really good start.

But yeah, as you might have noticed, things went a little faster this time...

And it goes from there. I hadn't remembered it had needed a week for the first goal last time out, I don't blame him for being surprised!

New update from Joel clarifies some further details and reconfirms the (kinda) obvious, that it's the returning cast from the last two seasons but also dropped a pretty heavy hint that Emily from the live shows last year will be involved too, a good thing.

Chugging along and about to hit halfway to the main final goal. New update with some details

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/makemoremst3k/posts/3158936

Meantime on tonight's Mads are Back stream (with Kevin Murphy as a guest), one of the questions the moderator passed along -- saying they were getting a lot of people asking -- was whether either of the Mads or Kevin were involved with this new effort. Kevin politely begged off and noted he had Rifftrax but let's just say it was PLENTY clear that Frank and Trace still feel some ill will over everything that happened, though they tried to keep it relatively smooth. (Trace, not entirely.)

Kickstarter still chugging along -- should reach the next overall goal of $3.3 million in a couple of days -- but in the meantime, enjoy an oral history of the movie

https://film.avclub.com/mystery-science-theater-3000-the-movie-the-oral-histo-1846694612

really good read, thanks for linking! confirmed a lot of what i've probably been carrying around since Usenet FAQ days, but with a lot more detail - and a few lighter notes leavening the familiar nightmare of interfering studio suits.