Bringing Back MST3K (Again [Again])
Mar. 15th, 2026 06:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsAh, it almost slipped my mind, but MST3K is one of my longtime loves, and the MST veterans at Rifftrax are doing a Kickstarter to make a new season. Only 36 hours left as of this writing!
Only four episodes but they've gotten pledges for... (counts on fingers) 102 times as much money as they asked for?
I was a loyal backer of the previous MST3K revival seasons and glad they got made, but they haven't done it for me quite like the classics. I'm guardedly optimistic about this effort coming closer, but it also might just be that I got attached to the show during a moment in my life that has passed and thus nothing will ever hit in quite the same way. But I'm still in.
And (warning: in-jokes ahead) the most recent season ended with several characters going back in time, so if they wanted to make some continuity gesture while bringing back Mike, Kevin!Servo, and Bill!Crow --- well, first off, it's just a show, you should really just relax, but they could always say it was one of them weird numbers where Jonah and/or Emily stepped on a butterfly or something, and then 'cause of that a certain Radio Shack in the Upper Midwest folded slightly sooner than it otherwise would have, and then 'cause of that the Sci-Fi Channel never secured the rights to Diabolik, and now here we are in an alternate timeline.
Only four episodes but they've gotten pledges for... (counts on fingers) 102 times as much money as they asked for?
I was a loyal backer of the previous MST3K revival seasons and glad they got made, but they haven't done it for me quite like the classics. I'm guardedly optimistic about this effort coming closer, but it also might just be that I got attached to the show during a moment in my life that has passed and thus nothing will ever hit in quite the same way. But I'm still in.
And (warning: in-jokes ahead) the most recent season ended with several characters going back in time, so if they wanted to make some continuity gesture while bringing back Mike, Kevin!Servo, and Bill!Crow --- well, first off, it's just a show, you should really just relax, but they could always say it was one of them weird numbers where Jonah and/or Emily stepped on a butterfly or something, and then 'cause of that a certain Radio Shack in the Upper Midwest folded slightly sooner than it otherwise would have, and then 'cause of that the Sci-Fi Channel never secured the rights to Diabolik, and now here we are in an alternate timeline.
