| Boxset angst? [message #163479] |
Fri, 11 July 2008 16:59  |
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Originally posted by: Derek Janssen
Two more weeks until we cross the ComiCon, and finally get our
fan-convention announcement of which episodes will show up on the Shout
Factory "20th Anniversary" DVD box...
But given that we've already got the unhelpful box art
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Mystery-Science-Theater-300 0-20th-Anniversary/10032
(cool, tins!), it's started speculation about exactly WHICH titles would
contitute a 20th Anniversary--
There was a brief blip of mis-data on Shout's site falsely speculating
on "Laserblast" and "Werewolf" (for an anniversary set? 0_o?? ), which
they later retracted.
Still can't help theorizing: Judging by the fact that they were at
least *talking* about Laserblast, is it possible we'll get at least some
mix and matching of "Crawling Eye", "Laserblast" and/or "Diabolik" as
some Alpha-to-Omega explanation of the show's beginning and ending canon?
Derek Janssen (also says they're working on a second one for "early next
year"...A set, that is, not an anniversary)
ejanss1@verizon.net
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| Re: Boxset angst? [message #163480 is a reply to message #163479] |
Fri, 11 July 2008 18:45  |
Doug Elrod
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On Jul 11, 4:59 pm, Derek Janssen <ejan...@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
> Two more weeks until we cross the ComiCon, and finally get our
> fan-convention announcement of which episodes will show up on the Shout
> Factory "20th Anniversary" DVD box...
I guess they'll shout it out then, so to speak!
> But given that we've already got the unhelpful box arthttp://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Mystery-Science-Theater- 3000-20th-An...
> (cool, tins!),
"My God, it's full of riffs!" :-)
> it's started speculation about exactly WHICH titles would contitute a 20th Anniversary--
Some subset, of size four, of episodes actually made during the show's
run. Anything else would fall far short of what *I* would expect in a
20th Anniversary Boxset!
> There was a brief blip of mis-data on Shout's site falsely speculating
> on "Laserblast" and "Werewolf" (for an anniversary set? 0_o?? ), which
> they later retracted.
Or maybe it was just AN INGENIOUS "TRIAL BALLOON"!
> Still can't help theorizing: Judging by the fact that they were at
> least *talking* about Laserblast, is it possible we'll get at least some
> mix and matching of "Crawling Eye", "Laserblast" and/or "Diabolik" as
> some Alpha-to-Omega explanation of the show's beginning and ending canon?
If they're thinking of "Laserblast", then perhaps the series "The
Magic Sword", "Kitten with a Whip", "Danger! Death Ray", and
"Laserblast" could be seen as capturing the "Weaponry" aspect of the
show's mis-en-scene!
> Derek Janssen (also says they're working on a second one for "early next
> year"...A set, that is, not an anniversary)
Well, yes, there are more weapons-based films than those I listed, I
suppose! Or maybe they'll go in a more *ocular* direction!
-Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu) :-)
Ocular, yet jocular?
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| Re: Boxset angst? [message #163482 is a reply to message #163480] |
Fri, 11 July 2008 22:49 |
nebusj-
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Doug Elrod <dre1@cornell.edu> writes:
> On Jul 11, 4:59=A0pm, Derek Janssen <ejan...@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
>> Two more weeks until we cross the ComiCon, and finally get our
>> fan-convention announcement of which episodes will show up on the Shout
>> Factory "20th Anniversary" DVD box...
> I guess they'll shout it out then, so to speak!
I for one am glad to let it all out.
>> But given that we've already got the unhelpful box arthttp://www.tvshowso=
> ndvd.com/news/Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-20th-An...
>> (cool, tins!),
> "My God, it's full of riffs!" :-)
Tins. Wow. I haven't got a DVD in a tin since the hard days
during the war just as Fred Allen rationing was coming to an end.
>> it's started speculation about exactly WHICH titles would contitute a 20t=
> h Anniversary--
> Some subset, of size four, of episodes actually made during the show's
> run. Anything else would fall far short of what *I* would expect in a
> 20th Anniversary Boxset!
Given the apparent size of the tin it seems like a waste of
volume if it is just the quartet of DVDs. I have a great deal of faith
in the Shout folks -- look at the SCTV discs -- but it does seem like a
lot of space.
>> There was a brief blip of mis-data on Shout's site falsely speculating
>> on "Laserblast" and "Werewolf" (for an anniversary set? 0_o?? ), which
>> they later retracted.
> Or maybe it was just AN INGENIOUS "TRIAL BALLOON"!
Oh, no, 'Werewolf' is just absurd for an anniversary set. What
they surely meant was 'Teenage Caveman'.
>> Still can't help theorizing: =A0Judging by the fact that they were at
>> least *talking* about Laserblast, is it possible we'll get at least some
>> mix and matching of "Crawling Eye", "Laserblast" and/or "Diabolik" as
>> some Alpha-to-Omega explanation of the show's beginning and ending canon?
> If they're thinking of "Laserblast", then perhaps the series "The
> Magic Sword", "Kitten with a Whip", "Danger! Death Ray", and
> "Laserblast" could be seen as capturing the "Weaponry" aspect of the
> show's mis-en-scene!
'Kitten With A Whip' would be fine for an anniversary set for
me, since that was the first episode I saw in full, but that's doing
a lot more customization than I would have figured even for Shout.
Actually, my guess for stuff to fill out a 20th Anniversary
Set, as long as we're not constrained by any budgetary, legal, or
sanity-related issues would be the various extracurricular activities,
like _This Is MST3K_ or the Gold Statuette shows.
>> Derek Janssen (also says they're working on a second one for "early next
>> year"...A set, that is, not an anniversary)
> Well, yes, there are more weapons-based films than those I listed, I
> suppose! Or maybe they'll go in a more *ocular* direction!
How about an Attack-and-Invasion set? Rocket Attack USA,
Invasion USA, Attack of the the Eye Creatures, Invasion of the Neptune
Men? We could have so much stuff destroyed, and at two in the
afternoon.
> -Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu) :-)
> Ocular, yet jocular?
Isn't that how Hawkeye and BJ imitated Father Mulcahy?
--
Joseph Nebus
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| Re: Boxset angst? [message #163593 is a reply to message #163482] |
Sat, 12 July 2008 05:23 |
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Originally posted by: Derek Janssen
Joseph Nebus wrote:
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>> Some subset, of size four, of episodes actually made during the show's
>> run. Anything else would fall far short of what *I* would expect in a
>> 20th Anniversary Boxset!
>
> Given the apparent size of the tin it seems like a waste of
> volume if it is just the quartet of DVDs. I have a great deal of faith
> in the Shout folks -- look at the SCTV discs -- but it does seem like a
> lot of space.
I assume, given the tin *and* the Anniversary moniker, it's built to
hold a lot of Stuff.
Not episodes, per se, just Stuff. (As is the current trend for DVD
marketing these days.)
Derek Janssen (qv. Warner, who has at least six major Stuff sets coming out)
ejanss1@verizon.net
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| Re: Boxset angst? [message #163594 is a reply to message #163482] |
Sat, 12 July 2008 17:38 |
Doug Elrod
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On Jul 11, 10:49 pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
> Doug Elrod <d...@cornell.edu> writes:
>> On Jul 11, 4:59=A0pm, Derek Janssen <ejan...@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
>>> Two more weeks until we cross the ComiCon, and finally get our
>>> fan-convention announcement of which episodes will show up on the Shout
>>> Factory "20th Anniversary" DVD box...
>> I guess they'll shout it out then, so to speak!
>
> I for one am glad to let it all out.
Well, if you let the dogs out, be sure to slap these "20th
Anniversary" ads on them before you do! They'll be on a collision
course with commercial wackiness!
>>> But given that we've already got the unhelpful box arthttp://www.tvshowso=
>> ndvd.com/news/Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-20th-An...
>>> (cool, tins!),
>> "My God, it's full of riffs!" :-)
>
> Tins. Wow. I haven't got a DVD in a tin since the hard days
> during the war just as Fred Allen rationing was coming to an end.
Yeah, those were the times when you'd often have to hand-crank them,
which would cause *havoc* with the ADA synchronization!
>>> it's started speculation about exactly WHICH titles would contitute a 20t=
>> h Anniversary--
>> Some subset, of size four, of episodes actually made during the show's
>> run. Anything else would fall far short of what *I* would expect in a
>> 20th Anniversary Boxset!
>
> Given the apparent size of the tin it seems like a waste of
> volume if it is just the quartet of DVDs. I have a great deal of faith
> in the Shout folks -- look at the SCTV discs -- but it does seem like a
> lot of space.
Well, we don't really know the scale, do we? They might have done
something they thought was quite clever, and lopped off a bit of the
side of each DVD to put in the top section! No doubt, a similar
tactic back in the 45 rpm days led to the derogatory term,
"Squaresville"!
>>> There was a brief blip of mis-data on Shout's site falsely speculating
>>> on "Laserblast" and "Werewolf" (for an anniversary set? 0_o?? ), which
>>> they later retracted.
>> Or maybe it was just AN INGENIOUS "TRIAL BALLOON"!
>
> Oh, no, 'Werewolf' is just absurd for an anniversary set. What
> they surely meant was 'Teenage Caveman'.
Of course! An unexpected post-apocalyptic climax is surely de rigeur
in your "anniversary set". There's AT LEAST ONE in the "M. Night
Shyamalan" anniversary boxset, isn't there? Or maybe that's AT LEAST
ONE PER FILM :-)
>>> Still can't help theorizing: =A0Judging by the fact that they were at
>>> least *talking* about Laserblast, is it possible we'll get at least some
>>> mix and matching of "Crawling Eye", "Laserblast" and/or "Diabolik" as
>>> some Alpha-to-Omega explanation of the show's beginning and ending canon?
>> If they're thinking of "Laserblast", then perhaps the series "The
>> Magic Sword", "Kitten with a Whip", "Danger! Death Ray", and
>> "Laserblast" could be seen as capturing the "Weaponry" aspect of the
>> show's mis-en-scene!
>
> 'Kitten With A Whip' would be fine for an anniversary set for
> me, since that was the first episode I saw in full, but that's doing
> a lot more customization than I would have figured even for Shout.
>
> Actually, my guess for stuff to fill out a 20th Anniversary
> Set, as long as we're not constrained by any budgetary, legal, or
> sanity-related issues would be the various extracurricular activities,
> like _This Is MST3K_ or the Gold Statuette shows.
If I were to whisper the magic incantation, "K01-K03", would it help,
or hinder a certain improbable event happening? ;-)
>>> Derek Janssen (also says they're working on a second one for "early next
>>> year"...A set, that is, not an anniversary)
>> Well, yes, there are more weapons-based films than those I listed, I
>> suppose! Or maybe they'll go in a more *ocular* direction!
>
> How about an Attack-and-Invasion set? Rocket Attack USA,
> Invasion USA, Attack of the the Eye Creatures, Invasion of the Neptune
> Men? We could have so much stuff destroyed, and at two in the
> afternoon.
Hey, with so much attacking and invading going on, you just might have
some *invaders* being *attacked*, and vice-versa, which would work out
pretty well!
>> -Doug Elrod (d...@cornell.edu) :-)
>> Ocular, yet jocular?
>
> Isn't that how Hawkeye and BJ imitated Father Mulcahy?
It might be efficient for one to do the voice, and the other to reach
through the armpits of the first to do the "blessing hands". But,
despite how IDEAL this arrangement seems, IT MIGHT NOT STAND UP TO
CLOSE SCRUTINY!
-Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)
Hmmm, how about a box-set boxset, with the highlight being "Future
War", of course! :-)
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| Re: Boxset angst? [message #163595 is a reply to message #163482] |
Sun, 13 July 2008 13:14 |
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Originally posted by: Rick Thorne
Joseph Nebus wrote:
> Isn't that how Hawkeye and BJ imitated Father Mulcahy?
Wasn't that Hotlips and Colonel Potter imitating da padre?
Rick, knowing too much about these things
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