I agree that the bots, or at least what they represent, is important. The problem with Rifftrax is that you don't get that suspension of disbelief. It truly is three middle aged dudes heckling a movie… and on some level… my subconscious wants to yell "just hit the freakin STOP button and walk away!!!" Don't get me…

The only person I have any knowledge of from the new crew is Patton Oswalt. Everybody else is a complete mystery… I'm old enough to have watched the 2nd half of the CC era during my college years… so I guess I don't mind being out of touch with these new faces. That said, the new show is going to sink or swim with how…

I think a lot of it comes down to money. While I doubt Shout Factory dropped huge money in the grand scheme of Hollywood/media, I'm sure it was enough for Mallon / Hodgson to enjoy a comfortable upper middle class retirement for the rest of their days… That's money that the hired help from the heyday doesn't see… and…

I don't necessarily disagree with the general sentiment, but for different reasons. I don't think of it as a crass money grab from the creators… But at a base level, I'm only going pay for your product once you actually, ya know, have a product… And a couple of puppets and a rebooted premise isn't enough… At the very…

The reboot show only needs to do two things to succeed in my opinion: 1) Choose good source movies that do a lot of the heavy lifting right out of the gate. (Bad movies that are enjoyably goofy on their own is a big factor in most any "Best of MST3K" list you can find. Fans of the show tend to underestimate this…