CT was fine, but it had too many moving parts (and I had no emotional attachment to Weinstein at all).It really FELT like a bunch of people going "oh hey, we did this before, we should do it again because the guys that did it after us are still doing it!"

There was some pretty heavy internal strife between Mallon and Joel, which is supposed to be the reason he left. But Joel did try the comeback once already with Cinematic Titanic (while RiffTrax was already thriving.) I remember during the CT days when Joel was asked if CT and RiffTrax settled on the same movie, that…

A friend of mine literally said he wanted to see more adventures of the bots and the human, whoever it was, over more movie riffing. I told him to get the fuck outta here, which is the only appropriate response.

I, too, have complicated feelings, but I don't trust Joel implicitly. He seems eternally late to the party on this modern riffing, and he's coasting on the goodwill of having CREATED the genre rather than having SHAPED it (by himself, anyway)

I've had a strange conversation with friends who actually PREFER the host segments to the riffs and wanted more expansion on them. Obviously they are contrarian trolls.

That's a conspiracy theory I can get behind

Probably because her character has some element of secrecy Disney wants to preserve. From what I've read, all pre-release merchandise has been calculated to not spoil anything. After December 18 we'll get our Rey Skywalker and dead Han Solo figures.

Budgetary, they said

My wording is inelegant, I consider the two most recent seasons of the show to be apocryphal, because it wasn't the Mythbusters I knew and loved. But hats off to your pedantry even though my use of the word was perfectly cromulent.

Ok, then what?

If I'm being honest, the last 2 seasons have been apocryphal. The show needed the Build Team, and all the GoPros and drone cameras they throw at the production didn't cover their absence

Some of us media companies STILL use them. Sigh

Joke's on you, they're Rolaids!

C-can…can you see me?

He was white, so he got off easy

I was never a fan, but I was police to him when I met the guys after a CT live show

I've given to a RiffTrax Kickstarter and got a sweet autographed poster. I don't really care for an autographed poster from the new cast

So there's also some big RiffTrax news coming soon, too, and according to their PR guy, it is unrelated (even though they've been selling MST3K episodes on RiffTrax.com)

Nothing makes me laugh more about Peanuts than Snoopy laughing his ass off

Yes!