That’d put it much closer in style to the Carl Barks comics on which it is based. Honestly, I couldn’t be happier: part of losing Donald in the original show meant they had to make some compromises regarding both Donald’s traditional everyman role and in Scrooge’s characterization that I don’t think worked in the…

It’s not on television, but William Russell (yes, Ian Chesterton himself) portrayed the first Doctor in Big Finish’s audio special for the 50th anniversary, A Light at the End. He was accompanied by Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) playing the second Doctor, as well as all of the surviving classic series Doctors (Tom…

io9's punching bag articles are full of people complaining, and the complaints increase in number when it seems to the commentariat that the site-wide narrative is overly-biased in one direction or the other.

Most of the people chiming in, including the top-starred commenter, are aware of this coverage.

There’s nothing even slightly unusual about that, though. The point of commercial reviews like this are to provide a general sense of whether the thing being reviewed is any good and worth your time and money. Very few professional reviewers will say something like “this is garbage, so go sit through the whole thing…

They aren’t even complaining about a negative review, but rather calling out an editorial narrative that treats Iron Fist as the worst. And why shouldn’t it be called out?

io9 reviews things. To do that, they need to have opinions on said things. As someone who frequently disagrees with those opinions (I thought Prometheus and Terminator: Genisys were both okay, and enjoyed Batman v Superman), I don’t understand why other people seem to have such a problem with this idea. No one expects…

That’s nothing. You should hear the horror stories historians tell based on their analyses of the teeth of ancient Egyptian mummies. Their bread was apparently generously mixed with sand and, over the decades of their lives, it literally acted as sandpaper to their tooth enamel.

Donald was a vital ingredient to the original comics, much more so, IMO, than the nephews. He was typically the most grounded of the group: he had his quirks, of course (he was lazy and incurious), but he contrasted with the more extremist tendencies of his family. He was the one who was most likely to highlight the…

There weren’t many big stars in Star Trek, but there were plenty of established and known actors. Robert Picardo was in a bunch of movies from the 1980s and early 1990s. Kate Mulgrew had headlined a couple of TV shows (none of which were hugely successful, granted, but still...). Avery Brooks got second billing for…

I agree with it being the best, but I think it’s unlikely to ever be properly adapted, given that RTD apparently considered Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel an adaptation of it.

Are you kidding me? Joss Whedon was totally in the tank for the United States Schwarma Council. The product placement alone bankrolled the entire movie! /s

A lot of the really bad movies from the original run of MST3K weren’t “cinematic” at all. They were released as direct-to-VHS or made-for-TV movies, not to theaters. The 1980s and early 1990s were kind of a golden age for both media, and the movies that were made for them generally weren’t of very high quality.

The did a couple of Academy Awards and summer blockbuster specials in the late 1990s for the Sci-Fi Channel which I really liked. I’d love to see that return in some fashion.

I feel like this should’ve been the season opener. Would’ve formed a nice little bookend (anti-bookend?) with Diabolik, the final episode of the old series.

I agree with you, but part of me would really like to see them revisit some of the films tackled by Joel and company for Cinematic Titanic since they’ve basically disappeared from circulation since that project went under. In particular The Doomsday Machine, which is up there with Maniac and Fun in Balloon Land by…

The problem is that Them! and Thing from Another World are much better produced than your average MST3k fare. I’m a firm believer than pretty much any film can be successfully riffed, but it’s certainly easier to pick the low hanging fruit. As long as they’re not too low hanging, that is: the show deliberately stayed…

They’ve be doing “recent” movies from the beginning, more or less. If we define “recent” as “within a decade of its original production,” the movie Robot Holocaust was originally produced in 1987 before being riffed for season one in 1990. Cave Dwellers (1984) and Pod People (1991) were in season 3. Warrior of the…

Beamdog’s never gotten a license to the Planescape setting, but they’ve gotten Forgotten Realms from Hasbro for the Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale remasters, and even gotten a new expansion and an interquel out of the deal. So it can be done, but it may not be worth the asking price.

On the other hand, there are the Resident Evil movies, which are commercially but not especially critically successful and deviate quite heavily from the source material. And several of Uwe Boll’s masterpieces (ahem) like House of the Dead and BloodRayne, which do the same.