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[urufudo]

I'm working on downloading MST3K. :3 I found a bunch of torrents containing every single episode that fans could have gotten their hands on at one point, including the KTLA episodes. I'm not sure what to expect with those, because from my understanding, the bots and sets look really low-budget. XD

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[commanderteddog]

KTLA is a wacky season. It's very low budget for one. Some of it is passable, but the early bots are creepy. Second, it's all improv, so you have long spans of time with few comments being made, especially when the cast is down one or two members (which happens a fair bit, IIRC). Third, it's canon-ness is debatable. I've had long discussions with other fans about how it fits into the rest of the series as a whole, and in the end the only decision we could reach was "We don't know".

That said, it's interesting to see where the series came from. The problem with the early seasons just isn't you and I've had some people argue that it might go back to Joel as a host and not the jokes themselves. I don't buy the theory completely, but I had a good friend who loved Joel and even RPed the guy in the multiverse game I was in who commented that Joel's riff style put her to sleep.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

[urufudo]

Yeah, this first DVD is all Gamera episodes, so either way, I'll have fun watching it. If I don't dig it, I won't burn it to DVD or I'll just not download the rest of them. :3 I can't wait to see what it's like, though.

Yeah, I don't think it's a Joel thing; I like Mike a lot more, but it's definitely the jokes that put me off the earlier seasons, not the host. It was Mike who wrote for the earlier episodes anyway, right?

[commanderteddog]

The writing was done as a team thing with the cast, so every person you see on screen wrote for the show and then some. Mike started writing in season one (as in Comedy Channel, not KTMA), I think, but he didn't become "Head Writer" until much later on.

I like Mike better, probably because he comes across as a much less complicated character than Joel and is thus an easier character to relate to. That's not to say that I don't like Joel, though.