Maybe it’s fixed now? I can view both the standalone short and the whole livestream event, in both the non-theater (My Videos ➔ Season Pass) and in the theater (Screening Bunker: search for Cavalcade or Dragon). But I could do that over an hour ago, even before Jonathan_Eckley posted.
Or maybe post a bug report or send an email to gizmoplex@mst3k.com if it persists?
The live event is only available that day. It shows up in your tickets well before the stream actually starts, but is listed as “off air” until about an hour before. That’s probably what you were seeing. Except by the time you came, stream was over, so it showed as “off air” again. It stays visible for a couple of hours after the event is over.
The VOD/replay is posted the next day, about 12 hours later. I haven’t checked, but I’d bet it’s up now. That’s the version you can pause and rewind and everything. It just takes a while for the video to process, get uploaded, and whatever.
Last night was a blast. Pearl and Larry riffing that Sears catalog of a short. Way more new content than previous tribute episodes. That segment with Team Emily doing every bad British accent they could think of. Fan letter. The Super Dragon rap at the end. Then…whatever the hell that was in the after-show. I mean, I know what it was, I just felt lost after missing the first few minutes.
Only drawback was that the closing music wasn’t our SNL theme.
It feels like there was a lot of content in this one, and with both crews! I loved the ridiculousness of the accent sketch and the creepy Minsky worship (should we be worried about the sudden appearance of Dr. Kabal (the mysterious financier from the future)?).
It feels like they’ve found a good way of doing the backer mentions, too. Fitting them into the chaos of the post-episode show didn’t really work very well.
I’ve still got to watch whatever that post-episode thing is, but I’m satisfied and anything else is a nice extra.
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I’ve been thinking about this since Friday night. We need to start calling the pre-show and intermission music on the livestreams something else. We can’t call it “jazz” because Joel killed jazz.