Rent-a-Center Salieri invites one and all to the Super-Secret Absolutely-Unauthorized Unmistakably-Unofficial MST3K Friday Night Rewatch of City Limits!
Tonight’s rewatch is SO UNOFFICIAL…
[HOW UNOFFICIAL IS IT?]
It’s so unofficial that there won’t be a livestream set up for this one.
That’s right, we’re doing this all on our own here, completely independent of the-powers-that-be! The idea is that we’re all going to be watching our own copies of the episode (my source of choice will be the copy of City Limits in the Gizmoplex Vault).
Each of us will have to press Play on our copies as close to 8PM ET / 5PM PT as we can and hope that we’re all sorta kinda somewhat more-or-less on the same page, time-wise.
It’s gonna be more fun than remote-controlled toy airplanes, more stylish than the Clippers’ post-apocalyptic attire, and more entertaining than whatever Robby Benson is working on at his desk.
So, let’s start this off with a random question while we wait! If you could teach a college course or host a lecture on any one subject or topic (outside of MST3K), which subject or topic would you choose?
Me, I’d like to lead a lecture on film. I’m not entirely sure which direction I’d go, but I have options: film noir, Westerns, the masters of the form (Bergman, Kurosawa, etc).
Or maybe something dealing with the novels of Elmore Leonard. God, I love those.
Emotional Intelligence. Hot garbage(1) mess that I am, you wouldn’t necessarily guess it, but I’m actually kinda credentialed in addition to having a lot of loud opinions about the American workplace and its toxic fear of feelings.
Interesting answer. With a focus like that, I’d want to take that course and/or sit in on that lecture.
Since you brought up a focus that isn’t tethered to something more/less tangible or concrete (like some form of media that can be analyzed/scrutinized and whatnot), I would also like to give a lecture on mental health issues and the stigmatization that unfortunately accompanies such conditions.
I’m not credentialed for such a subject matter, so it would be more of a “seen it, been there, done that, got the t-shirt” kinda thing.
I can tell you what classes I have developed and taught for my college classes. The Julio-Claudian Emperors, classical mythology, the Greco-Persian wars, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (about ancient mythology, archetypes, and graphic novels), and American Civil War photography.
I love that series so much, and I used it in my Julio-Claudian class. It was so much fun to watch the series (they especially loved Patrick Stewart, and had never seen him in anything other than Star Trek) and then read the primary sources like Tacitus and Suetonius.
