JakeGittes:
Personally speaking, I’ve been concerned that we’ve been taking advantage of someone’s kindness – we got it once, now we want it all the time. We’re already getting a Kingadome showing every 2 weeks, and on off weeks, we can just as easily do this on our own through the bunkers.
I sure as heck don’t want Ivan feeling like he’s stuck doing this each and every Friday… I very much appreciate that he’s gone out of his way for us, but I think we need to show some consideration in return. We can set a time and use the bunkers.
Lesley:
It’s worth noting that, to the best of my knowledge, these screenings can’t be scheduled in advance. Ivan has to be physically present at his computer to start them, and then he has to hang out and keep an eye on the stream. And he does so much already, y’all. I’m just trying to protect his time a little. I hope you understand.
Agreed wholeheartedly on all of this.
Just to hop back in the Wayback Machine for a second: doing this on our own is exactly what we did with the totally unofficial and completely unsanctioned City Limits open thread, where everyone cued up the episode at 8PM ET (5PM ET) on Friday, April 22nd:
[citylimitsskullhelmet]
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 sourc…
And it worked out rather nice, too.
Amen to that.
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