I think the film selections have been on point; cheesy, bad, but not brutally so. Nothing so incredibly BORING that even jokes cant save it.
Speaking of jokes: the revolving cast has been on fire, and the mix of different personalities, deliveries and senses of humor have REALLY kept things fresh.
Im having so much fun chatting away with the rest of you on Premier night, but miss so many riffs I immediately wanna go back and watch the episode again!
Kudos to everyone involved in creating this season. Itās been an absolute blast so far.
When i first heard about the rotating cast, I thought it sounded convoluted. Seeing the season itself, I think itās a breath of fresh air. MST always had different flavors from week to week based on the movie selected, but different casts for alternating episodes really switches things up and makes things lively. Itās like back in the day when I would alternate between Joel and Mike so not to get burned out on just one. Itās so much fun.
Yeah, everything so far has been extremely rewatchable which isnāt always the case for me. Bodes well for the new model, hopefully.
I donāt think more than 2 hosts in a season is something that is necessarily a great idea beyond special occasions (like the Gizmoplex inaugural season this year, or perhaps one or two eps per season), but I am fully prepared to make an exception for the man, the myth, the Mike Nelson in future.
For me, Iāve only felt like there was one āclunkerā so far that I probably wonāt rewatch, and one I had to watch twice on its premiere date because of how much I enjoyed it. Iām still not sold on the need for multiple hosts and am ambivalent about how that particular storyline could set up the next season (if Jonah leaves as host after 27 episodes, I wonāt be enthused). But weāre only 5 episodes into 13 and there is a very long ways to go.
Iāve watched the first four episodes of Season 13 a number of times, and I imagine myself doing the same for Doctor Mordrid.
There really is a lot of rewatchability in these episodes, and Team Jonah and especially Team Emily have been bringing it in their host segments and in the treatment of the featured movies. These episodes have a lot of replay value, and if the rest of Season 13 is anything like these, I think youāre going to be looking at one of MST3Kās strongest seasons this side of Seasons 5 and 8.
What I like is that theyāve set up a new version of that olā debate, Joel vs. Mike, but in a more fun and collaborative manner. Soon, very soon, the Jonah vs. Emily debates will rage. (Iām finding myself on Team Emily right now). But the potential collaboration between those two would undermine any rancor between the two camps. I really like what Iām seeing.