From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Re: OMNI
Summary: Hey!  I missed it 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 18:33:04 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.200458.14149@husc3.harvard.edu> mduhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Matthew Duhan) writes:
>   Hey all!  I just recieved this month's _Omni_ magazine in the mail (Aug '92)
>and there's a five page article about MST3K!  It's written mostly for non-

Hey!  I missed it!  I got it in the mail two days ago and just took it home
and tossed it on the pile (well, one of them) of "To read" stuff... didn't
even read the COVER where it MENTIONS "Laughing at the Future with Mystery
Science 3000".  Boy, if I wasn't on the net right now I'd stop to read it...
(but this system is hard to connect with...)

>is mention of a possible MST3K movie--they are talking with Paramount
>now--but it is still in the development stage.  Personally, I'm not sure
>what they would do.  Would it be the background to the show and how the
>Sattelite of love came to be, or would it be a movie within a movie?  There's

I've thought about this some.  I wonder if it would ruin the MST3k mystique
to have shots of daily life aboard the SoL - similar in many ways to Red
Dwarf (if it didn't have the movies and the Mad Scis - the scutters DO look
a bit like Crow!).  Obviously, you wouldn't want to use up your whole
two-hour feature film with one movie, but maybe a series of shorts
intersperced with subplots (like long host segments) in newly-built sets of
other SoL areas.

I think that, if handled properly, it would not detract at all from the show
as it stands (finely balanced as it is).  However it would have to be VERY
carefully handled.  What look would you go for - the aseptic, well-lit
Discovery of 2001 or the Ridley-Scottish rainy moldy Nostromo?  The
utilitarian high-tech Leonov of 2010 or the luxurious high-tech of the
Enterprise 1701-A?  Perhaps the cheap, fakey looking sets of late-season
Blake's 7 ships would be best... ah, the memories of foil pans for wall
panels in what was otherwise one of the best episodes of the series come
back on me with full force.  The show where gunbarrels lit up because actual
beams coming out of them was too expensive... 

I think the SoL should be clean and well-lit (except when Gypsy is taking
therapy of course) but also contain many thinly-disguised props, such as a
badly painted Etch-a-sketch as a course plotter in the control room, that
sort of thing.  Much fun could be had with the obligaory T-shaped corridor
segment that has to pass for every corridor in the ship from different
camera angles... (one was built for every space show with a recurring ship,
folks!)  With a big budget for set building I hope they don't lose touch
with the unique flavor they've achieved by scavenging hardware stores and
flea markets.  

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