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Trace InterviewTrace was interviewed for a piece about the 20th anniversary of the show in the Washington Post’s “Express Night Out” publication.
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I’m of two minds on this piece.
On the one hand, this interview reads like a nice conversation.
On the other hand, two of the three clips they selected are from non-Trace episodes (Yes, I know they’re plugging the set, but there should be some connection between the pieces, and there were two Trace episodes they could have highlighted.)
Also, I always thought that the T. in Crow’s name stood for “The”, but I’d also hoped that it was “Tiberius” (because I am that much of a geek.) So I’d studiously avoided asking or researching so that I could believe both, and this interview goes and wrecks that for me.
But I think I can forgive that, as the line of the interview supports what I believe is one of the key points of MST3k, one which critics rarely get: as crappy as these movies and shorts may get, as much as the riffers make fun of them, they still watch them, and they still get some enjoyment from watching them.
So I’ll give this interview a B+
“BEAULIEU: I think most of us — I know Joel and I — really like these movies. We all grew up watching them on Saturday mornings or Sunday afternoons or late at night if your local television station had a creature feature. It always seemed like one bored guy at the station, the guy who didn’t really have anything to do — he’s probably the weatherman — would double as the horror host. We all grew up watching these.”
I think the attitude Trace describes here is key to mine own enjoyment of the show.
I am in the same camp…I actually enjoy these movies. I intially discover MST3K by pure chance. I saw a Gamera movie in the tv Guide and watched it one early sunday morning. I thought what is with these guys on the bottom of the screen??? It took a few minutes and I was HOOKED. Man, I wonder if most people really get how good of a tv show this actually was. This wasn’t just some campy, yet fun, rerun of an old favorite movie. This is really good writing. They took my favorite kind of films and made them 10 times better. Twenty years and I still enjoy watching these. It just incredible in today’s TV world of cancelled after 3 episodes.
The “T” situation was “spoiled” long ago in the ACEG.
Also, I always thought that the T. in Crow’s name stood for “The”, but I’d also hoped that it was “Tiberius” :lol: :lol: :lol: THank you so much for that Steve K. You made my day. I’ll be laughing about that for days, I’m sure.
I just wanted to point out that the author, Stephen M. Duesner not only is a regular contributor to pitchforkmedia.com he also mentioned MST3Kas his favorite TV show in a year end 2008 feature on favorites of the writing staff.
This guy “gets it.”
I’m now going to go watch Mad Monster to forget the rest of my day.
Actually, I always thought the T in James T. Kirk stood for “the”.
“Often we’d choose two films out of like twelve, and to complete the deal with the distributor, we’d have to take four films. So we’d get some that we didn’t want. And those would often turn out better because they inflicted real pain.”
This is the most interesting part to me. I wonder which episodes were ones they didn’t want? At least this explains why they’d go through bunches from the same distributors.