Why fix what isn't broke. I was happy with non functioning robot arms and no guest stars. Oh well. That's the way the cookie crumbles.
*throws coffee in Goat's face* (that's a Pod People reference, folks).
I'm actually really disturbed that they don't riff during the credits. In the past, some of the best bits happened during the credits and I find the cut directly after the movie really jarring.
They riffed during a chunk of the credits of Cry Wilderness. They riffed during the credits of Carnival Magic.
I get unreasonably irked everytime they have Crow sitting with his long, shiny legs prominently displayed on a beanbag.
I can't imagine how upset Crow dancing in Girl in Gold Boots must have made you. Or when Crow and Tom are sitting on boxes dressed like thugs in Teenage Strangler.
This is one of the best compliments this iteration of the show can have. They are getting so much right that you are complaining about such little, insignificant things.
Were the guest stars really an expense? The only reason they're on the show at all is that they advertised doing cameos in order to raise money for the kickstarter.
Doubtful. Neil Patrick Harris has been a huge fan of the show since way back in the Comedy Central era. He was on the mini doc "This is MST3K" all the way back then, when he was just Doogie Howser. Jerry Seinfeld and Joel Hodgson are friends from way back in the 80s, when they did stand up. Joel appeared on Jerry's coffee and car show, so I'm guessing Jerry just repaid the favor. Mark Hamill backed the Kickstarter, at which point he was asked to cameo, so he probably did it for very cheap, if at all.
Even if Netflix decides not to renew for a season 12, I'd definitely back it again, and I bet they could get another season through Kickstarter at a much lower rate. The investment on creating the robots and sets and such would be out of the way. They can find another way of distributing it (hell, just do VHX again, for all I care).