The one thing that I think is missing from this version of MST3K is the sense of family that the old series had. Joel treated the bots like his kids and there was a family dynamic there. With Mike, it felt like the bots grew up and they all acted like rowdy teenagers putting each other down all the time. This version just feels a little colder with the rapid fire jokes. While the season gets remarkably better as it goes on, it still feels like Jonah and the bots are a little too cold and calculated with the jokes, as in they don't feel like they are a product of the characters, but more just reading from a script that 12 different people contributed too. While I think the show is still funny, I would love to see Jonah and the bots have more individual character like they had in the old show.
Also, no nanites.
I've actually watched Manos, and like six others...otherwise I'm fairly new to MST3K.
SPACE MUTINY