Group MSTing 2

"Republic's Fall", by John L. Flynn

MSTed by Matt Blackwell, Douglas Gale, Brendan Herlihy, Keith Palmer, and Eric Schepers


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So do you spend more than four hours a day writhing your hands, wondering just what the three planned "Star Wars" prequel movies will be about?  If so, John Flynn has come to your rescue!  "Tantalizing clues to these much-anticipated movies can be found in the original trilogy, in their Lucasfilm-approved novelizations and in early drafts of the Star Wars script (which include a malleable storyline for the entire nine-episode saga)," he declares.   He then proceeds to lay out his vision for these movies, plus a kind-of-sort-of spec script for Star Wars III.  No interesting characters, but we do get to see an awful lot of docking bays.

HOST SEGMENTS

Opening: Mike gives a soliloquy about how homesick he is for Earth, but it's full of odd references to April, 1999.  Tom and Crow think it's his birthday.

Segment One: Pearl and the Gang are trapped in line at a Star Wars convention.  The bots demonstrate their "Phantom Menace" alarm, which loudly and obnoxiously announces how long before "The Phantom Menace" opens.  Every five minutes.  

Segment Two: Tom and Crow have some suggestions on how "The Phantom Menace can be "punched up a bit".  Pearl continues to suffer the geek-a-thon that is the Star Wars convention.

Segment Three: Mike orders the nanites to build him a Death Star.  They do, but it's real tiny.  Mike gives it the back of his hand (that's world number four for you, Mikey?).

Segment Four: Crow points out Mike's been carrying the GOP's water bucket today.  Tom unearths George Lucas's biography, which blames Flynn for "Howard the Duck".   Pearl calls Star Wars "a stupid B-grade kid's movie", and the mob overhears her.  It's L.A. '91 all over again.

Stinger: He is in need of a powerful weanon and an obedient servant.

REFLECTIONS: 

Some MSTings are hard because the story is so bad.  This one was hard because the story is so... so... blah.  While it's not bad enough to set your teeth on edge, it's certainly got nothing to recommend it.  It's just kinda there.  Like one of those nature shows, where the prey blends in to the background so well that the predator begins to forget just what it's doing there.

Before MSTing began, Editor Matt Blackwell made it clear that he wanted us to riff this as if "Phantom Menace" hadn't been released yet.  Seems simple at first, but then you on the first edit you realize- that means no current event riffs. Awkward.  Matt finessed the situation fairly well by riffing the riffs that shouldn't have happened yet.  References to George W. Bush were countered with "Oh, like he'd ever get past McCain".  At a "Survivor" reference, Crow chirps, "Oh, it's some Swedish show.  It'll never make it over here."  Was Survivor Swedish?  Dunno.  But maybe that means it's a joke on a joke on a joke.  Fourth-dimensional comedy- yup, that's why I watch this tatty little cable puppet show.

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