With Futurama successfully returning it got me thinking of another TV show that just a few short years ago made it's grand return. I have to admit that doing these reviews has made me fall in love with Mystery Science Theater 3000 so much so that I listen to the theme song whenever I can and so then join me as I review the episode that saw the debut of a new host with the episode in question being called simply just "Reptilicus" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when pilot Jonah Heston goes to answer a distress call he finds himself caught up in a trap. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes plot not only being very entertaining but also being very excess able for new of this truly iconic cult classic as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is this episodes co-writer Jonah Ray as Jonah Heston and this episodes co-writer Hampton Yount as The Voice Of Crow T. Robot. Also starring in this episode is this episodes co-writer Baron Vaughn as The Voice Of Tom Servo , Felicia Day as Kinga Forrester , Patton Oswalt as Max , Rebecca Hanson as The Voice Of Gypsy / Synthia , Tim Ryder as Bonehead 1 , Zach Thompson as Bonehead 2 , this episodes director and co-writer Joel Hodgson as Ardy , Erin Gray as Martha Masters and Wil Wheaton as Drake.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With all of the cast members turning in some rather solid performances which for a show like this one couldn't be an easy job and yet not only do they manage to keep on pulling it of they also manage to so effortlessly.
As was to be expected this show did make alot of changes with a few of those changes being to the character of Gypsy. As in the original show the character only moved along the floor where as now she mainly operates in the air with the show giving an in story reason for this addition to the character but she's not the only one to get an upgrade as the also add a hover mode for Tom and a new design for the satellite of love as well with the character of Crow not really being changed at all which does make sense as there's nothing that they could really change about this character and yes they explain away Gypsy's new voice as well.
As mentioned as the start of this review this is the episode that saw the debut of Jonah Ray as new host Jonah Heston. I know that this character doesn't get alot of love from the die hard fans of this show but as someone who only started watching this show back in 2017 I really don't mind him as he is quite a funny character and while Jonah Ray doesn't seem that comfortable in the role in this episode that's understandable as he is the shows first new host since the show went of the air in the late nineties and he does get better in later episodes.
There are somethings that I didn't like about this episode tho and that's the fact that they take far to long just setting up who Jonah Heston is and not enough time setting up the other characters. To put this into perspective in the original series all Joel had was the shows opening intro and that's it and Mike got a few lines of dialog that were played for laughs in a few short scenes and yet they still managed to put across who they are as characters here we send quite a few minuets with people telling us all about Jonah and just not enough time really setting up the shows main villains.
For some reason instead of giving us some great information about the movie that there going to be watching. They instead just dive right into the movie which is something that was very rarely if ever done in the original show which is a shame because they could have made the movie sound all the more insane just by the information that they could have given us about the movie and that in turn could have gotten more people to check out this really obscure movie and while just diving right into the movie is great for jokes it doesn't really do a good job of building the movie up and just explaining just how bad this movie is at all.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets and twelve seconds. Which is pretty much the exact running time for this show and this episode could have done with being just a few minuets longer just so they could have had some longer host segments which just seem to go by far to quickly and that could allow you to give some screen time to the over characters as well but I will very gladly admit that this episode does have some good pacing to it.
So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the show making some really good jokes about the Reptilicus movie alot of which are not only funny but are painfully funny as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really good with the special effects looking cheap but in a campy way with this episode being a great return for a classic and cult series that still holds up all these later in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the every so truly wonderful the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 fandom wiki page and since that all of the images that are currently up and and on the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being really fairly freaking high in definition.