Ya my sister just told me about this a little bit ago. I copied my response to it below but the short of it is I am a little uncertain of this and so far unconvinced it should come back.
"This is actually troubling to me in some ways. I mean, at this point Rifftrax is the spiritual successor to MST3K. On top of that what made MST3K work, when it worked well, was who was on the show. I don't think they can bring it back with Mike or Joel as the human on the station (canon wise it wouldn't make sense, and they probably wouldn't want to do it, and they're much older now even though it's only been like 15 years) so they'd have to handle that very carefully (I mean, seriously, just consider the contention when Joel was replaced with Mike who was already working on the show).
To top that off in the video the people doing the robot voices are terrible. If nothing else the robots should be funny (certain voices and characters were even changed after season 1 because of this problem). Could they really not get Trace, Kevin, or Bill to do the voices even just for this video? That's troublesome to me, and makes me weary of backing this as well. I have little faith after that they will get actors I enjoy.
Also, after a time, a show is of the past and maybe it should stay there. Sure, I enjoy watching the old episodes still and I love Rifftrax. Those are the same people, though, and Cinematic Titanic (while a good attempt by Joel to keep riffing like the Rifftrax team does) was not as funny or interesting to watch as Rifftrax who seemed to somehow do it better with less fluff around it. I'm not convinced even Joel is at top form anymore.
What I guess I'm saying is things change after a significant amount of time and this would be like the show starting at the beginning again. Any fan of MST3k will tell you that MST3k was not very good for a couple seasons (season 0 and season 1 being completely skippable).
So, I don't know."
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