Subject: Re: [FFML] MST's
From: David Johnston
Date: 9/24/1997, 1:25 PM
To: Andrew Huang
CC: Travis Butler <tbutler@tfs.net>, Fanfic ML <fanfic@fanfic.com>

Andrew Huang wrote:

Of course, I'm feeling a bit guilty about the Evanjellydonut 3 review
<rueful g>; I try not to review a story someone else is reviewing, since
it feels like I'm stepping on toes or something.
        <snigger> More like several toes. :) It was very flattering,
though, to get so many reviews.
        However, I think it would only be fair if all you MSTers gave some
attention to the other fics out there, like Sean did just now. Some people
may actually become tired of seeing too many MST's on my series.... :P

I know I certainly did.  Not of course that I thought that 
NGevanjellydonut was anything except genius.  But the whole
point of an MST is to try to to be funny while reviewing the
subject matter.  I don't think it works if the work itself
is already so funny that the MST is going to fade by comparison.
The subject matter of an MST need not be bad or poorly written.
But it should be serious.  Satirising a satire is downright
recursive.