Red Dwarf

[Reply #200 on:]

Yeah i saw that thread. That one and this one are really making me want to see some episodes again....

I don't know how often it may be broadcast in some other cities here, but here where i am it's not. PBS kinda does what it wants.
I also used to like the theme song at the end, though i never quite understood what the lyrics had to do w/ the show.....

[Reply #201 on:]

I dont think they have any significant direct connection to the show,,,they are good though....fun fun fun in the sun sun sun.................If you want to get technical like some of the peelers do about commentary it sets the stark coldness of space juxtaposed against the warm joyfull setting of a warm summer holiday on the beach
" Its cold outside,
There's no kind of atmosphere,
I'm all alone,
More or less.
Let me fly,
Far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun, sun.

I want to lie,
Shipwrecked and comotoase,
Drinking fresh,
Mango juice,
Goldfish shoals,
Nibbling at my toes,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun, sun,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun, sun. "

GAWD I REALLY LOVE RED DWARF!

[Reply #202 on:]

They do have a significant direct connection.

As stated on the DVD commentary/extras for one of the episodes. I forget which one as there are about twenty discs and (6*8)+4 episodes at the very least. So I'll paraphrase:
 

Its cold outside,
There's no kind of atmosphere,

The vacuum of space, through which Red Dwarf travels is cold. There is no atmosphere.
 

I'm all alone,
More or less.

Dave Lister is the Last Human, with only a dead man, a crazy robot, a deranged computer, and a cat-thing for company. He's all alone. More or less (until Kochanski joins the crew, and even then - she's a woman, harldy the sort of person that one can talk to!  )
 

Let me fly,
Far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun, sun.

I want to lie,
Shipwrecked and comotoase,
Drinking fresh,
Mango juice,
Goldfish shoals,
Nibbling at my toes,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun, sun,
Fun, fun, fun,
In the sun, sun, sun.

Dave just wants to get back to Earth, and to sit in the sand on Fiji. Which is now mostly underwater due to a volcanic eruption - but you can get a drainage grant these days.

Not that the nerdier viewers didn't spot this from the very first episode, of course. Not wanting to cause any offense, but if it did't leap out at you the first time that you heard it, then you've probably been at Rimmer's dog worming tablets (don't even try to respond to that, I've got another billion indecipherable RD references all primed and waiting).

[Reply #203 on:]

 

Originally posted by totalnerduk:

Not that the nerdier viewers didn't spot this from the very first episode, of course.

I'm not nerdy.

Of course I got the parts about the "no kind of atmosphere" and "I'm all alone", but it just never seemed to me like the most fitting or appropriate song they could have come up with, that's all. And yes, I understood the premise of the show.

[Reply #204 on:]

I love ya, tnuk. In a nerdy way.

(Make what you want of it.)

Anyway, since I've been in the states PBS has been too skimpy on it's airings. I've got the whole set of DVDs now. Best investment ever. Well... Yet, at least.

[Reply #205 on:]

TNUK you have surpassed yourself in the corridors of nerdiness! I award you the highest honour befitting a nerd of your calibre...THE GOLDEN DORK! If I could draw I would have drawn one! ( any suggestions or submissions as to the appearance of the golden dork award are welcomed)

Actually the comments about the RD lyrics are kinda obvious when you look at it, Still As KM73 was getting at, I think, the song just seems incongruent to the whole situation. The show wouldnt be the same without it though!   

[Reply #206 on:]

 

Originally posted by gaschief:
...the song just seems incongruent to the whole situation.

...yes that's pretty much what i was getting at. And when i said i'm not nerdy, I just meant in your standard dorky kind of way. I've never really identified myself as a "nerd" as such. I mean, to me liking intelligent things and things that expand my brain is not "nerdy". It seems that many people here on PEEL don't really make a distinction between geekiness and intelligence. But I think there is one.

[Reply #207 on:]

Honey, you're posting on an internet message board devoted to a cancelled sci-fi cartoon.  I hate to break it to you, but if you think that you're not a nerd, you may be in denial.

As for the theme song, it always seemed pretty obvious to me what the lyrics meant, but I suppose the second part might not be as clear to someone who never saw the early episodes, since I don't think that Fiji gets mentioned much (if at all) later on in the series.

[Reply #208 on:]

 

Originally posted by km73:

It seems that many people here on PEEL don't really make a distinction between geekiness and intelligence. But I think there is one.

You mean nerdiness and intelligence. Geekiness involves extreme obsession؟

[Reply #209 on:]

 

Originally posted by David A:
Honey, you're posting on an internet message board devoted to a cancelled sci-fi cartoon.  I hate to break it to you, but if you think that you're not a nerd, you may be in denial.

I know, I know    ...I knew that at least one person was going to accuse me of being in denial. Well, I can't really explain it any better but I meant I'm not a nerd in the sense of that I was never particularly great at math or science, and in fact I never even knew anything much about computers until very recently...things like that. I'm referring to the stereotypical image of a nerd as portrayed in movies like "Revenge of the Nerds", for example. I joined this message board because Futurama is an outstanding show and because i saw this board had a large number of intelligent people on it. And yeah, I guess I meant a distinction between nerdiness and intelligence.

Ok, i guess that's probably enough about my nerdiness or non-nerdiness now...

[Reply #210 on:]

 

Originally posted by Xanfor:
  You mean nerdiness and intelligence. Geekiness involves extreme obsession؟

Is there a Peel glossary somewhere that defines distictions like this in meticulous detail...if not there should be!

[Reply #211 on:]

WikiPEELia could use that kind of thnking, gassy.

You're not a real PEELer until you sign up and do some editing.

[Reply #212 on:]

Yeh iam going to look into Wikipeelia, i have read a few of the other pages, very amusing.

[Reply #213 on:]

 

Originally posted by totalnerduk:
You're not a real PEELer until you sign up and do some editing.

I guess I'm not a real PEELer then.

I'll live.

[Reply #214 on:]

Me too I guess.

And gaschief and David A, thanks so much for nominating me for POTM.  (And D A, apparently because of you JBERGES did also--!) It's truly an honor.

[Reply #215 on:]

 

Originally posted by David A:
 I guess I'm not a real PEELer then.

I'll live.

It's a shame. Honestly. You're pretty good with your brain. These people could use you and you're turning your back on them. Well, take care of yourself David. I guess it's what you're best at, isn't it?

On the subject of Red Dwarf, has anybody ever tried to enjoy as many of the foods invented by Lister as possible?

Sugar Puff sandwiches are bad. Cornflakes with wine are bad. Triple-fried-egg butties with chili chutney sauce taste great but will probably kill you if you eat more than one.

I want to visit the Fatbastarderia pizza house as well.     But that would require somebody to open it.

[Reply #216 on:]

My stomac is allready weak to handle even one of themm


Suposse there are no news about the future of RD arent?

[Reply #217 on:]

"I have a medium-sized fire axe buried in my spinal column. That sort of thing can really put a crimp on your day. "
- Kryten, Quarantine

As for Lister snacks TNUK, how about a pizza with curry sauce, as concocted by Kryten to get Lister to eat Pizza.

For latest RD News:

 http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/

[Reply #218 on:]

There has been discussion created on the topic of levels of nerdiness, and there may very well be thread devoted entirely to that, or levels of non-nerdiness for that matter.  To continue tangent, being Nerd does not necessarily mean that you are completely fulfilling to that stereotype; there are nerdy things that one can do which have nothing to do with computers or mathematics or the quantum mechanics of wanton burrito meals; actually being adept at spotting out well created artistic pieces (in this case television shows) is just a subset of the ideal that embodies nerdom.

I haven't watched Red Dwarf in awhile... :\  And I don't think I've seen all of season 7 season 8 yet.  I used to watch it on PBS on Saturday nights with the rest of the non-european crowd.  Blackadder and Doctor Who came on too!   

Am I a real peeler? 

[Reply #219 on:]

 

Originally posted by winna:...there are nerdy things that one can do which have nothing to do with computers or mathematics or the quantum mechanics of wanton burrito meals; actually being adept at spotting out well created artistic pieces (in this case television shows) is just a subset of the ideal that embodies nerdom.

Oh, ok, cool, I'm a nerd then! Well, I've always been "adept at spotting out well created artistic pieces", in any medium, but to tell you the truth I'm still not sure why this constitutes nerdiness. So now artistic sensitivity is nerdiness too? I guess you guys just use a pretty blanket definition of nerdiness.

Is there a thread where this could be discussed further?

To be on topic, yeah, Red Dwarf, Saturdays on PBS. I don't remember if Blackadder or Dr. Who were on here, but I watched RD as often as i could. I remember i used to wonder if anyone else in this country was actually watching stuff like that. 

[Reply #220 on:]

 

Originally posted by winna:

Am I a real peeler? 

Are you having an existential crisis Winna? 

[Reply #221 on:]

From what I can gather, most of them weren't km, which made it all the more pleasurable for myself... it was like a hidden secret show that I snuck into my living room and watched every saturday night behind closed doors!  There are quite a few Americans that watched the show as well though (mostly from PBS airing them), and you'll find many of those individuals in this community.

gaschief.  yes. 

[Reply #222 on:]

Watch lots and lots of futurama..therein lies the truth otherwise it might have to be a forty days and forty nights job!   

[Reply #223 on:]

So, are they like going to do that movie?  It's been 2 years since I first heard about a Red Dwarf movie.

[Reply #224 on:]

Its a weird long history about the "movie"..

including one incident involving a guy who called them to finance the movie ,and then it turn out that he was a fake

[Reply #225 on:]

The attempts at getting the movie made have been going on a lot longer than 2 years.

[Reply #226 on:]

It took them forever to get to season 6 or 7 too... I can't remember between which two seasons there's a huge gap.... actually there were two gaps, weren't there?

[Reply #227 on:]

I think there was a big gap between 6 and 7 because one of the writers left and their was a lot of doubt about whether or not to continue. I'm not sure about the other gap.

[Reply #228 on:]

 

Originally posted by totalnerduk:

(don't even try to respond to that, I've got another billion indecipherable RD references all primed and waiting).

Come to think of it, you have.

And to think I tried to beat you at it! 

[Reply #229 on:]

Tremble before his encyclopaedic knowledge of red dwarf!!!

[Reply #230 on:]

Yeah. Tremble. Or wonder at what valauble information I forsook in orderto take it on board.

[Reply #231 on:]

I reckon it was still worth foresaking the majority of other misc general knowledge you could have filled your head with!

[Reply #232 on:]

 

Originally posted by gaschief:
I think there was a big gap between 6 and 7 because one of the writers left and their was a lot of doubt about whether or not to continue. I'm not sure about the other gap.

That and one of the leads was fighting off allegations of rape.

[Reply #233 on:]

 

Originally posted by winna:
I haven't watched Red Dwarf in awhile... :\  And I don't think I've seen all of season 7 season 8 yet.

Oh, man, Just you wait for what Kryten does for Kochanski in "Only the Good...", Legendary.
Wait a minute, back it up a post:
 

Originally posted by Smitty:
 That and one of the leads was fighting off allegations of rape.

You mean Craig was charged during that time? I thought it was earlier than that.

[Reply #234 on:]

He spent about 3 months on remand but the trial collapsed in 1995. That was around the time the series went off, right?

[Reply #235 on:]

 

Originally posted by Smitty:
He spent about 3 months on remand but the trial collapsed in 1995. That was around the time the series went off, right?

Yeah, off through '93 to '97. But I didn't know when it was until now obviously.

[Reply #236 on:]

Yeah... I can see that in Futurama so clearly... Bender buying Leela a new calander...

Anyways...

I was just watching 'Justice' the other day, and a thought occured to me...

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What happens when you're inside the Justice Field, and you try to commit suicide?

[Reply #237 on:]

 

Originally posted by Xanfor:

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What happens when you're inside the Justice Field, and you try to commit suicide?

Well, I guess you don't die.

[Reply #238 on:]

the legality of suicide varies from nation to nation, and arguably may not be illegal in deep space three million years in the future, therefore the Justice field may not necessarily do anything to impede said act.

[Reply #239 on:]

 

Originally posted by Xanfor:
Yeah... I can see that in Futurama so clearly... Bender buying Leela a new calander...

Anyways...

I was just watching 'Justice' the other day, and a thought occured to me...

Show spoiler

What happens when you're inside the Justice Field, and you try to commit suicide?

Presumably you'd die anyway; the person committing the offence (killing someone, regardless of who the victim is) would have the act reversed onto himself.