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Part 2 was really intresting. Love the story plot to it.
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transgender nerd under canada
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I did enjoy the first part and I have nothing bad to say about it. That been said, I was disapointed about there being no explanation on how they got out of the events of Only the Good, and you can't really dismiss it, even if it is a stand-alone piece. Also, I was disappointed with the fact of waiting another 23 hours and 30 minutes for the next episode because I really got into it. You know how it goes.
I actually had a long and convoluted dream about that. The drive plate malfunction was no accident, stranding the crew in deep space had been the intention of the JMC all along. The Company Spy was Todhunter, who planned the malfunction and programmed Holly's response. The only variable he didn't coutn on was Lister being in stasis, so he was unable to survive the accident. Upon the crew's revival, he surmised from the deep space position of the ship that his sabotage had been successful. He devised another plan to kill off the rest of the crew (the melty thing) but didn't have a way to stop it. When Rimmer jumped into the alternative universe, he saw his chance. He rigged the projector to malfunction upon Rimmer's return, and overpowered the others. He had been repairing the damaged starbug and put them in there, as by this point he was going to need hostages. They fled the crippled ship, but the dwarfers managed to get the drop on Todhunter, and had the nanites which had undertaken the repairs halt the destructive melting. Rimmer died, and Lister resurrected him out of guilt. Holly was beyond repair for some reason. It was a dream. It doesn't have to make sense.
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Juliet
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What now I am confused
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Tweek
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I thought the conclusion was pretty good, and I enjoyed all the Blade Runner references.
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Ninaka
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You know what I miss? The canned laughter.
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Juliet
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Do we really need it?
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Smitty
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When Rimmer wishes he was in a sitcom in Part 3, I wished he was too. Doug Naylor needs a proper comedy writer to co-write the scripts with (or just ask Robert Llewellyn to help). When he wrote with Rob Grant, it seemed like Grant came up with the sitcom part of the episode and Naylor put the sci-fi spin on it. Part 3 showed what Naylor can do when he isn't bogged down with psi-scans and whatnot- the Coronation Street scenes were very funny (though wildly inaccurate. Come on, whoever heard of Corrie actors rehearsing their lines?). The Back to Reality rehash wasn't so bad since pretty much everyone still watching saw it coming.
My main gripe was probably the scheduling of the three parts over three nights. The story worked much better on Monday when the whole thing was shown in one go. Since I liked the sets and most of the CGI, I give the whole thing a C rating, but bump it up to a B just because of the thrill of seeing the whole cast back together. Bring on "series ten"!
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Nutmeg1729
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I didn't know this thread existed, I'm happy now that I've discovered it, with Red Dwarf being one of my favourite shows of all time.
That said, it's been a long time since I saw most of the episodes, so what I remember from it is very limited, at least from the first few and last series. I only own 4,6 and 7. I'll buy them, I'll watch them, then I'll remember and be happy.
On the notes of what I've just read, I liked the new episodes they released last year (or was it the year before? Time evades me) - as much as they were different, it was nice to see the cast back together, and it was still funny, though not as funny as the original - as if it could be.
Series 10 can hurry up and get onto my TV, if I have one when it comes out.
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winna
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I watched Series 9 recently, and I didn't find it very funny or much like Red Dwarf, but it had its own sort of closure I guess. It was kind of like when I watched the finale to X-Files.
I also started watching Series 8, which has been pretty good Red Dwarf so far. However, its premise seems a little quarky and spin-offish. It seems to me that by that point, Lister, Rimmer, Kryten, Cat, Kochanski, and their version of Holly are essentially Masters of the Universe. I don't think laws by people they resurrected upheld by a civilization that disappeared millenia ago actually apply to them, and yet they don't argue with that fact and assume their new roles in THE BRIG.
I think I still have to see the end of Series 7 too... I really enjoyed 1-6 while I was growing up, and the film has that late 80s feel to it which I rather enjoy; obviously that wasn't different with Series 9 and the new CGI stuff they were doing. Lolz!
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ilovebender.com
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The link said it's being made by Dave so, prey not but it looks like it's death of knell to the franchise.
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Xanfor
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What is the plot of the series, nowadays? I know it started with Lister wanting to get back to Earth, then it drifted away from this, and then they lost the Red Dwarf and had to find it again, then they were prisoners for a series, and now they're drifting aimlessly again. At least Gilligan's Island had the cast slowly coming to accept the island as their home, the entire show essentially portraying the development of the characters as they grew to assimilate this as part of themselves. The erratic nature of Red Dwarf continuity, however, denies any cognitive application and eschews this sort of proper aesthetic development, the resulting subtext distracting a great deal from the comedy with its somber overtones.
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Xanfor
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The whole "get back to Earth" angle seems to have been lost, though. In the second episode, Lister was planning to go back into stasis until they got there, yes, but later this plot thread was completely dropped. By series VII, they have a teleporting time machine, and they use it get Indian food from Earth in 1963. What? Why not go home like you've been wanting to for nearly the past decade?
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ilovebender.com
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Did anyone (else) see that American Red Dwarf Pilot?
I've seen it in full on MySpace, and in segments on YouTube.
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