The time is [INSERT TIME HERE], and The One Where Everyone’s Kryten is now available to watch on UKTV Play. Of course, up until now, we didn’t know whether this would happen before or after Cured aired on Dave. But now that we know that it’s [BEFORE / AFTER – DELETE AS APPROPRIATE], it’s clear that this was a fucking [INSERT OPINION HERE] decision. But regardless of that, fill your boots:
Please make use of this thread to share all your thoughts on this long-awaited episode, and don’t miss our LIVE Instant Reaction DwarfCast at 9pm on Friday. We’ll have a much healthier contingent of G&Ters on board this week, and in an exciting new feature, we’ll be taste-testing some real life Leopard Lager LIVE on air. You don’t want to miss that, so look out for the link on here, on our Twitter feed and our Spreaker page at 8:40pm, and do join us to listen along and chat live.
sd99 / October 12, 2017 at 10:28 pm / #
The omm song :)
bloodteller / October 12, 2017 at 10:29 pm / #
hoorah, it’s finally up
Ali Green / October 12, 2017 at 10:32 pm / #
Not on Sky yet! 🙈
flanl3 / October 12, 2017 at 10:33 pm / #
I THINK THE FIRST TWO IS IN IIII JUST CROSSED DIFFERENTLY. I MAY JUST BE PARANOID.
bloodteller / October 12, 2017 at 10:35 pm / #
oh bloody hell, it’s a callback to that one scene from Fathers and Suns
flanl3 / October 12, 2017 at 10:37 pm / #
It definitely makes sense for Siliconia to have been placed after Cured if there’s not going to be any sort of twist. Which there probably will be.
flanl3 / October 12, 2017 at 10:39 pm / #
Nice tractor beam, there.
Ali Green / October 12, 2017 at 10:39 pm / #
It’s on Sky now but the description is that of M-Corp, wouldn’t have surprised me if they’d uploaded episode 5 by mistake!
sd99 / October 12, 2017 at 10:41 pm / #
Loved Cured on first watch. Not feeling this yet… Hopefully the last ten mins will pick up. Some nice incidental series 2 music.
bloodteller / October 12, 2017 at 10:49 pm / #
jesus, so far this episode has an almost sci-fi horror vibe, some of these scenes are actually quite a bit scary
sd99 / October 12, 2017 at 10:51 pm / #
Enjoyed all of series 11, and cured made me laugh a lot. Siliconia… what a load of crap that was. Didn’t laugh once. Really hope it improves on further viewings. :(
flanl3 / October 12, 2017 at 11:01 pm / #
I really, really enjoyed that, and it did what none of the last 7 episodes did very well, which was have a good ending.
As in, that was really, really, good.
It’ll take me another watch to quite understand what Siliconia had to do with it though.
SoundableObject / October 12, 2017 at 11:02 pm / #
Absolutely spectacular. Loved it to bits. On first viewing I’d say it is only behind Give & Take up to now in this 12 episode run.
Chris Barrie’s audiobook Kryten is now canon!
Dax101 / October 12, 2017 at 11:02 pm / #
Visually an impressive episode
I was enjoying it and felt it was fairly well paced up until the clean off ended and then the ending was rushed and kinda spoilt it.
Everything that was built up just went no where because time ran out.
FinlayHS / October 12, 2017 at 11:03 pm / #
Really, really enjoyed that!
Pete Part Three / October 12, 2017 at 11:04 pm / #
Yeesh. Not keen on that one at all. Didn’t even seem to be trying to be funny. If you don’t find the phrase MILF funny, or the appeal of seeing Chris, Craig and Danny in make-up, it doesn’t have a huge amount going for it.
I liked the counseling meeting (the droid leading it was the best of guest-stars), I liked the opening scene. I didn’t like much else.
Danny was good. Craig seemed to be struggling with enunciating with all that make-up. And Chris…erm… well, I’m not sure the impersonation of Robert playing Kryten was really a good idea. it just came across as what it was; rather than an actual performance.
Nice locations…a fairly interesting idea. But it goes somewhere only vaguely interesting, fails to generate much in the way of laughs, and then stops.
I would label the ending with the upgrades as a deus ex machina, but people will probably hurl things at me. I’ll just call it “rather shit” instead.
In summary; a bit pants, frankly.
Rubber / October 12, 2017 at 11:05 pm / #
Oh, so Lister IS crap at the guitar again. Continuity!
I really enjoyed that, possibly more than any other Red Dwarf episode made since 1993.
si / October 12, 2017 at 11:05 pm / #
Enjoyed that, I did. Shame about the constant buffering, maybe I can watch again tomorrow sometime.
But yes, very good. I’ve had a large grin on my face for the past half hour. :D
Dax101 / October 12, 2017 at 11:06 pm / #
I actually didn’t mind chris doing an impression of kryten, although it could be questioned why none of the other droids sounded like kryten in that case.
It was interesting to see a live action Chris doing a kryten impression in full.
Although i do wish the guest stars did try and sound like droids since they sounded too normal with various british accents.
curtis / October 12, 2017 at 11:07 pm / #
Hmmm. Not sure. Need a rewatch on that one. Couldn’t quite get a handle on Craig’s performance to tell you the truth. And some of the make up was distractingly dodgy. Definitely preferred Cured.
si / October 12, 2017 at 11:08 pm / #
Looking back through these comments just now… there’s quite a large swing between opinions, isn’t there? A bit of a Marmite episode, it would seem.
curtis / October 12, 2017 at 11:09 pm / #
“It’s almost to the day that we flushed it into space”
Huh?
Rubber / October 12, 2017 at 11:11 pm / #
Lister did look a bit like his head was melting towards the end.
NitroChrisUK / October 12, 2017 at 11:12 pm / #
i am never one to post negative things usually, i am a big fan of the dave era dwarf even the lesser of those episodes ( Dear Dave has some huge laugh out loud moments)
unless it is me and i am just tired… i did just sit through that episode and not laugh out loud once :( and i am totally gutted.
and the last 5 minutes felt so massively rushed and contrived, on first viewing it was fairly disappointing, but will give it another go in the morning.
absolutely love XI & Last weeks episode but i think it is really starting to show they they are trying to cram so much into 27-28 minutes.
Carlito / October 12, 2017 at 11:15 pm / #
That’s 2 out of 2 for me so far. Really enjoyed both episodes to date. I was at the recording for Siliconia and thought I remembered James Buckley having a larger role so either a sketchy memory or cutting room floor job.
Dax101 / October 12, 2017 at 11:16 pm / #
Yeah the ending was very rushed and everything got sorted out abit to quick and easy.
flanl3 / October 12, 2017 at 11:16 pm / #
Unpopular opinion: Cured was quite crap, and Siliconia was really, really good.