DwarfCast 106 – Parallel Universe Commentary DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 5th June 2020, 13:33 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes As if your podcast queue wasn’t full enough! Yes, after squandering a good few months of lockdown (to be fair, one of us has been fairly busy with being a new parent) the G&T commentaries are making a return! Join Ian Symes, Danny Stephenson and Jonathan Capps as we gather remotely to talk over Parallel Universe, a sometimes controversial episode that always seems to hover towards the bottom of episode polls. We discuss the approach to gender politics the episode takes (yey) as well as tackling lighter questions such as: what can’t Cheggers be? DwarfCast 106 – Parallel Universe Commentary (40MB) With any luck and a trailing wind, this should be the start of a good run of DwarfCasts from us in the coming weeks and months as we hurtle headlong into finishing the commentaries for the BBC series. It’s only taken us 14 years so far, so I think that puts us slightly ahead of schedule.
Another one ticked off the Dwarfcast bingo card! Listening to the series 2 commentaries in episode order should be a bizarre experience.
With DwarfCasts hopefully appearing with some regularity for the first time in 14 years, we’re thinking of appending the main feature each week with an extra waffley chat section, with the three of us tackling different Red Dwarf topics each week. So any requests for what we should talk about this week? Big or small, serious or silly, broad or niche, it’s all the same to us.
Looking at my bingo card I can assume that series VII and VIII are about to be completed so extended summaries/thoughts on those series would be very welcome. I know this is potentially a tired area but with all this distance from both series and the Tikka Dwarfcast plus all the new information that has come to light regarding lost scripts and studio recordings I think it could be an interesting area.
I’ve got one for you…. The idea that Red Dwarf Ending in a Novel ? (Seeing that it’s something that Doug said both in the past and after The Promised Land showing)
Very pleasant listening, as always. Only four more BBC episodes to do if I can count, and Series X and BTE done too. I take it you’re recording a new Cassandra commentary, so how about discussing the one from many years ago that was deemed too depressing to release, perhaps with selected clips? Or would even talking about it after all this time be too gloomy? :)
I’ve got one for you…. The idea that Red Dwarf Ending in a Novel ? (Seeing that it’s something that Doug said both in the past and after The Promised Land showing) I am surprised Doug hasn’t released the movie script as a novel yet. Doug also brought that up as an idea many years ago. Maybe he isn’t willing to put it in any other form yet.
An enjoyable commentary. I think this is an underrated episode and Doug has been harsh on it. I think he said that they were “earnest” when they wrote it, but that was no bad thing. Essentially it was two male writers mocking male behaviour which generally stands up pretty well. When Doug has tried to incorporate more traditional female characters, he hasn’t fared quite so well. The first 10 minutes of this ep are really strong and it also has a good ending. The stuff on the female ship lacks a dramatic plot, but there are plenty of funny lines and moments. “She thinks seeing two men together might turn me on” being a personal favourite.
Topic idea: What IS it? Just two full hours of differently-worded explanations of what Stasis Leaks and White Holes are.
The thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is it’s black. And the thing about white holes is….
I’ve got one for you…. The idea that Red Dwarf Ending in a Novel ? (Seeing that it’s something that Doug said both in the past and after The Promised Land showing) I am surprised Doug hasn’t released the movie script as a novel yet. Doug also brought that up as an idea many years ago. Maybe he isn’t willing to put it in any other form yet. My guess… is either that we seen most of what the film is, in X’s The Beginning. Or… which version of the movie script should he go with ? (probably the more ambitious and expensive one !!!) That all being said… I wouldn’t mind a making and breaking documentary of the movie similar to Terry Gilliam’s “Lost in La Mancha” ;)
(•_•) novel / (•_•) please / Clearly I should have known better than to try and post an ASCII meme format on here.
2 and V are my favourites too – there’s a real feeling of them cooking with gas at that point, it’s a wonderfully comfortable series (in a good way). Enjoyed that. I’m glad you were all more positive on the show than some people are – the gender stuff is sometimes a bit broad, but overall it really does highlight the difference in standards brilliantly.
I was watching Queeg with Rob, Ed and Paul’s commentary today and noticed the hazard tape around the airlock door is already there. Or rather still there, seeing as PU was recorded before Queeg, so I still think the guys are right about the tape having been added to make the parallel universe ship look different. But I wonder whether it was left there by mistake or just because they thought it looked good – as we know they wanted more colour in the set in Series 2.
I think the hazard tape is there when its an airlock, and not there when it isn’t / when its a stasis booth. I just presumed they were wrong when they said they added it to make it look different in the different universe.
Ah, yeah that makes more sense. They changed the stasis booth into an airlock for PU and just left it as an airlock for Queeg which was recorded last, because why change it back?
