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  • May 13, 2017 at 11:45 pm #219752
    cwickham
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    Is it me, or did tonight’s Doctor Who have a really Dwarfish vibe?

    The fact that Microgramma was plastered all over the sets helped… but I got a real vibe of the location scenes from “Give & Take” for a lot of it, and the plot was something that chimed with a lot of Doug’s pokes at big multinational corporations. Even the title feels in the same vein as a lot of Dwarf’s one-word, to-the-point titles.

    Also, there’s a poster in the scene where Bill wakes up again with a drawing that looks exactly like Rimmer.

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  • May 14, 2017 at 12:57 am #219754
    Jonsmad
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    I thought you had beat me to it cwickham. I’ve just come over here to say, this to our hosts.

    Ganymede Systems Smart Suits? They’ve obviously never met you. Ha ha.

    Smart suits. Smart Shoes have obviously come a long way then. And yeah it turns out Suits dont have Souls. Reminded me of the escort boots as well.

    I think the doctor needs K9 back now as a guide dog though.

    May 14, 2017 at 12:58 am #219755
    cwickham
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    I probably should’ve made that connection. And of course they were mining as well…

    Blame Eurovision.

    May 14, 2017 at 2:02 pm #219762
    Dave
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    I was thinking about this last night too. My wife and I both mentioned Ganymede and made the Dwarf connection. And then it was about crew of miners all getting wiped out! The whole thing would have made a fun RD story.

    If Red Dwarf ever did a crossover I’d want it to be with Doctor Who.

    Or Alien.

    But I think DW would be more fun.

    May 14, 2017 at 2:22 pm #219763
    International Debris
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    I can’t think of many series more at odds with RD, tonally, than Who. One has a universe overflowing with aliens, the other has none.

    May 14, 2017 at 6:07 pm #219764
    Dave
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    I can’t think of many series more at odds with RD, tonally, than Who.

    Coronation Street?

    May 14, 2017 at 6:10 pm #219765
    Dave
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    Seriously though, Doctor Who’s tone is all over the place. It changes by the episode. Last night’s episode came pretty close to RD in tone as well as story details.

    The non-existence of aliens in RD is more of a continuity-compatability issue, and you could easily sort that out with a bit of creative writing.

    May 15, 2017 at 10:28 pm #219772
    Stephen Abootman
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    Doctor Who series 10: the hidden roots of its graphic design

    A bit more on the typeface etc.

    May 16, 2017 at 6:41 am #219774
    (deleted)
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    Ha! Slowly but surely Red Dwarf esotetica is breaking out of G&T and infecting the mainstream.

    May 16, 2017 at 9:59 am #219775
    Dave
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    Thanks to this thread, I had a dream on Sunday night in which I was watching ‘Oxygen’ again and there was a scene in which the Doctor and Bill stopped to have a lengthy conversation about Microgramma.

    June 26, 2017 at 7:56 am #219935
    Dave
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    This weekend’s episode was very White Hole, with time dilation due to proximity to a black hole leading to time running at varying speeds at different ends of a miles-long spaceship.

    It was good.

    June 26, 2017 at 3:18 pm #219936
    International Debris
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    It also had lots of very funny jokes in it. I can almost imagine the ‘tea’ routine being part of a low supplies dialogue at the start of a series 6 episode.

    June 26, 2017 at 7:09 pm #219937
    Dave
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    That’s true, the Tea bit would have felt right at home.

    June 30, 2017 at 10:32 pm #219972
    Ridley
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    Spare Parts is on Spotify (as are a few others) if that’s of any interest.

    There’s a character called Frank like everyone in Red Dwarf is!

    I got the link from a surprisingly uncirculated Seb Patrick retweet from off of the last months.

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