Watching Psirens…

I’d give him a synaptic enhancer…….if thats what u want to call it……………pwah!!!

Now that is an interesting point.

It’s very interesting. Although I doubt it was intentional by Rob and Doug – it’s just a funny situation that he would hate what he was really like.

Not that that doesn’t make it interesting, or worth exploring, of course.

I don’t think he overtly hates himself deep-down, but for a short period of time in Psirens he gains and objective view-point and focusses on his flaws in the same way that Rimmer does. The same flaws that Rimmer picks on.

And from an objective viewpoint (if you didn’t know Lister) then he would seem slobby and moronic. But of course there’s more to him than that. Once he’s regained his memories he regains the complexities and self-delusions that we all have.

Well Timeslides starts out with Lister hating his life.

Concerning the early point with Kryten and the synaptic enhancer, in some ways it’s strange that he was infected by the despair squid in the first place. That being said, it was mentioned in DNA that his brain is part organic so I guess that takes care of that. I didn’t think he breathed though (and surely he’d need to suck it in to ingest it?) Having plastic hands and no veins/blood to absorb the drug, you’d think he would still be immune if it was absorbed through touch.

I’m overthinking it aren’t I? Hee hee. It’s interesting to do though, and it doesn’t make me like the episode less.

Another thing I wondered about was, how did the DNA computer in, er, DNA change his whole structure since it was only his brain that was part organic? What happened to all the plastic and metal?

Oh right it was given to mini Robo-Lister at the end. ;}

Yeah – someone’s confusing synaptic enhancer with lithium carbonate. Tch! :-)

AHAHAHAHA! What a silly thing to call lithium carbonate!

Here’s someone making a similarly daft error!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Bak28KYLIgc

Whoops. And the first post actually said “Would anyone except Kryten have given Lister the synaptic enhancer? ” which I somehow interpreted in my mind as “who would give Kryten the synaptic enhancer”… which somehow I confused with the Lithium carbonate… whilst not taking note of the actual episode title either.

Talk about duncebreed central…

Never mind. Still, my examples still pass as examples of interesting things that don’t quite work in Red Dwarf. Even if that wasn’t what this thread was about…

Brain like the roadrunner but not half as speedy, that’s me! Meep meep!

By the way that Fry and Laurie Youtube sketch reminds me of the Kryten middle name gag.