The Important Questions…

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Did Lister actually go out with Kochanski before the accident, or did he imagine it as a result of space-loneliness?

Given that God is infinite, and the universe is also infinite, why has this board spawned another Jawscvmcdia?

But how *does* the time-drive suddenly let them travel back to Earth?

Ocean or Military?

Rimmer appears opaque, therefore light does not pass through him, therefore he casts shadows. Simple as that. His solidity or lack thereof doesn’t make a difference.

if Rimmer has sex is the baby half a hologram and half a person? holotaur?

What’s your perfect Sunday?

Whose eating this chicken?

What things?

Holly?

What are the questions you really want the answers to?

What if Frankenstein had been a parrot?

What if Kryten figured it out?

Well, you can figure it out, what’s the craft’s inertia rating?

We all assume that the idea Kryten had before he was killed in ‘Out of Time’ was to destroy the time drive, but what if his actual idea was to do another time jump, thereby losing their future selves, whose own time drive is broken?

How did this become the “Did Lister ever find out what an iguana is?” thread?

Once one of them had been killed by their future selves, any plan they could come up with would ultimately just be stalling while they waited for the paradox to take effect and undo everything.

But hey, Kryten didn’t know that would happen. Saving 2 of them and immediately jumping to the dark “should Kryten and Rimmer even continue living?” fan fiction was possibly the best option on the table.

Kicking bottom or what?

Maybe Kryten’s plan was to jump back ten minutes and catch them unaware by blasting them out of the sky just to increase the paradox a little

Well i call it a “retcon” but its probably a slight undo of Rimmer’s heroics.

“How can we change what’s happeni-”

BOOM

i always liked how it ties in with the opening scene of the episode- at the start, Rimmer is being nasty to his crewmates and expressing just how much he despises them. yet at the end of the episode we see he’s absolutely horrified and upset when the others are killed, and risks his life for a one-in-a-million chance of saving them. it’s nice, the crew always act like they hate each other but we get to see in Out Of Time that they actually care a lot about each other.

>not really, though. in Tikka To Ride they still show the clip of Rimmer realising he has to destroy the timedrive and running down the corridor with a bazookoid to blow it up.

Out of Time ending discussions are the new “Series VIII is shit” discussions.

In Tikka to Ride, Lister’s recap says “They killed us and destroyed everything on ship…including the timedrive”, so it is a retcon of sorts as it makes the consequences of Rimmer’s heroism irrelevant.

There’s also nothing in his recap to explain what Rimmer’s shooting at with the bazookoid, so it probably wasn’t worth the nuaunced explanation that “Rimmer destroyed the timedrive, but it didn’t really matter because Starbug exploded a second later and it was destroyed anyway”.

God I love that final scene of VI.

Chris Barrie’s acting totally makes it. Not just the bit after Kryten dies, but the “we’ll all be dead in a minute”. It’s hard to pull off that kind of shift in tone but he totally sells it.