No Kochanski

Relieved at that news.

To have included Chloe and not Norman would have been madness and as she was only hired to try to get funding for the movie it makes sense to jettison her now.

I’d love to see a new Series VI Starbug-set story, but those eps all featured ‘other’ characters (or alternate personalities). Out of the 52 episodes, I don’t think more than 10/12 at the most featured just the four of them with no other guest stars…

>Chloe was great

This.

>(despite the writing for KK in VIII being terrible)

This (and VII).

>I?m not that concerned about losing her for the specials.

And this.

I wonder if she was written out-

-for budget reasons (like Norm).

– because Chloe Annette didn’t want to return and they didn’t want to recast the character. (I don’t know that Chloe didn’t want to return, mind, but it would be understandable after all this time.)

-because they never intended to include her in this particular story.

I liked the character, and it’s somewhat of a shame, but since the show has always been carried by the other guys (credit where it’s due, Krissie had a decent role in series 7*) I doubt it would make much of a difference. I hope her absence is addressed though, if this follows on from series 8, obviously.

*It strikes me as weird when Lister says “Come on, rumpy pumpy Krissie” in Duct soup due to a phonetic coincidence.

After thinking about this a bit more, I think I’m in agreement with the majority opinion.

Chloe is great, the writing for Kochanski mostly isn’t and whilst it’s a shame to lose her from the specials it’s also a sensible choice. Hopefully should Dwarf return her character could return and be properly developed.

Presumably not. Possibly some alternate reality stuff?

>I would have wanted as many of the old cast members and characters as possible in the specials? this includes any version of Holly, any version of Kochanski, and everyone else. I find it a little sad. For the ?special specials? it doesn?t matter so much, but a new episode? Hmmm.

To be honest I’m glad it’s been stripped back. I thought having a larger cast in Series 8 really weakened the chemistry between the core group. Still, it’s a shame that there’s no Hattie or Chloe there (as for Norm, he feels sorry enough for himself).

I’m a tad disappointed..

Maybe Doug is getting back to basics which in many ways is good.

I cant quite believe the absence is entirely down to budget as any script would have to have accounted for characters. I’m left wondering what period this will be set in and cant wait to hear further details.

As this ‘could’ be the last of Dwarf, I would like to have seen a return of as many cast members as possible, purely for nostalgia.
Having met a lot of the cast over the years (as many of us have done), it would have definately added a certain something.

Robert seems very excited by it all and despite my disappointments, I cant wait to see the end result and read about the build up…

what monkey said (mostly)

I’m not bothered about them carrying on from VIII, either. A stand-alone story would be fine by me.

KOCHANSKI DIED ON THE WAY BACK TO HER HOME PLANET

I have some grave news. Kochanski’s plane was shot down less than 20 minutes ago over enemy lines. It spun in. There were no survivors…