Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Ace Rimmer – What A Bastard Search for: This topic has 21 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 1 hour, 45 minutes ago by Ian Symes. Scroll to bottom Creator Topic May 17, 2026 at 5:36 pm #320486 DaveParticipant Time for a long-overdue reappraisal of whether Ace is actually a nice guy or not. Creator Topic Viewing 21 replies - 1 through 21 (of 21 total) Author Replies May 17, 2026 at 5:37 pm #320487 DaveParticipant This is a dickheaded thing to say. May 17, 2026 at 5:37 pm #320488 DaveParticipant Not very understanding, Ace. May 17, 2026 at 5:38 pm #320489 DaveParticipant Taken together, this implies that after meeting Cat and learning he doesn’t have a name, Ace still thinks it’s more important to give Lister a nickname than sort out a proper name for Cat. What an arsehole. May 17, 2026 at 5:42 pm #320491 DaveParticipant Sexually harassing a woman and implicitly conditioning her rescue from her Nazi captors on future payment in kind. NOT OK, ACE. May 17, 2026 at 5:43 pm #320492 DaveParticipant And of course the all-time number one. May 17, 2026 at 5:57 pm #320494 WarbodogParticipant I remember in this otherwise thoughtful episode ranking (at 26:00, maybe the same guy who made the Tiermaker template), he seemed to treat Ace Rimmer as if the show was sincerely selling him as a perfect role model and not a parody. Though you can still get a joke and hate it at the same time too. I feel like this may have been common for both the love and hate extremes. Dimension Jump’s one of my favourites, but he’s clearly a tool. May 17, 2026 at 6:00 pm #320495 Ben SaundersParticipant But Rimmer is a weaselly maggot who probably can’t smoke a kipper. Ace considers giving somebody a nickname a great honour, and Cat already has one, so giving him another one is redundant. He says “hopefully” some sex, which is just a very forward way of asking for consent. And mechanoids aren’t people, so decking one is fine. Please remove this inflammatory post immediately. May 17, 2026 at 6:04 pm #320496 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant Doesn’t he know it’s the height of bad manners to turn down the offer of sex? May 17, 2026 at 6:18 pm #320498 loadoftottnumbParticipant This is very similar to the Butler debate, whom I personally consider an insufferable smug Polaroid Head. Ace is no saint, he’s still Rimmer, just Rimmer with confidence. May 17, 2026 at 6:40 pm #320499 DaveParticipant But Rimmer is a weaselly maggot who probably can’t smoke a kipper. Ace considers giving somebody a nickname a great honour, and Cat already has one, so giving him another one is redundant. He says “hopefully” some sex, which is just a very forward way of asking for consent. And mechanoids aren’t people, so decking one is fine. Please remove this inflammatory post immediately. ACE APOLOGIST May 17, 2026 at 6:48 pm #320500 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant I said it once before but I still maintain Ace is a little homophobic May 17, 2026 at 6:56 pm #320502 Ben SaundersParticipant So is Rimmer to be fair, therefore it’s in his DNA and arguably not his fault. Ace vindicated again May 17, 2026 at 7:29 pm #320506 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant So is Rimmer to be fair, therefore it’s in his DNA and arguably not his fault. Ace vindicated again Doesn’t this just excuse every homophobe ever? May 17, 2026 at 7:45 pm #320509 tombowParticipant I’ve said it before, but I think Dimension Jump would have been more powerful if Ace actually looked and sounded anything like “normal” Rimmer. Say if he was just normal Rimmer with more self confidence and a kinder personality. Him looking and sounding so different takes away from the concept that he’s someone our Rimmer could have been, imo. In fact, I wonder if the episode would still work if he wasn’t even Rimmer – just a travelling space hero (played by Rik Mayall or someone) who Rimmer hates for being everything he wants to be. Or what if he’d been Rimmer’s brother, and genuinely remorseful? Like he tries to say “I’m sorry, Arnie. Father tried to turn us against each other. I should have been a better brother to you” and you can see he’s done a lot of work on himself and become a better person, and the rest of the crew love him, but Rimmer just doesn’t care about his apologies and just wants revenge. And as you watch you’re on his side, because you can see how much he wants to make amends, but Rimmer is too bitter (not fully my idea, something similar happens in the NZ comedy film Eagle vs Shark. In fact, in that film, the former victim’s petty revenge on the remorseful former bully is even darker) May 17, 2026 at 8:08 pm #320514 Jonathan CappsKeymaster Are you sure you’ve exhausted absolutely all of your possibilities before you gleefully go for the “murder cat” option, you prick? May 17, 2026 at 8:17 pm #320520 RushyParticipant This is a dickheaded thing to say. Even the best people end up responding to negative energy with negative energy. May 17, 2026 at 8:30 pm #320527 MoonlightParticipant Ace is just rubbing it in how useless he thinks Rimmer is by asking to perform a task he is physically incapable of and then mocking him for it. That said, between this and the original ending I think Rob and Doug might’ve just forgotten Rimmer is a hologram while writing this episode. May 17, 2026 at 8:42 pm #320534 DaveParticipant Ace is just rubbing it in how useless he thinks Rimmer is by asking to perform a task he is physically incapable of and then mocking him for it. That said, between this and the original ending I think Rob and Doug might’ve just forgotten Rimmer is a hologram while writing this episode. Reminiscent of the bit in Backwards (the novel) where he eventually learns how to control something physical by bouncing his light bee on it. May 17, 2026 at 8:48 pm #320540 RushyParticipant Reminiscent of the bit in Backwards (the novel) where he eventually learns how to control something physical by bouncing his light bee on it. Could’ve done a great reverse Polymorph joke with that, with Rimmer’s hologram humping the console to get it to work May 17, 2026 at 8:48 pm #320541 WarbodogParticipant That idea only occurred to Ace because he was always putting his balls on stuff unsolicited. May 18, 2026 at 10:25 am #320615 Ian SymesKeymaster Author Replies Viewing 21 replies - 1 through 21 (of 21 total) Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In
