Complain about Series XIII

[tombow]

the thing that bothered me was (maybe some here can tell more)..the cameras used some creative shots and blurring to not get too explicit, but what were the studio audience seeing? The front row at least must have been hit by some fluids.

[Dave]

Finally, a new alternate version of the closing theme! It’s been a while. I wonder how much Fanta Craig Charles had to drink to be able to burp the whole thing in one take.

[Shoes Have Soles]

I love it when Doug goes back to the old ideas. And we really needed the third installment of the Pete trilogy. As far as I am concerned, that’s all the loose ends tied up in Red Dwarf now.

[Phil 4Q2B]

That final scene with Captain Hollister in the shower revealling it was all a dream was too much. And brining back Holly but with the face of Jimmy Carr and voice of Alan Carr was a word is yet to be invented.

[Moonlight]

I still think we have to admit they actually pulled off Pete Part 3. Nobody saw that coming.

[Bargain Bin Holly]

I could’ve gone without the Kryten/Snacky sex scene, tho I’m glad we finally found out what that spatula on the top of Snacky’s head was for

[Pete Part Three]

>I still think we have to admit they actually pulled off Pete Part 3. Nobody saw that coming.

I’m glad people are realising the sacrifices I make for the show, even if the lightning was poor.

[Ben Paddon]

Did anyone else catch that lyric in “The Kryten Song (Spin My Nipple-Nuts)” alluding to a possible return of Selby, Chen, and Petersen? Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I thought that the bit that went “and Petersen is coming back / Chen and Selby, too / anyway, it’s Kryten’s song / we wrote it to pad the episode” pointed at the possibility.

[Dave]

So… they left Kryten’s Mum alive and on board Red Dwarf at the end of the episode – does that mean she’s going to become a series regular?

[cwickham]

The decision to adapt ideas from the “Idea for an episode” thread on this very forum is a bold one, but whilst I appreciate they may have had to combine a few given the limited number of episode slots, I think the guest appearances from Albert Speer, Mr Blobby, Courteney Cox, David Cameron, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Phil “The Power” Taylor, ABBA, Roy of the Rovers, Manfred Mann, Damian Green, David Davis, Brian Cant, David Gauke, Ant McPartlin, Gary Lineker, Tim Vine, Milton Jones, Reggie Kray, Emmanual Macron, Clement Freud, Ed Balls, Ken Livingstone, Len Goodman, Barbra Streisand, David Dimbleby, Nigel Farage, Dara O’Briain, Al Gore, Feargal Sharkey, Lee Mack, the cast of The Office, Timothy Dalton, Richard Wilson, Ed Davey, Vince Cable, Nick Clegg, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Elton John, Carol Thatcher, Michael Gove, Owen Jones, Donald Trump, Peter Andre, Paul Weller, the Goodies, Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Matthew Waterhouse, Philip Hammond, Roger Hodgson, Keane, Sting, the Bangles, Gary Barlow, Nicola Sturgeon, Danny Dyer, Clive Anderson, Stephanie Cole, Warwick Davis, Caroline Lucas, Kevin Pietersen, the cast of The Simpsons, John Simm, Philip Glenister, Aisling Bea, the entire Parliamentary Labour Party, Mahmoud Abbas and the Clangers may have *very slightly* suffered from all being in the same episode.

[Flap Jack]

It was a flashback to the problems of XI-XII, really. An extra 10 minutes on the runtime and it would have been perfect.

It’s extra annoying that the Idea For An Episode episode was just regular length, but the bottle episode where Rimmer gets trapped in a supply room with Bob the Skutter (TOWRGTIASRWBTS) got to be a 3-parter.

[Warbodog]

I know it was the only practical option due to the cast’s busy schedules leaving no room for overlap at all, but I’m questioning whether I’ll even bother with the Cat, Kryten, H*lly and K*llcr*zy episodes considering I’ve sat through this same story twice already, with all its awkward pauses left for the others. I’ll just wait for the inevitable fan edit combining six separate people’s same episode into one.

[Dave]

So did they use a bum-double for that shot of Cat shitting in the cupboard, or what?

[clem]

I know Craig was unavailable for the extra pick-up day because of some festival or other but was the best solution really to get Gary Wilmot in? It wouldn’t be quite so bad if he didn’t have the wrong hat on at the end of Backwards II: Back to Back.

[tombow]

I thought Gary did his best but when the sellotape keeping his dreads on came loose and they were dangling down it was distracting. Lovely singing on the musical dialogue though.

[tombow]

“It’s extra annoying that the Idea For An Episode episode was just regular length, but the bottle episode where Rimmer gets trapped in a supply room with Bob the Skutter (TOWRGTIASRWBTS) got to be a 3-parter”

and that the whole 3 parter was just Pinter’s “the caretaker” with slightly modified dialogue.

[Dave]

Shooting an entire episode in a portaloo was a bold formal experiment.

[cwickham]

But did it have to be a re-enactment of the sex tape story told by that audience member from the “Entangled” recording?

[tombow]

I know the Dave Dwarf is very audience focused. But I wasn’t expecting a simple, no set, no writing, ad-libbing thing where Doug and the cast sit before the actors on simple chairs and ask them to yell out plot points and ideas, and get audience members up on stage to play characters they come up with there and then.

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