Contradictions

[Dave]

Obviously the continuity of Red Dwarf is usually absolutely water-tight, but occasionally the odd flat-out contradiction does slip through.

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[Rushy]

I guess they were just confused and their brains went on autopilot

[sleepey]

They wanted to check out the giant ship & it’s too far to walk anywhere, seems pretty reasonable to me?

[International Debris]

Imagine if Doug had thought “yeah that was probably the best gag in Nanarchy, good way to end the series,” and then just left it rather than trying to resolve a cliffhanger nobody cared about. 

The opening scene is about as necessary as a scene finding out how they desposed of the second polymorph or a lengthy section of Duane waiting for the others to unfreeze after Emohawk, or an episode of Rimmer in Cat’s body, or a whole bit about how they didn’t die at the end of Legion or

[Rushy]

Well, they had to introduce the nano-resurrected crew. If they’d ignored the cliffhanger, then there would have to be a time skip. 

I suppose they could’ve done a “Lister spent a month on the ship and didn’t notice the crew were back” joke. 

[Rushy]

Rushy carrying the lifeless corpse of his brother after forcing him to watch series VIII

This still makes me giggle. 

I left out Krytie TV, though. 

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