Did you see Red Dwarf? – Spoilers!

[Pete Part Three]

You know; on DVD or TV repeat? What was the episode and was it as good/bad as you remember?

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[Stabbim the Skutter]

So they found Kochanski in the end then, I never would’ve guessed she was hiding out within the cast of Horne and Corden – after all, it’s the one place nobody was looking.

I’m not sure about her being played by Kerry Katona, mind. But Tony Slattery makes a brilliant Rimmer!

[Carlito]

Thinking about it, there really has been TOO MUCH recasting ever since they brought it back. Getting a bit over the top now. Still, Brian Blessed as Hollister and Kelsey Grammer as Petersen truly were masterstrokes.

[Seb Patrick]

I thought the episode where they just displayed the script onscreen and encouraged viewers to act it out themselves was a pretty inspired bit of meta-commentary on all the recasting, though.

[JamesTC]

I have just finished the episode ‘Kryten Kholera’ and I have to say the USB shit scene was way too graphic.

[Ben Paddon]

I have just finished the episode ?Kryten Kholera? and I have to say the USB shit scene was way too graphic.

As I was writing that scene I wondered, “Is this too much?” I ran it by Linwood and he kept telling me to make it bigger and more gross.

Then he turned to the wall and started talking about me as if he was remembering this at a later time and I wasn’t there. It was weird.

[JamesTC]

Next weeks ‘Krazy Krytie’ looks very promising.

[Carlito]

Seen it. It’s already leaked online.

After months of build-up, turns out it’s basically just a 30-min spoof of The Shining… but not even the movie version – the TV mini-series version. I’d suggest watching The Shining first, otherwise you won’t get the references.

[JamesTC]

Oh I just watched it on youtube, Cat coming back through time at the end was fantastic though what could “Vista Riddle” mean?

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

I bet it has to do with Michael Magruder coming back. Here I thought he was sealed away in the chrono-locked vacuum dimension forever–hell, Lister even said, “That’s it, he’s locked in there forever, with no way to leave under any circumstances” like eight different times, so I thought I could rest easy knowing it was canon.

But noooooo. According to leaked footage online, he’s rescued by the gestalt psychic power of the entire Space Corps when everyone chants “We love you Michael” until he rematerializes in a blaze of light on the Red Dwarf bridge, wipes out the billion-strong fleet of simulants with a blink of his eye using his absurdly overpowered telekinesis (where the hell did he get that power, anyway?), and has a twenty-minute sex scene with Todhunter’s daughter on the captain’s desk. Fucking Michael Magruder. God, what a Gary-Stu.

[JamesTC]

They really should find the guy leaking episodes and footage onto the internet.

[Jonathan Capps]

You guys are hilarious.

[si]

‘Stasis Leap’ is an instant classic. From the instant Sam Beckett leaps into Lister’s body, with his “Oh Boy” , you know you’re in for a treat. And Al’s discomfort when he realises that, being a Hologram, Rimmer can see him… oh, my sides.

[Carlito]

Yeah. That one was much better than ‘Dimension Gump’, although it was nice to see Tom Hanks do a bit of TV again for once.

[JamesTC]

Yeh, Tom Hanks has been off TV for so long since he got that afro it is good to see him back.

[Carlito]

I’m not even gonna mention Mark Morrison’s acting in ‘Mack To Reality’… oh wait, I just did.

[Ben Paddon]

Did everybody else catch the Randall & Hopkirk (deceased) reference in the latest episode? Inspired writing, that. What with Rimmer being dead, and all.

[J_Spaced]

Well that was wierd. Who’s idea was it to “uncast” the series? I mean lovely looking at the sets and all, but for fourty-seven minutes with Murray Gold’s reworking of an epic-album-version of the theme and extra lyrics?

“Oh I love you Dave, don’t you understand how/
“Much this composer loves you and can tell/
“You through the medium of this song?

Still it was nice to see Norman Lovett’s Holly on the CGI monitors complaining constantly throughout. Nice pink mohawk he’d decided to go with too.

[JamesTC]

I liked it were Kryten quotes the all nations agreement 572 436 8217968B.

[Carlito]

Yeah, but that was just completely blatant product placement. Since when did any member of the crew have a Motorola W230, let alone ALL of them? And it was never properly explained how they could phone American TV stations from deep space 3 million years in the future.

Left a bad taste in my mouth, is all I’m saying. All compounded by the fact that the crew then proceeded to attend the Orange Wednesdays showing of Die Screaming… in the ship cinema. Needless and blatant.

[peas_and_corn]

The latest episode was just fangirl service. I mena, come on- a virus that makes Lister and Rimmer take off their shirts and make out? Kryten’s “Looks like an extra load of laundry” line stole the show, though.

Thoughts on Cat being played by Patrick Stewart (as part of the now famous law suit)?

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

>The latest episode was just fangirl service.

You say that almost as though it’s a bad thing. I for one quite enjoyed their extended side-trip to the abandoned space station full of male prostidroids while under the influence of engineered pheromones. I thought it was a daring exercise in character exploration.

>Thoughts on Cat being played by Patrick Stewart (as part of the now famous law suit)?

Thought the GELF-wrestling scene was really interesting, but trying to make him up to look like Danny John-Jules might potentially backfire. And now that DJJ is being made up for his new role as Mrs. Golightly to look like an out-of-costume Robert Llewellyn in drag–I’m just saying, things are getting a tad confused on the casting front.

[Ben Paddon]

Sneak-peak of next fortnight’s episode.

(It’s not a Rickroll, by the way. That’d be stupid.)

[JamesTC]

The end had me laughing to fuckery.

[Stabbim the Skutter]

I can’t believe that Red Dwarf episodes are now basically just Youtube Poop-style remixes. Don’t get me wrong, I laughed at “It’s my BAGEL. My BAGEL as a complete and utter KOOPA FOOTBALL PLAYER.” and the bit where they just showed Kryten falling over and over again while a clip of Dr Robotnik shouting “PINGAS” played, but it’s a bit cheap. Plus I know that some people find the particular style of humour immature, and it certainly won’t help the show’s “lol smeg curry lager” image.

[JamesTC]

I like the new theme, Howard Goodall’s mix of the Mario theme works perfectly.

[JamesTC]

I can’t help but think this weeks episode would have been better if it ended like was originally intended, you know with Kryten and his evil future self falling into the matrix.

[peas_and_corn]

Well, the Dibbley liver cancer story has finally ended. TBH making Dibbley a regular character was a mistake and the mistake has finally been fixed. It’s about time.

[Seb Patrick]

I thought the handwritten card saying he died on the way back to his home planet was a bit lazy, though.

[Ben Paddon]

Not as lazy as the split-screen Danny John-Jules stuff. By which I mean they just had Danny hop from one side of the screen to the other as he said his lines, changing his teeth as he went.

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

All right, I’ll say it: Screw all the haters, I liked the “Weird Al” Yankovic cameo where he sings several parodies of Spice Girls songs.

[si]

The alternate Universe characters were alright the other week, though I don’t see how Kryten and Kochanski could grow goatee beards.

[Pete Part Three]

I don’t care how integral it is to the plot, I don’t want to see Norman Lovett’s penis.

[Stabbim the Skutter]

I didn’t mind Hattie getting her vag out, mind…

[si]

Too far.

[Carlito]

That wasn’t Norm’s real penis though, to be fair. It was clearly CGI.

[Dave]

>Too far.

Hattie got her vag out too far?

[Ben Paddon]

That wasn?t Norm?s real penis though, to be fair. It was clearly CGI.

Yeah. I much prefer the “short” model to the CGI “pencil”.

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

>Yeah. I much prefer the ?short? model to the CGI ?pencil?.

Well, it’s more realistic-looking, of course. It’s got all the little fiddly bits on it (along with what looks like a tea bag on the bottom).

[si]

*applauds*

He got his ball back, then?

[J_Spaced]

Wow, we really have just crashed through the floor when it comes to taste in this thread haven’t we? Do we think we can do more depraved than this? I’m willing to bet we can. When I say we, I mean you.

[Carlito]

> Wow, we really have just crashed through the floor when it comes to taste in this thread haven?t we? Do we think we can do more depraved than this? I?m willing to bet we can. When I say we, I mean you.

I think Doug Naylor’s already on the case, judging by this week’s episode.

The revelation that Rimmer is a paedophile was bad enough, but why did they have to show that felching scene with his 8yr old past self? And I’m not as up-in-arms as most about Lister wanking on camera – after all, it’s been a long time since he got laid – but did they really have to have the cum shot in 3D? I’ve had nightmares ever since.

Don’t even get me started on Two Simulants, One Cup. Unpleasant and unnecessary.

I’m actually quite impressed by Gary Glitter’s turn as this week’s Holly, although I don’t understand the physics of a computer being addicted to necrophilia. And who exactly was it who grassed him up? I mean, that scene where he mentioned that he had gotten away with it for years until some rotten cunt split on him…. I couldn’t work it out.

[Ben Paddon]

The announcement of the Queeg spin-off confuses me. How can he have his own show? How come he’s a person now? Why is he in a perfect recreation of 1970s Liverpool running a corner shop? It doesn’t make any sense, and it doesn’t fit in with established canon.

[Carlito]

What about the announcement on TOS about next Summer’s new ‘Red Dwarf Wrestling Federation’, and the baffling assurance that “it’s canon”? Hopefully more details will emerge during the publicity blitz for the debut episode of ‘Queeg The Extraordinary Gentleman’ later this year.

[Ben Paddon]

I don’t honestly think that the RDWF will really go anywhere. It’s a fun-sounding (if slightly perplexing) idea, but I find myself wondering if networks are interested in the audience wrestling normally attracts.

[Pete Part Three]

Who is everyone voting for in tonight’s eviction? I think I’ll plump for Kryten because he keeps on doing that squeaky voice.

You wouldn’t think a phone vote would work for Red Dwarf, but it’s added an extra dimension to the show.

[J_Spaced]

Carl, you’re like Scotty or something. Just when we think it’s running out of energy, you reroute the energisers or something and pow we’re past warp 10!

“We need more depravity, Mr. Carl!”

“I’m giving her all she’s got!”

[Carlito]

What can I say? I’m doing it all for the fans. It’s all about the fans.

[Seb Patrick]

Wait… you mean you’re making these up?

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

Seb, I believe Carl was quoting Doug Naylor, from when he was asked about adding the puppet show-within-the-show, “Silly Sprinkles, The Talking Vole and His Ever-So-Wacky Adventures”.

[JamesTC]

I think the spin off ‘Star Bug’ will be brilliant, can’t see the mini-series ‘Blue Midget’ going anywhere though.

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