The avoidable problem with Red Dwarf

[pfm]

There’s just not enough space.

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[Paul Muller]

Friday update honestly can’t come quick enough…

[Plastic Percy]

If Grant Naylor had avoided watching Dark Star at the cinema then we wouldn’t be in this mess today, having to argue over how shit VIII is or if Lister should have called someone a slag.

[clem]

If only Dan O’Bannon had avoided being born there’d be no need for all this bollocks.

[peepingsignal]

If only Television was never invented, then we wouldn’t be here voicing our hate of the Medibot. We’d have just thought of him as an OK character from the 10th Red Dwarf book.

[Ben Saunders]

Anyone who has a problem with the word slag is a slag

[Hamish]

But what if you actually could trade all of the television episodes for ten Red Dwarf novels?

I must admit, it is kind of tempting.

[peepingsignal]

Depends on what stories those ten books are based on.

I was going to make a joke here about “lol all the books are VII and VIII” but I thought that if they were fleshed out like the actual RD books, maybe they wouldn’t be so bad?

[International Debris]

I think VIII needs cutting down, not fleshing out.

[Ben Saunders]

I’d rather trade the novels for ten more episodes.

[Hamish]

I still think IWCD is the best thing Grant Naylor ever produced, although I will agree that none of the later novels reached the same heights.

[Pete Part Three]

I’d trade 10 Red Dwarf episodes for a novel. Wouldn’t even need to be a Red Dwarf novel, actually.

[Dave]

In that case can I trade 10 episodes of Eastenders for a new Red Dwarf novel?

[pfm]

> or if Lister should have called someone a slag.

or if the last line of series XI should have been “‘Pipe’ me”

[peepingsignal]

If I were to three episodes of Red Dwarf, four episodes of Noel’s House Party and a Corrie omnibus, could I get a third season of House of Fools?

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