The Dibbley Family in Back in the Red part 2 – just bug me

[Tonguetied]

I know it’s a computer induced set of events that take place in Back in the Red part 2 and 3. And even though they have blatant disguises on, they have the luck virus on their side. But the terrible use of Duane Dibbley, as a homage to his great character that was introduced in Back to Reality and then a brief follow up in the brilliant Emohawk: Polymorph 2. The on screen reference to him in Back in the Red part 2 is just….ugh can’t find suitable words for it….bloody ghastly. It let’s down the character of Duane Dibbley in oh so many ways. It’s a cheap and frankly crude set of scenes where they don the ‘mop and teeth’ disguise. And then to follow it up with that nauseatingly atrocious Reservoir Dogs parody. Just excretes over the character of Duane big style. The more I watch it, the more I become intrusively, robustly sick. I heard about a fan made The Phantom Edit, where fans edited out all the destitute scenes, mainly all the Jar Jar parts. I wish there was a fan edit of Red Dwarf series VIII. I guess the point I’m trying to make, did anyone laugh at the whole Dibbley family facade. Hell…does anyone even remotely like it…if so why?

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[Danny Stephenson]

The only time I laughed at the Dibbley family in Series VIII was the ad-lib Craig gave on the out-takes…

[hummingbird]

Tonguetied, I couldn’t agree more.

>I wish there was a fan edit of Red Dwarf series VIII.

For a while now I’ve thought about doing this for BITR: editing the extended 3-parter down to an hour.
Which is what they should have done in the first place.

Maybe I will if I get a couple of spare hours.

[Pete Part Three]

I did a fan edit of Series VIII once. It just involves putting on the DVD, and avoiding any content aside from the extras.

[Antipodean]

I don’t think much of Dibbley’s appearance in Emohawk either.

> “For a while now I?ve thought about doing this for BITR: editing the extended 3-parter down to an hour.
Which is what they should have done in the first place.

Maybe I will if I get a couple of spare hours.”

I actually planned one out several months ago (it came to about 56 minutes) but haven’t done it due to a mixture of apathy and lack of required software.

[hummingbird]

>I actually planned one out several months ago (it came to about 56 minutes) but haven?t done it due to a mixture of apathy and lack of required software.

I have the software, so I had a go at this last night – just a *very* rough cut of the extended BITR.
If I cut out all the take-me-outside-and-shoot-me-through-the-head moments (blue midget dance, claymation, and so on) then it comes in at just over an hour. If I then went on to cut all the bits that simply aren’t funny, I suspect I would have just about enough for a half hour ep.

Which, when you think about it, is quite depressing.
Esp as it’s one of the better offerings from VIII.

BTW – it’s not possible to cut the Dibbley scene completely, as it’s required to show Kryten breaking his programming.

[Antipodean]

My plan didn’t actually involve editing the Dibbley scene at all: even though it’s not too funny it’s still necessary for the plot. The main thing I did was keep the original ending, completely getting rid of all the additionally-shot scenes for the second layer of AR. I also got rid of the dance and the claymation of course, and the Ground Control scene (without the dance or the second Ground Control scene, there’s no point to it). And I got rid of both of the flash-forward scenes to Lister and Rimmer’s prison cell – although both were funny they just didn’t fit.

I structured the one-hour BitR so it could actually be split into two episodes for broadcast. For that, I rearranged some scenes: after RImmer’s “The world loves a bastard!” comes Kryten’s medical exam and the following scene with Kryten and Kochanski, and after *that* comes the final scene for my Part 1 which is Rimmer and Hollister in the Captain’s Office (i.e. the actual beginning of BitR Part 2). The opening scene for my Part 2 is then the enquiry scene where they agree to the mind-scan (the extended version as scene in the DVD all-in-one version of BitR).

There were some other edits I planned out, mostly small, but those are the main ones that should give you a good idea of what my BitR fan-edit would be.

[pfm]

> in the brilliant Emohawk: Polymorph 2

There’s one word you need to remove there.

[Danny Stephenson]

“Emohawk”. Actually, is there a band called Emohawk? there should be…

[Tonguetied]

>?Emohawk?. Actually, is there a band called Emohawk? there should be?

Yeah it would be a quirky name for a band. Better than ‘The Smeg and the Heads’ anyway.

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