Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Unanswered Questions Search for: This topic has 1,388 replies, 67 voices, and was last updated 3 months, 1 week ago by Rushy. Scroll to bottom Creator Topic May 18, 2018 at 8:14 pm #231733 DaveParticipant Who took the picture of young-Rimmer’s dorm room that he uses to go back in time, in Timeslides? And how is adult-Rmmer in possession of it in the future? The more I think about this the more it bothers me. Creator Topic Viewing 50 replies - 151 through 200 (of 1,388 total) 1 2 3 4 5 … 26 27 28 Author Replies February 27, 2020 at 8:15 pm #257836 Pete Part ThreeParticipant Yeah, there’s the beginning of a line in Holoship that you can head-canon for this. “As Holly has already told you…” Lister says to Sam Murray as soon as his hologram is switched on. Seems a bit odd that Holly would switch him earlier on just to explain stuff to him, and then switch him off while the next candidate is being “interviewed”, so I expect this is really a virtual transfer of information. It’s all pretend, you know. February 27, 2020 at 9:57 pm #257837 DaveParticipant Once they work out how to have Holly sustain two holograms in Confidence & Paranoia, why don’t they bring someone else back (after the second Rimmer gets deleted) rather than reverting to just one again? George McIntyre could have become a series regular! February 27, 2020 at 10:13 pm #257838 Ben SaundersParticipant It’s a power issue, isn’t it? They have to turn loads of shit off in order to power two holograms. Although we don’t see this, and Lister can still go to the cinema, and Holly still works, I think it is mentioned in dialogue. February 27, 2020 at 10:30 pm #257839 DaveParticipant Yeah, I think it is mentioned but like you say there don’t really seem to be any negative effects while two holograms are running. February 27, 2020 at 10:32 pm #257840 By Jove its holmesBlocked Even though the TV version of the Better Than Life game wasn’t lethal, would the creators really want to make it easy for players to leave? Even in the TV episode they fooled the boys into thinking they could just stop the game – until the loan shark showed up. February 27, 2020 at 10:36 pm #257841 DaveParticipant Maybe they never left. February 27, 2020 at 10:45 pm #257842 Pete Part ThreeParticipant He’s not a loan shark, he’s a taxman. Incidentally, in the novels, I don’t think Better Than Life is *designed* to make it difficult to leave. It’s just an unforeseen side-effect of how well it convinces you it’s reality, and how your *subconscious* will try and prevent you from leaving. February 28, 2020 at 12:14 pm #257850 By Jove its holmesBlocked Part of Holly’s major plan is to resurrect Kochanski from her canister of ashes, so she can grow young with Lister. How come Rimmer doesn’t think of resurrecting himself in the same manner, so he doesn’t have to be a hologram any more? (Maybe because he wouldn’t have a ‘gimmick’ any more. He’d just be a boring ol’ smeghead) February 28, 2020 at 5:39 pm #257851 Pete Part ThreeParticipant In-universe, you’d have a bit of a troublesome quandary over the nature of identity. This is kind of raised by Rimmer’s plan in Stasis Leak to put his other self in stasis so there would be two hims (one alive, one dead). Obviously, there’s a clunking big paradox in the way of this plan, but Rimmer’s end-goal of this makes no sense either. If there were two Hims (one for the week, one for Sunday best), it doesn’t actually benefit the dead Rimmer in any way. He would still be dead. And as several other episodes prove, Rimmer selfishness extends to variations of his own persona. So Rimmer would prefer to be “him” and a hologram, than a variation of him that isn’t *him* be alive. Oh, I’ve gone cross-eyed. February 28, 2020 at 7:19 pm #257852 Ben SaundersParticipant I was about to say something along those lines – resurrecting the “alive” Rimmer would “kill” the “dead” Rimmer, which might be good for “Rimmer”, but wouldn’t be very good for “Rimmer”, hacktually. February 28, 2020 at 8:05 pm #257853 VeniParticipant >hacktually He’s a bloody shambles February 28, 2020 at 8:52 pm #257854 By Jove its holmesBlocked In the novel, Rimmer uses his ••••• of a mum as a model for a wife. Of course, Better Than Life delves into the subconscious and the deep, dark recesses of the mind – it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that Rimmer has a hidden Oedipal desire. February 28, 2020 at 10:10 pm #257855 VeniParticipant That’s timely, I have to write an essay on the theme of the Oedipus myth tonight. March 13, 2020 at 8:12 pm #258041 By Jove its holmesBlocked Why do people that go to baby changing stations always come back with the same baby? March 14, 2020 at 12:37 am #258043 HamishParticipant Where do babies even come from? March 27, 2020 at 2:02 pm #258285 DaveParticipant I wonder when George McIntyre’s hologram was switched off. Would he have watched the crew die and then hung around for three million years, right up until the point before Lister comes out of stasis? Would he have immediately been switched off and replaced with a hologram of Hollister once the crew was wiped out (who would have then been replaced by Rimmer)? Or would there be no holograms around at all between the accident and Lister coming out of stasis? March 27, 2020 at 3:38 pm #258286 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant Maybe emergency systems on Red Dwarf automatically shut down the hologram to preserve energy etc, so once a radiation leak was detected, he was just shut off automatically, along with the hold being sealed off. Now, Holly does say he shut the hold off, but there’s definitely automated systems aboard Red Dwarf, so the conscious part of Holly could still consider these automated systems a part of himself even if he has no conscious input into the action. March 27, 2020 at 5:06 pm #258288 International DebrisParticipant Why does Lister pronounce ‘hummus’ so weirdly? March 27, 2020 at 6:23 pm #258292 DaveParticipant How does Ace Rimmer discover what the point of divergence is between him and ‘our’ Rimmer? March 27, 2020 at 6:38 pm #258293 Ben SaundersParticipant yoomins March 27, 2020 at 10:30 pm #258296 By Jove its holmesBlocked How does Ace Rimmer discover what the point of divergence is between him and ‘our’ Rimmer? Through the hole in the plot? ;) March 28, 2020 at 11:47 am #258303 Ian SymesKeymaster It doesn’t take a great leap to be fair, he could have just read Rimmer’s file or swapped notes with Holly – their divergence was quite a major event in their lives, and one that you’d easily notice just from seeing what year he left school. March 28, 2020 at 9:52 pm #258310 Pete Part ThreeParticipant Maybe there was a boy in the year below who had long flowing locks, and that was why Ace decided to copy that hairstyle. He’d be able to work it out just from looking at Arnie’s haircut. March 28, 2020 at 10:45 pm #258311 Flap JackParticipant Regarding George McIntyre, if the process for selecting the currently active hologram is automatic, then it’s possible George was switched off as soon as someone more important than him died, then they were switched off as soon as someone more important than them died, and so on, cycling through several/dozens of crew members until finally settling on the Captain. (I’m just assuming that this “most essential” calculation is largely based on rank if the mission is still viable and personality if it isn’t, because if a hologram is non-corporeal, then they’re only strictly useful for their knowledge, which Holly would have anyway.) Alternatively, if the process is not so immediate/automatic, George would be switched off when the dust had settled in favour of Hollister. You could write a bleak, not at all funny fanfic about Holoster, recounting how he spent the next weeks/months/years alone with Holly until ultimately deciding he’d rather be switched off. Maybe including monologues given to Lister’s stasis booth, and a part where he instructs Holly to ensure that the cats will be able to survive. March 28, 2020 at 10:54 pm #258312 bloodtellerParticipant > Why does Lister pronounce ‘hummus’ so weirdly? he doesn’t, does he? i’ve always pronounced it like that and never been corrected on it, and i’m fairly sure i’ve heard other people say it like that too. how do you pronounce it? March 29, 2020 at 12:26 am #258313 Ben SaundersParticipant Oh I thought he meant “humans” not “hummus” lol. How do you pronounce hummus? March 29, 2020 at 10:34 am #258314 International DebrisParticipant I pronounce it how it’s spelled and, in my experience, universally pronounced. Humm-us. As opposed to hyu-mus. March 29, 2020 at 11:57 am #258315 Ben SaundersParticipant In what episode does Lister say hyu-mus? That’s bonkers March 29, 2020 at 12:38 pm #258317 siParticipant I’d never heard of hummus when I first saw that episode, so I just assumed it was the correct pronunciation. It’s only in the past few years I’ve realised that it’s not. (Although I’ve just realised that Bongo pronounced it correctly – ‘humm-us’ – in Dimension Jump, didn’t he? Well, Lister’s pronunciation didn’t make realise they were talking about the same thing.) March 29, 2020 at 9:20 pm #258319 Pete Part ThreeParticipant When Lister tells Kryten to “Tell it to hair”, whose hair does he mean? March 29, 2020 at 10:46 pm #258320 By Jove its holmesBlocked Kryten’s home era is at least several hundred years after the Red Dwarf fled the solar system. There would be records as to how human history viewed the loss of the ship. Holly would have sent a message to Space Corps HQ on Earth when the accident happened, surely? March 29, 2020 at 10:49 pm #258321 bloodtellerParticipant i’ve always pronounced it hyu-mus (or hoo-muss) and heard plenty of people say it that way. that’s always been the more common way of pronouncing it from my experience also- on some packages of the stuff, i’ve seen it spelled “houmous” but on others “hummus” which is just confusing. it’s one thing to have two different pronunciations of the word but two different spellings? March 30, 2020 at 1:12 am #258322 By Jove its holmesBlocked Another Question: Had Graham Chapman never got sick, could he have uplifted “Timeslides”? (i hate Ruby Wax; Rimmer, please ask Stabem the Scutter to deal with her!) March 30, 2020 at 12:37 pm #258325 OfflineParticipant Seeing darling Graham in such a short role would be a terrible waste. March 30, 2020 at 11:55 pm #258335 HamishParticipant > it’s one thing to have two different pronunciations of the word but two different spellings? March 30, 2020 at 11:58 pm #258336 HamishParticipant > Kryten’s home era is at least several hundred years after the Red Dwarf fled the solar system. There would be records as to how human history viewed the loss of the ship. Sure, but are you aware of every maritime tragedy of the last 200 years? March 31, 2020 at 7:34 am #258340 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant I’m not aware of every airline tragedy of the last 200 years, but I know about Amelia Earhart and MH370 that went missing without a trace. Presumably Red Dwarf just completely disappearing would make it a fairly big deal that *everyone* would be talking about. Not to mention, Kryten has been showing to have an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of history, given he is a robot. March 31, 2020 at 9:33 am #258343 International DebrisParticipant it’s one thing to have two different pronunciations of the word but two different spellings? It’s because it comes from a place that doesn’t use the Western alphabet, and has thus been translated differently in different times and places. Hummus is the ‘standard’ spelling, but there are plenty of different ones. See also: poppadom (aka papadum, poppadam, pappadam, puppodum, pappadum, etc). March 31, 2020 at 3:48 pm #258345 OfflineParticipant Kryten has been shown to have an encyclopedic knowledge of certain topics but a woefully dismal databank in terms of others, most notably women’s periods, which is odd since he is a sanitation droid and should be adept in human anatomy, unless he was built to serve on all-male Italian starships. The horror. March 31, 2020 at 5:17 pm #258348 International DebrisParticipant Bras and periods are things you’d imagine he’d have some idea about, given the crew of the Nova 5. March 31, 2020 at 6:36 pm #258351 Ian SymesKeymaster The gaps in Kryten’s knowledge are a consequence of there being no internet in the Red Dwarf universe. All his information is stored locally, so he has to delete things that are no longer relevant to free up space. March 31, 2020 at 6:48 pm #258353 Pete Part ThreeParticipant KRYTEN. : My head is littered with unnecessary information, sir. The ability to sing the Bay City Rollers’ greatest hits is no longer a priority. For most cultural purposes, crooning “Bye Bye Baby” is more than sufficient. This is In the same episode where he talks about having a “histo-chip”. So, um…yeah. I think they’re making this stuff up as they go along, you know. March 31, 2020 at 8:11 pm #258360 HamishParticipant > Presumably Red Dwarf just completely disappearing would make it a fairly big deal that *everyone* would be talking about. I guess it depends on just how mundane Red Dwarf as a ship was, and how common accidents such as these were. We have no idea how many ships the JMC had in their fleet, or with how much significance the vessel was viewed. Crew numbers also affect this. 169 people lost is different kind of tragedy from 1,169 people lost, just in terms of scale if nothing else. March 31, 2020 at 8:16 pm #258361 JamesTCParticipant >Bras and periods are things you’d imagine he’d have some idea about, given the crew of the Nova 5. LISTER: How come you don’t know what bras are? What about the women on the Nova 5? KRYTEN: Well, when I cleaned up my cache files, sir, I erased my lingerie database. I didn’t see there’s be much call for it, unless we had a fancy dress party, and you wanted to go as Herman Goering. March 31, 2020 at 11:55 pm #258367 OfflineParticipant Oh look at all of you with your recollection of key dialogue, evidence and plausible theories to support your claims. April 2, 2020 at 2:42 pm #258384 By Jove its holmesBlocked In Tikka to Ride, Red Dwarf uses the common allegation that J. Edgar Hoover was a transvestite (a mocked up photo of Hoover in ladieswear and makeup appears on Kryten’s chest monitor). Hoover was a lot of very bad things, and held some very horrible views, but hasn’t the transvestite thing been debunked? April 3, 2020 at 2:37 am #258385 Spaceworm JimParticipant Is being a transvestite very bad? How come Hoguey has the…gun thing at the end of The Beginning when Lister took it from him earlier? To be honest, the second question I just pulled out of my Quagaars, I hope people will concentrate on the first question. April 3, 2020 at 12:30 pm #258388 Ben SaundersParticipant No, being a crossdresser is not a bad thing, it’s a very unfortunate “of its time” joke, much like calling Göring a “drug-crazed transvestite”, as if that was the worst of his crimes. I wouldn’t cancel anybody over thinking crossdressing was funny 30 years ago, but I’d confront them about it today. April 3, 2020 at 4:40 pm #258391 OfflineParticipant Of its time? Time? Time. Time. Wave. Timewave. April 4, 2020 at 3:33 am #258395 By Jove its holmesBlocked ” I wouldn’t cancel anybody over thinking crossdressing was funny 30 years ago,” It was still bigoted and insensitive against the gender diverse thirty years ago in the 1990s. We rightly don’t give people of the past a pass on being racist or sexist just because they were able to get away with calling buxom women “jiggles” and black men “boy”. Author Replies Viewing 50 replies - 151 through 200 (of 1,388 total) 1 2 3 4 5 … 26 27 28 Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In