Wait a minute…

[Ian Symes]

You know in The End when Rimmer’s revising his arm at George McIntyre’s welcome back reception? It’s really brazen of him to be doing that in a public space, at an event attended by both the captain and the exam invigilator. Why does he do that?

That’s when the show started to go downhill, for me.

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[si]

No no no. When he’s calling after Todhunter, calling hum a bug lig and whathaveyou…that’s so out of character. It’s just been shit since.

[Angela Fowler]

I personally thought the show went downhill ever since Lister first sang “Ganymede and Titan.” He can’t even sing. Why would they even do that?! With the musical promise of the opening credits, with all of us prepared for a show about spaceship painters, Lister’s pained opening strains ruin the whole thing. The words “Ganymede and Titan” ruin everything.

[Heath_RDIC]

For me, it was the way Lister was handling that giant brush. I mean I GUESS he was painting Red Dwarf, but I didn’t BELIEVE he was painting Red Dwarf. His brush strokes seemed a bit… uninspired, if you will. Everything up until then had been great, but from that point on, my suspension of disbelief was just too strained for me to really enjoy the show like I had before.

[peas_and_corn]

Oh, I was hoping for an explanation on how the shoes opened the car door.

[si]

Well, really, the sound of the ship as Lister does that painting at the start….there’s no atmosphere! You can’t hear anything! Totally unbelievable.

[Stephen R. Fletcher]

i thought it was fine up until the moment where Rimmer runs through Cat. They should have added some sound effects of him crashing into things. Would’ve made a lot more sense.

[Jonathan Capps]

I thought it was good until the end of series VI, but then it gets better from Back to Earth onwards

[Seb Patrick]

I thought it was terrible right up to that scene where I’m technically in the camera’s line of sight but just hiding behind a bit of the set. That scene was quite good. Then the rest after that was terrible, too.

[Ridley]

Personally, I thought it started well but fell apart. All that stuff with the red dwarfs all getting into trouble – that was great. Then it all went grey and grey and I fell asleep!

[JamesTC]

I only like the racist episode.

[Blisschick]

Science fiction…it’s all bollocks, isn’t it?

[evarofzentral]

Personally I think the show lost focus when it moved away from chicken soup machine repairs. I hung on for a while but when Rimmer left in series VII I knew Red Dwarf would never return to its core concept.

[Jonsmad]

That bit when the guy said “And Now on BBC Two”, they should have just stopped it all with the And.

[anniescribe]

When Lister insulted a superior officer and wasn’t reprimanded properly, I knew something wasn’t kosher. Then everybody died, and I thought, “welp, that’s it, show.”

[si]

That first Dave Hollins: Space Cadet sketch. Downhill all the way from there.

[Nick R]

You’re all wrong. If you ask me, series I to V were crap, series VI to X were crap.

But that brief period in the middle, when they were making it in America? Brilliant!

[Karnie]

All I can say is thank GOD they finally hit their stride with Dear Dave.

[Jonathan Capps]

Wait a minute… none of these opinions are real!

[Jo]

The best bit is the market scene in BTE, clearly.

[si]

The series with Nick Frost and Kevin Eldon as Lister and Rimmer, with Miranda Hart as Kryten…that was a high point.

[JamesTC]

Wait a minute… none of these opinions are real!

I say the same every time I visit IGN.

[pfm]

I switched off when it said ‘The End’.

[Pecospete666]

Comparing a 1988 sitcom with the 2012 show there’s not much of a change!
Actors older! Most remakes are never as good as the original,but RD is just a continuation of the original show which they pull off well! I have no complaints!

[Ian Symes]

Thanks, Pecospete.

[Nick R]

I think I can see where this is going:

It was all downhill from the moment BBC2 began broadcasting…

It was all downhill after that Scottish guy started tinkering with image transmission…

The start of human language and civilisation? Bah, it’s been downhill ever since…

It was all downhill after those organisms started evolving…

It’s been a smooth downhill slope ever since all that Big Bang business…

etc etc

[si]

Spoilsport.

[Ridley]

Nah, to reuse downhill at this point would undo the rhthym of the thread, I reckon.

[Stephen R. Fletcher]

I’m surprised no-one used the quote from John Lloyd after he saw the first episode (“I watched the show. I really enjoyed the opening titles… and then the show started.”)

[Ben Paddon]

I think the show went downhill after I put my telly in that shopping trolley and pushed it down the road.

[ThatSmegheadRimmer]

I think the show went downhill when they decided to make the show.

[si]

I think the show started pretty much at the bottom of the hill, just briefly tripping over the kerb on the way up, then deciding not to proceed any further, retreating to it’s starting position.

[ThatSmegheadRimmer]

I think the writers must have been high when they were making it as nothing makes sense.

[Jonsmad]

I think this thread was really good when Ian Said “You know…”

But when he said “…in the end” I thought it was poor anus humour.

By the time he said “Rimmer’s” I wasnt interested anymore in this entire thread after the apostrophe.

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