Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Wait a minute… Search for: This topic has 33 replies, 21 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 3 months ago by Jonsmad. Scroll to bottom Creator Topic February 23, 2014 at 6:46 pm #209765 Ian SymesKeymaster 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. Creator Topic Viewing 33 replies - 1 through 33 (of 33 total) Author Replies February 23, 2014 at 7:46 pm #209766 siParticipant 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. February 24, 2014 at 6:12 am #209771 Angela FowlerParticipant 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. February 24, 2014 at 6:18 am #209772 Heath_RDICParticipant 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. February 24, 2014 at 12:11 pm #209773 peas_and_cornParticipant Oh, I was hoping for an explanation on how the shoes opened the car door. February 24, 2014 at 1:18 pm #209774 siParticipant 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. February 24, 2014 at 2:21 pm #209775 Stephen R. FletcherParticipant 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. February 24, 2014 at 2:26 pm #209776 Jonathan CappsKeymaster I thought it was good until the end of series VI, but then it gets better from Back to Earth onwards February 24, 2014 at 2:41 pm #209777 Seb PatrickKeymaster 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. February 24, 2014 at 5:30 pm #209778 RidleyParticipant 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! February 24, 2014 at 6:14 pm #209779 JamesTCParticipant I only like the racist episode. February 24, 2014 at 8:06 pm #209780 BlisschickParticipant Science fiction…it’s all bollocks, isn’t it? February 25, 2014 at 12:03 am #209783 evarofzentralParticipant 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. February 25, 2014 at 3:32 am #209784 JonsmadParticipant That bit when the guy said “And Now on BBC Two”, they should have just stopped it all with the And. February 25, 2014 at 1:31 pm #209790 anniescribeParticipant 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.” February 25, 2014 at 1:49 pm #209791 siParticipant That first Dave Hollins: Space Cadet sketch. Downhill all the way from there. February 25, 2014 at 3:05 pm #209792 Nick RParticipant 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! February 25, 2014 at 3:08 pm #209793 KarnieParticipant All I can say is thank GOD they finally hit their stride with Dear Dave. February 25, 2014 at 5:56 pm #209795 Jonathan CappsKeymaster Wait a minute… none of these opinions are real! February 26, 2014 at 2:25 pm #209796 JoParticipant The best bit is the market scene in BTE, clearly. February 26, 2014 at 2:58 pm #209797 siParticipant The series with Nick Frost and Kevin Eldon as Lister and Rimmer, with Miranda Hart as Kryten…that was a high point. February 26, 2014 at 6:07 pm #209798 JamesTCParticipant Wait a minute⦠none of these opinions are real! I say the same every time I visit IGN. February 27, 2014 at 11:18 pm #209802 pfmParticipant I switched off when it said ‘The End’. February 28, 2014 at 4:23 am #209803 Pecospete666Participant 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! February 28, 2014 at 12:15 pm #209804 Ian SymesKeymaster Thanks, Pecospete. March 2, 2014 at 2:02 am #209812 Nick RParticipant 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 March 2, 2014 at 12:01 pm #209813 siParticipant Spoilsport. March 2, 2014 at 12:19 pm #209814 RidleyParticipant Nah, to reuse downhill at this point would undo the rhthym of the thread, I reckon. March 2, 2014 at 1:48 pm #209818 Stephen R. FletcherParticipant 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.”) March 2, 2014 at 11:01 pm #209823 Ben PaddonParticipant I think the show went downhill after I put my telly in that shopping trolley and pushed it down the road. March 3, 2014 at 12:47 am #209824 ThatSmegheadRimmerParticipant I think the show went downhill when they decided to make the show. March 3, 2014 at 1:32 am #209825 siParticipant 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. March 3, 2014 at 2:00 am #209826 ThatSmegheadRimmerParticipant I think the writers must have been high when they were making it as nothing makes sense. March 7, 2014 at 5:42 am #209909 JonsmadParticipant 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. Author Replies Viewing 33 replies - 1 through 33 (of 33 total) 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