What would your running order be?

[cwickham]

Series XI is arguably the first series since IV or V where the episode order is wholly interchangeable – you could put the six episodes as broadcast in any order without any obvious continuity snarls or other problems. So what would your preferred order be?

I’d tentatively say:
1. Give & Take
2. Officer Rimmer
3. Krysis
4. Samsara
5. Can of Worms
6. Twentica

[(deleted)]

Samsara is the most ‘Episode 5’ episode of anything ever made. That’s not even necessarily a criticism of it. ‘Second to last’ is a genre unto itself.

[RamesesNiblickTheThird]

1. Give & Take
2. Officer Rimmer
3. Samsara
4. Can of Worms
5. Krysis
6. Twentica

[Pete Part Three]

1. Give & Take
2. Krysis
3. Officer Rimmer
4. Top Gear
5. Give & Take (rpt)
6. Twentica

[International Debris]

I’d include a repeat run of Dimension Jump in there somewhere just for full-on VI off-air tape nostalgia.

[Chris Stokes]

1. Samsara
2. Krysis
3. Give & Take
4. Can of Worms
5. Officer Rimmer
6. Twentica

[Palf]

Give and Take as the opener and Twentica as the finale are no-brainers for me. The rest can go anywhere although I’m probably more inclined to keep Samsara in the episode 2 slot to get it out of the way quicker.

[Kris Carter]

Give and Take
Krysis
Samsara
Officer Rimmer
Can of Worms
Twentica

I think my running order would go like that.

[Palf]

Of course if I could bend time and put out a series X based on the best of the Dave era eps then it would look like:

1. Trojan
2. Give and Take (removing reference to Rimmers father)
3. Twentica
4. Officer Rimmer
5. Lemons
6. The Beginning

That’s a damn strong series in my humble non-valued likely wrong opinion.

[Renegade Rob]

My personal preference:

1. Give and Take
2. Krysis
3. Can of Worms
4. Officer Rimmer
5. Samsara
6. Twentica

Arrangement closest in feel to the classic series:

1. Can of Worms (Camille + Psirens)
2. Samsara (Future Echoes + Marooned + DNA)
3. Twentica (Gunmen)
4. Give and Take (Stasis Leak + Bodyswap + Quarantine)
5. Krysis (Queeg + Timeslides + Dimension Jump)
6. Officer Rimmer (Me2 + Meltdown + Out of Time)

[MANI506]

I will be generally rewatching the series in recording order.

[Dave]

Arrangement closest in feel to the classic series:
1. Can of Worms (Camille + Psirens)
2. Samsara (Future Echoes + Marooned + DNA)
3. Twentica (Gunmen)
4. Give and Take (Stasis Leak + Bodyswap + Quarantine)
5. Krysis (Queeg + Timeslides + Dimension Jump)
6. Officer Rimmer (Me2 + Meltdown + Out of Time)

I love the idea of ending the entire series with that Officer Rimmer ending.

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Rob, just swap Twentica for Worms on yours and you get mine.

I am fascinated that nearly everybody agrees with Give & Take as a show 1. It may be the first and only broad consensus ever formed on the subject of XI…

[Pete Part Three]

>I love the idea of ending the entire series with that Officer Rimmer ending.

That would probably work quite well. Everyone would initially assume it was a cliff-hanger, and since Red Dwarf is famously crap at paying them off, no one would be that disappointed when it wasn’t.

[Nick R]

Arrangement closest in feel to the classic series:

I was thinking of matching them up with their series III equivalents:

1. Backwards/Twentica (a trip to 20th century Earth)
2. Marooned/Samsara (isolated conversations)
3. Polymorph/Can of Worms (I have got something in mind as a specific link between these episodes, but to mention it would be a spoiler)
4. Bodyswap/Officer Rimmer (Rimmer misuses technology. OK, this is probably the most tenuous connection)
5. Timeslides/Give & Take (time travel again… but unlike the first episode, here they intervene in their own pasts)
6. The Last Day/Krysis (a Kryten-focused episode in which he meets another mechanoid)

[sd99]

I’d try and keep an even-quality byte one/two mix. Something akin to:

1. Samsara
2. Krysis
3. Give & Take

4. Can of Worms
5. Officer Rimmer
6. Twentica

[flanl3]

Twentica, Give & Take, Can of Worms, Officer Rimmer
1. Samsara – simply because imagine the series opening on that model & music, perhaps even as a cold open.
2. Krysis
3. Twentica
4. Can of Worms
5. Give & Take
6. Officer Rimmer – simply because imagine the series ending on that scene.

[(deleted)]

I can’t do the X/XI megamix thing before the has-to-be-first Give And Take must follow the has-to-be-last The Beginning and my head pops.

But if you must…

Trojan
Can Of Worms
Lemons
Officer Rimmer
Krysis
The Beginning

[flanl3]

Twentica, Give & Take, Can of Worms, Officer Rimmer

Crap, pretend I didn’t leave these in, I just had them in the textbox to speed up my selection process which I gave up on halfway through.

[flanl3]

Also, my Dave Era megamix would probably be longer than six, but if it had to be just six:
1. Lemons
2. Samsara
3. Fathers and Suns
4. Back to Earth, Part 3 (I know it kinda needs the other two for context, but whatever)
5.Trojan
6. Officer Rimmer

[Taiwan Tony]

Give & Take
Krysis
Officer Rimmer Part 1.
Samsara on in the background while I’m working
Twentica
Officer Rimmer Part 2.
The other one.

X & XI UltraSeries

Give & Take
Lemons
Heavily edited Samsara
The Beginning
And for the remaining ones… CLIP SHOW!

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