What’s your favourite melancholy scene?

[Rushy]

Lister alone at the Copacabana in Balance of Power?

Rimmer mourning his dad’s death in Better than Life?

The fallout over Lisa Yates?

Rimmer telling the crew what he thinks H stands for, in Holoship?

Lister reading Pride and Prejudice to Kochanski’s tombstone?

Lister struggling to live when M-Corp has made everything invisible? 

Anything else?

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[Flap Jack]

[Technopeasant]

Out of those, I’ll go with option one.

[Dave]

I always loved the scene from Thanks For The Memory where Rimmer is comparing himself to Lister and realising that even though he tried to do everything right and Lister is “wrong” in so many ways, Lister has ended up as the more likeable, rounded person. Maybe not melancholy exactly but a moment of emotional clarity and honesty.

[Dave]

Another good one is the Ace Rimmer funeral casket planet from Stoke, but mainly for the music. 

[Doomitron]

I like the deleted scene of the funeral for the crew from The End

Speaking of deleted scenes I liked the brief one in M-Corp where Rimmer complains he doesn’t actually exist, it fits as a foreshadowing of his dilemma in The Promised Land

[Technopeasant]

If we are including that one I’ll throw on the wanted to be a fish scene so Moonlight doesn’t have to.

Arguably the squirrel bit in D.N.A. also qualifies.

[Warbodog]

The subgenre of Kryten distractedly mourning Cat.

[Professor Flibble]

The Out of Time cliffhanger is one of my favourite scenes in the whole show so it probably has to be that.
Does it count? Or is it more actiony? 

[Starbugger]

The Out of Time cliffhanger is one of my favourite scenes in the whole show so it probably has to be that.
Does it count? Or is it more actiony? 

It’s melancholic and actiony, but I wish they’d kept in the smeg-up of Chris not quite getting the bazookoid through the door on the first try.

I like Rimmer mourning his dad in Better Than Life and the “moonlight” scene in The Promised Land.

[Unrumble]

 I like Rimmer mourning his dad in Better Than Life 

[Technopeasant]

Deleted scenes and smeg ups on the Drive when?

[Technopeasant]

The Out of Time cliffhanger is one of my favourite scenes in the whole show so it probably has to be that.
Does it count? Or is it more actiony? 

[tombow]

Cat in bed at the end of Can of Worms because there’s a possibility it’s just a dream and he doesn’t actually have a secret harem of cat ladies he found living on the ship.

[Warbodog]

It’s clarified as a dream at the end, but before that I thought it was real and enjoyed the cheeky thrill of the revelation for a few seconds, not being given the time to dwell miserably on it and decide to kill Doug or whatever.

[Rushy]

I am genuinely disappointed that it was just a dream. He could’ve picked them up in the years since VIII and just not told anyone. 

[International Debris]

I mean if it was real, and the Cat still thought what happened with the Polymorph was normal sex…

[Turk Thrust]

I am genuinely disappointed that it was just a dream. He could’ve picked them up in the years since VIII and just not told anyone. 

I think they would still have been in kitty school during VIII. ;)

(I’m aware that comment probably doesn’t make any logical sense.)

[Warbodog]

I think they would still have been in kitty school during VIII. ;)

And Chloë Annett’s Kochanski would have been in high school during series 1.

[tombow]

She got a part time job performing the ball girl in the VR tennis game.

[Turk Thrust]

I think they would still have been in kitty school during VIII. ;)

And Chloë Annett’s Kochanski would have been in high school during series 1.

Sure, but there’s a bit of a difference.

Craig is around 7 years older than Chloe.

Danny is around 26 years older than the Cat Lady actresses at the end of Can of Worms.

[Flap Jack]

Leonardo DiCatrio

[Warbodog]

Sure, but there’s a bit of a difference.
Craig is around 7 years older than Chloe.
Danny is around 26 years older than the Cat Lady actresses at the end of Can of Worms.

Yeah, but it starts getting there later.

[Dave]

Leonardo DiCatrio

Excellent. 

[Ian Symes]

Craig is around 7 years older than Chloe.
Danny is around 26 years older than the Cat Lady actresses at the end of Can of Worms.

I seemed to recall I worked out at the time that his age was greater than the two of them combined.

[Technopeasant]

This thread took a turn.

But yes, after the Polymorph fakeout I too hoped the harem reveal was real, even if it doesn’t make much sense.

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