Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions

[Piplup2003]

The title says it all. What opinions do you have about Red Dwarf that no-one else seems to agree on?

For me, it’s that VIII is my second favourite series (behind V) and that I prefer Chloë over Claire as Kochanski (this may be partially influenced by the fact that I’ve met Chloë).

And please, no arguing.

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[Warbodog]

It’s widely known that Krytie TV at least was largely salvaged from the pilot script for Doug’s prison sitcom that wasn’t commissioned and he very awkwardly contrived the rest of Series VIII to fit around it. [/untrue fact, probably]

[Moonlight]

After all, Series 1 and Series 2 also have many differences, but you could easily feel like they are more similar to eachother than Series 3.

I would make the argument that Series 2 and 3 are a lot more similar than a massive aesthetic difference makes it seem on the surface. There is a lot of really wacky stuff in Series 2 that doesn’t feel in keeping with Series 1 but would be at home in 3. Better Than Life, Stasis Leak and especially Parallel Universe all come to mind to varying degrees. Meanwhile, episodes like Thanks for the Memory and Queeg feel more like an evolved, refined Series 1.

Not sure where to place Kryten on this spectrum.

My main point is that I feel like Series 2 would seem like a much cleaner half-step between 1 and 3 if the latter didn’t look and sound like a different show.

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