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If those of you who are eligible to enter don’t do it, I’m gonna choke a bitch. I have three and I can’t do a thing with them. So enter, already.

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Mabel – I have someone who is pretty sure she’s going who would be rooming with me. If there’s any way to fit three people into one room, you could stay with us, though. I don’t know what the Holiday Inn rooms are like – I can check to see if they have rollaways to bring into the room or a sofa in there.

See, if this is possible, that way if she doesn’t make it, you can have the other bed … and if she does, you’d still have a place to sleep and only a third of the room cost. Let me email my contact at the hotel and ask about it. :-D

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Good luck you eligible UK cats
Alas, for us American brats
Dave thinks we’re slags
And we can’t get goodie bags
We’re only wanted for our DVD stats

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Barring unforeseen expenses, knock wood, I will be traversing a few thousand miles to attend …

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Is that nice Kochanski girl going to be back again?

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For me and Series X, “Entangled” comes in sixth-place. It’s not that it’s bad, per se, it’s just my least favorite of the new series. (“The Beginning” and “Trojan” are my favorites. But, you know – look at my icon. :-) )

As for HIMYM, I’d agree the characters are starting to feel like parodies of themselves. I think this happens with most shows after seven seasons (at least in the U.S.) – I can name a few really good shows that either stopped at year 7 and it was just in time for it to end, or a bit past, or they went past 7 and sucked. I believe part of it is each season airs year after year, with no breaks (like we get in Dwarf), plus there are so many episodes each year. It’s not impossible to keep quality up through that many, but I think it’s more difficult than with fewer each season like the UK or American cable tends to have.

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Alive Rimmer seemed to get along all right with Kochanski in Series VIII (and there were opportunities to quarrel if they wanted to, on Canary missions for example), so I guess it’s possible he could react badly to her in XI … but I don’t see why, particularly? He’s still big on rank, and she outranks him by about five miles, right?

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My problem is opposite in that I liked HIMYM for several seasons, then the charm kind of wore off for me.

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Sure, he felt good in the pressure of battle, but in a return to everyday life, I think his basic smeghead personality will be unchanged. If anything, he may feel more in competition with Lister since they’re closer in social strata, and Lister has a good chance of passing an engineering exam at some point – there’s fodder there IMO. And he hasn’t been a proper coward since “Rimmerworld” anyway, so that’s not new, at least.

Also, that bitch queen from hell is still his mother, and she’s given him plenty of remaining issues. Unless he finds out he was the product of the gardener and the scullery maid. ;-)

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/imagining Ben’s idea …

“‘Waiting for God?’ Who chose this steaming pile?”
“We’re going in order, it’s next!”
“It’s balls – cunted rubbish!”
“Yeah, well, blame math.”
“It was my idea but I don’t think much of it …”

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Pete, you ignorant slut. ;-)

You’re addressing the wrong thing, yet again. None of those mistakes you claim she made was as a proxy for Bill; she did them on her own, as well as any successes she had. I said nothing about whether she would be a good president or a good candidate on her own; the sole issue was proxyism.

Now, I’m going to go watch some Red Dwarf. Without a man supervising or forcing me, no less.

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Well, we know you think women are just proxies for their men anyway, Pete.

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Ben, I just hope we don’t go backwards as a nation in four years when Obama is no longer eligible to run. I hope we get someone equally competent to run for that ticket. But this country is odd. :-/

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Ian, I’ll cry you a river … from the U.S., where Pete and I are still joined at the figurative citizenship hip. ;-)

(Oh well, Pete and I agree on one thing at least. LOL)

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So Kate, what was the plot? Was it new, an amalgamation from all 3 movies, or just the basic plot of the first one?

Oh, okay, what I’m really interested in: THE SINGING. How in the world did BTTF lend itself to song? LOL

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Plus, I’m lucky enough to have a region-free DVD player. NOVEMBER UK RELEASE, HERE I COME! :-D

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On behalf of the majority USA that isn’t all entitlement whorish: *SIGH*

Yeah, I want it to air here now, too. But unless it’s a USA-made show, we’re not entitled to it before anyone else. (Sure would be nice to get it at the *same time* as everybody else, though.)

(And yeah, we’ve got worse problems here than lack of Red Dwarf right now. I barely kept the car on the road driving home from work today in the high winds and rain – and I’m just on the edge of the Midwest inland after-effects of the storm. I still have power and can watch my old Dwarf DVDs and plug in my computer and log on to type here, which is more than I can say for several million poor souls east of me. )

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As a professional writer and an adult, I am aghast to think there could be people sitting around talking about how sad my life has become based on the career choices I have made. I don’t know Rob obviously, but I’d almost bet he’d have the same reaction. Every writing workplace I’ve left over the past 19 years has been for reasons I have not changed my mind about, and I wouldn’t go back to any of them – and some were good. But I still wouldn’t even for more money.

Also, there’d be no RDX without Doug. He’s certainly got to take his lumps like any other artist, but he has kept things going for us to like, dislike, and talk about. I think we all appreciate that.

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WHAT. I’m not sure if this sounds awesome or like a train wreck with a Delorean. Anyone go to see it, after all?

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I like the Internet, but I dunno … there was a special quality to fannish interactions in post, cons, zines, and phone calls (but not much, because long-distance charges, DAMN).

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“This just proves my horrible theory that Chris Barrie if a puppy hater. And look at the others, just watching and smiling.”

Well, Danny, you could sort of understand going along with THAT …

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I’d really just be happy if the Bodysnatcher Collection were rereleased and more widely, cheaply available.

But I’ll take Rob helping write a new episode or season, as a consolation, if not that. ;-)

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WHAT?! Comedians aren’t pleasant and friendly in real life?

STOP THE PRESSES. THIS IS BRAND NEW INFORMATION.

Maybe England has a different breed of comedian (??), but here in the U.S., I’ve really yet to see one that *isn’t* somewhat of a jerk and rude. (Come to think of it, I don’t know too many human beings who can’t be rude.) It’s just a matter of degree.

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I wouldn’t want a new cast – at least not until the old cast has all agreed they’re done with it someday, or possibly dead. I know that Trekkies and Whovians have bitched about spinoffs and reboots for decades while much of the TOS cast is still around – and then almost always gotten a cast that most ended up liking, grudgingly or no – but there’s some quality to Red Dwarf I can’t quite put my finger on that makes it *different*. (Again, I understand this is the argument put forth by the fans of the aforementioned shows, as well – I can only give my opinion.)

BUT – if we get a new cast, I want an all-new cast. I don’t want any of the originals (or even Bobby, because I know one of you wiseacres is going to point out he wasn’t the first Kryten) mixed in. I wouldn’t necessarily be against a cameo from one of the old actors playing a completely new character, however.

As for how long I’d watch it? My chief criterion for reading a book, all other things being equal, is “a good story well told.” I say the same here; as long as the writing is up to snuff and the cast is enthusiastic, let ’em play.

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HOLY SHIT! RED DWARF HAS A LOGO! I’m phoning the Daily Mail!

Dear heavens, that was almost my exact thought too. I started laughing at the office when I read this remark. :-)

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