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I check this thread at least bi-weekly and the fact that chris barrie hasn’t updated his website in months is really starting to take the joy out of my life.

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Still better than Timewave etc.

Thank

I’ll give you kudos in the introduction when I write the next great American novel

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…is that that thing that killed Tasha Yar? Damn I wish i thought of that before falling asleep, that would have been way more funny

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Ok, I finally got around to typing my nightmare in the dream thread-should I post it here too? Cause I’m dumb as hell and don’t know how to link threads here lol

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OK, red dwarf dream i had about 4-5 days ago, writing gets weird after a bit cause this note is so long its literally slowing down My phone-so I’m no gonna mae a second draft or fix spelling mistakes. Lmao here we go-

I was invited to be alive audience member of the 13th season of Red Dwarf, which was filming in the Wilbur theatre in Boston. I’m all like, “Hells yeah, I can’t not go to this!” Neveronce questioning why it was filming in America, or why I, a complete rando got an invite at all. I get there and find my seat way up in the back, so I have full view of the entire stage. The set is like a cross between The Fantasticks and Cats, just massive towers of random garbage structured together to make a scene. Now what was interesting about the set pieces was that they were all on movable platforms, and crew members in black lycra suits would move pieces around behind the actors when they where supposed to be in a new place (different parks of the Dwarf, Starbug, some planet, etc). I do not question why the show is being presented as a filming of an episode when it’s clearly a stage play. 

Now, here is where I gets fucky. The studio lights go off, the stage lights go on, the crowd cheers…then the stage starts to rise. Up to about 15 feet, not a lot, but enough to make me as what the fuck is going on-then the stage splits into 2 sections,with a small thin bridge between he two. Theres a low bar about ankle height on the bridge, if it was for safety then someon REALLY fucked up

. Im now eye level with he stage, now I haven’t been to the Wilbur in a dogs age but I don’t remember this being a feature. Then I smell it, hot oil. I’ve worked in many a kitchen and my current job is as a fish monger, and we happen to have a fry station. Lights under the stage start start up and there it is, an entire pool of hot oil, not boiling, but hot enough for me to know it’s dangerous from the smell alone.

 But it’s obviousy part of the show,so by dream logic I know somethings off but don’t really question it.

  Kryton, Cat, Rimmer, Lister, AND Kochanski (!!!) walk on stage to thunderous applause. I really wish I remembered what the plot was, I really do, but honestly I don’t think there was a plot. 

 About fifteen minutes into the show Lister is walking between stage bits and trips over the low bar on the bridge, and falls straight down into the oil. The crowd roars with laughter and I’m wincing, the dude is a 60 year old recovering crack head, should he even be doing stunts like that??? That’s when the cannibalism screaming started.

Craig Charles is trying to stand up but keeps slipping, screaming in pain from the heat of the oil. The cast doesn’t react, at all.

 Everytime Lister is supposed to have a line the entire cast stops and stands completely still for a beat before continuing with their own respective lines. I start freaking out, I whisper to the people next to me that I don’t think it’s part of the show, I think something is wrong, they ignore me. I try standing, but my lower half is cemented and I can’t move. I start yelling out, “Is someone gonna do something? I think he’s hurt!” No one reacts, I keep yelling, the cast ignores me. Except for Chris Barrie, who shoots me a very nasty look, like I’m ruining the show when a cast member is literally cooking underneath him. I start to REALLY freak out and manage to get my phoneout of my pocket and furiously google “Craig Charles dying” “Craig Charles stage show” etc cause someone must have tweeted what’s happening, but there’s nothing-like he doesn’t exist, the show keeps going on. Craig is still screaming. It takes two hours for him to die. After a half hour of him laying still, face down in the oil, does the show end. The cast all hold hands and bow and the audience is standing and clapping, throwing roses, the whole bit. I’m still stuck the chair staring at the corpse.

It’s around here my partner shakesme awake cause I’m making little keeping whine noises I typically make while having a nightmare. I immediately sit up and google Crag Charles to see if he did, in fact, boil to death in oil. He was not only fine, but I learned he did a cheesy game show last year and cringed myself back to sleep. 

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So the set was like a stage show, sets would move behind them so no one would have to leave the stage. There was a huge hole in the center of the stage over the oil pit and Craig tripped over a low bar on he floor, if it was for safety it failed lmao

The rest of the cast would say something, and if it was Craig’s line they would all stand still and wait a few beats before continuing (he screamed the whole time). Everytime I yelled out if anyone was going to help him or do something the audience would laugh harder and the cast would scream their lines. I’m gonna hunker down and write it all out in that other thread cause it was such a weird nightmare…

Why was the episode 3+ hours? Why was I hermetically sealed to the chair? Why was the plot so forgettable that all I could focus on was Craig being cooked to death? Why was THIS my first dream about a TV show and what is my psyche trying to tell me

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Hey, real quick, can I disturb our regularly scheduled programing to talk about a Red dwarf nightmare I had last night? If it helps it was actually really scary and weird 

There is a thread for it. But also we just sort of post wherever the hell we want around here.

Hells yeah, so here’s how it went

I’m in the live audience for a new Red Dwarf special, and I’m excited as all heck. But the set is static so nothing changes, people just move around what’s already there, and whats there is the la brea tar pits. I’ve been to broadway shows so it isnt really that different, owever within the first few minutes of the first act Craig Charles falls into one of the oil pits. It isn’t boiling, but it’s really hot. The rest of the cast acts like nothing happened and keep acting around him, it takes two hours for him to die. I’m the only one in the audience to notice. The show never slows down or stops.

What does it mean? I don’t know but it’s made me REALLY anxious ever since lmao

So, how is everyone’s Monday going?

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Hey, real quick, can I disturb our regularly scheduled programing to talk about a Red dwarf nightmare I had last night? If it helps it was actually really scary and weird 

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The organic evolution of the jokes has been a joy to behold.  (They’re making Chris Barrie’s horrendous decline almost bearable.) 
And no joke can possibly have outstayed its welcome whilst multiple members are still enjoying it :D

I wonder what’s going on behind the scenes with him, I want to be the spider under the table when/if he goes on crazy tangents. That stuff is always hilarious when you are on the other side of the screen

Thankfully his wife seems to share in his delusions. So…that’s kinda cool, I guess? At least it’s not hell on earth to share a life with him? 

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I love the fact that this thread has caused multiple people to make accounts here. Fucking outstanding. OP of this thread should be proud. 

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Eerie bit of real life foreshadowing in the Series XI behind the scenes documentary.

Motherfucker was already on the lookout for downward spirals into technocratic tyranny in at least 2015 (!)
I was also going to point out the irony of Chris filming Twentica and still holding a polar opposite viewpoint to the episode at the end of it, but then I remembered that Lister says pretty much exactly the same thing as this in the final scene.

If after all his Chris Barrie turns out to be a terf, I swear to God, I’m gonna mcfuckin lose it. It’s hard enough having JK being a piece of shit, but that will be the final nail in the coffin for me on him. 

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I miss the good ol’days when serious conspiracy circles were small cause they could only communicate through AM radios and penpal advertisements from backs of weird scifi magazines. Now your little Aunt May gets a Facebook account and suddenly Jewish lizards from outer space are controlling what commercials are peppered in between her YouTube watch next Playlist. 

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It’s just so WILD how different the cast is. Craig and Chris are practically senior citizens and all Craig does is party and hang out and probably laying pipe all over the place, while Chris is hunkered down somewhere wearing a tinfoil hat going batshit crazy. I only started watching RD last month and I’m stunned by the ride I’m on. I’m having so much fucking fun it’s unreal lmao

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The fact that this the thread was my introduction to the forums is amazing. I clicked it thinking it was just gonna be mundane chatter, but instead I got this

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