Ben Saunders

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Was Pete the episode where all their clothes got eaten, or was that Only The Good? Either way, I found that pretty funny as well.

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The delayed fight was funny, I would say.

But then I would say that, wouldn’t I.

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Yeah, it’s similar to the White Hole “what is it?” scene, in that (I think, purely inferred from having watched it with the DVD commentary on) they filmed it all the way through with the actors delivering all the lines on the audience night, and then edited it so that they really were just repeating clips from earlier whenever lines were spoken again. Either that, or Craig Charles’ multiple deliveries of “spewing time back into the universe” are uncannily accurate to one another and the man deserves an Emmy

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The Time Wand scene would be SO much better (or less shite) if they’d done it with clever editing, rather than having the actors do it – it’s quite a hard thing to do, and even then they did it incredibly poorly. I get the appeal of wanting to do it in front of the audience to get genuine laughs/not just have them watch the entire episode as VT, but I feel they should have done it on the night AND as a pre-record, as I think they did some scenes that way for XI and/or XII.

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Got a response from Doug himself, fucking hell I can’t stop laughing

I was asked 2sign ‘Incompetence’ but lady had left it at home. ‘How incompetent is that?’ shesed ‘Not as incompetent as asking wrong writer’

— Doug Naylor (@DougRDNaylor) October 23, 2017

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It’s here.

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The fun thing about a fan edit, is it’s a fan edit, not a fan(s) edit, and consequently, since nobody can agree on everything, if every fan made their own edit you’d end up with about 700 different edits floating around the ‘net. Also, removing the rapiness of the sexual magnetism virus is impossible, given what it is. Even as a child reading Harry Potter, the idea of love potions/sexual magnetism viruses always felt a bit questionable to me. If you use a love potion, you’re robbing a sentient organism of its free will and using them to fulfill your dubious desires. How do they feel after the fact, do they remember? Doubly problematic is the sexual magnetism virus, which is like a love potion on steroids, the sci-fi equivalent of rohypnol.

I feel if you explored the morality of such potions/viruses, that could make for an interesting story. Despite all this, though, I still chuckle at a few of the sexual magnetism scenes, because it’s broad comedy, not real life. If they happened in real life it would be a whole other story. Red Dwarf is obviously better when it isn’t broad comedy, though, so obviously I’d prefer if these were replaced with more cleverly written jokes.

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>Taking out rat arsed
>Using the interior version of the theme
Unforgivable

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Sonic Isometric Blast aka Sonic 2.5D

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I’ll break you, you cunt

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It’s much more interesting to read/listen to people you don’t agree with, though. It can either make you appreciate things you never did, see things from a different perspective, or want to strangle the person having such an egregious opinion.

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There’s a sitcom where one of the jokes is how difficult it it to say somebody’s name because their first name ends with a K, and their second name also begins with a K. “Stoke-Con-Trent” reminds me of that.

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I think I’ve said this before, but part of me wants Grant to return to Red Dwarf, and for it to be utter tosh, just to see the cognitive dissonance amongst people who think he was “the funny one”

But that’s less likely than a Red Dwarf movie. And of course if he really did come back, I’d want it to be brilliant

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I do it all the time, believe me it’s great. Exhilarating.

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Grant writing another Red Dwarf novel is something I feel could happen (legally) purely from things I’ve heard online, for example somebody online once said he might just do so. It would be very interesting to read, at the least.

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Unreal that some people think 10.20 is late, and don’t go to bed at 4am

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He attended at least one in the mid 2000s, I’m sure. ‘Round about the time of The Bodysnatcher Collection, I think.

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Took me a whole 20 seconds of considering a reply before I realised the joke, there. I was going to ask, does Chris not usually sign Brittas DVDs? Why not?

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Does Doug do signings? He appears at publicity events and I guess Dimension Jump but I don’t think I can afford DJ

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Just read one chapter of Backwards then the second chapter of Last Human etc to get an idea.

(Can you believe they ever thought that would work?)

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I just bought it in case anyone was wondering. I was going to buy Last Human anyway, and I can’t pass up owning this. Maybe I’ll get my copy of Last Human by Doug Naylor signed by Rob Grant signed by Doug Naylor.

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Yes it real! Hahahahaha brilliant.

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There’s a new series of Red Dwarf on and the thread about how eBay works is proving the most popular

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Ah right, I didn’t know eBay did auto-bidding these days. Pretty much everything I’ve got off there over the past say four years was Buy It Now.

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It’s a doggy dog world, man.

I honestly don’t understand what you’re saying with “put in the maximum price you’re willing to pay”. Do eBay do auto-bids by default now? You used to need a third-party site to do that. Or do you mean just dropping 50 big ones as a bid with 10 days left to go? That’s insane.

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If something’s sitting comfortably at £10 with 3 days to go, wait the 3 days then bid £11 rather than bidding £11 immediately, leading the other guy to bid £12, etc.

There are programs you can use to increment the bid by the lowest amount possible every time someone bids higher, up to a maximum price. Throw on one of those bad boys with 15 seconds left to go and you’ll win every time, provided somebody doesn’t just decide to drop fat stacks.

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Anybody who actually bids on an eBay listing more than ten seconds before it finishes is an idiot and just driving the price up.

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Nobody seems very interested when I try to recommend Dwarf or Who. I have described the Sensational Reverse Brothers act to someone and had them say “that is funny”, though.

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One of my friends tried to watch The End but he said it was slow and boring. He says he doesn’t like Doctor Who either because it has shit special effects. I haven’t spoken to him in about a year.

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I was going to recommend Camille purely on the strength of What’s My Fruit

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I quite like Only The Good

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The Daemons very much so. I might go for The Seeds of Doom. Or, if you’re fancying something a little more light-hearted than the very bleak Seeds, you might go for The Chase.

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Another series is unsurprising but nice to hear, and they’ve been planning a tour since before Back to Earth, and I honestly don’t think it will ever happen

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Tom Baker’s era is mostly fantastic, but it does start with Robot, a holdover from the Pertwee era which isn’t all that good, and Revenge of the Cybermen, which is cack. Occasionally in seasons 15-17 the show becomes the Tom Baker Comedy Half Hour and a hollow shell of what it once was, but then Season 18 is a huge step up for his final season. Much of the Davison era is fantastic too, but there are a few turgid dregs in every season of Who, honestly.

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Tomb of the Cybermen is good but 60s Who is incredibly slow going, I wouldn’t start with The Green Death, The Mind Robber is good and the Douglas Adams stuff is incredibly hit or miss.

I’d start with City of Death, maybe. Just look up a “top ten episodes of classic doctor who” and pick the one that most interests you, that’s what I did.

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It is

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The Tenth Doctor is a bit of a zany, wacky, insufferable know-it-all prick who cries all the time and won’t stop apologising or reminding you he killed his own people

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Well there’s always somebody who has to be wrong (;

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You don’t have to a be a raving right-wing loony with no taste to post on 4chan, but it helps.

/tv/ is about the only place on the internet I can go to discuss Doctor Who with likeminded individuals and not want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon at everybody’s three-very-specific-series-of-nuWho-centric opinions.

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Why did you just combine three memes into one though

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Might be worth getting the word out on Reddit and the like because some people just won’t know there’s a new series on
There are dwarf threads on 4chan occasionally and sometimes people on there are surprised to learn the show is to still going

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Good gif that. I don’t remember the actual numbers but the sheer pressure difference between the inside of that pipe and where the crab is happily crabbing along is astronomical. He never stood a chance.

I think Doug tweeted that there would be something after the credits before the episode began. As far as I’m aware it’s the only post-credits thing in RD other than “thank you very much” and some logos

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WHAT’S UP WITH LISTER’S HAT

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With Carnival of Monsters, Frontier in Space and The Green Death, Doctor Who gives Red Dwarf a run for its money.

Also, with The Pilot, World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls, Doctor Who gives Red Dwarf a run for its money.

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The Mayor of Warsaw was an hallucination and I think Bexley was retconned by sending him off to a parallel universe

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(played by Robert Llewellyn)

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VPNs (that you don’t pay money for) and Tor especially are incredibly slow, and not suitable for streaming video at any sort of quality. I had to use Tor once to watch the Mythbuster’s pilot and it took about two hours to load an hour of footage.

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>I also think you’d need a distinct category for murders that were part of a hallucination that drove them to do things they wouldn’t do in real life
Pretty much the “not guilty by reason of insanity” plea

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If I had to pinpoint one of the reasons Red Dwarf is so great, it would be that “reckless and unnecessary phone answering” is a phrase that can be applied to the denouement of one of its episodes

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I agree pretty much wholeheartedly with Dave and sort of with Debris. Series 5 was phenomenal, Series 6 had some amazing episodes but some clunkers, but series 7 was pretty clunky. The Doctor Who general on 4chan rate S8 highly I think. But even S8 has two of the worst episodes the show has ever done – Kill The FUCKING EGG and Into The Forest Of The Shite.

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