Ben Saunders

[Ben Saunders]

Thayt’s pretty morbid. Imagine you’ve got the final stages of cancer, so they send you off down to the medibay to have your personality scanned so they can bring you back as a hologram to keep you working after you imminently die.

[Ben Saunders]

Tell them there are no opening credits for Back In The Red I because Doug wanted to avoid spoilers or something.

Twentica is a decent episode but actually ended up being quite low in my XI ranking. The pace of it is INCREDIBLY fast and I think a lot of the jokes work better if you’re more familiar with the show. But that applies to pretty much every good episode – Holoship is a strange thing to start people off with because it too benefits from knowing the characters

[Ben Saunders]

If holograms can’t cum, what do the crew of the Enlightment do when they shag? Just stop when they agree they’ve both had enough?

These are important questions. Much more interesting than “what’s your favorite episode” for the 700th time.

[Ben Saunders]

This list alerted me to the existence of the original assembly of The End, which I just watched, and wow. If I had one work to describe it, it would be “bleak.”

One or two funny lines they should have kept, and Lister giving Kochanski a funeral was unexpectedly heart-wrenching, particularly with the hindsight of eleven future series. Another thing they should have kept.

But for the most part, that was terribly boring. Thank God they reworked it.

[Ben Saunders]

Yeah, I sort of guessed that must be it. Meh.

Now let’s turn this into a 5,000 reply debate about whether or not holograms can shit themselves or if it’s just another shocking example of the writers eschewing logic for cheap laughs, shall we?

[Ben Saunders]

Fast forward through the opening credits when they’re out the room.

There’s good stuff in every series, particularly XI, I’d say it’s worth a shot.

Also, why would you give up after a fantastic episode like Tikka? Unironically.

[Ben Saunders]

I don’t think the show’s budget would stretch to 400 extras, or a set big enough to contain them

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