Captain No-Name

[Captain No-Name]

Cheers guys, really appreciate your interest in my ramblings!

Maybe cut the number of rhetorical questions

Fair point. I’ll try not to let that get out of hand. Although it’s staggering the sheer amount of questions that The End throws up if you adopt the mindframe of a 1988 viewer. I mean, what the hell is this programme!?

Oh, this looks fun. It’s so hard to watch any I-VIII episodes these days, what with the scripts being burned into my memory, but my ongoing love of those shows continues through fan criticism of them, so this sort of thing is always welcome.

Glad you think so! I know these episodes have been endlessly debated over the years, so I hope my re-watch brings something fresh to the table.

Red Dwarf, Series One: it’s always a pleasure to return to it.

It’s been lovely to immerse myself in it again after all these years. The empty, desolate, loneliness of the first series gives it a wonderful and unique feel. And pretending that I’m a viewer in 1988 has given me a new appreciation for quite how unpredictable it is. Which you can lose sight of when you know how things pan out in Series II-XII.

the crew’s death would really be a surprise for the average viewer in 1988. i’ve often thought that at the time that sort of thing must’ve really come off as quite shocking

Yeah, I agree. If you’d avoided being spoilered by adverts or the Radio Times, it would’ve been a real bolt from the blue. Pretending to be a 1988 viewer has also brought a few other things to my attention, like the way Kochanski has no real significance in The End, whereas Todhunter feels like he’s being set up as an important character.

Do you have a link to your modelling portfolio, by any chance?

Damn, you’ve rumbled me. Was it really so obvious?

[Captain No-Name]

P.S.

My website was originally created as somewhere to stick an old comic strip (set in the Red Dwarf universe) which I made back in the Space Year 2000 when I was a kid.

As juvenilia, I don’t expect it to be of interest to anyone other than me.

These are literally the doodles of a child, and were never intended for public consumption.

That said, I enjoyed seeing that Si Bromley has similar vintage (although better drawn) fan doodles on his own blog, so there may be a small glow of recognition for any other fans who spent rainy childhood weekends indoors amusing themselves with a biro and a Woolworths pad of paper.

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