Dave

[Dave]

But aren’t you still free to do that if you choose with the ‘dump’ model? No-one’s forcing you to binge it.

[Dave]

Why did you combine five opinions into one post though?

[Dave]

I’m the same. I prefer to watch things at the pace that I choose, so unless it’s something where I’m desperate to see the show as soon as it comes out, it’s easier to wait until a season ends.

[Dave]

Personally I don’t really have time to binge-watch a series in a single day, but I do quite like the ‘dump’ model because it means I can maybe fit in two or three episodes a week rather than just one.

It’s definitely detrimental to online discussion though, as everyone watches at different paces.

[Dave]

From a marketing/awareness point of view, it does feel like you get a big concentrated burst of attention with the binge/dump model when the series first drops, but the trade-off is that the interest quickly dies off within days or maybe a week or two.

Compare that to something like Game Of Thrones which has a pretty high level of awareness throughout the broadcast of the series as the new episodes are released weekly.

[Dave]

I got into Judge Dredd at the cinema when I was 13.

I’m not sure it was worth it.

[Dave]

Ganymede & McTitan.

[Dave]

Has anyone seen the original pilot for The Black Adder? I’ve seen small clips of it but never the whole thing. I know it’s available floating around but I don’t think it ever had an official release.

[Dave]

The BlackAdder; there are moments I like, but I can’t say I’d enthusiastically sing the praises of any single episode in that run.

Everyone always seems to pick out The Queen Of Spain’s Beard, but for me The Archbishop is the standout. The relics scene is maybe the high point of the series.

[Dave]

To be honest I think I’ve only watched it the once. I’ve never felt the desire to go back to it. I often forget it even exists.

[Dave]

You people are shit. I’ve been civil but that stops now. You’re going to have to accept that some people just don’t share the same values and opinions as you. If your response to that is just to go around and attack people (and you’ve done it to three different people now, over exactly the same issue – your own intolerance for any opinion or view that differs from your own), then it is you who can go and fuck yourselves.

*irony-o-meter explodes*

[Dave]

You know, if you are going to post an inflammatory UK political comment, you can at least go to the trouble of using the British spelling of Labour with a “u”.

That kind of ruins the joke though, doesn’t it.

[Dave]

Christmas Carol is brilliant, and stands up to rewatching better than maybe any other episode.

I know there’s been a reappraisal of the first series in recent years, and while I do like it, I still think it’s the weakest of the four main series. That’s pretty stiff competition to be up against though, and it’s still very good in its own right.

(And it might have the best supporting cast of all, if you count Laurie as part of the main cast in the last two series anyway).

[Dave]

Yeah, I guess it’s a judgement call isn’t it. You can’t blame them if that’s their rationale. If this didn’t get made then I doubt we’ll ever see a Red Dwarf set. A shame as this was a really nice effort.

[Dave]

10 New person says hello
20 Someone makes joke
30 New person doesn’t get joke
40 Someone makes leery comment at new person
50 Someone asks leering to stop
60 New person asks stop what
Go to 40

I think there was only one leery comment really. All the others were jokes taking the piss out of it.

[Dave]

Doctor Who is definitely an all-ages show.

I got the impression Darrell was just saying that people said a Doctor Who set was unlikely and then it happened, so there was always a bit of hope that the Red Dwarf set might have a similar shot at succeeding.

(I was especially hopeful after that Dwarf-related content showed up in Lego Dimensions, suggesting they’d got the licence and might do more with it.)

[Dave]

Honestly I thought this was going to be a Faith No More thread.

[Dave]

“Would you like a wormdoo?”

[Dave]

Do you mean “How did we combine three separate people’s opinions into one though?”

Yeah.

[Dave]

The thing is, the way I see it, these days there’s one opinion, right? And, ages ago, there were three opinions, right? So, there must have been a moment when there being three opinions went away, right? And there being one opinion came along. So, what I want to know is: How did we get from the one case of affairs to the other case of affairs?

[Dave]

Yeah, there’s no topping that really.

[Dave]

Also, how have we discussed Third for this long without mentioning Chris Barrie?

[Dave]

The second and third series are what I really grew up with (I had those VHSs before the others), and I think Third always felt strongest to me, not least because of Laurie (I love Queenie, but she doesn’t have as much comedy potential as the Prince).

Plus, giving Baldrick that slight extra push into stupidity created the most fun version of the character. And Edmund is that little bit more selfish and devious than the other Blackadders.

So yes, I think on balance Third is my favourite too.

[Dave]

Plus, it’s got a historical angle so you can claim it’s educational.

[Dave]

What is it about Blackadder Goes Forth and school drama classes? I think between us few we’ve already covered almost every episode of the series.

I bet we all thought we were being really original and subversive, too.

[Dave]

At the same age, we did Blackadder’s ‘Corporal Punishment’. I transcribed the whole thing from tape.

(The only part my English teacher objected to was the bit about rogering the Duke of York with a prize-winning leek.)

[Dave]

Probably, but then you’re in the realms of saying they should have just written a completely different episode.

[Dave]

(Kryten and Rimmer don’t get to see, I mean.)

[Dave]

The other problem with holding back the reveal of Snacky’s true identity is that the audience already knows he’s not Asclepius, because we meet the real Asclepius early on when Lister and Cat encounter him (which of course Kryten and Cat don’t get to see).

So if you didn’t reveal Snacky early on, you’d just have people wondering who he was, given that we would know he wasn’t Asclepius. Which would make you anticipate the joke/reveal before the show tells you, robbing it of much of its impact.

[Dave]

Given that it’s an episode that deals with ideas of determinism vs free will, I guess that might be a good place to start looking for an answer.

[Dave]

Me too.

(And I say that as someone who liked Time Trumpet – it felt like a move back to the gleeful absurdity of TDT and his sketch show.)

I also can’t wait for The Death Of Stalin.

[Dave]

Wait…crap is a serious swear word somewhere.

Where?

[Dave]

“We’ve found something, sir. I think it’s one of the forum posts. A hideously malformed triple-barrelled opinion with Jawscvmcdia hanging from it. It appeared to Rimmer as he opened the G&T forum.”

“Is he all right?”

“I believe he’s just discovered the thread called “what are shirt tails for?”.

[Dave]

Are you sure the two things were related?

[Dave]

I get the point about revealing Snacky too early, but the trouble with leaving the reveal until the end is that it robs the earlier scenes of the comedy that comes from the audience knowing what the characters don’t.

[Dave]

Hello sofajockey.
Its red dwarf. Not Star Wars.
The only Saga here is the very real chance of the cast being on
The magazine of the same names cover next week.

As long as they rename it Saga Continuums then I’m fine with that.

[Dave]

The fourth opinion (which was much less intelligent than the first three combined into one) stowed away in Jawscvmcdia’s next thread – where it died of old age many years later.

[Dave]

Why did you combine three World Wars into one though?

[Dave]

I prefer Wallace’s joke being a political statement about current events.

I am absolutely in favour of people interpreting it in the way they find funniest.

[Dave]

My joke was based on the idea that if there eventually is a WWIII, we are literally closer to it now than we would have been in the past, simply because we’re further forward in time. It wasn’t meant as a political statement about current events.

[Dave]

I think this thread calls for two hours W. O. O.

With. Out. Opinions!

That’ll teach you to combine three separate people’s opinions into one.

[Dave]

Although much closer to WWIII.

[Dave]

Sirs – the altercation with our future selves caused dimensional anomalies which have combined three separate opinions into one. We should ascertain that the new opinion is stable.

[Dave]

If only we had three separate people’s opinions, then at least we could form an equilateral triangle.

[Dave]

We’ve adapted the forum discussion. Only now, the resulting opinions are split three ways, so as well as receiving the original opinion we also get two other separate ones combined with it.

[Dave]

I agree. I think there’s plenty of comedy potential there.

[Dave]

Wait… Are you trying to tell me it’s three separate people’s opinions combined into one?

[Dave]

Does he get cured of evil?

[Dave]

I initially misread that as “but I was wrong”.

[Dave]

What would three separate people’s opinions have looked like if they were combined into one in 1997 instead of 1987?

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