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he’s a complete bastard, maybe the most bastardy he’s ever been.

I’m fairly certain that that’s the literal point of the father reveal.

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>Yeah, well, we saved your ass in World War II.

As an American, I know this isn’t actually true.

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FUTURE ESCAPE

I played “Don’t Escape 3” after reading said idea.

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(and orange and purple would be tertiary)

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I’m thinking of getting myself a copy of the novels off Amazon – should I pay the extra few dollars for that cover?

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THE LAST JAWSCVMCDAY

Kryten gets a notice that he only has 24 hours left to live, so he starts listing every possible question that never mattered to anybody.

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I think GlenTokyo has provided the best option yet. Who are my other choices?

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the plot

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MEMORIZED FROM POURING OVA’

When Lister falls ill, he accidentally hallucinates two people to life: one who memorized every line from every published work ever from pouring over them at great length, and one who does literally nothing but correct this spelling of ‘pouring’.

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well that’s me proper baffled then

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we interrupt this thread to remind you to never search google images for ‘purple rimmer’

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>I know you are, but what am I?

You misspelled wow thanks for pointing that out to me I can’t believe I made such a dumb mistake haha silly me lmao ur the best <3

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Yes, it might help if you talked about poring over things instead.

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>You misspelled red

You misspelled spelled purple correctly

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VIRGINITYSWAP

Just that one scene from Marooned on loop for 28 minutes

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He was supposed to look red, but it was absolutely quite purple.

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RADIO PREE EUROPE

Pree gets a talk radio show

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DAVESLEEPER

Craig Charles falls ill and is unable to film for an entire episode, so the excuse is just that Lister was asleep for the entire adventure.

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BODYSTIPE

But it turns out it was actually Michael Stipe in Mike Mills’s body. Meanwhile, flanl3 wonders what the fuck

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BETTER THAN STIPE

Mike Mills takes over lead vocals on what turns out to be the best track on the album.

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LIVE & BAKE

Asclepius becomes a stoner hippie, enjoying life as it comes to him.

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I’m not sure if you’ve deliberately missed my point or if I’m bad at explaining, but I suppose I’m more getting at the ‘XI beginning’ phenomenon, where, for example, Lister wakes up hungover only remembering having two beers in Give & Take, or in Samsara with the whole seemingly pointless dice scene that ends up having been caused by Samsara’s karma field.

I guess maybe it is just more of an XI thing.

Maybe that’s part of why XI is easily my favorite of the Dave ones and among my favorites of all of them.

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I’m never going to not hate Timewave. A sub-average 12-year-old could have written a better Red Dwarf episode about all their childish whining about PC. I wouldn’t say that about any other concept Red Dwarf has approached, nor has any concept Red Dwarf has tried ever been so fucking stupid.

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The opening scene paying off has become one of the best parts of the Dave era, hasn’t it? A lot of the earlier bantery dialogue that seems like filler turns out to have actually meant something, and there’s something more satisfying about the show when it feels like more of the things they’ve done were done for a reason.

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Well if it took them that long to even think to take wires out of Kryten’s finger, I’d imagine they just didn’t think of it.

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Did Lister make that patch of the four of them himself?

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Doug Naylor or Rob Naylor?

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Not as a regular uniform, though.

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I hope XIII’s running plot arc is that Snacky is angry, at the very least from being left alone for, like, two years, and trying to murder all of them, and they are all trying to escape.

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No, at least the explanations for those either make some sense or are interesting enough of concepts to forgive

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-orange
-yellow
-chartreuse
-mint green
-cyan
-azure
-purple
-magenta
-pink
-white
-gray
-black
-nothing

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I honestly think most of the people saying “Red Dwarf ought to be done soon” are just tired of XII being, like, 60% recycled material. If it had been more original, even if less good, I doubt as many of you would be on about “don’t give it more than a couple new series”.

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I honestly didn’t realise how much hate the fandom has for Timewave.

Oh, don’t worry, there are all sorts of pro-Timewave groups on Facebook and Reddit. Although even they were at least mildly disappointed.

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…there were funny jokes in Timewave?

Next time I watch it, I’ll make a list.

Don’t bother, I’ll do it for you right here in this very post.

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Why would anyone even design a robot doctor that has four flashing buttons on its front, is a massive fucking blob, and has a flipper spinning on its head? They wouldn’t, that’s for sure, but it doesn’t stop the whole crew from thinking it’s him.

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…there were funny jokes in Timewave?

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I don’t wanna live in a world where Dr. Lanstrom is serious and yet the Simulant Death Ships™ are silly.

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What if this is actually that sci-fi idea Doug had been working on around the filming of XI, and he handed it off to Rob because he felt bad for him/wanted to become friends again?

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The End is not very good, either. It does its job, but it’s pretty weak. From experience, people barely give half a passing shit if you only show them The End.

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The space corps directives not being particularly funny is another thing wrong with Timewave.

Is that unpopular? Probably not.

But it might be unpopular for me to say that Timewave is the only bad episode of Red Dwarf.

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He’d have done a better job, too.

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Lister looks fattest in the double Lister scene from Give & Take. Jesus, is he wide.

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Getting back to earth and there being any people there (and earth being real, of course) as a series finale would be worse than any bad episode.

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I mean, anything you post on the official site’s forum belongs to GNP, so I think Doug can read fanfic over there.

That said, are we going to copy idea for an episode over to there or not?

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It brought us the incredible “spit on her wrist” joke. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder.

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I mean, Norman aged so much that he turned into a flatscreen and looks young again.

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I’d assume that you mean that Danny his been wearing wigs since Death in Paradise series 5, as I know for certain that he still uses his real hair for Red Dwarf.

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My dream for Red Dwarf is having a plot arc run through a seties which seems to actually matter at all without being shit.

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They were sitting in the kitchen in case the crew ran out of food.

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