Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now

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I would imagine it means the Beeb are taking it back.

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Found out the other day that the Waitress in Backwards was also the Narrator in the film version of Andy Dubs’ Joseph musical.

You know I had to do it to em…

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Does this have any connection to Zardoz?

Well, aside from one of its best-known quotes being “The gun is good, the penis is evil”, I suppose not.

There, I explained the joke, you ingrates. I hope you’re satisfied.

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Was the Zardoz reference too obscure, then?

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The article and their argument seems to be about liability, not hosting costs.

Liability for what? I didn’t hear of any liability discussions around World of Warcraft when they started letting players host private servers. And Warcraft’s not exactly a niche IP.

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I admittedly had hoped for more engagement, on account of the facts that the forum already encompasses a great deal of subjects unrelated to Red Dwarf and there is currently an active thread dedicated to the current era of Doctor Who

Well yes, but the difference there is that that particular thread is is an ongoing discussion that invites participation, whereas yours is mainly just you posting reviews, and that’s entirely valid, but posting a review isn’t really the same thing as starting or contributing to a discussion.

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With James Brown as Cat (finally!) and John Goodman as Hollister

Still, I thought McGruder came out pretty well

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What a load of crap. There’s absolutely nothing stopping players fronting the cost of hosting.

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Happens all the time, broadcasters putting out invitations to pitch, or putting existing brands out for tender.

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Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo, he wasn’t distractingly bad. There are reports that he had to get an acting coach in midway through production and there are people who criticise him, but for me he did just fine.

That movie also has its own behind the scenes drama, the original directors were “let go” or “left” (they were fired) at some point and the whole thing had to be retooled from a comedy into something quite serious.

Solo was OK, but my main memory of it was that the cinematography was just so dark – so dark that I couldn’t make out facial expressions in some scenes

It was bizarrely dark. Distractingly dark. I’ve never seen something so damn dark. And so few people seemed to talk about it. It’s like they forgot to light it.

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Shane Rimmer

Scott only got on that show because he knew someone who pulled strings for him.

I’m not sorry.

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Let’s not celebrate yet – we still need to reach the 1,400,000 safety margin to account for signatures that don’t count – either because they were incorrectly signed, or because they’re fraudulent (it does happen)

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It’s impressive that you’re committed to following through, but wouldn’t this be better served on a personal blog and not an open forum?

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Actually, the convict population is only 400 or less, according to Holly.

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There, now we don’t need a disappointing wrap-up finale. Carry on.

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the nanobots had just gone around bringing everyone back wherever they went

I’d had that idea myself in a long since lost script I wrote in high school (thankfully, as it was embarrassingly derivative and the jokes were weak), though I think everyone had that idea at one point or another after Hollister’s declaration that they must have resurrected Talia too in Only the Good.

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What is it?

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Speaking of Phil Manzanera, Lister being deluded about his guitar playing talent is only really a thing in Psirens isn’t it. Or at least it’s massively exaggerated in that episode, as per Series VI flanderization I suppose. Previously we get the impression that he thinks he’s better than he is, but in Psirens he really believes he’s as good as Jimi Hendrix (or at least as good as Phil Manzanera) but is shown tunelessly strumming. In fact he even admits to “not exactly [being] a wizard” in Marooned, and jokes that he’s now “only half crap” in Nanarchy, having lost an arm. Then in Timewave he says he’s gotten better and is no longer the “tone-deaf plucker” he used to be. 

In fairness to him, he did hold his own against Hitler in that jam.

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They had Phil Manzanera and Anita Dobson booked for Psirens and they didn’t take the opportunity to do a one-off version of the theme song specific to that episode like they did with Meltdown? They could’ve even gone the whole hog and asked her if Brian was free for a quick solo.

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I leave you all alone for one day…

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Well, that’s where fair use comes into play. There’s an interesting video on that, actually:

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Yes, the joke was that I was overexplaining the joke about Series VIII Holly overexplaining the joke.

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Fathers & Suns (23:31)
There was some debate recently about how literally to take this title for an episode featuring only one father and one sun, respectively.

Oh, don’t you start. They have this discussion in the Doctor Who community around Pyramids of Mars lying about how many conic polyhedrons are actually present on the surface of Sol 4 (i.e. not enough to be referred to in plural).

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Electronic old men! Warning!

Old men… are the future! Within the week there will be old men running the world. A new age!

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Just recently saw the gas man episode of Bottom and one of Eddie’s comments (“I don’t even know what gas is. What is gas?”) inspired this:

The joke is that Holly has a tendency to overexplain the joke in Series VIII.

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Someone should put that in AIdea for an Episode

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Number 1: That’s terror.

Number 2: That’s terror.

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Carole Ann Ford in particular is extremely underrated

Agreed. She’s very poorly served in most of her TV stories and I’m so glad Big Finish have given her a chance to give Susan a long-belated reappraisal.

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Not maliciously, I just find it slightly amusing and I pick the messages that actually genuinely interest me. 

Touche.

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But what’s an iguana?

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Was this humanity’s last-ditch attempt to prevent the other Simulants from wiping them out? If so, that’s a cool bit of worldbuilding.

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 No, I’m an apple. 

And with that you have just confirmed everything I suspected about you.

For real though, now I’m absolutely certain you’re pulling these old messages out to troll and not because you’ve got some neurodivergent fixation on answering questions asked 20-odd years ago.

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I note that thread hasn’t made a second page yet.

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Bulk van der Huge!

Gristle McThornbody!

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No, I think they should watch The Young Ones after Groutfladder.

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And I very much doubt there was even any foam.

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