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Thinking about it, this isn’t a terrible way of generating new episode ideas…

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Don’t go!

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Until at least the 19th century, shirts were long, with the lower part serving the same function as underpants today (gathered between the legs, keeping your arse out of direct contact with your breeches). My guess is that moderns shirt tails are still descended from that older style, so there is a kind of folk memory of them, i.e. if you shit your pants, you use your shirt tails as emergency underwear. It is a pretty obscure joke, I agree. 

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Holly on the monitor, and the multitude of other AI generated crimes in these images… Your AI version looks nothing like them. It’s a bit weird you don’t see that.

I think maybe we’re looking at this with different expectations. Take this image; it’s a model Starbug and a model human figure. So if I were to create an AI upscale, would you expect me to aim for it to look like a real human-scale Starbug and an actual human Chris/Rimmer, or like a higher-res photo of the model starbug and model figure?

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These days boomer is just a casual insult for anyone who isn’t ‘hip’ and ‘switched on’ and ‘down with the latest tech’. If you prefer, I will substitute crypto fascist.

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I’m so tired of boomers who have just learned the phrase ‘Ai slop’ and don’t understand what it means. Humans produce slop all the time and it no one bats an eye. AI can never be a true photograph obviously, but it’s improving every day and when all you have is poor quality media and no superior ‘master tapes’, AI does a damn fine job.

BTW, if anyone can tell me what Rimmer’s certificates are supposed to say, I’ll fix them.

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They’re not posted same day, I have a whole archive already.

why is Officer Crabtree having a conversation with Vin Diesel?

Why indeed, you’ll have to ask the producers.

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Here, your majesties

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Once the text is so pixelated that it’s not readable I don’t see the point of editing it, how do you know what it’s ‘supposed’ to say if it’s just blur?

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Dude, I did photoshop the text in the smegging bunk room. Not to mention all the other defects, objects, and details that had to be photoshopped in or out. You can’t get that image just from an AI prompt. The fact you can’t see the photoshopping is because its practically seamless. I just missed that one bit of text for fucks sake!

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Regarding Parallel Universe, the crew could travel between ships by space walking (space suits and umbilical tethers), and Rimmer could be ‘beamed’ over or whatever.

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Is the crash fundamental? Isn’t the only requirement that the crew be dead, which is hardly a problem three million years into deep space?

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If Red Dwarf doesn’t have its own transport vehicles, does it at least have a landing bay for foreign craft? If so, other ships can still turn up, such as the Nova 5.

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It does tend to do that, yes, but black skin does have a sheen to it, and with makeup under hot studio lights I don’t think that is a good example to criticise. This on the other hand…

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Creating an image of the Starbug cockpit is incredibly difficult. The footage is really low res, dark, always full of people, and of course AI stuggles with the concept of ejector seats. It’s taken me a long time to create this. I’m not entirely happy with it, but it’s not terrible.

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I don’t really get why he’s still singing the “song” even when out of earshot of young Lister

He winks at adult Lister as he start singing it; he’s mocking him, and Lister glares at him.

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A lot of episodes could still happen, but instead of travelling to a another ship or planet, they would find these things hidden in unexplored parts of Red Dwarf.

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I just looked it up on wikipedia. I did not expect to read:
“Cast out into the world as a young adult, he is about to be gang raped by hoboes when…”

I mean, yeah, that does sound like it would be up Doug’s street.

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Marooned is my favourite episode

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OK after reading the article I think I see what you’re driving at. Series 5 was still finding the formula, whereas series 6 found the formula and served up a Macdonald’s BigMac for every episode. I get it now. Personally I have no problem with a formula, most successful sitcoms are formulaic.
Series 7, meanwhile, is endless callbacks (I think of it as the RD equivalent of the Force Awakens). I’m new to the forum so I’m still learning the intrinsic forum knowledge.

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There is a fairly significant difference in the writing between V and VI

And yet I’ve not heard a coherent explanation of the difference

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I concur. Series 6 is no different from 5; a series of episodic adventures. Series 7 went in a radically new direction.

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I’m quite pleased with this one. I nicked a photo of an original starbug model from the propstore, asked AI to adjust the lighting, then I stuck it on a modified BBC starry background and pulled down the saturation. I think it’s damn close to an early season model flyby. With enough of these I should be able to create new model footage.

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People think Kochanski was a replacement for Rimmer, but according to
Doug, no, she was added because they needed a female main character to
be part of the cast to help get a movie made.

The mistake was trying to make her Kochanski. Don’t cast a posh English girl and then tell me she grew up in Glasgow and is Lister’s long lost love. That’s why I never liked her; I’m not that gullible. If they couldn’t get the original actress they should have made her into a new independent character, which would have been fine.
e.g. a better story line would have been that she was the woman rescued by Ace Rimmer in Stoke me a Clipper, before he jumped to their dimension, and he had to leave her with them so she was forever searching for a way back to her own dimension. Or something.

British sitcoms don’t have structure? That’s a new one.

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This one is a real pain because of the wacky geometry of the room. Best I can do at the moment.

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The focus on pathos for example assumes bubble era is full of it,
which it isn’t.

Series 1 & 2 are overflowing with it. The observation dome scenes, in partiular, make me weep, not to mention thanks for the memory. And I sitll see loads of it up to series 6.

lets no pretend Series IV is different to series II or that VI is
different to any of the previous series.

I don’t understand this comment?

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That bit in Siliconia with Rimmer would be good pathos if it wasn’t pointlessly undermined by Cat

I feel like somebody once told him “hey, Cat doesn’t get many lines”, and ever since he’s been giving Cat way too many lines.

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I love that gif!

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Yes. It’s all a work in progress. If the worst criticism is one tiny bit of text in a whole image full of other text, that you can only make out by zooming in, I think I’m doing pretty well.

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Considering he’s been filmed on video tape, then played on a small CRT, in a dark corner, while moving, I’d say it’s a pretty good likeness.

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Do you really not enjoy anything after Series VI (Stoke Me A Clipper aside)?


Bits of it. I only watched series 8 to 10 one time and never again, as it left such a bad taste in my mouth. I just lost all faith in anything written solely by Doug. I remember some episode ideas from the Dave era that had real potential, but just when I thought I was enjoying it there would be some cringe dialogue that would break the spell, or the story would take some eye-roll turn. Oh, they’re going to meet Adoph Hitler *again*?? Yawnarama.
Still, it’s nice to be on a forum where I don’t get downvoted into a black hole for not liking reboot-era RD.

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Doug can’t write Red Dwarf, not without Rob. He doesn’t understand the characters; he writes them as charicatures. He doesn’t understand the atmopshere; he writes it like pantomime. He can’t do pathos, he doesn’t even try. He can’t do dialogue; his gags read like RD fan fiction and he is obsessed with toilet humour and rape jokes. The only good episode after series 6 was Stoke Me a Clipper, and I’m only giving that a B+. [/unpopular opinion]

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