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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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This is a strange forum.

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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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Not according to space corps directive 3512/C it isn’t.

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