Profile Topics Started Replies Created Engagements Forum Replies Created Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 1,098 total) 1 2 3 … 20 21 22 Author Posts March 14, 2024 at 11:38 pm in reply to: So What Is It? (Home Decor Edition) #293270 GlenTokyoParticipant Mel Bibby’s special skill was making a vacform/injection mould from a boring source look space age. I think it was probably irl meant to have something slot into it, hence the cut out, and hold it steady. Sort of like those pub umbrella holders but side loading, maybe a marquee. It’s pretty big, I’d say easy 40cm, almost as wide as the cupboard doors so I think that’d work. In universe, extractor fan, open bit is the duct to get air. March 6, 2024 at 11:07 pm in reply to: Lie mode engaged. #293078 GlenTokyoParticipant I agree with Flapjack. The only sort of bad series tbh was series 6, but it wasn’t unwatchable, but Liza Tarbuck did a lot of heavy lifting, but I’d put a lot of the 10 episode series’ above the first few series. The prize tasks are shocking though sometimes. I feel like they need to introduce negative points for the truly shit ones. It’s been really clear that some prize task prizes have been a product of a 10 minute phone conversation with the contestant and a producer rather than something concocted and sourced by the contestant. February 14, 2024 at 5:14 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #292633 GlenTokyoParticipant I’ve said it before, being a Red Dwarf fan is like being a football supporter. There was a time where Red Dwarf was in Europe and had world class players, but that was the best part of 30 years ago and now we’ve been yo-yoing between League One and League Two for a few seasons and we’ve just been knocked out of the cup by Cleethorpes Town. You still turn up on a Saturday afternoon though. December 25, 2023 at 1:26 am in reply to: Unanswered Questions #291560 GlenTokyoParticipant Am I the only one who’s never noticed the Inquisitor only has three fangs on his helmet? Because I save any Red Dwarf picture that’s interesting due to the internet being shite and forums, message boards, and even official sites disappearing, I have this picture of the intact Inquisitor mask. I don’t know who the people are or where I found it, but I assume they’re in the workshop at BBC VFX. December 10, 2023 at 10:54 pm in reply to: Russell Two Davies #291256 GlenTokyoParticipant For some reason I forgot to type “or topless with just the waistcoat” but yeah. December 10, 2023 at 9:54 pm in reply to: Russell Two Davies #291254 GlenTokyoParticipant Seen a few people on twitter not getting Ncuti not wearing any trousers which is making me think they should have either put Tennant in a Rab C. Nesbitt string vest to make it clearer that they got half of an outfit each. December 10, 2023 at 7:56 pm in reply to: Russell Two Davies #291252 GlenTokyoParticipant I actually like that, but only in the context of the Toymaker affected universe. A universe altering shitshow occurring at the time, then go for it. A special treat. December 10, 2023 at 5:49 pm in reply to: Russell Two Davies #291247 GlenTokyoParticipant Fourteen will just disappear and become Fifteen in the past when he eventually regenerates properly. Bi-nowpaylatergeneration. But yeah, that’d be a nice way to tie it all up. He lives, gets old with Donna and Family and when he’s had about 40, 50 years of the healing Ncuti mentioned, he gets all glowy. I thought it was great overall. Ncuti is going to be fantastic, such fun. As for RTD saying every regeneration makes a new Doctor, now, I’m not a whovian, so there may be an in universe explanation already but couldn’t that explain how in the multi Doctor stories every Doctor has aged considerably from the point they regenerated? Split off and run parallel with Doctor Prime, just without regeneration, when they go they just reunite with Doctor Prime at the point of regeneration, because time doesn’t matter and its scifi. December 5, 2023 at 3:03 am in reply to: Russell Two Davies #291116 GlenTokyoParticipant November 27, 2023 at 4:38 am in reply to: Russell Two Davies #290842 GlenTokyoParticipant It was indeed like going back in time, it felt exactly like RTD Mk1 Tennant Who to me, but HD, which is good because I actually liked that. I enjoyed the effects, they were again, like the late 2000s episodes but with a high fidelity sheen, didn’t feel too flashy or Hollywood, had some charm about them, and carried on the scifi tradition of lanky people in bug eyed rubber alien costumes. Story was engrossing enough, nice mix of high stakes drama and fun, and I enjoyed the cast, returning and otherwise. They’ve got me back, and I’m hopeful. November 24, 2023 at 4:18 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #290737 GlenTokyoParticipant It derives from the Greek “Minos” which I think technically is pronounced more like the standard American approach to be fair. Mine-otaur still sounds better to me though! In English doesn’t a vowel following a vowel in a word change the sound/extend the previous vowel or something. I feel like I was taught that at some point. Prune is prooooon, water is woorter, mine is miiiiine etc Could be a load of bollocks tbf, it’s been 16 years since I had an English lesson. October 25, 2023 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Unanswered Questions #290057 GlenTokyoParticipant I think it was a mass cremation. October 25, 2023 at 7:39 pm in reply to: Unanswered Questions #290050 GlenTokyoParticipant My head canon is they swept them all up and then deposited them in neat piles where they died for cataloguing/ CSI reasons. I suppose you could say “well why didn’t they stop Lister before he ate them” but Holly was in the middle of informing him, probably should have got the “they’re those white powder mounds” in faily quickly after telling him they’d died though. October 2, 2023 at 9:46 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #289381 GlenTokyoParticipant There’s also an episode of the Inspector Gadget cartoon where Dr Claw wants to put his logo on the moon, that predates Red Dwarf too. August 26, 2023 at 10:38 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #288097 GlenTokyoParticipant Mundane observation: Living Rimmer in The End has a digital watch, looks like a Casio G Shock one, possibly a DW-5600C, which is what Keanu Reeves wears in Speed, might be an earlier model but the shape seems the same. Hologram Rimmer wears an analogue watch with a green face. I always thought it was an orange/green hologram sticker like you used to get, like what his H is made out of later. To look more hologram-y and sci-fi. I think it’s a luminous watch face a bit like this: But it does seem to flare orange, which could be the horrendous BBC Manchester cameras from the late 1960s or it is some kind of metallic colour shift swatch watch. August 25, 2023 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #288068 GlenTokyoParticipant Mundane observation: Living Rimmer in The End has a digital watch, looks like a Casio G Shock one, possibly a DW-5600C, which is what Keanu Reeves wears in Speed, might be an earlier model but the shape seems the same. Hologram Rimmer wears an analogue watch with a green face. August 24, 2023 at 9:29 pm in reply to: Rob has updated his Twitter likes and follows #288028 GlenTokyoParticipant How about a wholesome thread called “Craig Charles has updated his funk stack” where we just chronicle his favourite records from his radio show. Would be a pleasant change of pace from the three flavours of radged Barrie, Llewellyn, and Grant are serving up. August 22, 2023 at 7:36 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #287895 GlenTokyoParticipant You could explain the watch away as it being a Holly/ ships computer watch, though you’d imagine they’re both on the same network (Backwards with Holly appearing on his monitor would imply that too), so again, he shouldn’t really need it to communicate. Maybe he’s just a watch collector. He’s got hobbies. August 19, 2023 at 12:23 am in reply to: Dark observation dome #287766 GlenTokyoParticipant It’s the microwave from Polymorph without a back so they could put the food through it. So it couldn’t do anything to the cat. I mean I figured as much. Still feels icky when I watch it though. Just a gut thing I guess, which to be fair, is what they were going for. Yeah, I feel like, they made an effort to make the Matsui microwave look a bit more space age with a red light in the back and a box of blinky lights over the buttons, but it still looks like a microwave so it’s not something you really want to be putting out into the world if you had time and budget, but they had a gutless microwave without a back already and used it. August 18, 2023 at 11:20 pm in reply to: Dark observation dome #287764 GlenTokyoParticipant 9) In Ouroboros, Kochanski puts a cat in a microwave. It probably wasn’t plugged in, in real life, and she obviously didn’t even go through with it in the show but still, that’s definitely a microwave, no? In the making of the episode, a cat was physically placed in a microwave. It’s the microwave from Polymorph without a back so they could put the food through it. So it couldn’t do anything to the cat. August 17, 2023 at 11:39 pm in reply to: Rob has updated his Twitter likes and follows #287712 GlenTokyoParticipant As a member of the queer community I find it exceptionally more difficult to give someone the benefit of the doubt if they follow accounts arguing to genocide people I care about. That’s a tad beyond “following across the political spectrum” in my book. I’m giving Rob the benefit of the doubt only because he retracted all those follows instead of doubling down but I’m still wary. Back in the good old pre Trump days when these people were mostly derided as the conspiratorial nutters they are, you could maybe follow a Tory/Republican politician as a Lefty/Democrat to see their points as they were still somewhat sensible and did their jobs mostly. They might say that Labours taxation plans were too high, and they’d scrap a tax, or they’d say they’d spend a bit more of defence or whatever. Now you can’t even follow the Prime Minister and Home Secretary without seeing some EDL esque shit, and republicans are calling for people they don’t like to be eradicated and would rather people die rather than let them have choice over their own body. Social media isn’t your tea when your 6, no-one is forcing you to ingest things you don’t like, so if you’re liking hateful shit then it’s fair game for everyone to assume it’s because you agree with it, otherwise why would you like it? I don’t like things that I don’t agree with or that make me angry. I think that’s pretty normal behaviour personally. August 16, 2023 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Robert Llewellyn has updated his Substack #287667 GlenTokyoParticipant Red Dwarf somehow feels in worse shape now than it did when it had absolutely no shape a few months ago. August 14, 2023 at 3:41 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #287571 GlenTokyoParticipant This is a poorly researched mundane observation as I could just be being thick and have missed it but, I’ve watched the model shots a fair few times, and the model shot of Red Dwarf that opens the rock titles is used just once or twice in either the first or second series, and then more often post III, but doesn’t feature in the the raw FX footage. You’d think they’d have that one to hand. Could that be the one that was lost, then found and cleaned up to be used in Skipper? Yeah, that seems to be the one. They’ve lost it again haven’t they? August 13, 2023 at 1:07 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #287540 GlenTokyoParticipant This is a poorly researched mundane observation as I could just be being thick and have missed it but, I’ve watched the model shots a fair few times, and the model shot of Red Dwarf that opens the rock titles is used just once or twice in either the first or second series, and then more often post III, but doesn’t feature in the the raw FX footage. You’d think they’d have that one to hand. August 9, 2023 at 3:08 am in reply to: Rob has updated his Twitter likes and follows #287346 GlenTokyoParticipant I have a really hard time separating art from artist personally, so modern life is like someone new wiping their arse on my cultural comfort blanket every few months. August 9, 2023 at 1:38 am in reply to: Rob has updated his Twitter likes and follows #287344 GlenTokyoParticipant Another nail in Dimensions Jumps coffin. I swear to God, I’m like two more problematic/ bigoted cast and crew members away from just burying all my Red Dwarf stuff in the garden and attempting to get into Space 1999 or something. Christ. July 29, 2023 at 7:31 pm in reply to: Is that painting yours? It’s rubbish. #286991 GlenTokyoParticipant Norman must have some amazing redeeming features when you get to know him because he’s never not sounded like an absolute nightmare to me. Keep it light Norman ffs, it’s only a signing. July 28, 2023 at 5:40 pm in reply to: Almost XIII news #286946 GlenTokyoParticipant The cast having to organise shooting dates at prior engagements seems about right for a TV show that can’t be arsed to update its own Twitter and website. July 28, 2023 at 2:03 am in reply to: Doug had updated his Twitter #286924 GlenTokyoParticipant July 27, 2023 at 7:14 pm in reply to: Doug had updated his Twitter #286908 GlenTokyoParticipant Oh and if it’s some sort of quaraling divorced couple shite, they’re old enough to rise above that surely. Just publicise both sides Red Dwarf projects equally and interact with fans. July 27, 2023 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Doug had updated his Twitter #286906 GlenTokyoParticipant Yeah this is proper Mickey Mouse operation shit. Say Dave commission a new series, the official account and the official website won’t say anything, you’re expected to go to find Doug Naylor on twitter for information. I get they’ve borked the website and that’d probably cost money to fix, but keeping a twitter account operational (outside of any future Musk issues) is such a low bar to clear. What possible reason could there be for that to be beyond GNP? If they’ve lost the password or there are some other kind of access issues (previous admin caught in legal crossfire, account lost in process) then just make a new one, it’s not like the account was @RedDwarf. Utter shit. July 26, 2023 at 5:28 am in reply to: The Time Distortion Field Got Out #286837 GlenTokyoParticipant From the fansite that brought you “the theme song has lyrics” comes the next earth shattering revelation “Red Dwarf is pretty much entirely based on Lenny Henry sketches”. July 23, 2023 at 5:18 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #286758 GlenTokyoParticipant The height bit is irrelevant really, outside of weight/height ratios being a familiar thing, the line could be “It’s average for your age” or “It’s average for mammals wearing a hat” “Rimmer, it would be average for my age if I happened to be a pregnant hippo” “Rimmer, it would be average for a mammal wearing a hat if I happened to be a pregnant hippo wearing a sombrero” It still works in the same way, Lister is disproportionately heavy, it just isn’t as clean, grounded, or funny (obviously) July 20, 2023 at 3:24 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #286685 GlenTokyoParticipant Think Psirens was the first showing of the new light bee. Lister definitely wouldn’t be able to swallow that bad boy. July 18, 2023 at 12:02 am in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #286616 GlenTokyoParticipant July 17, 2023 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Unanswered Questions #286612 GlenTokyoParticipant It was a Mel Bibby gag wasn’t it? July 15, 2023 at 11:51 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #286573 GlenTokyoParticipant The CD is a reel of 0.05 inch tape. July 12, 2023 at 12:38 pm in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #286478 GlenTokyoParticipant OK, stop the thread, I want to know how you threw that together because it’s extremely passable. I know how I would do it, but I want to know what you did. Mesh warp in After Effects, 4×4. Then a crude mask for his hand and face. Being a 12fps gif helped, fewer key frames to do than video. Then I just colour matched it as best as I could, and added lens blur and noise to make it match the scene. July 12, 2023 at 2:22 am in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #286451 GlenTokyoParticipant July 11, 2023 at 9:53 pm in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #286447 GlenTokyoParticipant July 10, 2023 at 5:54 pm in reply to: Your Red Dwarf Memes for Safe and Courteous Disposal Out the Nearest Airlock #286409 GlenTokyoParticipant July 6, 2023 at 9:03 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #286344 GlenTokyoParticipant This is the kind of stuff that should be in a book, a proper deep dive through the GNP archives. July 6, 2023 at 9:00 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #286343 GlenTokyoParticipant I always wonder who the footballers are. Almost certainly stock images, maybe from college football? Don’t know if they bothered checking it was alright to use them, or whether it was some sort of transformative artwork deal. July 6, 2023 at 7:23 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #286341 GlenTokyoParticipant The Titan Hilton blanket is perfect subtle merchandise (as long as they didn’t put Red Dwarf XIII on it somewhere) but I’m sure Hilton would have something to say about it. July 5, 2023 at 6:05 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #286323 GlenTokyoParticipant Confidence & Paranoia is before Parallel Universe, which is why I brought up why it hadn’t been seen since the latter. It stopped being a feature of Lister’s bunk when they moved to the officers quarters. Although, having just watched D.N.A. I’ve noticed Kryten has it in the medi-bay scene. Depends what you mean by “a feature”, it’s not used as a main prop but you can make out that it is in the officers quarters too, it’s just on Lister’s bunk. July 5, 2023 at 2:13 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #286312 GlenTokyoParticipant Timeslides was recorded the week after Marooned, which might have helped. Can’t expect continuity from Grant Naylor over a longer period. The only thing I can think of is Lister’s Titan Hilton blanket, last seen in Parallel Universe, popping up in The Inquisitor. But it’s not really in the same league I suppose as the plot-specific model soldiers. It’s on his bunk all through the Red Dwarf based series. June 21, 2023 at 12:19 am in reply to: Doug had updated his Twitter #285924 GlenTokyoParticipant They should have called Psirens Kryten³ That’d be 1000Kry. June 20, 2023 at 7:10 pm in reply to: Doug had updated his Twitter #285911 GlenTokyoParticipant They should have called Krytie TV Me². Me uncomfortable June 20, 2023 at 4:57 am in reply to: Doug had updated his Twitter #285878 GlenTokyoParticipant https://twitter.com/DougRDNaylor/status/1671003329554464768?t=CSfMpd-zReYZhhVJFHuwiA&s=19 June 20, 2023 at 4:19 am in reply to: Doug had updated his Twitter #285877 GlenTokyoParticipant I am going to be so fucking bored if this was the entirety of the announcement we had teased. This is good news for the franchise but it’s hardly worth teasing the actual announcement. When it’s almost certainly the entirety of the announcement. Author Posts Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 1,098 total) 1 2 3 … 20 21 22