Profile Topics Started Replies Created Engagements Forum Replies Created Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 614 total) 1 2 3 … 11 12 13 Author Posts May 3, 2022 at 4:35 am in reply to: Androids Cancelled #273359 HamishParticipant April 28, 2022 at 1:30 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #273270 HamishParticipant I always assumed the Simulants were Borg inspired as well, they first appear relatively soon after the Borg show up in TNG In practice though they are more like Terminators. April 26, 2022 at 3:06 am in reply to: Jokes you don't/didn't get #273205 HamishParticipant I do find it slightly odd that, on a ship the size of Red Dwarf, the closest thing they could come to a ball is a blown-up condom rather than, say, a ball. Especially since there is a basketball court shown in Pete. Unless that was like the Karaoke Bar on C Deck? April 22, 2022 at 9:54 pm in reply to: God Does Not Play Dice with the Smega-Drive (Now With 47% More Blast-Processing) #273156 HamishParticipant That Queeg one is indeed chilling. Though perhaps not as much as what I managed with Yes, Prime Minister! here: I got the clip as YouTube advertisement would you believe? April 22, 2022 at 4:06 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #273136 HamishParticipant Reading my post back, I meant vain and not venal, although the Cat arguably is that. Almost done lambing and calving, then I can sleep. April 21, 2022 at 5:25 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #273130 HamishParticipant By Series VI I doubt that either Rob or Doug gave it a second thought. The character of Duane Dibbley is also not really informed by Cat being descended from cats, just from him being incredibly venal. April 20, 2022 at 10:18 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #273119 HamishParticipant In Out of Time, I get that they are playing on the Cat’s vanity, but felines do not go bald as they age do they? April 20, 2022 at 5:12 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #273105 HamishParticipant I am pretty sure he is not counting Nano Rimmer in VIII. But then we get back to the question of who Dave era Rimmer really is anyway… December 16, 2021 at 7:27 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #270737 HamishParticipant At least in North America edgy variations on the Barney theme were a schoolyard staple well into the 2000s. To the point that I just realized that I do not even remember what the proper lyrics were in place of “a big fat punch and a shotgun to the head”. December 8, 2021 at 4:28 am in reply to: Unanswered Questions #270517 HamishParticipant Unanswered question: if Lister supposedly likes movies like Revenge of the Surfboarding Killer Bikini Vampire Girls, why do we only ever see him watch sad chick flicks? December 7, 2021 at 3:53 am in reply to: Fan Theory Corner #270496 HamishParticipant Given the expansion of Starbug in Series VII you could also make the argument that it was a far more suitable ship for a crew of four people than Red Dwarf was by that point. December 1, 2021 at 7:43 pm in reply to: Unanswered Questions #270438 HamishParticipant So a lack of proper observation for grammar in the subtitles reveals Mr Cat to date back to series vii? So it’s purely used by Doug? That should be “Mr. Doug” I have you know. September 30, 2021 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Lines from something else that sound like they’re from Red Dwarf #269599 HamishParticipant July 17, 2021 at 5:57 pm in reply to: Jokes you don't/didn't get #268360 HamishParticipant Nebraska. June 17, 2021 at 12:08 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #267728 HamishParticipant But it does definitely escalate, series V Lister refusing to eat pizza until it was smothered in curry sauce possibly being the high point of his obsession! Tikka to Ride would like a word. June 6, 2021 at 6:43 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #267332 HamishParticipant Even by 2016, his new bodyshell and sound system are a midlife crisis car joke Kryten is also basically shown to be a car when his battery goes flat in Twentica. May 6, 2021 at 6:52 am in reply to: Mundane observation dome #266260 HamishParticipant Langstrom and the Holoship crew maybe, but I thought Telford was a genuine human? He’s on Irene’s level. He gave the Cat a gun and all. I was not saying Telford is not human, but in terms of meaningful character interaction with the main cast he is far less “human” than say Nirvana Crane is in her interactions with Rimmer. And when you have a well drawn Hologram character already at the core of the show, it is not really clear to me how much of a meaningful distinction can be made between a living human or a Hologram in-universe. I first saw Holoship from a VHS tape I rented from the library a while after I had already seen most of the Grant/Naylor episodes, and I do remember finding it unusual at the time how populated the episode was in comparison to the rest of the show. Pointing out they are Holograms seems on the same level as justifying the Kinatawowi by making them GELFs to me. I do grant the point about how the Enlightenment crew other themselves from the Dwarfers and thus make themselves more alienating, but then Timewave attempts to do the same thing with the crew of the Enconium. It just does so in a much more problematic fashion. May 5, 2021 at 11:40 pm in reply to: Mundane observation dome #266252 HamishParticipant Sure they are all Holograms, but Holoship kind of counts right? At least as much as Telford. And Langstrom was going to be invited to join the crew to begin with. April 30, 2021 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Series X US Re-release #266076 HamishParticipant The station becoming a shining beacon of multiculturalism in response to xenophobia has been one of the more heartwarming messages to lighten all the gloom. That’s the journey the audience gets to see, but looking at it from the optics of someone on Earth who has been watching ISN for months, then Clark’s propaganda suddenly appears to become prophesy. Probably just a consequence of how condensed Season 4 was, but it feels like everyone just hand waves that away. April 30, 2021 at 5:00 pm in reply to: Series X US Re-release #266073 HamishParticipant Having just finished a Babylon 5 re-watch to the end of Season 4, one thing that has always bothered me is how after months of President Clark’s propaganda about Sheridan being under the control of malign alien influences, no one makes a single comment about how he shows up to Earth with the backing of an Alien armada, or how the White Star ships are almost exclusively manned by Minbari crew. They do at least state several times that humans should be leading the battle, but G’Kar and Londo getting the League involved could very well have caused more harm than good. Especially when this is followed by Delenn’s show of force with the White Star ships not long after when announcing the creation of the Interstellar Alliance to the new President. Actually, maybe Clark had something of a point after all? April 23, 2021 at 4:42 pm in reply to: “They’ve got a better union than us” #265972 HamishParticipant Rimmer is not ideologically consistent whodathunkit. April 23, 2021 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Unanswered Questions #265971 HamishParticipant Considering how much time passes for them in Tikka, it is not unreasonable to assume that discussing Kennedy’s impact was a subject of conversation. April 11, 2021 at 9:32 pm in reply to: every classic series doctor who serial described by red dwarf (YouTube) #265727 HamishParticipant Earthshock is just perfect. March 19, 2021 at 4:59 pm in reply to: Series X US Re-release #264892 HamishParticipant Like persisting with the entirety of 1980s Doctor Who, it’s an exchange of your time that could be spent on more worthwhile things in your list. March 17, 2021 at 10:30 pm in reply to: Series X US Re-release #264870 HamishParticipant I’m glad I didn’t see it until after his death, because I would have been really annoyed about him leaving before it all got explained. The whole thing is really tragic. Just imagine having to film an episode like “And the Sky Full of Stars” when you actually have been hallucinating on set. March 16, 2021 at 6:08 am in reply to: Series X US Re-release #264781 HamishParticipant I rate the first season of Babylon 5 a lot higher than most, and it becomes only more impressive when you learn what Michael O’Hare was dealing with at the time. February 24, 2021 at 7:11 am in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #264357 HamishParticipant I believe I have said this before, but I got my first G&T account after reading John Hoare’s “Xtended Revisited: Ouroboros” article, where he described something written on the Tongue Tied Wiki my brother and I nominally took control over in the lead up to Back to Earth as “a large pile of smelly poo and wee.” While I can hardly be called a regular on here, I feel that quote generally describes most of my continuing output. February 14, 2021 at 8:50 pm in reply to: people who “react” to RD on Youtube #264203 HamishParticipant Cappsy put a cap in his ass? February 12, 2021 at 8:37 pm in reply to: Red Dwarf Fandom.com Article #264162 HamishParticipant “Paul Jackson” is not the rarest of names. I knew two Paul Jackson’s at school, so one of them we just called Tree because he had big hair and looked like a tree. We actually had a tree at our school that looked like Paul Jackson. Not the Paul Jackson from Red Dwarf, another Paul Jackson who also went to our school and whose nickname was Hedge, because he once hid in a hedge. And you tied an onion to your belt, which was the style at the time. February 1, 2021 at 8:17 pm in reply to: Red Dwarf Fandom.com Article #263970 HamishParticipant “Paul Jackson” is not the rarest of names. I knew two Paul Jackson’s at school, so one of them we just called Tree because he had big hair and looked like a tree. It could be worse. He could have been named Michael. December 22, 2020 at 10:39 pm in reply to: Jokes you don't/didn't get #263701 HamishParticipant There is that one line in in the fourth Hitchhiker’s novel where it describes how the dog “Know Nothing Bozo” was so named because “the way its hair stood up on its head it reminded people of the President of the United States.” Since the book was released in 1984 I am guessing Adams is referring to Reagan? December 22, 2020 at 8:05 pm in reply to: Jokes you don't/didn't get #263698 HamishParticipant And there was the whole “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy” thing on top of that. SNL got into the habit of using a child actor to portray him. December 21, 2020 at 6:53 pm in reply to: Tom Scott video: The Greatest Title Sequence I’ve Ever Seen #263682 HamishParticipant Yeah, I was not the least bit surprised when I saw John Hoare thanked at the end. December 14, 2020 at 7:41 pm in reply to: Unanswered Questions #263584 HamishParticipant Anyone ever notice how the word “buttled” has “butt” in it? December 12, 2020 at 2:41 am in reply to: 92 Degrees? #263572 HamishParticipant I mean, better to have the price of beer not be adjusted accordingly than to have your airplane fuel not converted correctly. Yes, that really happened. Strangely nobody died. December 8, 2020 at 9:42 pm in reply to: 92 Degrees? #263536 HamishParticipant RIMMER: (Reading the marker) “Nodnol? 871 selim?” Nodnol? Where’s Nodnol? KRYTEN: It’s London, 178 miles. It’s backwards. CAT: What’s the selim? LISTER: Well, that’s obviously Bulgarian for kilometres, isn’t it? I do find it odd that Canada seems to have embraced kilometres more than the UK when we have the US for a neighbour. December 8, 2020 at 9:26 pm in reply to: 92 Degrees? #263535 HamishParticipant Meanwhile Canada is firmly metric with Celsius and Kilometres when it comes to weather reporting and road usage, but we might very well use Fahrenheit when talking about a fever, use pounds for measuring weight, or feet/inches for height. Having the freezing point of water be at 32 F° rather than 0 C° will just not do this far north. November 16, 2020 at 7:11 pm in reply to: Jokes you don't/didn't get #263263 HamishParticipant I think we all might just have to come to the conclusion that the Cinzano Bianco joke might just be a bit crap. November 10, 2020 at 6:05 pm in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #263077 HamishParticipant Speaking of shades and red and stuff, the Dave era ship is the wrong shade of red, and Starbug is the wrong shade of Green and too glossy and reflective now, both of which make the show uglier than it needs to be. Starbug also looks tiny these days, and some of the model work is shall we say less than stellar. Wrong opinion thread there, Ben. November 10, 2020 at 6:01 pm in reply to: Is Red Dwarf the world’s longest running sitcom that’s still in production? #263075 HamishParticipant Dorien? Who gave you permission to turn into an Alsatian? November 9, 2020 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Your Popular Red Dwarf Opinions #263019 HamishParticipant Everyone who posts here is really cool. Except me, so just forget I spoke, all right? November 9, 2020 at 8:39 am in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #262990 HamishParticipant Yes, I’ve always felt this. In the context of the whole run it’s really odd for her to pop up again so late, after such a big gap, and in such a short cameo, only for KK to return in such a different and more prominent way so soon after. Canonically, yes, but of course from a production standpoint the distance from Clare to Chloë was not much shorter than the distance from Clare’s last appearance in Stasis Leak to Psirens. November 8, 2020 at 10:39 pm in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #262979 HamishParticipant Again, that is kind of how I feel about Cured. In terms of competent structure it excels no matter what you think of the actual ideas or jokes. At least for the messy production of the Dave era. November 8, 2020 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Your Popular Red Dwarf Opinions #262978 HamishParticipant That Chris Barrie guy should stick around. October 24, 2020 at 3:19 am in reply to: Life Imitating Red Dwarf #262753 HamishParticipant We’ve lost our keys. And had a picture fall of the wall. Not to mention all the times we’ve used up a whole bog roll in a day. October 22, 2020 at 5:08 pm in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #262715 HamishParticipant One of the best things in BTE Part 1 is a face Rimmer pulls when Cat’s telling him about being attacked by the squid, and that shot isn’t in the director’s cut. I am still annoyed by a lot of the cuts made to Part One in the Director’s Cut compared to broadcast and never watch it because of that. Call me a masochist if you like. October 12, 2020 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #262459 HamishParticipant Honestly I think the TNG films are worse offenders when it comes to not coming to terms with the age of the cast. Or their plot lines in subsequent shows. As some have pointed out before, it is rather disrespectful to the new tactical officer on the Enterprise-E that Worf can come and take his old station back whenever he pleases. October 12, 2020 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #262457 HamishParticipant ike the OT Star trek movies. After wrath of Khan they stopped mentioning how the characters were getting older. And i think thats because it starts to get sad after a while. Especially if you want to keep making more. “Is it possible, that we two, you and I, have grown so old, and so inflexible, that we have outlived our usefulness?” – Spock to Kirk, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country October 7, 2020 at 7:00 pm in reply to: people who “react” to RD on Youtube #262242 HamishParticipant September 29, 2020 at 4:53 am in reply to: The “Programme Guide” books #261884 HamishParticipant The Smegmeister was decades ago. We’re still far more concerned about the quite silly thing Cappsy said in his Mechocracy review three years ago. Author Posts Viewing 50 posts - 1 through 50 (of 614 total) 1 2 3 … 11 12 13