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If I recall correctly, some models, costumes (and possibly sets?) made for the movie were repurposed and used in 2009’s “Moon”.

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The audience reaction to the reveal of the black-hole-or-whatever-it-is when Ackerman’s eye used to be – i.e. laughing rather than being completely bemused.

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I haven’t posted on here for a very long time, but wanted to log in to say that everything in this half of 8 is fucking terrible.  Especially Pete.

Part One and Part Two.

Part Three is a treasure, obvs.

Rimmer kneeing Death in the balls at the end of OtG is the runny turd frosting on the shitcake that was this series.

I can firmly say that if this was the only (of first) Red Dwarf I had ever seen, there is no way that I would be a fan of the series today.

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Odd that DoG keeps suggesting that XIII is a done deal.

Brimming over with wrongability.

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I think it feels quite broad in the context of the original 36.

Compared to what was coming in a few years, though…it’s almost Swiftian in its rapier-etc-etc.

It’s always been funny, just in a slightly different gear to what we were used to at the time.

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Oh, and they probably should have called it a day in 1993.

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Back to Reality is overrated.

Dear Dave is one of the best episodes of X.

Cat was at his best in V and VI and has been shit ever since.

The cast are good performers but aren’t naturally funny people.

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No, though I added a bit of salt to prevent clumping.

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I’ve had three shits so far today.

THREE.

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Surely the joke is that the virus has somehow transferred to them? I mean …surely?

That’s what I’m sticking with. Otherwise it’s an VIII level gag. I won’t let Quarantine be ruined for me, damn it.

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(and yes, Danny is a bit shit at acting mental).

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> again, not a misheard line but when I was younger I assumed the ending of Quarantine was implying that Lister, Cat and Kryten had all caught the holovirus too

That’s surely what’s supposed to have happened, no?

I always assumed that to be the case. Though it’s confusing how they appear with a hologrammatic “shooom”, though…seeing as how they’re not holograms. Or is it supposed to be a viewscreen rather than a window?

Who’s eating this chicken?

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No.

Next.

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Oh, have we got a video?

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Ah, fuck. Uploaded the wrong image.

Why can’t I edit my post?

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Not a big fan of Still Game, but the script must’ve inspired confidence.

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Jawscvmcdia is masturbating furiously and planning the next thread.

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Keith Chegw…

Oh.

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Imagine if in Porridge they gave Fletcher a key to the prison and he used it once to pop out and buy some biscuits, then stuck it in a drawer and forgot about it.

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I suppose it’s understandable…the show ends when they get back to Earth, so there’s no narrative hurry to do so.

But it defies the logic of the show to not at least give an in-universe reason for not jumping at the chance to take a short-cut home.

(Sorry for the split post, the site is glitchy as fuck on my phone – and that’s swearing).

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You’d think they’d at least consider it.

The whole “they’re not really trying to get back to Earth any more and that’s why they don’t try” notion doesn’t ring true.

Trying to get back to Earth was the founding concept of the show. We still get regular reminders of how miserable Lister is stuck in deep space

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Yeah, doesn’t it draw previously connected things together, in a magical quantum way?

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The predestination paradox doesn’t really explain the genetics of it, though.

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Also, sightly back on topic – what does he shout at Kochanski when he’s chasing her down the dimensional tunnel?

Is it “Blum” or something? I get that he’s unsure what to call her and it’s an unintentional portmanteau of “Mum” and something else. But what?

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What I don’t understand is why Lister’s kid with Kochanski would be Lister, rather than a different person – which, as I understand it, is the standard.

Maybe the episode explains it. It’s a long time since I’ve seen VII and this isn’t a good enough reason to change that.

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> Dinosaur on a spaceship doesn’t bother me as a concept. It could probably have been done well. Sadly it ended up being Pete Part 2.

There was a decent Doctor Who episode with dinosaurs on a spaceship.

Can’t remember what it was called.

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Sorry, I mean:

I think I detected a dip in quality after the first six series, but not sure if anyone else feels the same way.

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Great topic. Why hasn’t this been discussed before?

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God, I went out with a lot of nurses, didn’t I?

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Is this a 14B? Does it look even remotely like a 14B?

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Hermann Goering is “a bit dodgy”?

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Nothing else less to burn?

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You know who he married?..

oop, me braces have just bust.

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Does mouse shit roll?

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……

Would anybody like any toast?

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>Are you my Mum?

I’m inside her so much, I might as well be.

Oh!

I’m kidding, you’re alright.

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Everyone’s scared her off.

Nice going, guys. When’s the last time we had a model on the forum that wasn’t a Sevans kit?

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Oh, be nice.

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Also, welcome to the forum, SarahWho.

It’s a place full of embittered, dysfunctional bastards, but you’ll love them.

Well, some of them.

Well, one of them.

Maybe.

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Thank for your contributions gentlemen. See you at next week’s morale meeting. Marvellous.

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> I did do a kinda Pree inspired shoot once, but never did get around to finishing them.

If they were down, you could have just stamped on their head.

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> Adorable. Did you just act out scenes from the series or make up your own stuff?

Mainly just re-enacting the previous night’s episode (IV / V era) with the odd embellishment.

We wanted to perform Marooned for the school one Christmas but I think it was kiboshed by one of the teachers.

I’ve still got a photo of us doing the “Boys from the Dwarf” posse pose somewhere.

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I know at least one of the evil historical figures as he’s being played by a friend from school.

He’s been a huge fan for years – many, many psi-moons ago I remember us playing Red Dwarf in the playground, so the whole experience has been very surreal for him. :)

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Is there an echo in here?

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It stands to reason that it has those lyrics. I mean, the theme tune announces the show, the show’s called “Red Dwarf”… It’s a blatant clue, isn’t it? Blatant.

Hang on a minute…are you seriously telling me that you’ve all been hearing the prat version of the theme tune all this time? For 27 years?!

Woah, that’s a classic, that is. That’s a classic.

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