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The amount of uneeded detail on it, and the fact it has a cardboard case when all the others are standard, also seems to suggest that this will be the design. Why else design it like that when it would?ve been much easier to just replace a sleeve on a DVD?

It looks like a cheaply made prop to me – the images behind the disc holders are the same as the cover, you can see from the second image above that it’s shoddily built and flimsy as hell.

It’s a prop.

And as Andrew has said in the past, “it depends what case deal we are given”.

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The version in the episode was two discs?

It was also a digipack :(

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I don’t know if Pete intended to use the words “hilarious consequences” quite so often, but it does make it sound like a rejected VHS cover.

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But I reckon it was still a two-parter when they shot on Coronation Street – Craig isn?t on screen when he says ?Back To Earth Part Three?, and it sounds to me like ADR?

It did smack a little of ADR, yes. As you say, it’s entirely possible it changed during the shoot.

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The whole thing is really a dream cause by another despair squid.

Next time it’ll be the “fairly neutral feeling, actually” squid.

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Pete – you made me laugh a lot :)

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it?s entirely possible she was comped in seperately to the others.

Considering it would make her dying much easier to film, I’m guessing so.

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What I was saying though that whoever decided Dwarf shouldn`t come back to the BBC could use this as justification. They could say that it wouldn`t have sustained an audience and wasn`t considered to be an absolutely successful return or whatever.

In which case you could use this justification to drop all shows, because most shows lose 25-50% through a run.

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I’m guessing that it was a 3 parter before shooting. Just because we found out about it late, doesn’t mean it was planned late.

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Why were they needed to bring joy to the characters? How often have they declared themselves mad keen Blade Runner fans who are desperate to remake scenes word for word?

In fact, in the DVD shop when Bladerunner is mentioned, they all shrug because they’ve never heard of it.

So I’m at a loss to explain how they dreamt it all, however much it influenced the show’s creation.

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I have to agree with Pete. The ending was not only lazy (come on, we all thought “oh it’s the despair squid” after part one, hoping dearly to be proved wrong as there was no way it could be *that* lazy) but also boring. I don’t want to hear some half arsed explanation based on something that’s happened in Red Dwarf before but slightly different.

IMO, Emohawk is also a dull episode, lazily copying an earlier concept. I know it has its moments with the Kinatawowi stuff, but it’s basically just “ooh, let’s shove in Polymorph, Ace Rimmer and Dwane Dibbley and make an episode”. It’s the Dwarf equivalent of the Simpson’s clip shows.

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There?s such a thing as pacing, and I just can?t see how *reducing* the running time of BTE could possibly improve it.

There’s two sides to this argument. The first is that BtE moved too fast, there was little exposition etc. The other is that BtE is full of superfluous crap that really isn’t very funny, and doesn’t need to be there.

Therefore whereas BtE needs to be the same running time, it needs different contents in order to make good use of that time.

BtE shows beautifully how Doug Naylor cannot pace a show properly. Comedy was often shoved into BtE at the expense of exposition, and with little regard to how fast or slow the story moves. This needs rectifing if Doug writes more Dwarf, and especially if he is ever let loose on a movie.

I don’t mean to be negative as a whole, but the pacing really was awful.

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Not bad, but I still think that the original music suited the scene better.

But which music suits an episode of Red Dwarf better? The music used on BtE is, largely, completely out of place and un-Dwarf like.

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Much better :)

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I thought I heard there was a Bluray coming out?

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Wow really? Be interesting to see this. I recorded all the shows to my computer yesterday, and without the ads and the extra titles and recaps, the whole show clocked in at just over an hour long. I tried going through it and seeing what i could get rid of, but i couldn?t find a lot that would genuinely benefit from being deleted.

It occurred to me that you could quite easily get rid of Katerina without too much problem.

Rimmer has been reading that “for Idiots” book – he could have found out how to make the portal from that. It would be funneh because it must be really easy if it’s in the Idiots book. Or Kryten thought of it on holiday.

The whole “dig up some dirt on Katerina” plotline was pointless and just padding, as was Rimmer killing her.

I’m sure she was there as “sexy woman quota”, but the show would have been better without her, IMO.

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I only ask because I watched Part 3 on the 11:20pm repeat, and it made me wonder if those figures got included too.

Can I just point out that unless you are one of the 5000ish people with a box, you could watch it next week standing on your head for all BARB care.

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And people who reply to themselves. :P

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That’s a nice idea and quite amusing though.

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Yes, thanks Jonsmad! Now it’s all beginning to make sense…

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id be suprised if u have anough time to include a hell lot about kochanski along with the other plotholes that need resolving

Nah, there’s enough time. It’s not as if anything new that turns up will have any reaction or explanation to go through ;)

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I think I should have been there too. I could have stood behind the counter and smiled.

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I think the Carbug toy was a kinda special effect and not an ACTUAL small model of the car. Can anyone who?s watched it again confirm?

It looked to me like a real Smart Car model with green paint on it.

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was it me or did the title sequence look like a fan video that you would find on youtube

I think the one someone here made was much better.

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Why does everyone think Rob wants to come back? I am more than sure that if he wanted to, he could and would.

He evidently doesn’t, so he hasn’t. It’s great that he got involved in Bodysnatcher, but that doesn’t mean he’s coming back for any more than that!

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The Simpsons isn’t quite as good with commentary, largely because David X. Cohen and John DiMaggio aren’t around for them. (OK, Cohen is there for a few, but not running the commentary like he does in Futurama)

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I thought Screenwipe was still going to be on, but as an autumn show, not a spring one. That tends to be when the exciting stuff happens in TV anyhow.

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It was a terrible title sequence.

We don’t need the cast names there, and all the other text (even “by Doug Naylor”) should have been over the opening scene.

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and it wouldnt of taken much to of cut it down to fit it in

Why? Have you seen part 2 to form this opinion? Do they go straight into the portal?

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All seems a bit desperate. But if it does boost sales in any way then I spose it can only aid prospects of more Dwarf.

Isn’t it just what everyone does these days?

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I’m still halfway through a “Futurama with Commentary” rewatch. But I did think it would be bad to watch as I would be more inclined to compare, favourably or otherwise.

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The Rimmer one is good.

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I preferred the Rimmer vid to the Lister one, mind.

I found the Lister one painful to watch. But that’s hardly Play’s fault.

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Play are bad if things are delayed or cancelled for whatever reason. But if it’s a normal release, I’ve never had an issue with pre-ordering from them, and I order all my DVDs from them.

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I hear Norm’s no longer interested in the audience Red Dwarf used to attract.

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I reckon I showed up when the black redesign turned up and presumably John came and mentioned it on ATVRD.

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Chris, 49, who plays Rimmer said: “The chemistry was still there. Once we were back together and in costume it was just a continuation of the norm.”

What? They stood around moaning and insulting Danny?

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I am watching ?Future Echoes? and Lister just said ?I want to get back to Earth?, makes me happy.

No, he said “I want to get back to Eeeeeeeeearth”

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My parents are recording it to DVD as I have no way of getting it off our PVR and onto my computer, which is what most of my telly watching occurs on as our house has terrible reception.

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So did my repetitive f5 post the other day… Drupal really doesn’t like that key, does it?

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If you have a dodgy signal – picture breaking up, etc. you can improve it a lot by using a signal booster.

They?re fairly cheap. About a tenner for a basic one.

However with digital TV, these can make things worse not better. You probably don’t want it turned up all the way.

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The question is – does anyone own a Starbug playset without broken legs?

I’ve always treated mine very carefully and it sits on a shelf in my room… with its broken leg.

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In my experience server clocks are usually wrong.

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The thing is though – shouldn’t April Fools be unbelievable? Whereas this site is accurate to quite a lot of them out there…

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Ha ha! The photo album is the best – to quote:

i found of all o these pictures in a secret place on the internet and decided to share them with the world. some of them have never been seen anywhere which i think you will agree makes this the most exclusive and birlliant red dwarf website going, an d definitely better than andrew ellard’s fun time emporium

This is like that fanfic we used to get on ATVRD where there wasn’t any paragraph breaks, and the sentences lasted all day.

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Yeah, I think the point was that they stopped doing the bunk scenes because they were hard to rehearse because they didn’t get along. Not that they wouldn’t do them, or didn’t want to, just that it made life harder.

Plus Kryten’s arrival and a change in the pace of the show made them less useful.

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Has that not been sorted out by now? I thought BBCWW were confirmed buyers for Woolworths? half.

I don’t think it’s been sorted out yet. Certainly I can’t find any press releases stating that it has, and Wikipedia (for all its faults, it’s more likely to be updated in this respect than 2|Entertain’s website) says it hasn’t.

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However, RT is made by BBC Worldwide, which owns half of Dave. As it’s a commercial channel, and they have a DVD on its way (from 2|Entertain, half/fully owned by BBC Worldwide) I know which I’d want to promote!

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It?s better than a box!

Ahh, a beautifully underplayed line that always makes me laugh.

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