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  • in reply to: Unanswered Questions #259501
    By Jove its holmes
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    Well, given that only Lister and the Cat require food, perhaps they felt they were overstocked with food.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #259455
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    I can picture Rimmer force-feeding Lister strawberries

    in reply to: Idea for an episode. #259207
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    CUSTER’S LAST STAND

    Derrick Custer is extracted from Prison Rimmer’s failing memory and becomes a real man.

    By Jove its holmes
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    As long as Creepy Test Card Girl’s doll comes to life and goes on a rampage, I’m in.

    in reply to: Doug’s Thoughts On More Dwarf #259190
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    will never need a zimmer

    Just maybe those pills that Grampa Simpson swiped from Matlock ;)

    in reply to: Doug’s Thoughts On More Dwarf #259130
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    Glen: A wider glimpse by Big Finish at Lister and Rimmer’s Earth might be interesting. For example, we know from Rimmer in “Meltdown” that Wax Droids had already been created by his time.

    in reply to: Doug’s Thoughts On More Dwarf #259127
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    a dark Big Finish series about people trying to avoid being changed under the rule of Sebastian Doyle.

    in reply to: Doug’s Thoughts On More Dwarf #259072
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    I agree that Last of the Summer Dwarf wouldn’t exactly bring in the crowds.

    in reply to: Doug’s Thoughts On More Dwarf #259060
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    Red Dwarf On Ice?

    Red Dwarf: The Animated Series?

    Red Dwarf: The Next Generation?

    in reply to: Doug’s Thoughts On More Dwarf #259048
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    Red Dwarf XIV: Searching for a Zimmerframe

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #259042
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    “Henry Tulip”

    Ah, a Series One of Blackadder fan?

    I always wondered what Henry does after he takes power to Princess Leia of Hungary after Edmund and the rest die.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #258909
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    Why are both Kennedy and Nixon still taught about in schools in Lister and Rimmer’s era?

    Surely people with a greater impact on the historical memory will have emerged in the three hundred years between now and then. There are plenty of English/Scots/British monarchs and American presidents who were well known in their own time but are now obscure outside specialst circles.

    in reply to: Loose Ends #258897
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    In the “repaired” timeline of Timelides, how does Young Rimmer react to Porky beating him to the Tension Sheet after overhearing Old Rimmer?

    in reply to: Idea for an episode. #258591
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    THE GLENELG LAND

    Having already upset members of the Kennedy family with Tikka to Ride, Doug sees no problems with having the Dwarfers visit Glenelg Beach on January 26th, 1966.

    in reply to: Should they have continued Red Dwarf after Series VI? #258565
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    Cancelled after Tikka to Ride… Lister’s story ends with his ship mates beating the crap out of him ;)

    in reply to: Should they have continued Red Dwarf after Series VI? #258552
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    Just imagine if it had been cancelled after Series One. Is “Souper” really a good line to finish a show on ;)

    in reply to: new Doctor Who scene ahead of Day of the Doctor rewatch #258549
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    Not Billy Bunter in particular. Just hire a young lady to channel Esther from “Orphan” and the story would be much better.

    in reply to: new Doctor Who scene ahead of Day of the Doctor rewatch #258519
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    At least The Crusade has Saladin’s name pronounced correctly, just like modern Who pronounced Fuehrer correctly in Let’s Kill Hitler.

    in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #258513
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    the Dwarfers meeting Bill and Ted from “Excellent Adventure” would have been interesting. How would Kryten get along with Rufus, B & T’s mentor?

    in reply to: new Doctor Who scene ahead of Day of the Doctor rewatch #258511
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    If the Crusade were ever animated, you’d have to carefully consult with actual Arabs during the animation process to avoid racist stereotypes visually that were just as inept as the brownface in the live-action original.

    By Jove its holmes
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    [With apologies for steal- borrowing this from Australian children’s’ author Paul Jennings]

    [at an Australian shopping mall one Christmas in an alternate universe]

    Young Amelia [in pink t-shirt and white shorts]: “You promised you’d take me to see Australian Father Christmas!

    Eleven: Amelia, we’re shopping for presents!

    Young Amelia: If you don’t take me to see Australian Father Christmas, I’ll wee on the floor! [starts lifting leg end of her shorts]

    Eleven [defeated]: OK, we’ll go and see Australian Father Christmas.

    in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #258467
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    Compared to Pol Pot, Mao etc., Napoleon comes off pretty well. He released the Jews from the Rome Ghetto, but when the Papal States were restored after his defeat, they were forced back. His legal code remained the basis of much modern law in Western countries for a long time. I think the writers of RD didn’t go beyond the history the British wrote.

    in reply to: Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions #258447
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    Surprised Rimmer never used that time drive to go visit his hero, Napoleon Bonaparte.

    Wouldn’t that have been a fun episode

    Napoleon did appear, onscreen, in Better Than Life. Granted he had no lines, but he was there.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #258420
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    And given he mentions in The Man In The Rubber Mask” about “understanding the issues” about why women under report rape, what convinced BobbyLllew about Charles’s innocence?

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #258410
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    How does J. Edgar Hoover become President in the alt-history in Tikka to Ride? Johnson was the vice-president. If Kennedy is removed from office Johnson would become President. Head of the FBI is not in the chain of command.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #258395
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    ” I wouldn’t cancel anybody over thinking crossdressing was funny 30 years ago,”

    It was still bigoted and insensitive against the gender diverse thirty years ago in the 1990s. We rightly don’t give people of the past a pass on being racist or sexist just because they were able to get away with calling buxom women “jiggles” and black men “boy”.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #258384
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    In Tikka to Ride, Red Dwarf uses the common allegation that J. Edgar Hoover was a transvestite (a mocked up photo of Hoover in ladieswear and makeup appears on Kryten’s chest monitor). Hoover was a lot of very bad things, and held some very horrible views, but hasn’t the transvestite thing been debunked?

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #258322
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    Another Question: Had Graham Chapman never got sick, could he have uplifted “Timeslides”?

    (i hate Ruby Wax; Rimmer, please ask Stabem the Scutter to deal with her!)

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #258320
    By Jove its holmes
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    Kryten’s home era is at least several hundred years after the Red Dwarf fled the solar system.

    There would be records as to how human history viewed the loss of the ship.

    Holly would have sent a message to Space Corps HQ on Earth when the accident happened, surely?

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #258296
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    How does Ace Rimmer discover what the point of divergence is between him and ‘our’ Rimmer?

    Through the hole in the plot? ;)

    in reply to: new Doctor Who scene ahead of Day of the Doctor rewatch #258251
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    Re: The New Scene of Thirteen That’s Meant to Comfort Children In This Lockdown:

    While watching I found myself wondering how Tom Baker would have done it.

    “This is something you’ll have to get through yourself. You can’t depend on me to save you all the time. Just remember, humanity is indomitable.”

    in reply to: new Doctor Who scene ahead of Day of the Doctor rewatch #258205
    By Jove its holmes
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    “….but for some reason, everything I own is now incredibly huge!”

    :)

    in reply to: Who has has a Red Dwarf dream? #258121
    By Jove its holmes
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    Once there was too much fanwank on TOS forums about Sebby P and Andrew E and i dreamed that night about the two fighting with treebranches whilst wearing togas.

    in reply to: Episode/s with the worst audience? #258054
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    I dislike the notion of having a studio audience for RD. It creates a two-tier group of fans – those who go to the recordings and know what will happen in new episodes or specials, and those fans, especially ones in other countries, who do not. Worse, you almost always see many of the “recording-ists” act like smug arseholes after the episodes or specials are broadcast and non-recording-ist’s pre-broadcast speculation is shown to be wrong.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #258041
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    Why do people that go to baby changing stations always come back with the same baby?

    in reply to: How much of Red Dwarf consciously targets Americans? #257962
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    JNT on Doctor Who tried to appeal to the Australian market with Tegan, and the United States* market with Peri.

    (* – according to progressive activists, we should use USian as not everyone who lives on the American continent lives in the United States)

    in reply to: CBS Red Dwarf reboot rumour #257862
    By Jove its holmes
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    At least in the Classic Six, Lister wants to stay in his working-class rut though. He doesn’t want to mature or better himself. He openly says in “DNA” that he’d rather keep women as disposable sexual objects in his life rather than treat them as complex and equal human beings (“I could have started having relationships with [women] instead of going out with them”).

    Everyone talks about Rimmer but Lister’s attitude towards women in much of the Classic Six doesn’t look too well either, thirty years on.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #257854
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    In the novel, Rimmer uses his ••••• of a mum as a model for a wife.

    Of course, Better Than Life delves into the subconscious and the deep, dark recesses of the mind – it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that Rimmer has a hidden Oedipal desire.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #257850
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    Part of Holly’s major plan is to resurrect Kochanski from her canister of ashes, so she can grow young with Lister.

    How come Rimmer doesn’t think of resurrecting himself in the same manner, so he doesn’t have to be a hologram any more?

    (Maybe because he wouldn’t have a ‘gimmick’ any more. He’d just be a boring ol’ smeghead)

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #257840
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    Even though the TV version of the Better Than Life game wasn’t lethal, would the creators really want to make it easy for players to leave? Even in the TV episode they fooled the boys into thinking they could just stop the game – until the loan shark showed up.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #257802
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    From what i know, Kryten’s home era is about 200 years after RD was forced to flee the Solar System. He has to tell the others what simulants are, so the first simulants must have been created after Lister and Rimmer’s time period.

    in reply to: Unanswered Questions #257782
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    By the way, why does Kryten feel the need to differentiate between simulants and “rogue droids”?

    in reply to: real world cultural references in the series #257754
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    Christine McGlade was the only Canadian in the 1980s worth a darn.

    in reply to: bad news about Australian "Stan" streaming service #257601
    By Jove its holmes
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    I feared that “Stan” might have had Polymorph Remastered.

    For some reason the remastered version dumped the gag with them all walking along and we see two Listers. The replacement footage shows the ball bouncing down the hallway and words come up explaining that the second Polymorph being less intelligent hid in Lister’s clean underwear drawer… where it died of old age waiting to attack. A cute gag, but just not as good as the original ending.

    in reply to: Idea for an episode. #257578
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    Julian Clary appears

    The three most dreaded words in the English language!

    in reply to: real world cultural references in the series #257557
    By Jove its holmes
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    It’s TVTropes Dot Org who said that the preponderance of Eighties references in Series One to Three look out of place in the futuristic setting now that we are two decades into the 21st Century.

    in reply to: Idea for an episode. #257538
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    If they ever do a re-boot of “Backwards”, I think a backwards puberty would be tough on a woman. And a backwards giving birth and pregnancy.

    in reply to: real world cultural references in the series #257529
    By Jove its holmes
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    Even TV Tropes Dot Org decides to take a time out to mention how RD I to III have a lot of 1980s references despite the setting. GNP weren’t thinking too far ahead, were they? (see what I did there?)

    in reply to: Idea for an episode. #257128
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    The Rimsie’s They Are a Changin’

    Rimmer finally says the other Dwarfers can go •••• themselves

    in reply to: Doctor Who – Series 12 #257123
    By Jove its holmes
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    Still mad at being lectured like a 10 year old from the last episode.

    we must be thankful that they did not have Swedish Greta guest star.

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