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Did he install them himself, or were they fitted at the ol’ factory?

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Government Response

“We have no plans to revive Red Dwarf’s 90 minute special at this time. The Government is committed to the arts and will continue working with the Home Office to monitor the situation closely.”

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I’m sparing Dr Lucas McClaren because despite only being in it for like a scene and a half & overdoing the chair screws thing a bit, he manages to have several funny & memorable lines that pop into my head all the time.

MP Thornton
Doc Newton
Doctor
Panel Woman Officer
Second Woman Officer
Last Woman Officer
First Ground Controller
Second Ground Controller
Ackerman
Guard (Cassandra)
Kill Crazy
Warden Knot
Man in Film
Woman in Film
Mex
Young Kochanski
Young Cat
Baxter
Birdman
Talia
Big Meat

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Quarantine, one of the best episodes not just of Red Dwarf but TV in general, eliminated because Series VIII and certain Smegazine comic strips are bad?

All true but mainly I just wanted White Hole to win 😇

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Knocking out Quarantine because VIII ruined the positive viruses & the Smegazine ruined Mr Flibble & I don’t like the bit where Rimmer goes “durrrr”

Waiting for God

White Hole

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Marooned is some of the finest character drama in the series, but Future Echoes does well at that too, while also having one of the tightest scifi plots. It gets the whole cast involved as well. I’m burning Marooned for the Winter.

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I’ve already voted this round, so I can’t be the one to make the decision. But if I could vote here I’d remove Holoship, just because I first saw the episode after I’d read the script and was disappointed that the Holly/Rimmer scene where he’s in a rush and she goes slowly through a polite version of their conversation was deleted.

But I can’t vote. So I beg whoever can to keep me in mind when they make this crucial choice.

I like both episodes but I do hate the meme quite a lot so yes I’ll knock out Holoship.

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Legion’s personality is influenced by the studio audience who watch passively and find it all very funny.

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The announcement is up on TOS now, with a press kit for Sin Bin Island.

There’s also a new pic (I think?) on the Amazon listing for the new box set:

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Definitely include the music though

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The big screen in the middle kind of looks like a face as well!

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Croissants, crumpets, pancakes

And definitely smeggin’ flapjacks

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I’m pretty sure it’s a reference to the 1938 Thomas Bentley film “Marigold” but there’s not enough detail on the Wikipedia page to make this lie plausible

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I was only really into anime for a few months back in the early 00s, but it felt like much longer because I watched Dot Hack

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There might be a disc changer mechanism or something for the official hologram, & the 2nd one is more basic because they’ve cobbled it together themselves.

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This is like that time that Sherlock fans convinced themselves that there was a secret fourth episode of the final series coming because the finale was so awful.

The Yard Between the Apple & the Tree

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OK, good to know!
So yeah, they Lucas’d it. Recompositing effect shots is on the line, but creating brand new CGI effects is crossing it. Even if the execution is much more restrained and the goal is purely recreation, the principle is the same. (Unless they went the “optional extra” route of course.)

It is optional, they put both versions on the disc.

Same with the Doctor Who blurays, which is fortunate because they only ever seem to update the episodes that already have perfect VFX, like Timelash & the one with the giant rat

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I ripped off the plot of Demons & Angels for a creative writing thing when I was 9 & I still feel guilty when I watch it

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So I said to the guy, I said… (flicks cigarette) don’t forget what you’re gonna be putting at the bottom of the list as the last thing you’ll have written you’ll be going to have doing

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I want to talk to you about Primenis

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Kochanski spends most of VII as “the new girl” & most of VIII as “the wallpaper” but when she’s actually allowed to be funny she’s my absolute fav & I really wish she had another series to settle in & just be a weird nerd.

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Pull your trousers down before you start

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The boys encounter a baby despair squid that can’t do all the elaborate genre parody stuff yet with its hallucinations so it just sends them to Erdington.

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Dunno where to report this but I guess it’s a sort of mundane observation – whenever I get the “request is being verified” anti-bot thing on this site it only unlocks the main domain, so all the smegadrive images are broken until I specifically go there as well

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People assume the doughnut boy line undermines Hollister’s credibility as captain but I reckon it’s like a Gattaca situation or a caste system where that was a limitation placed upon him & he rose above it.

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S-tier: the bit in Song Contest where everyone floats up into space, the bit in Reality War with the coat

A-tier: The Story & The Engine, Wish World

B-tier: Robot Revolution, The Well, Joy to the World

C-tier: Lux, Lucky Day, Song Contest, Reality War

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But that “I should tell Yaz I love her”/”You won’t” interaction felt pretty pointed. I don’t know how to interpret that other than as a jab at Chibnall – unless that was there because Chibnall personally felt regret and asked for it to be put in.

“You won’t… but she knows”

Basically reiterating to 13 & the audience that their relationship was valid & mutual even if they couldn’t make anything more of it.

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When the Rani explains that the Master’s gene explosion genocide thing was the cause of the bigenerations and the sterility and the finale’s events and that it basically did kill all the Time Lords eventually, with extinction being a little slower, I took that to maybe be meta-commentary that the show itself was mortally wounded from the Chibnall-era and succumbed to its wounds eventually. I don’t necessarily subscribe to that take myself but I’m wondering if that was meant to be a deliberate meta-shot from RTD or if I’m reading into it a bit. He kept all the Chibnall stuff canon which I really really respected, but then to be like, yep, this is all the Chibnall Master’s fault felt like a 180 on that. 

I really don’t think that’s the case at all. RTD may be off his game recently but I don’t think he’s dumb enough to both a) buy into all that internet-brained stuff about the Chibnall era being an unprecedented turbo-disaster, and b) take something he thinks has hurt the show & weave it even tighter into the ongoing narrative.

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You know what… that was alright 🙂

First bit felt like a bit of a cop out but once the episode settled in I enjoyed it.

Lovely cameo, even if it didn’t seem to have much of a point! And yes I did call that final shot but now time has shifted by a degree so we’ve landed one actor to the side.

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Did he mean to say tube there? I’m not the biggest glue user but I don’t recall ever seeing it in a tub.

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For the record, I actually don’t mind CB (and I haven’t heard his much vaunted Big Finish stuff). But ‘The Twin Dilemma’ is pretty indefensible.

It’s indefensible in the sense that it’s completely middle-of-the-road for the era & not worth getting worked up about, despite also not being remotely as bad or crazy as everyone says. It’s the Sonic Forces of 80s Who.

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Introducing… David Tennant as the 16th Doctor!

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In love but tragically unable to touch, they’d solve crimes together in a quirky storybook-esque world.

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The core idea & execution of them living in a fascist’s idea of utopia, & it inevitably crumbling in contact with reality, is really excellent. I’m also enjoying the Rani’s return, even if they haven’t quite done enough to make her more than The Master 2 so far. Of course the whole thing topples over into RTD nonsense by the end but I still really enjoyed the episode, & will continue to like it for exactly one week, until it’s permanently bolted to the side of some stupid garbage & rendered unsalvageable (not that I’m pre-judging part 2 or anything)

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It’s an imperative, challenging the (presumed) human reader to “last” to the end

Did you know if you buy a new copy now it doesn’t have the silvery bits?

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Outsmarting a computer to death is just a stock scifi thing & it happens in the middle of some much worse scenes so I can’t say I’m that bothered either way

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They didn’t even line up the spines on the blurays, which normally wouldn’t be surprising because home media cover designers are all psychopaths who do that on purpose (sorry you can’t convince me otherwise), but I expected better from Red Dwarf after the DVDs & the remastered VHSes & such.

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