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The version of Bodyswap with pathos is a very different episode. You could do that story but stapling an observation dome scene to the episode we got would be enormous tonal whiplash after how crazy and broad everything before it was.

We need the version of Bodyswap that would’ve existed in BTL the novel.

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If he’s gleefully trying to rob Lister of his life, then it’s not the Red Dwarf I love. 

I see his behavior in Bodyswap as being comparable to the way a drug addict might steal from someone they love, or go to broadly crazy lengths to get their fix. Rimmer hates being dead and is so overcome with finally having a body again he’ll do anything to keep it. It’s extreme but the motivation makes sense to me and doesn’t feel inconsistent with the character.

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Another for the hypothetical “threatening sexy auras” thread.

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At least with something like Meltdown, you could argue that he doesn’t see the droids as human and has no emotional attachment towards them. 

I don’t think “he only committed genocide because he didn’t see them as people” is an especially strong defense. He’s a total wackjob in both episodes and I find it very funny. Quarantine is the “Rimmer goes insane” episode where it’s truly not his fault.

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I’m just gonna write my own book so I have something to read in the meantime.

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I don’t think the average person does, which is what the infomercial claims.

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I wouldn’t put it that high myself but I am very proud of you for putting Epideme in A tier. It is a hugely underrated episode and imo easily the best thing to come out of late 90s Dwarf.

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I imported TPL.

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Let’s just all write our own space comedies. I already did so I win. As you were.

I hope that the novel adaptation of the abandoned special (involving young Lister and Rimmer) happens at some point. 

Still waiting for Doug to realize radio exists. You could do Series XV.

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The average person doesn’t live to their 90s either. 

Yeah, but this show takes place in the far off year of 2077.

Two was my standard for years, but it’s slipped to three now, and occasionally four.

I used to drink an entire six pack of Diet Mountain Dew most days toward the end of high school. I’m not sure how I’m still alive.

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I am a caffeine addict and I wouldn’t drink six cups of coffee in one day. That’s like two or three Monsters. I never clocked this line until I watched with subtitles just now.

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I was like “I’m enjoying seeing some unconventional rankings” until I saw Bodyswap in D tier and now I’m going to switch you off until we reach Earth.

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Kirk’s voice is pitched up here I think, PAL/NTSC conversion or what?

It astounds me that nowadays nobody bothers to correct this anymore. I’ve never had a 2000s NTSC DVD of a British show that had this problem but once you hit 2010s stuff like Series X of Red Dwarf you start seeing pitch shifting and other conversion artifacts. The theme song sounds drunk on X, and XI and XI have corrected pitch but have picture quality problems. Also the spines don’t match.

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I think we should have a Salmon of Doubt type book for the movie.

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Surely this is a composite but it looks so much better than the bluescreened Starbug shots in VI.

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I bounced hard off Discovery and Picard early in the second and toward the end of the third episodes respectively. SNW was enjoyable enough but I’ve still never bothered to continue it past episode 3. 

I had 5 minutes left on Picard episode 3 when I decided I just don’t fucking care. I’ve sat through back halves of entire movies I was bored by. I just aggressively did not vibe with those two shows.

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We should be estimating Chris Barrie’s cup size for two or three pages while Ian begs us to show some decency.

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I was responding to something on the previous page and now I just look insane. I still want an 80 inch OLED.

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If this site pools money and buys me a high end home theater system I will tattoo “What an absolute slag!” across my forearm.

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This is too many sexy details for my taste. Let’s talk about lukewarm oatmeal or a Ken Burns documentary.

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It was bound to happen so let’s just get it out of the way.

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Going to be repeatedly turning to my brother during the 85th anniversary screening and saying this.

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It’s really meta that this conversation has become distracted focusing on the breast size of the new computer.

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Is Pree having a body instead of being a floating head moreso a pointed design decision to differentiate her from Holly, or is it moreso to facilitate the joke about Rimmer wanting to give her enormous tits?

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I agree, but in contrast one of the high points of VIII for me is the Tony Slattery vending machine being genuinely manic and insane in a way we haven’t really seen in other machines around the ship at that point. It’s VIII over-the-toposity but it’s a case where I feel that works as an escalation of what we’ve seen before, especially considering the feud is over something so petty.

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Yes, but the difference is I’m not going to join in pretending I know any European cheeses.

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Kryten in particular suffers from this, because he has no time to develop whatsoever. He is in David Ross mode for the entire first two books. Then in Last Human and Backwards, he jumps to series 6 Kryten. 

I mean, in fairness, the first two novels are both pre-Series IV, whereas both third novels are post-VI. I can understand the desire to have the character immediately conform to how the audience would expect at that point in a way that wouldn’t happen if they’d more gradually written novels alongside the show’s run.

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Welp, time for me to tune the fuck out for the next 12 days. I already know the gist and that I’ll like it, and outside that I want to know, as the wise Seargeant Schutlz said many a year ago, nothing.

Do you have that reference in England? I’m not translating it.

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It is a tragedy that Rob can’t be here to read our arguing and genital torture memes.

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I really like BTL now but I remember as a middle schooler reading it for the first time, being around the point of the sound wave jail break, and thinking I wish we were back on the ship.

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My copy treats the Infinity part as a subtitle to “Red Dwarf” on both the spine and inside the book.

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Remind me to try to recreate the magazine cover from the raw photos.

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It is but I am from the most milquetoast middle class community so I don’t relate to that one so much.

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