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Your Unpopular Red Dwarf Opinions

“Boy, Timewave sure was shit.”

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Soon enough you’ll be complaining I’m always watching Back to Earth.

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I keep telling you, I am in the process of watching through the entire show with a friend and we are currently in Series VIII. He described Krytie TV and Pete Part 1 as “asinine” but hasn’t begged to skip ahead so I’m committed to this. He doesn’t seem to dislike them as much as we do but definitely thinks we’re in the low point of the show so far. I’ve promised greener pastures in future series.

I’ve brought up VIII several times recently because every time I watch part of it with him I complain in the server about it. Except for Cassandra, where the Stockholm Syndrome of sitting through so much middle Dwarf led me to really enjoy it up until the point Rimmer gets all sex-pesty and Kryten figures it out. It’s not a great episode by any stretch but it at least resembles the show we’d been watching before VIII.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 24/03/2026 

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I would rather watch Pete Part 1 than Krytie TV.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 23/03/2026 

Once again I fuck myself by second guessing my second guess which turned out to be the correct guess.

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I still find it appalling that they’ve never repackaged the Master System version where there’s actually enough screen space for you to fucking see the game.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 22/03/2026 

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 21/03/2026 

Widescreen and grey is such a better clue than widescreen and blue.

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Woke madness. Women can’t be sonics.

I beg to differ. I just rolled down a hill yesterday, and it was almost on purpose.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 20/03/2026 

Thought it was White Hole’s ending at first. Then I was reading the partially crossfaded nebula as trees in a night outdoor shot so I guessed Emohawk because I wasn’t sure.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 19/03/2026 

I fucking called it.

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They probably just pieced together anything recent from CCTV, because apparently you can do that.

I hadn’t seen this episode in years and I completely forgot they basically did the same thing as M-Corp but it was played as a joke.

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Moonlight is granted citizenship for not making it crisps.

What do I get if I learn what offside is?

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 18/03/2026 

Quarantine, Polymorph 

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 17/03/2026 

Terrorform, Emohawk

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MAC²

Captain Hollister and Dennis the Doughnut Boy are forced to room together after the captain’s quarters is covered in crumbs and pubes, possibly the result of some sort of prank show. Meanwhile, Rimmer runs out of cheap fat jokes and contemplates saying something funny.

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MAC MCDONALD HAD A FARM

Dennis conspires to get Lister imprisoned so he can steal his dream of a sheep and a cow.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 16/03/2026 

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COCK SAND, RUUUUHHHHH!

This, Lister, is why she said it’s too sandy.

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I spent a good 15 seconds waiting for a GIF to load before I realized there was text there the whole time.

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Given the number of correct guesses I feel a right fool

The only fools in this thread are people who guess episodes that are in a different aspect ratio than the frame they’re looking at.

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I just always assumed that stuff belonged to their future selves. 

It must be all that curry they got from Hitler.

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If anything the peak tragedy would be they were on good terms when he was put in stasis and then she died.

That’s literally Red Dwarf USA’s take.

VII also ridiculously ditched the survival aspect that was so strong in VI (unless it’s still there inconsistently) so they can quibble over the appropriate condiments to accompany their lobster banquets.

We were just talking in the server the other day about how they go from scraping lichen off asteroids in VI to having curry night basically every night of the week at the beginning of VII. I honestly wouldn’t have questioned it if they just had a lobster dinner without any pretext of having caught it scuttling around.

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Rimmer in the wrong costume is annoying for two key reasons:

(1) The blue hard light jacket is basically the only outfit he ever had that wouldn’t make even passable sense in this flashback.

(2) Lister is dressed in an earlier series getup which means they were actively thinking about what costumes would make sense for this scene.

Did they need to shoot other stuff with Chris that day but he’d only agreed to be there for forty minutes? What’s going on with that?

Also the scene isn’t that funny but Blue being hugely overrated based on its last five minutes isn’t the question here.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 15/03/2026 

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I do enjoy his performance in Series III but the mask looks so gross and sweaty. The design is fine but it looks like somebody lubed him up.

I’m also not crazy about the VIII mask but I don’t quite know how to articulate why it feels off to me.

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I think it is an artist’s job to be inaccessible and annoying at least some of the time. Nobody’s going to get some references but they need to be made for our own sake.

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I just heard a podcast reference this band and explain who they are.

I could never parse this and always thought this was a singular silly name they made up for a fictional musician. Something like Myra Binglebat but really really long.

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Someone give Warbo a job please…

…possibly making card games.

Are we totally sure this can’t be solved with medication?

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It seems really unfair to present me with a 16:9 frame that’s mostly blue. That could be almost any episode in XI / XII. I’ve rewatched these episodes probably far more than most of you and even I couldn’t tell.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 13/03/2026 

I recognized the outfit but I misremembered it being the one he wears in Gunmen / Rimmerworld.

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I thought he was Mothman.

Oh, that does explain the running gag of bridges collapsing.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 12/03/2026 

I probably would have gotten it sooner if I had been able to process the camera angle.

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I thought he was a Frankenstein.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 10/03/2026 

I just sat through the dregs of mid-VII with a friend watching through the show the first time.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 09/03/2026 

I am tired from work so I did a very stupid guess after the first.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 08/03/2026 

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They also called him Doug Grantler for about a third of it.

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