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I’m thinking of doing edits of series 7 to get rid of as much of the terrible CGI as possible and replace them with model shots (both unsued from series 7 and previous series’s).

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Here’s the Back to Earth edit: https://vimeo.com/281190452

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If your wanting to fill something until new Red Dwarf is made, then I reccomend these:

-Ever wondered what really happened between series 2-3?: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3526166/1/Dad?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=CItaec5eY5VEZjh8Qjodtr7FqpOMSGHz15wOTYCTAE0-1636793081-0-gaNycGzNDJE

-Extended ending to Tikka To Ride: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5341937/1/Post-Tikka

-The logical ending to the cliffhanger of series 8: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5398259/1/Die-Young

-Ever wondered what happened to Kochanski (written before The Promised Land)? https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5427773/1/Back-For-Kochanski

-Explains one of the referneces in series 6: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5593183/1/Snow-Planet

-Explains which Rimmer is in series 9 and beyond: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7262966/1/Journey

-What Cat and Kryten did during Marooned: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8056380/1/Fourteen-Moons

-A cross between Better than Life and Back to Reality: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7319988/1/Home-Sweet-Home

-Ever wondered about the Dwarfer’s history with Hogey the Rougey? https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9029906/1/Trial-of-a-Space-Bum

-What if Rimmer had been in stasis and Kochanski was the hologram? https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10496283/1/The-Unlikeliest-Pair

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Having recently re-watched series 8 for the first time in years, I can confidently say in my opinion, no, series 8 is the worst Red Dwarf has to offer.

Let’s get the good out of the way before trashing it. It’s great to see Rimmer again for the full series, Kochanski is less annoying and Kill Crazy is awesome (even if he doesn’t get nearly enough screentime).

Now, onto stuff that affects the entire series before looking at individual episodes. The CGI. It looks better than 7, but still nowhere as good as model shots. Pretty much every episode having non-consensual sex, or something like it, is uncomfortable and in bad taste. And whole concept feels wrong, prison, the whole crew being back, it just feels so bleak. And of course, alot of the time, the writing just isn’t very good.

Back in the Red is the UK TV version of the Hobbit, in that it goes on for way too long and should have only been a single installment. The very long recaps and horrific pacing make it agonsing to watch. And why the hell does the home video release contain an extended version!? Why not just recreate the original 1 hour special (Although I still think it should have just been 1 episode)?

Cassandra is easilly the best of series 8 and feels the most like Red Dwarf (even if the whole ‘Kochanski almsot sleeping with Rimmer’ is a bit gross and somewhat out of character, this is how I think it should have been handeld: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11986125)

Krytie TV just sucks.

Pete goes on for way too long.

Only the Good was ruined by bad editing (such as having a cliffhanger that’s never going to get resolved properly). Here’s the good version of it: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtspkj

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The alternate ending to Only the Good is the canon one, and the broadcast version is a nightmare Rimmer had (and it’s worth noting the references in series X’s ‘The Beginning’ seem to match up with it).

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The X-Files is one of my favourite TV shows of all time, at least the first 8 seasons.

Season 9 is painful. The happy ending of season 8 gets undone within the first 10 minutes, the mythology is painful and boring and the stand-alone episodes are almost all crap (since they insist on Scully being in them, regardless of how little sense it makes for her to be there). The ‘closure’ the season provided was nonessential and somewhat pointless and ended on a [insert swear word here] clip show! With a cliffhanger!

I Want to Believe is a boring slog that mostly ignores the cliffhanger of season 9, has major out-of-character moments and continuity errors and just left everyone scratching their heads thinking: WHY?

Season 10 was awful. The Chris Carter episodes were the worst, with awful dialogue, stupid plotting and lazily ripping off the previous seasons. The stand-alone episodes were slightly better and the Darin Morgan episode was brilliant.

Season 11 was slightly better, but the Chris Carter episodes are even worse now, complete with horrific and nonsensical retcons! The first half of the season was alright, but the second half felt like they gave up. The stand-alones started becoming wasted potential (the Skinner episode), became very confusing (the one with the nonsensical episode) and the finale was atrocious (at least it didn’t end on a cliffhanger).

If you want a good X-Files experience, just stop watching after season 8 (it ends with Mulder and Scully having a happy ending).

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