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>Prequel

“From my point of view the Time Lords are evil!”

Enjoyed the Strax video a great deal.

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They said that Oregon is bad and you should stop it if you can.

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Really like that Doug tweeted at Comic Con telling them he’s the co-creator and not “the creator.” I don’t have twitter anymore so just saw it now, under one of those linked ones.

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I think the whole idea of there being a two-tier group of fans is nonsense. It just comes across as trying to blame jealousy on other people. I don’t mean to be rude, and I’m sorry if this is coming across as twatty. Red Dwarf is vastly better with a studio audience. As Pete says, it’s a studio-based sitcom.

I really love the guy who laughs too loudly in Polymorph. There was a similar person in the audience of at least one Hancock’s Half Hour episode, I think it was Hancock in the Police. When I heard it as a little worm I thought it was an audible signal to the audience to laugh. The cheer at the end of The Beginning is lovely, if a bit demented.

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Is the special actually focusing on Cat? The press release made it sound like it was more of a Lister story. Waiting for God isn’t an episode focused on Cat even though the story of his species is the only thing resembling a moving plot in it, as Rimmer’s garbage pod story is entirely static. Even Can of Worms isn’t really revealing anything new about the Cat, or interesting about any of the characters.

Cat doesn’t mock Holly during the battle with Queeg, he offers him (admittedly not very helpful) advice. Other than that, I broadly agree with you, Veni, except I think the difference between Cat’s arseholeness in the earlier series and these latest ones is that he was funnier in the old days. “Let’s get out of here before they bring him back!” is far funnier than that one from Entangled, “except for me, him and him”, which I think is an abysmal line and makes me cringe just as much as the Blue Midget dance from Back in the Red. Is that an unpopular opinion? I don’t know, I’m pretty mainstream and bland when it comes to opinions. I think Kryten is funnier than Rimmer in Series 6?

The guy who hosts the Empire podcast said Red Dwarf 1 and 2 were crap and it only took off when Kryten joined, which left me almost annoyed! This is a bit apropos of nothing, but I have nowhere else to vent about that.

Whatever, though, you can feel how you want to. That’s probably how feelings work.

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Listen might have done “harm” (although, personally, I think that’s nonsense) but the acting, writing and direction are better than anything produced for 2019.

Name of the Doctor is fine. It’s FINE. John Hurt!

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This is well-written, fascinating stuff. Thank you, Mr Hoare.

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