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I figure his TARDIS knows to whisk him and Donna away on a nice carefree misadventure whenever things get dicey on Earth. She always takes him where he needs to go, after all,

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My big problem with Stoke is that it’s a very front-heavy episode. It takes almost ten minutes for the Boyz to meet up with Ace. Everything feels a tad rushed and poorly thought out. Rimmer’s exit feels a bit cobbled together.

On the whole, though, I do think VII is more successful at what it’s trying to be than VIII was. VII is largely pretty decent ideas that aren’t executed well, whereas VIII just really needed to be rethought from the ground up

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While I don’t think BtE has aged terribly well — I loved it when it first came out but I’ve gone lukewarm on it lately — I do appreciate it for one thing in particular, and that’s that it made me care about Lister again. Maybe Craig had just improved that much as an actor, or maybe he’s fairly well written compared to the last few series, but starting around Series VI, he just became increasingly frustrating, taking a level in dumbass and making increasingly daft decisions (“I rigged the readouts! I didn’t want to cause any panic! Aren’t I sensible?”). BtE, he’s still a bit daft sometimes, but back at a level closer to the earlier years.

Also, a thought just came to me — instead of having Rimmer reading carpet samples in Part 2, they could’ve had him reading the booklet that came with the “Series IX” DVD, wherein he could’ve resolved the VIII cliffhanger. Might’ve disrupted the flow of the episode, but they could’ve at least filmed it and included it in the Deleted Scenes.

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Here’s a thought:

Could David Ross have played Able? If nothing else, it would’ve given Robert a break.

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I’ve always thought it would’ve been a better twist if it turned out the future crew stole Red Dwarf and deliberately left the vapour trail for their past selves to follow to the Time Drive. The only downside I can think of to this is that Rimmer would lose his hard-light drive…

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To be honest, I have trouble remembering sometimes that I even have a WordPress lol but I never got the message and can’t seem to find it on the site. One of these days, I’ll figure out technology. But I’m gratified you liked something I wrote, and I am totally fine with you doing an audio adaptation and including my edit. Cheers!

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Oh no, I’m pure evil. 100 percent. Muahahaha and stuff.

But yeah, I did that almost a decade ago, and after looking back at these edits, I would totally do certain bits and bobs differently.

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McD, as I call him, has posted on the site previously under the handle srmcd1, but he’s not been on in quite a long time.  I only saw his own movie edit of VIII because a friend had a copy floating around, and let me tell you, it was okay-ish but I found a couple of his editing choices questionable (for example, he cut out Krytie TV’s B-plot and left in the A-plot, albeit minus the bedroom trashing).  To his credit though, I did find one or two editing tricks he did pretty impressive, to the point that I referenced/borrowed two of them in my own.

*shrugs*

Fan Editing is a spectrum. We all experience it differently. But I’m glad to see a new take on Series VIII (I only did Series VII as a dare), so I can’t wait to see the finished product!

And I’ve been around. Just haven’t had anything to say in the last few years lol

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“Welcome to the Tank.”

That deep sinister voice. If only they’d ended the episode there.

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All of Series VIII can be whittled down to one hour. I did it myself. It’s quick and relatively painless.

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On the plus side, BabelColour over on YouTube is going to be absolutely thrilled “The Ten Doctors” can still work.

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“Rimmer, you couldn’t pull a rotten tooth out of a dead horse’s mouth with that one!”

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“Then I say fight.”

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I’ve done fan edits of nearly every single episode. Series VII and VIII, I reduced to simple hour long features. Might do proper individual edits of VII later, but VIII really works better as one big prison story so you don’t have to watch all eight episodes.

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I gotta say, I feel like XI has way more re-watch quality than X. I’ve been binge-watching frequently since I got the DVD. With the exception of Officer Rimmer – and even that one had some great moments.

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Cheers, mate!

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Dang, I wish this *was* an actual RD set.

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Makes sense since Doctor Who has moved back to spring.

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I think Rimmer’s just a straight up antagonist in Series I, and Series II, he’s less of a bastard in Better Than Life, and hardly a bastard in Thanks for the Memory.

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I usually just cut the entire air duct sequence myself, but excellent work tightening up everything.

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I don’t think he’d straight up abandon them. I mean, he did *try* to save Lister and Cat in Give & Take. And he’s shown a lot more concern for their well-being across XI. I just think Rob and Doug set it up that once a series, they need to have a “Rimmer is an arsehole” episode (Bodyswap, Meltdown, Quarantine, Rimmerworld, Blue, Back in the Red, Trojan, Officer Rimmer)

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“Then again, opinions are like arseholes etc etc”

I agree. They stink and nobody likes to look at them.

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I admit BTE went a bit wrong, but it did a majorly important thing for me that makes me love it, and that’s that it made me like Lister again. Sometime around VI and through VII and VIII, he got really unlikable for me, so BTE’s emotional focus on him made me actually give two smegs about his story again, and X and XI have more or less maintained that.

Anyway!

The Beginning
Give & Take
Lemons
Krysis
Fathers and Suns
Can of Worms
Twentica
Samsara
Back to Earth
Trojan
Entangled
Dear Dave

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I dunno. I think I enjoyed XI more than I did X. I thoroughly enjoyed five out six, the only niggle for me being Officer Rimmer, and even *that* had some great gags in it.

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If you play the credits backwards at slow speed, you can hear someone saying “Dummy, you’re playing it backwards at slow speed!”

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Damn subliminal advertising! All these years of enjoying Red Dwarf when all the time those seedy shadowy execs were trying to make us watch Red Dwarf!

This is so timely since the third Da Vinci Code movie just came out. How do we connect Howard’s plans with the coming of the Apocalypse? Does Rimmer’s H secretly have a map of the Norwegian Underground? Are Cat’s fangs actually long lost circuitry to some vast motherboard?

We are through the Looking Glass, people! And there’s no Johnny Depp to be found! White is black, and black is plaid!

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The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

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They were watching movies. Totally different.

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Maybe it did happen. The future crew from Out of Time are probably also the future Lister and Rimmer from Stasis Leak (note both future Rimmers have mustaches). Lister and Kochanski both die in the radiation leak, and Lister saved as a brain in a jar.

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I’ve always loved the theory that Rimmer didn’t actually cause the accident. Holly just implanted a fake memory in his head so he’d feel guilty enough to stick it out as the ship’s hologram.

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I think the “Kryten’s Corrupted Files” bit from BITR would’ve made an interesting episode all its own. Some Space Corps regulation forces him to submit to being reprogrammed – without Lister’s knowledge – and he loses all his science-y knowledge right when they need it, like some sort of GELF appears and he can’t translate, or he has no knowledge of the latest wibbly thing in space.

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You’d think with all that school cabbage, he wouldn’t be all that interested in wanking…

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The hardest part of Cyber School is learning the world doesn’t revolve around wanking.

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Probably to defend himself. Imagine being a young Bonehead and living under constant threat of wedgies and pink bellies in Io House.

Pity they didn’t protect him from whatever creep was taking pictures of young boys while they slept…

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It would’ve been so much better IMO if they had just parodied the whole Star Fleet Federation thing with the Dwarfers still going on their zany adventures, but now they have to actually follow the Space Corps directives, and all that bureaucracy Rimmer tried to force down their throats suddenly becomes what’s expected of them. I envision a series where Red Dwarf’s sudden influx of humans sparks the interest of all the GELFs and Simulants of the galaxy, and Lister, Rimmer, Cat, Kryten and Kochanski become a special on-board task force utilized by Hollister to advise on and deal with these outer space baddies and repair the vending machines in between.

Have a series where they have people to answer to, deal with the human race existing again, and then in the finale, have the resurrected crew decide to settle on an S3 planet and terraform it into a new version of Earth, leaving Lister and co Red Dwarf to continue the journey back to actual Earth.

And give nano-Rimmer the memories of the holo-Rimmer so all that character development gets hurled out the window.

But no, I suppose “Porridge in Space” makes for gripping sci-fi comedy, right?

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“Let’s just have 10 minute panoramic sweeps of Red Dwarf and be done with it.”

With Kirk and Scotty flying past.

Note to admin: Your edit function sucks.

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With Kirk and Scotty flying past.

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re XIII – makes sense to me. Even if it hasn’t been commissioned yet, it’s still good to go ahead and get some ideas going.

re the Movie – I think the Movie would be better off being released in some other media. Novel or comic book would ideal, although I also like the idea of an audio drama via Big Finish…

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What I particularly love about this story is that, unlike a lot of other “Rimmer comes back” stories, he’s neither too heroic nor too pathetic. He’s just not that into being Ace, so he comes home. Also, I like that nano RImmer doesn’t simply don the wig and take over. He makes his own destiny.

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What an utter twat!

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As good an explanation as any, and it ties everything together with a nice big bow on top! Well done. Love a good fanfic.

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This is absolutely fantastic.

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Are there any actual pics of the separating Starbug model?

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I don’t think he has to be changed massively. I mean, he still would have the same likes and dislikes, quirky habits, etc. I just mean, maybe less obsessed with being better than everyone. I just like the idea that after ten series of being obsessed with something, he’s finally got a chance to relax a little.

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One thing I’m a bit concerned with is they’re going to undo Rimmer’s character development in Series X for the sake of “keeping him funny”, which I don’t think is necessary.

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Is this a private party, or can anyone join in?

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“Well, we’ve got nothing to fear. We’re upstanding, flaw-abiding citizens!”
“Then why is it ‘Arrest Mode’, sir?”
“… Well, seventy-five percent of us are.”

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“Well, if you lose, you’ll probably get a couple of years in the brig.”
“What brig?”
“The brig on Flaw 13.”
“There isn’t a Flaw 13!”
“Yeah, there is. It was classified – a need-to-know-only basis.”
“So who knew?”
“Well, all the flawficers, and anyone who’s ever seen the Twilight Zone.”

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Decorators. Try up on the sixth flaw.

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Polymorph V – the Final Frontier

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