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Kirk making love to a mountain would have been far more entertaining than most of Series 11

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Great to see a cameo from Rimmer’s self loathing beast in Discovery this week.

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I’d be up for it but it should probably be for anything except Red Dwarf, wouldn’t want this place to suffer because of it.

Although if there is a ‘why I don’t like VII/VIII/Timewave’ channel that everything can go into instead, that might not be a bad thing.

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Yup, if there’s going to be 2 poor episodes out of 12 probably best not to bother.

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From the series V DVD booklet:

“”We have to go!”
Kryten’s recorded line in The Inquisitor is actually re-used in the final edit of Back to Reality as the crew flee the Esperanto, replacing a longer section of Kryten dialogue.”

The original line of course being, “we have to go and purchase a Kembrook pressure cooker, sir”

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“It says in the manual: the orange heating light will go on and the green power one will”

Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb

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Hard to disagree with any of that. Can see why there isn’t many attempts at humour in it these days if the best on offer is ‘the wifi’s down’ ‘what do we do?’ ‘we’ll have to have a conversation’.

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TV needs more Kevin Eldon on it.

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What if Dave Benson Phillips had been replaced by Jawscvmcdia at DJXX? Would have have sang Chocolate Salty Balls as well or a different song from South Park instead? Discuss.

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Good job that there’s a High & Low 3 years in the making that will definitively answer this issue.

Upcoming High & Low piece: best and worst studio audience reactions in Red Dwarf. Suggestions welcome.

— Ganymede & Titan (@ganymedetitan) July 30, 2015

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Was there a pilot show for TMWRNJ that had Craig on as a guest or am I imagining that?

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That’s one step too far, casting Series VI Rimmer in Discovery.

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A computer with an IQ of 3000.
Moon impressions.

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I think I read an article about this once.

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UKTV: Just to fill you in – there’s been a gigantic administrative cock-up. Your staff have somehow mistakenly taken us off Virgin.

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If XIII & XIV aren’t going to be filmed back to back but Doug has a number of scripts that he thinks are good to go then an 8 episode run seems like a good compromise, especially if a live show is next on the agenda after XIII.

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Certainly the impression given from one of the documentaries was that filming 12 episodes in pretty much one go was not something that anyone involved was particularly keen to repeat.

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I met DJJ last weekend and asked if he thought they’d be back in the studio this year and he said they would (then told me to go and wind up Bobby about him being worried that filming dates would clash with Fully Charged ones).

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Aren’t you happy being a rock star? Is the constant demand of them groupies getting you down?

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Umm… has anybody seen my legs?

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You call those triangular sandwiches?

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And where’s my Himalayan sea salt?

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For me, theres (roughly) a top 50 I’m happy to rewatch anyitme, a bottom 15 or so that I skipped when rewatching for the poll and a small pool of epsiodes in the middle I could go either way on.

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1 – Holoship
2 – Back to Reality
3 – Gunmen of the Apocalypse
4 – White Hole
5 – Thanks for the Memory
6 – Quarantine
7 – Legion
8 – Out of Time
9 – Marooned
10 – Dimension Jump
11 – Queeg
12 – Skipper
13 – Justice
14 – The Inquisitor
15 – M-Corp
16 – Timeslides
17 – Me2
18 – Kryten
19 – Stasis Leak
20 – Better Than Life
21 – Future Echoes
22 – Polymorph
23 – Terrorform
24 – Demons & Angels
25 – Give & Take
26 – Camille
27 – The Beginning
28 – Psirens
29 – Stoke me a Clipper
30 – Krysis
31 – Lemons
32 – The Last Day
33 – Cured
34 – DNA
35 – Mechocracy
36 – Trojan
37 – Parallel Universe
38 – Officer Rimmer
39 – Fathers & Suns
40 – Twentica
41 – Balance of Power
42 – Tikka to Ride
43 – Bodyswap
44 – Meltdown
45 – Rimmerworld
46 – Backwards
47 – Emohawk: Polymorph II
48 – Siliconia
49 – Cassandra
50 – Confidence & Paranoia
51 – The End
52 – Blue
53 – Entangled
54 – Samsara
55 – Waiting for God
56 – Can of Worms
57 – Back to Earth – Part 3
58 – Timewave
59 – Only the Good…
60 – Nanarchy
61 – Back in the Red – Part 1
62 – Beyond a Joke
63 – Dear Dave
64 – Back to Earth – Part 2
65 – Epideme
66 – Krytie TV
67 – Ouroboros
68 – Back to Earth – Part 1
69 – Back in the Red – Part 2
70 – Pete – Part 1
71 – Back in the Red – Part 3
72 – Pete – Part 2
73 – Duct Soup

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I think this was the first mention if it, at least on here:

BBC rejects Red Dwarf IX

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Just saw the G&T tweet that Timewave had been replaced by Mechocracy.
Picking one each from X, XII & XII would make more sense to me

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I think Timewave might have been the most viewed episode of XII in the official figures (if not, very very close) so I suppose for Dave it would be a big success.

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Would like to see (at some point) a 30-40 mins Dave era smeg ups shows, preferably with Kryten links. Am sure there must be plenty that wasn’t on the DVDs (certainly I can think of 3 or 4 good examples just from the 3 recordings I went to alone).

Too soon for a BTE – XII ‘Just the Shows’ boxset?

Also, you should win things by watching.

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SKIPPER:

Flickeringmyth: 9/10
Mymbuzz: 4/5 (they’ve put 4.5 for long term fans, 3.5 for others so splitting the difference)
Screenmayhem: 4.5/5
Thepalaceofwisdom: 10/10
Scifibulletin: 8/10
Cultfix: 10/10
45.5/50 (54/60)
Average (out of 10): 9.0

The XI & XII Leaderboard:
1) Skipper: 9.0
2) Mechocracy: 9.0
3) Give and Take: 8.58
4) M-Corp: 8.1
5) Siliconia: 8.0
6) Officer Rimmer: 8.0
7) Can of Worms 7.83
8) Krysis: 7.83
9) Twentica: 7.67
10) Cured: 7.5
11) Samsara: 7.25
12) Timewave: 6.75

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MECHOCRACY:

Flickeringmyth: 8/10
Mymbuzz: 4.5/5
Screenmayhem: 5/5
Thepalaceofwisdom: 9/10
Scifibulletin: 9/10
Cultfix: 9/10
44.5/50 (54/60)
Average (out of 10): 9.0

M-CORP:

Flickeringmyth: 7/10
Mymbuzz: 3.5/5
Screenmayhem: 4/5
Thepalaceofwisdom: 8.5/10
Scifibulletin: 9/10
Cultfix: 9/10
41/50 (48.5/60)
Average (out of 10): 8.1

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TIMEWAVE:

Flickeringmyth: 4/10
Mymbuzz: 4/5
Screenmayhem: 3.5/5
Thepalaceofwisdom: 6.5/10
Scifibulletin: 7/10
Cultfix: 8/10
33/50 (40.5/60)
Average (out of 10): 6.75

The first episode of XI or XII to drop below a 7 average.

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Part 2 of the Screenmayhem interview with Doug is up:

Doug Naylor Interview, Part 2: We Chat with Red Dwarf’s Co-Creator about Writing and Directing in the Dave Era

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I could try NME but I think they’ve got bigger fish to fry.
Actually, these days they probably haven’t.

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‘G&T Suspends ‘3 seperate opinions into 1′ Creator Jawscvmcdia After Pointless Thread Claims’ (hopefully)

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Breaking news: Just had a Cat themed XII advert on Spotify with some new dialogue. More on this story as it develops.

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Up now, go go go

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I should have waited and gone for all 3, as is now tradition.

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There’s comments under the 2 lumped together as well https://imgur.com/gallery/WbC95
But yeah, dunno why the Rimmer one has more, maybe best not to ask.

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My setting up of an imgur account for the sole purpose of posting these pics has seemed to have become an advert in itself as it’s had over 1500 views and various comments along the lines of ‘Red Dwarf is on this Thursday?’

Therefore, viewing figure prediction for Cured = 8m.

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Here’s Rimsy:

“Rimmer: caused major radiation leak killing the previous crew.
Disciplinary action required.”

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Ah, didn’t realise that. Right then:

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Snapchat, just appear randomly whilst browsing through people’s snaps.

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Well, 1 out of 2 working is more succcessful than when I usually attempt these things.

Will try Lister one more time:

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Can’t imagine this will work but here goes:

(Voiceover)
“Initiating Red Dwarf crew analysis:
Lister: lazy and disorganised
Recommendation: immediate replacement”

“Initiating Red Dwarf crew analysis:
Kryten: Series model discontinued
Recommendation: Recycle the parts”

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Why ‘bump?’ Has some new information come out? Did Rob leave after Doug combined 3 seperate jokes into 1 and subsequently refused to explain why?

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We’re going to get through this.

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Dear Carol McCauley,
Your eyes are like two limpid pools of loveliness
Your hair is like a golden waterfall
Plus, those short skirts you wear make me combine three separate opinions into one

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Always the way, isn’t it? You hang around G&T years and you don’t see one seperate opinion. Then, all of a sudden, three all turn up at once.

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So a resounding ‘no’ would be the answer to the question posed by this thread then.

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