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I always wondered why the priest doesn’t look fashion conscious, like he could have had a sharp suit with a priestly robe over it or something. And why doesn’t he sound cool, I’m not saying he has to sound like Cat but he could have had a stereotypical rock n roll voice or something. He just doesn’t seem cat like in the way Cat does at all.

and even in Promised Land we only see feral or Lister worshippers, where are the sharp suited ones? At least we have the Can Polymorph I suppose.

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yeah, I think my mind briefly went over the possibility of “over” meaning something like “you’re extra annoying” too.

anyone noticed that Lister/CC seems to be at the peak of fitness in series 7 and 8? Like relatively slim and buff looking?

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I’ve only just realised that Todhunter says “you, Rimmer, are over one man” and not “only one man”

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I’ll put another vote in for the cat history pictures

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yeah, come to think of it, that was mocked in Back To Reality so maybe it’s just too obvious and it was always just a silly accident. In fact, maybe in my love of epic novel-scope Dwarf I haven’t accepted that everything Tim Spall mention in BTR are things that should be too cheesy and obvious for the show.

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I have to admit.. I’m struggling a bit with the slow pace. I got halfway through “City” and switched to “Robots” for a break. I love the world and the robots, but I’m finding the royal people in charge of the craft a bit wearying – they sound like they’re all acting different plays and yelling in weirdly clashing tones to each other. I’ve still got Fang Rock and Dalek Invasion of Earth to watch, and I’ve ordered the first Leela story with her forest tribe as I think i have memories of seeing it as a kid.

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I know I’ve said this before, but when I watch Dimension Jump it makes me chuckle that Rimmer’s Supermarket Greats CD would probably be cutting edge vaporwave now.

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I never even noticed “yes God” till now. I thought he was saying something like “yes, bud?”

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edit – spelling

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and no one really likes Series VIII

Bad men on Facebook do

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I remember in the run up to series x there was speculation that the accident would be revealed as JMC sabotage to cover something up or get rid of a liability. And that The Beginning would deal with the crew travelling back to stop the leak. 

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Lister gives birth in the Smegazine?

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I like Rob’s theory – the drive plate shouldn’t have been vital, but it was the only line of defence after all the other defences had been allowed to degrade to cut costs.

I wonder how complex it was though – was it a big fiddly wiring job, or just screwing a plate in and he forgot one whole side of the screws because he was thinking about his exam or something.

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Never occured to me Mac is in both series and both contain a posh cold soup, that’s a coincidence 

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Weirdly while posting on this thread I put on BBC 3 counties radio, and they’re sending a working class presenter to Ascot to learn how to act there – specifically mentioning Gazpacho Soup as a starter when I switched it on.

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She got a part time job performing the ball girl in the VR tennis game.

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Cat in bed at the end of Can of Worms because there’s a possibility it’s just a dream and he doesn’t actually have a secret harem of cat ladies he found living on the ship.

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Bruce Wayne making a similar mistake to Rimmer in Batman Returns

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I’ve just found this, but weirdly I know I’ve read it before. Of Course, I Can Do It, a red dwarf fanfic | FanFiction

I think google says a drive plate normally dampens vibrations on a vehicle?

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 I’ve mentioned before but I genuinely can’t understand picking and choosing like that. Even bad episodes can be fun to take the piss out of, and I’m a compulsive completionist, but then again I don’t watch Nu Who at all so what do I know?

I remember when I bought Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica (2000s series), I asked on the BSG imdb page if they could list me the essential episodes so I could just watch those without the standalone fillers, and some of them raged at me (“you wouldn’t skip chapters of a novel!” – even though I would do that, ha ha). One person did make me a list but advised I watched it all, but maybe skip the silly boxing episode (which of course recalled Dwarf and McGruder). I think I did eventually just watch the season.

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I also was assuming Romana is just a regular companion, and was surprised at her genius abilities. I know now she’s a time lady. I thought she was just a savant person.

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I’ve got a feeling it’ll be similar to My Hero. But with a robot instead of a superman.

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Yeah I’ve realised I might be getting my hopes up for Adams level wit for the rest of era. I just want to jump in and get some different stories watched really. I can see there’s a lot of variety in style. I also have seen a clip of a certain icon appearing as an art critic.

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I’ve had the final Capaldi series on dvd (with the companion called Bill) since it first came out and never opened it. Didn’t see any of it on TV either. Might crack it open tonight 

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I got bored of the first Jodie series but I really enjoyed the special – the one about an American businessman making Dalek police and the real Daleks come and fight them? I want to see the other specials from her era now.

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Well, I’ve just watched my first ever classic Who episode, part one of City of Death. I love Tom Baker’s charisma so far, I laughed at him saying “I’d fire any employee who acted like that” when asked if the armed men were working for him. In fact there’s more genuinely funny humour than I was expecting in general. The Louvre and Mona Lisa looked a bit rough but I love the real Paris atmosphere. Julian Glover seems a great villain so far with his alien identity. Got City, Fang Rock and Robots of Death from CEX on my way home this eve, so hopefully will get through them over the next few days.

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I used to watch it with my parents but I don’t remember many plots now. Weirdly the only 2 things I remember are the one where he and his friend/assistant slept together? Seemingly spoofing the X files type romantic tension fashionable at the time. And one scene where he was trying to slip on a banana peel to prove it wouldn’t really happen. They may have been the same episode tbh.

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I saw in the library this week that Lionel Shriver (author of the big 2000s school shooting drama We Need To Talk About Kevin) has written a novel called Mania with the Timewave/Incompetence scenario. I gather she’s become some kind of conservative commentator in the last few years (and her newest novel is a satire about people taking in a migrant and having it all go wrong in some way). Anyway, even from the back cover I just thought Mania sounded strangely similar to the 2 Grant Naylor stories.

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it’s the worst old lady starring BBC sci fi comedy since 1978!

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I’ve never actually watched any pre-2005 Dr Who properly, just clips. I should probably get some dvds or something.

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having just seen the new video trailer for the Titan book, which shows an ad from “Channel 27”, I’ve been thinking that “funky groovy channel 27” line has always stuck in my head. Because it shows Rimmer is angry at being a minority member but doesn’t want to receive inclusion from hip, progressive people/channels. It’s always been one of his top character-explaining moments to me.

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When and if the series comes back there’s zero chance of it picking up from where The Reality War left off. I don’t think it matters either way.

they’ll be a new Doctor with no mention of how long he’s been around. Then a comic showing how he regenerated from Rose. Then a special flashback that contradicts the comic.

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 with Lost, I’m not quite sure it’d be my cup of tea in the first place so I think “Oh I’ll probably just watch the first season” is me not pressuring myself to watch the whole thing because the whole show being set exclusively on a desert island is something I always thought would seem a bit dull

to add to Rushy, it’s a weird sci fi set on a desert island with experimental time travel bases and alternate universe portals, it’s really not some dull castaway survival thing. Don’t want to give too many spoilers but basic survival on the island becomes the least of their concerns pretty soon.

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never noticed that beer shirt much before
under my own rules I wasn’t including pyjamas, underwear or dressing gowns, or one off outfits (such as time travel or disguises) but there are some interesting looks there

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I was assuming he was burning rubber off screen…

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Or Kim Kardashian’s, but as said above, Lister went into stasis in a culture that knows about the pop culture of the 70s and 80s, Kylie and MJ, but not our time. Like how we could know of Shakespeare, but not less remembered 1700s playwrights.

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I suppose between series 2 and 3 he starts biking round the ship more and being a biker becomes his core style?

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Hm I see

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Been thinking about Lister’s attire post series 2. Do we ever see him in just a shirt, or even without a leather jacket, at any point from 3-TPL? Excluding scenes where he’s in pyjamas/medical clothes while in bed. I suppose there’s the prison clothes in VIII.

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I suppose that the 1970s Leeds Utd team being so bad that they’re remembered for it centuries later is a funny thought, even if I don’t actually know how they did.

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I was thinking today, classic Dwarf had all these jokes about current stuff, food, places, like pot noodles, Berni inns, shake n vac, etc, but I can’t think of many modern equivalents in Dave era Dwarf. Like jokes about 5 Guys or Taco Bell, or vapes or Huel drinks etc. Is that because Doug doesn’t bother to try new and fashionable things anymore, or there just isn’t anything worth joking about. I feel like you have to watch tiktok comedians for that kind of contemporary observation now. 

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Marooned reboot filming on face book

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In Cassandra, is Kochanski getting in bed with Rimmer because she believes you can’t try to avoid Cassandra’s predictions, or more because she “feels sorry for him”?

Would Lister have shot them (or just Rimmer) if he found them together without Kryten’s explanation…🤔

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Happened to see the X Files episode Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose and I’m convinced now it inspired Series 8’s Cassandra (with Clyde being a man with the ability to see how anyone will die)

Look, it’s just up ahead. You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can’t think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation.

(Mulder leans forward.)

MULDER: Why are you telling me that?

CLYDE BRUCKMAN: Look, forget I mentioned it. It’s none of my business.

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I wouldn’t have known who Bader is when I saw that ep but I did see a doc about him being in Colditz a couple of years ago

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I’ve said it before, but I think Dimension Jump would have been more powerful if Ace actually looked and sounded anything like “normal” Rimmer. Say if he was just normal Rimmer with more self confidence and a kinder personality. Him looking and sounding so different takes away from the concept that he’s someone our Rimmer could have been, imo. In fact, I wonder if the episode would still work if he wasn’t even Rimmer – just a travelling space hero (played by Rik Mayall or someone) who Rimmer hates for being everything he wants to be.

Or what if he’d been Rimmer’s brother, and genuinely remorseful? Like he tries to say “I’m sorry, Arnie. Father tried to turn us against each other. I should have been a better brother to you” and you can see he’s done a lot of work on himself and become a better person, and the rest of the crew love him, but Rimmer just doesn’t care about his apologies and just wants revenge. And as you watch you’re on his side, because you can see how much he wants to make amends, but Rimmer is too bitter (not fully my idea, something similar happens in the NZ comedy film Eagle vs Shark. In fact, in that film, the former victim’s petty revenge on the remorseful former bully is even darker)

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Harrison Ford’s Blade Runner inspired Red Dwarf… and he was later in the Die Hard style action film Air Force One – directed by Wolfgang Petersen…it’s all starting to make sense…

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weirdly Frank Sinatra was an early choice for John McClane (with an earlier concept being an older, retired cop from the novel Die Hard ended up being loosely based on)

Levin asked Stuart to work on an adaptation of the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever written by former private investigator Roderick Thorp. Thorp had been inspired to write Nothing Lasts Forever by a dream he had—in which armed assailants chase a man through a building—after watching the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno.  Fox had adapted the book’s 1966 predecessor, The Detective, for the 1968 film starring Frank Sinatra as NYPD detective Joe Leland, and purchased the sequel rights before Nothing Lasts Forever had been written.

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if cops are bad how have Keanu Reeves and Johnny Depp (the saints of our age) both played cops?

how have the cuddliest sitcom actors like Martin Clunes and David Jason played them so much?

explain that lefties

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I love the scene in Die Hard 2 where he fires the blanks at his chief to expose the fake allies

I did wonder if that would be painful or sting if it was real

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