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Re-watching it now and although “that” scene is creepy, I did laugh at loud at Rimmer’s going through all the extra time he would have needed, to “2 would have done” *shamed face*

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So do people generally not think Beyond a Joke is a good ep? Because I remember enjoying that one most from S7 too, for some reason. I haven’t seen it for years either (except the blog recap).

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Oh is it the one where he persuades Kochanski into bed? Oh No.

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well, he did follow it up with “beat it uptight”, explaining how his idea of consensual but slightly edgy encounters may work.

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personally I like the milder ones that have less angles and show his normal face off the most, because I like his expressions.

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“my reverential just-discovered-nu-metal ones are funnier”

did you review Korn’s debut? I still remember how much that blew me away

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HAN OF WORMS – the Dwarfers go through a wormhole, and end up making friends with the crew of the Millennium Falcon circa Empire Strikes Back. Han confides to Lister over lagers – Correlians have to have sex or they die, and he’s nervous about how things are hotting up with Leia…

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“you dirty old nerf herder”

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I think the first ending that popped out to me as being memorable was Holly saying “I’m fantastic” in Queeg.

Bad? I was always bothered by those ones that end with some big throwaway disaster which is never mentioned again (like Rimmer dying again in Timeslides), but I guess that’s the nature of sitcoms.

I think my least fave is really BTE part 1, because it just felt unsatisfying and like nothing had happened yet, and I was just getting into it (after being excited)

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I thought it was a bit awkward in Skipper when they walk into the S1 bunkroom and the audience kind of give this loving murmur.

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thanks friends

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Sacred Jedi Texts. That should be good for a
couple of hours.

Three days without food, and the walls of civilisation come
tumbling down!

What d’you mean?

Been on the island for a few years, and you’ve turned into a barbarian.

I’m just burning a book!

It’s not just a book. It’s the only copy of probably the
greatest work in Jedi literature. Probably the only copy left in
the entire universe, and you’re quite happy to toss it on the fire to
keep your little mitts warm for fifteen minutes?

There’s nothing else to burn.

That’s it, then, is it? Goodbye Darth Bane? Farewell Revan?
Toodle-pip Nomi Sunrider?

Have you ever read any of it?

I’ve played Knights of the Old Republic. That’s based on one of them.

Yeah, but have you actually read any?

Not all the way through, no. I can quote some, though.

Go on, then.

“There is no emotion; there is peace. ” (Long pause.) That’s all I can
remember.

Where’s that from, then?

Master Vandar Tokare, you moron. The speech that he does at the
beginning. (Declaims) “No emotion…” something something something. It’s
brilliant writing. It really is. Unforgettable.

OK, I’ll save it till last. (Holds up another.) Marvel’s Leia Pin-Ups. Is it
OK if I burn Marvel’s Leia Pin-Ups.?

Save page sixty-one.

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sorry bad joke

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No, I not watch a Red Dwarf reboot with a female cast. I would of course, simply out of curiosity, check out ANY version or remake of Dwarf – even if they made one cast completely of American youtube alt-right commentators, I would check it out simply for the sake of being informed on Dwarf history. But women in the posse would upset me too much. It’s BOYS from the Dwarf people.

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I always used to hope, back in the 90s, they would do some amazing, fun 2D Dwarf game for the SNES and Mega Drive, like running round the ship solving puzzles and blasting polymorphs, with humor from the show. Like a cross between Earthworm Jim, Metroid, Prince of Persia, and some point and click thing.

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“The X-Files (just one keeper)”

I know, the lizard man ep was great, wasn’t it.

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I thought it would be interesting if Cat just didn’t feel human. Like we know watching the show DJJ is a handsome man, but if you were in the RD universe, he just wouldn’t register as a person, it would feel like standing next to a zoo lion or something.

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Or maybe “identity within” had canonically happened by the time he met Kochanski and he just wasn’t in a sexual “season” anymore?

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Yeah that’s another thing. Cat should at least be fascinated with Kochanski in her being the first woman he’s ever had the chance to get to know and see up close for longer than a day.

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Loathe to say this because I like TLJ and the Leia flying scene, but I’m not sure Lucas had decided on Leia being Luke’s sister or a force user by ESB? You could simply interpret that scene as Luke being able to project his thoughts. Although if it’s canon you want, Leia was a full blown saber wielding Jedi in EU canon for 20+ years.

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do the people of Dubai have their pillows side-by-side, or two-tier?

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staying on the Rik theme, I’m watching my way through a box set of New Statesman right now, and I’m not sure what I think of it. The writing and ideas are great in terms of the different ways of political corruption he gets involved with, but the timing often seems slow and off in ways that dampen the humor.

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It’s not Dubchal, it’s Dubai! We’re gonna have a hot dog stand in Dubai!

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It always annoys me when there is some fight about a sci fi/fantasy film/show and someone discounts all calls for realism, like “you want realism in a film about wizards?” There are different levels of realism and different ways to be realistic – for example, Buffy has more serious performances and themes than the 70s Hammer vampire films, the Nolan Batman films have more serious crime themes than the Burton films (despite a lot of the sci fi in the Nolan films being a bit silly), Spider-Man being played by a stunt man swinging on real ropes feels different to a CGI Spider-Man, etc.

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def a big influence on RD with a radiation leak, emotional scenes in a round observation deck, etc. I haven’t seen it for years, it’s on youtube but the version on there has crap sound.

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if you take the whole series as canon, her father Anakin was born of the force so it’s not surprising she would have some subconscious force protection. I did not mind that scene, it was a bit magical and the fantasy side of SW to me.

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I didnt like Last Jedi so much at the cinema because I just found it a bit depressing, but I’m starting to appreciate it re-watching it on DVD. I kind of like Luke being non violent, the more I think about it.

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“>Surely you mean Episode VIII?”

no, he’s just seen the leaked reddit pics of Episode 9’s filming, and he can already tell how SHIT it is

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When I was in year 7 (age 12 ish) we had to do a big project on any subject we wanted, and I chose Red Dwarf. I basically just copied out sections of the programme guide and “making of Gunmen of the..” book along with my own cartoons of the characters and ships.

Thing is my Dad got the idea that this project was some super important deal that was going to set the scene of how my teachers judged me for the rest of my school years, and yelled at me about it for weeks afterward – for choosing RD as a subject, for writing it in a confusing way that assumed the reader already knew what RD was and who the actors were, for doing a half-arsed job (which was true, I hated home work and my Dad stressing about it made me hate it more).

I remember him yelling something like “you keep mentioning Starbug what is Starbug?” and I said “the small ship” and he yelled “and how the hell is anyone supposed to know that?”

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The only was I could enjoy “Justice” is if I just imagined really hard that they saw Lister was ok and he was waving for help or something.

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I’m not going to defend that particular sketch, but I really enjoyed their sketch show on the BBC a few years ago. It seemed like a real attempt to bring back that, Smith and Jones, Fry and Laurie, double act with an edge, we used to get in the 80s. I liked them more than Mitchell and Webb

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I think a good final episode of the series would involve them all getting some company/potential romance/friends. Some cats, some mechanoids, some holograms and Kochanski. Still lost in deep space, but with possible new friends.

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in that comedy video about cars he did in the 90s (now on youtube), it starts off with him doing a bit in front of the mill on the cover of Black Sabbath’s first album.

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I guess with the nova 5 girls they must have died at the same time. after all if one died the others would have not allowed Kryten to play they were alive.

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I watched DNA recently and it seemed unbelievable that Kryten has served humans for a long time but has such ignorance about them (socket up the bum etc)

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I know the Dave Dwarf is very audience focused. But I wasn’t expecting a simple, no set, no writing, ad-libbing thing where Doug and the cast sit before the actors on simple chairs and ask them to yell out plot points and ideas, and get audience members up on stage to play characters they come up with there and then.

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“It’s extra annoying that the Idea For An Episode episode was just regular length, but the bottle episode where Rimmer gets trapped in a supply room with Bob the Skutter (TOWRGTIASRWBTS) got to be a 3-parter”

and that the whole 3 parter was just Pinter’s “the caretaker” with slightly modified dialogue.

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I thought Gary did his best but when the sellotape keeping his dreads on came loose and they were dangling down it was distracting. Lovely singing on the musical dialogue though.

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maybe they struggled to find a way to make multiple cats funny. Like one sharp suited pop star ish guy reacting with normal people is funny. But make a group of them and what can you do, other than they may be jealous of each other or something. Like when you have a group of pop stars together on a charity single they kind of don’t stand out anymore.

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add on – it’s this one http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Dwarf_the_Roleplaying_Game

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I just remembered, 15 years ago, I stayed at a friends house who had an old Red Dwarf role playing book I’d never seen before, and I stayed up reading it. I had some really interesting mythos in it, like different animal-evolved people such as the rabbits from the ship the Captain mentioned (forgot name) who have become a super-competent engineer/tech race who all look like Tim Spall with big front teeth and overalls. I haven’t thought about that book in years.

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I love how that TV listing gives Rimmer’s qualifications and keeps Cat a mystery.

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the thing that bothered me was (maybe some here can tell more)..the cameras used some creative shots and blurring to not get too explicit, but what were the studio audience seeing? The front row at least must have been hit by some fluids.

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there was a sad scene in Mrs Brown’s Boys where she talks about how she needs to be involved in her kids lives, and the audience went “aw” and she broke character and said “I’m a fecking man in a dress”. That annoyed me, because why add an emotional subplot and then mock us for getting involved with it.

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i think now that was the point. “ironically”, Lister doesn’t remember who Kochanski was anymore, he just calls any woman by that name.

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oh that is a funny sketch, I haven’t seen that for years. How did he get the bottle stopper to pop out of his ear on cue…?

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Daisy Ridley is doing a good job as Kochanski. The age difference between her and Lister seems a bit strange though, especially the constant references to Lister being “nearly 30” when talking about having kids to re-populate humanity. And I’m not sure every episode needs to devote a 5 minute scene of her fighting simulants with her light sword.

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the conversation here about Mr Bean yesterday had me looking up some Bean clips, and I’d forgotten how ..idiosyncratic the audience could be, such as the person who keeps doing this loud honking laugh gasping for breath after the laugh has finished, and someone screeching. RD, I guess I always thought the Series 1 audience was easily pleased by some of the more panto-ish broad Lister/Rimmer banter.

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and what the heck happened to his teef? the druids could use them as a place of worship!

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Ruth Jones as Cat’s long lost cat wife is a great addition to the cast. I’m not sure Cat needs to screech the catchphrase “mm mm ah love them floppy tiddies!” every time she comes in, though.

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