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I always think CB as Ace looks like Christian Bale when I’ve watched them post Bale’s fame.

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He’s got brains, man. Brains he’s never used (expect for figuring out how words would be spoken backward at lightning speed)

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whenever I watch the polaroid scene in DNA, when Kryten tells those disturbing anti mech jokes at the end, I always wonder if the audience laughed, but the audio was removed? (because it’s not supposed to be funny, and would detract from how disturbed he’s supposed to sound). You can hear some titters during his “peeping”, but I feel like any audience would have laughed, just at how generally funny he sounds and looks. Unless they were asked not to during that part?

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I’ve always been haunted by the thought that there’s no real consciousness in (holo) Rimmer, even though the novels seem to confirm there is. But what if the even emotions and inner thoughts are just empty processes with no self awareness?

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IIRC, going by the set reports for Timewave it wasn’t immediately apparent to people who watched it live that it was destined to be a stinker? The worst said was that it was a bit weird. Do you think it’s the kind of thing you have to see the final edit to realise?

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US vape shop owner mocks suspected undercover cop with Series 8 Dwarf joke!!

Most Obvious Undercover Cop in History… (@Youngarab)

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I still like the trivia that all the main Dwarfers have had a brother appear as a guest character, expect Lister, who’s real life brother has had an on screen cameo (in Timeslides).

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Yeah but he would in that final line

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I thought there could be a final line where Lister says “so, still wanna be an officer man?” and a relieved Rimmer just chuckles happily – “hand me my brush. I’ve got nozzles to clean.” Continuing the Dungo plot of him finding peace with his lot

It’s like one of those 70s martial arts films which say “the end” as soon as the bad guy falls on the spikes

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Remember it’s from before the accident and Cat and Kryten are their new genetic versions 

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So seems that temu are already selling merch of the de-aged cast from the new special, little spoiler here for how their classic era selves will look

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I bought the IWCD/BTL omnibus from the bookshop that used to be on the upper floor of the Leamington Spa shopping centre (now a JD sports) and Last Human from a small bookshop in the Cotswolds (my parents think it might have been Stow on the Wold). Bought most of the Discworld and Stephen King books from that Leamington shop too, it wasn’t a Waterstones, but I remember it being big.

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Anyone else think Krysis and Mechocracy would also be good names for Siliconia, and thus always confuse them all?

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a couple of people pointed out the Freddy Kruger Rimmer

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never noticed the guy had a loo roll on his bedside table

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The query connects the character Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf to a lie about his virginity and a car. In the show, Rimmer often lies to appear more experienced, sometimes using the car as a way to avoid talking about sex, sticking to a topic he is more comfortable with, according to Reddit users. The car in question is likely his beloved “S.S.C.” (Starship Ship’s Car), a vehicle he’s very proud of, which he would talk about to avoid discussing other subjects he is embarrassed about, including his lack of romantic experience. 

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I just asked my “co-pilot” thing if it could draw me “animated Red Dwarf”

it said 

I’d love to help bring Red Dwarf to life in animated form! Just to make sure I capture your vision, could you tell me a bit more about what you’re imagining?

Here are a few directions we could go:

• Classic Crew Portrait: An animated version of Lister, Rimmer, Cat, and Kryten standing heroically (or awkwardly) on the deck of the Red Dwarf ship.

  • Stylized Scene: A specific moment from the show—like Lister playing his guitar in the bunkroom, or Cat striking a pose in a mirror—done in a cartoon or comic-book style.

  • Sci-Fi Poster Vibe: A dramatic, animated-style poster with the Red Dwarf ship flying through space, with the crew in dynamic poses.

  Let me know which one you like—or if you’ve got something totally different in mind. Style-wise, I can go for retro 80s animation, sleek modern cartoon, or even something quirky and abstract.

  I put “80s retro please”

  Here it is—your animated Red Dwarf crew in full retro 80s glory! 

  From Lister’s patched-up bomber jacket to Cat’s flamboyant pink suit, they’re striking heroic (and slightly ridiculous) poses in front of the Red Dwarf ship, all rendered in bold lines and neon flair. It’s got that classic Saturday morning cartoon vibe, with just the right amount of space grime and hologram smugness.

  Let me know if you want a different scene or style—I’m always up for another jaunt through deep space!

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more Kieron fun

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another one from Keiron, who’s just admitted he’s making them with AI – and this one didn’t turn out so well

 

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posted onto facebook by one Keiron Reeves and appeared on my timeline

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what if Dwarf does what Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm did and gives us the canon “finale” as a fictional film being made in this meta project, so we have to find the character’s canon fates through glimpses we see in that, as Seinfeld fans did?

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just realised that Martin Freeman took over Craig Charles funk and soul show once and they both played the slacker in iconic BBC “slacker and jobsworth” pairs (Lister/Rimmer, the Office’s Tim/Gareth). Now I feel like Chris Barrie needed to guest on Mackensie Crook’s show.

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wasn’t expecting Rob to be in a Rick and Morty jacket

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I was actually thinking of stocking up on the Ghibli classics this week as I’ve only seen the post Spirited Away ones

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I’m reminded of the part of the Last Human novel 
How? I’m still working on my review of it, and I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten over half of the book by now. 

I re-read it a lot of times as a kid trying to make sense of it, so I strangely have almost full recall of some scenes…

actually I was trying to remember how Lister’s back story with the choice of foster parents fits in with his TV backstory

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oh yeah I was trying to remember that. I feel like Holly has a certain humanity about him that he’d say “sorry old boy, suppose we’d better turn you off till we figure out what to do”

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this might be controversial and I wouldn’t say it here much but I haven’t really liked any of the Dave era that much outside of Skipper and Promised Land. I mean, I enjoyed them and was entertained watching them, but I’ve never wanted to re-watch them and when I have I’ve mostly found them a bit flat. And BTE really wasn’t good to me. I respect it – and I should have liked it, because it was everything I’d always wanted from RD (bigger budget, ambitious ideas), but it just felt like an experiment that didn’t work.

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so with the passing of Ozzy I’m reminded of the part of the Last Human novel where evil Lister has posters of metal bands “eating small furry animals”. I think a lot of people in those days heard snippets of the Ozzy bat/bird incidents, the Alice Cooper chicken accident, and the various Scandinavian extreme metal antics –  and got an idea that every heavy metal concert featured band members killing and eating animals on stage, throwing real blood everywhere, etc. 

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maybe George’s light bee got burned in the incident 

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DNA in the Parallel Universe  

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I thought it was better and looked and felt more like a sci fi movie. Sorry, I didn’t have very sophisticated reasoning as a kid.

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so Sebastian Faulk’s recent “Seventh Son” novel is about an Elon Musk type figure who is obsessed with bringing back extinct species, tricking a couple doing IVF into having a half-neanderthal son so he can observe the boy though his life. In the novel one of the things that makes the boy different is that he can’t plan ahead or imagine the future, and Faulks gives a flashback of Neanderthals losing ground to homo sapiens because they can plan. Made me think of the Last Human novel’s thing of Lister “never planning ahead”…? Maybe Doug and Sebastian read the same book on Neanderthals (I know Lister isn’t one, but it could have been on his mind)

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Man, I hope Cardinal Hordriss stick around, because I know, with him as a fan, RD would be the best sitcom
it could possibly be, cos I mean, he’s a wonderful man, and I’m sure he’ll be an even more wonderful critic of the Dave era. 

“Given the choice I’d watch Dear Dave.”

Worra slag!

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 If you were asking me it was creepy for a hundreds of years old alien to kiss a barely grown human, but anyway…

well he was in the body of a mere 40 year old 

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it’s just occurred to me that “what’s an iguana” is similar to the “what’s a duck?” line in the original Star Wars novelisation…

Kenobi: “I understand you are quite a pilot yourself. Piloting and navigation aren’t hereditary, but a number of the things that can combine to make a good small-ship pilot are. Those you may have inherited. Still, even a duck has to be taught to swim.”

Luke: “What’s a duck?”

Kenobi: “Never mind.”

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Rimmer to be played by Don Warrington (with Chris Barrie now taking the role of Binks in Holoship)

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anyone seen that scene in Batman Begins where Katie Holmes find the ninjas poisoning the water pipes, and one of them turns and points his finger at her, then just weirdly stands there still with his finger up, and with a frozen expression, as the camera moves away. 

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last year I watched that early 80s sitcom with Mrs Slocombe from “Are You Being Served” going to space, that was an odd one.

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Rimmer to look fuzzy and opaque in every episode and put the effect in all previous episodes

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I stand by my feeling that Don Warrington’s Holoship character should have replaced Rimmer and added him as a new regular with Kochanski

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find out in his interview on “Free Speech Forever” tonight on youtube 8pm GMT

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I’ve just realised Holly is a de-transitioner

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the stuff with the squid feels epic and like how I imagined the novels looking/feeling, especially the very end

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I feel like Rimmer would thrive with Kochanski around, the pressure of being the most high ranking person left would be off him so he could go back to concentrating on his exams etc, she could even help him study.

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I saw that there’s a new Captain America film with Falcon as the new Cap out on DVD last week. I can’t imagine the me of ten years ago not knowing there was a new Cap film out, not knowing it existed or was in cinemas. The world has changed

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are Lister and Kochanski’s kids going to reproduce with their siblings?

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