Poll: RED DWARF

Do you like the new Red Dwarf on Dave?

  • Yes

    Votes: 119 30.6%

  • No

    Votes: 161 41.4%

  • Not sure

    Votes: 109 28.0%
  • Total voters
    389
  • Poll closed .
Feek said:
The sum of the three parts was much greater than each individual episode.
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This. I was dismayed after the second episode but the third brought it together really well.

I actually thought that was quite good. The story itself was pretty good and wrapped up this mini series thing well. I'd been wondering what those little golden things were that the cat was making and since it's first appearance I thought it might be a despair squid (then forgot all about it when we ended up in the real world).


But it didn't feel like Red Dwarf. Although I enjoyed the story I didn't laugh once during the final episode and the second episode was too OTT with the self advertising. I did like that Chloe Annett was in it but then I didn't like the lack of Holly and the lack of explanation for Holly's absence. It also felt like it was compressed too much into the available time.
 
What SimonC means is that the Rimmer in series 8 was a resurrected human Rimmer, supposedly the same one that died in episode 1, series 1 along with the rest of the crew and would have no memory of all the events since then that hologram Rimmer had. Therefore he felt somewhat alien in that series.
 
Belmit said:
What SimonC means is that the Rimmer in series 8 was a resurrected human Rimmer, supposedly the same one that died in episode 1, series 1 along with the rest of the crew and would have no memory of all the events since then that hologram Rimmer had. Therefore he felt somewhat alien in that series.
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Ah of course. I try not to think about seasons 7 and 8 ;).
 
Shamikebab said:
I did like that Chloe Annett was in it but then I didn't like the lack of Holly and the lack of explanation for Holly's absence. It also felt like it was compressed too much into the available time.
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Rimmer explained it to Katrina, Lister left a bath running for years, which collapsed through the floor and destroyed the mainframe.

Would have been nice to explain what happened to Kachanski and the rest of the crew..
 
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andi said:
Rimmer explained it to Katrina, Lister left a bath running for years, which collapsed through the floor and destroyed the mainframe.

Would have been nice to explain what happened to Kachanski and the rest of the crew..
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Ah I heard the bath line must have missed the destroying the mainframe while laughing :p
 
Nitefly said:
I've had a bit of an attempt to speculate what's going on.

Assume that from the moment the met the squid, they are in a make believe world - from that moment they are acting out an episode of red dwarf in our reality (which is a fake reality made by the squid, hereby called reality 'X').

To clarify, reality X consists of 'our world where we watch red dwarf on tv'.

In our world, the writers are 'jumping the shark'. They have ran out of ideas so are introducing new weird plot devices, like making it back to earth, and lister speaking chinese. Katrina might be a new character introduced to bolster 'failing ratings' ala scrappy doo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

This would explain why so many things don't make sense. However, somehow they escape reality X and it all goes back to normal.

What do you think?
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That's pretty clever actually and I appreciate it a whole lot more now that I've read your post.

They wrote the script in such a way that these revival episodes being 'awful and crap' is actually part of the story itself. Ingenius. What a fantastic way to 'get away' with it being potentially really bloody awful! Except that I don't think most people will have got it and genuinelly think it's still rubbish despite the clever paradox they tried to weave.
 
I think it was as good as series 7 & 8, and these series were absolutely atrocious, completely unfunny and poorly written, just shows out of the Grant Naylor colabortation that Rob Grant was the funny one.
 
I just finished watching season 1-8 and then the 3 new episodes and have to say 1-6 was 100% fantastic, has to be one of the best shows I have ever watched but 7&8 just didn't cut it for me. Back to earth I was really looking forward to and it was good but not in the usual red dwarf way. It had too much self advertisement in it and I don't think I laughed once on episode 2&3.....
 
Sorry guys I can't stand this season 7 bashing any longer - sure the onscreen dynamics changed, but it had some amazing episodes.

Tikka to Ride - JFK assasination, ingenius twist, hilarious scene where they are eating a dead person.

Stoke Me a Clipper - Rimmer's destiny is to be Ace, ingenius, infamous crocidile surfing scene at start, excellent send off at the end.

Ouroboros - Lister is his own father, again ingenius, plus seemless introduction of new crew member (albeit unfunny).

Blue - Hilarious episode where Lister actually misses Rimmer, infamous 'The Rimmer Experience' scene ("He's Arnold Arnold Arnold Rimmer, more reliable than a garden strimmer, without him life would be much grimmer...etc") plus hilarious dream sequence where they almost kiss.

Nanarchy - The nanobots stole Red Dwarf and reconstructed it into a planet - ingenius. Kryten hunts them down to also rebuild Listers arm. Ends the Season nicely and sets up for Season 8 triumphant return to the mothership.


That said, season 8 was pants, I couldn't get into it at all. And I agree it needs Rob Grant back to do some decent gags, dialogue, banter, vibe, flow, whatever it is that Dwarf had that made it so brilliant s4-6 and subsequently lost.
 
Robosapien said:
That's pretty clever actually and I appreciate it a whole lot more now that I've read your post.

They wrote the script in such a way that these revival episodes being 'awful and crap' is actually part of the story itself. Ingenius. What a fantastic way to 'get away' with it being potentially really bloody awful! Except that I don't think most people will have got it and genuinelly think it's still rubbish despite the clever paradox they tried to weave.
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Well, I'm not sure my speculation was what actually happened since it was never mentioned explicitly. Perhaps, but probably not.
 
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