7 was rough because it was too heavily populated. It ran completely counter to the premise of the show which is that Lister is the last human being alive. That's not to say some good didn't come out of, like Cassandra, but that could have been achieved without the resurrected crew.
It was pretty ingenious to allow Rimmer to leave, and then bring him back as a version that hasn't had all the growth of the former so he could be a massive antagonist again. While our original Rimmer is either bedding women left and right finally, or part of the great ring of Rimmers.
7 was rough because it was too heavily populated. It ran completely counter to the premise of the show which is that Lister is the last human being alive. That's not to say some good didn't come out of, like Cassandra, but that could have been achieved without the resurrected crew.
It was pretty ingenious to allow Rimmer to leave, and then bring him back as a version that hasn't had all the growth of the former so he could be a massive antagonist again. While our original Rimmer is either bedding women left and right finally, or part of the great ring of Rimmers.
I think you're thinking of 8, but yes.
7 has some good episodes, at least early on. Tikka to Ride, Duct Soup and, of course, Stoke Me a Clipper.
7 was rough because it was too heavily populated. It ran completely counter to the premise of the show which is that Lister is the last human being alive. That's not to say some good didn't come out of, like Cassandra, but that could have been achieved without the resurrected crew.
It was pretty ingenious to allow Rimmer to leave, and then bring him back as a version that hasn't had all the growth of the former so he could be a massive antagonist again. While our original Rimmer is either bedding women left and right finally, or part of the great ring of Rimmers.
I think you're thinking of 8, but yes.
7 has some good episodes, at least early on. Tikka to Ride, Duct Soup and, of course, Stoke Me a Clipper.
Actually, I was thinking of 8 as well. 7 was still good.
Ugh. It’s bad. There are good moments, but putting aside nerdy plot complaints, this series dips into sexist and homophobic jokes that just have not aged well at all.
I-VIII are now out on Blu-ray (in the UK, at least). I'm curious to see how well the upscaling has worked given that, back then, the show was shot on videotape and thus isn't (wasn't?) considered a great candidate for HD. All the extras (bar like one or two) from the excellent DVD sets are included, albeit still on DVD. I'm hesitant to pick it up as I've got the series DVDs already but I definitely want to see how it's turned out.
Edit: plenty of chatter on the forums at blu-ray.com. Most of the screengrabs show small improvements; less aliasing, generally improved colour grading, sometimes a slightly sharper image, etc. Some cropping to tidy up fuzzy edges and aspect ratios, with mixed results (the DVDs had cropping issues too, especially VI). Basically they couldn't work miracles with the rather limited sources that exist for the shows (can only work with what you've got), but it looks like a modest, if definitely unspectacular, improvement from the DVDs. Don't expect to be blown away. But it's priced to suit, it's not an expensive set.
Ugh. It’s bad. There are good moments, but putting aside nerdy plot complaints, this series dips into sexist and homophobic jokes that just have not aged well at all.
There are some good Season 7 episodes especially the first 3. Tikka to ride is one of the best time travel episodes of anything I've ever seen.
Ugh. It’s bad. There are good moments, but putting aside nerdy plot complaints, this series dips into sexist and homophobic jokes that just have not aged well at all.
There are some good Season 7 episodes especially the first 3. Tikka to ride is one of the best time travel episodes of anything I've ever seen.
It’s an awful time travel episode! We had one episode (though many broadcast years) earlier established that the time travel drive didn’t move them in space, yet suddenly it can take them to Dallas.
And at the start of the very same episode we establish that being killed by your future self creates a self erasing paradox, and then get JFK to kill his past self and it sticks!
Red Dwarf's continuity has always been all over the place. Once, Lister was well aware he was terrible on his guitar, yet later he believes himself to be "the ghost of Hendrix".
I've got Emohawk on now, and in terms of flighty continuity, am reminded how the Emohawk manages to give both Cat and hard-light Rimmer entirely new hairstyles, as well as change Cat's teeth. But it makes that whole part of the episode work, of course.
The scene where Cat and Rimmer are talking just after Rimmer staggers out of Starbug's cockpit is wonderful because you can see Chris Barrie is trying desperately not to corpse up or burst out laughing. He can barely keep a straight face, only just manages, and I love it so much.
What a hologram can do is hilariously variable past season 2 indeed. Quarantine makes all kinds of no sense but I'll forgive anything of Mr. Flibble.
They tried justifying that at some point, giving Rimmer the different kinds of light bee and letting him swap between hard and soft light. Even changed his costume IIRC
I think it was becoming a problem trying to write around Rimmer not being able to touch anything. Chris Barrie was probably getting fed up with that aspect too.
But yeah, sometimes they'd deliberately "forget" he had a light bee if it was convenient for the plot.
Or make a point of it, like the end of Meltdown...
I think it was becoming a problem trying to write around Rimmer not being able to touch anything. Chris Barrie was probably getting fed up with that aspect too.
But yeah, sometimes they'd deliberately "forget" he had a light bee if it was convenient for the plot.
Or make a point of it, like the end of Meltdown...
yeah a lot of the changes were because of basic functionality. Also Kryten was added because they needed someone that wasn't an idiot on the team and not stuck in a tv.
Okay, done with season 8. Good moments interspersed with the most bizarrely nonsensical plotting.
This is the end of my anniversary box set. Is it worth tracking down Back to Earth or should I just skip on to series X+ which seem to be all be free streaming in the UK?
Search BtE online makes it sound very weird indeed.
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I bounced hard off 7 though and kind of lost touch from that point on.
It was pretty ingenious to allow Rimmer to leave, and then bring him back as a version that hasn't had all the growth of the former so he could be a massive antagonist again. While our original Rimmer is either bedding women left and right finally, or part of the great ring of Rimmers.
Hopefully I’m a little more mature and can look past that now.
Hopefully.
I think there's a lot to appreciate in S1-2
He also knows the Space Corps directives
I think you're thinking of 8, but yes.
7 has some good episodes, at least early on. Tikka to Ride, Duct Soup and, of course, Stoke Me a Clipper.
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Actually, I was thinking of 8 as well. 7 was still good.
Ugh. It’s bad. There are good moments, but putting aside nerdy plot complaints, this series dips into sexist and homophobic jokes that just have not aged well at all.
Edit: plenty of chatter on the forums at blu-ray.com. Most of the screengrabs show small improvements; less aliasing, generally improved colour grading, sometimes a slightly sharper image, etc. Some cropping to tidy up fuzzy edges and aspect ratios, with mixed results (the DVDs had cropping issues too, especially VI). Basically they couldn't work miracles with the rather limited sources that exist for the shows (can only work with what you've got), but it looks like a modest, if definitely unspectacular, improvement from the DVDs. Don't expect to be blown away. But it's priced to suit, it's not an expensive set.
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There are some good Season 7 episodes especially the first 3. Tikka to ride is one of the best time travel episodes of anything I've ever seen.
It’s an awful time travel episode! We had one episode (though many broadcast years) earlier established that the time travel drive didn’t move them in space, yet suddenly it can take them to Dallas.
And at the start of the very same episode we establish that being killed by your future self creates a self erasing paradox, and then get JFK to kill his past self and it sticks!
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Inconsistent time travel mechanics are just a pet peeve of mine.
It was stated to be the same device. The timeline 'reset' to before they got the device and then they went back to get it again.
The scene where Cat and Rimmer are talking just after Rimmer staggers out of Starbug's cockpit is wonderful because you can see Chris Barrie is trying desperately not to corpse up or burst out laughing. He can barely keep a straight face, only just manages, and I love it so much.
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That is probably my favourite episode. Just the ‘Chickens good!’ bit kills me every time.
They tried justifying that at some point, giving Rimmer the different kinds of light bee and letting him swap between hard and soft light. Even changed his costume IIRC
But yeah, sometimes they'd deliberately "forget" he had a light bee if it was convenient for the plot.
Or make a point of it, like the end of Meltdown...
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yeah a lot of the changes were because of basic functionality. Also Kryten was added because they needed someone that wasn't an idiot on the team and not stuck in a tv.
This is the end of my anniversary box set. Is it worth tracking down Back to Earth or should I just skip on to series X+ which seem to be all be free streaming in the UK?
Search BtE online makes it sound very weird indeed.
The time travel device froze up so they couldn't use it.
Setting it down near the fire for a little while fixed that problem though.
'I've just been jabbing it too hard...'.
That was an astoundingly accurate description.
It's a shock to the system seeing what perfectly reasonable ageing looks like if you skip 20 years
Apart from Danny John-Jules who is actuality a vampire that lucked out on a role where he can use his real teeth.