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y deep down he would have been craving kinship with any still-living native species from earth to distract him from the hell of being stuck alone with an inept AI, his projected facade of lister's least favorite person, the narcissistic descendant of his contraband pet, and a defective salvaged android. Red Dwarf may have been just a vehicle for wacky sci-fi shorts, but it had a pretty dark backdrop if you think about it. Don't tell me if it got really lovely I never saw later episodes
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# ? Jun 23, 2025 00:30 |
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i'm not about to read that
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ROFLburger posted:i'm not about to read that yeah good call, i acidently did and now im even more retarded
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your talking about red dwarf in past tense as if theyre not still making seasons
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u have a problem with ur syntax. it sux
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Orkin Mang posted:u have a problem with ur syntax. it sux i got a sin you can tax its meth. legalize it.
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i never got into it sry op
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I'd say sorry about your thread, but I'm not. Quite frankly I'm embarrassed for you, and all of GBS, that this thread exists at all.
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It's cold outside. There's no kind of atmosphere. I'm all alone, more or less.![]()
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sounds like my kinda gal, what gina gams did whe have?
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The Protagonist posted:y deep down he would have been craving kinship with any still-living native species from earth to distract him from the hell of being stuck alone with an inept AI, his projected facade of lister's least favorite person, the narcissistic descendant of his contraband pet, and a defective salvaged android. Eventually Kochanski joins the crew. The lady he had a crush on. I don't remember exactly, but I think it might not have been the original Kochanski (she ded). A alternate universe Kochanski or nanite clone Kochanski or something.
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Doesn't matter, they a bunch of fat grandads now, I mean how does an android get get fat? Except Danny John Jules - he still looked pretty good in the last lot of publicity shots.
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ZombyDog posted:I mean how does an android get get fat? Maybe he had some upgrades installed in his chassis.
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They should call it " No Planet for Old Men " and end it at that.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Maybe he had some upgrades installed in his chassis.
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ZombyDog posted:Same upgrade that made a hologram get fat as well amirite, is Rimmer still a hard light hologram? I can't remember anymore. I almost said "it's more puzzling that the hologram got fat". But then I thought about it, and maybe Holly programed the hologram to get old and fat along with Lister for morale reasons. The only reason holo-Rimmer exists is because Holly could only animate one crew member, and he thought Rimmer would be the best one for Lister's morale. Space corps protocol says that the highest ranking dead crew member is supposed to be the one re-animated, so it should have been the captain.
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Long ago I was a big fan of the show. I even bought books. Books! Can you imagine? This was my favourite: ![]() Back To Earth was utter poo poo, by the way.
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ZombyDog posted:Doesn't matter, they a bunch of fat grandads now, I mean how does an android get get fat? Except Danny John Jules - he still looked pretty good in the last lot of publicity shots. I haven't followed any Red Dwarf news in several years. Not since the DVD's first came out and there was a big Hooha on the website about pre-production stills on the Red Dwarf movie. I don't blame them for making more, but honestly feel like they should have let it lie. And to be 100%, I'm not sure how they could ever find a more perfect rimmer than Chris Barnes. I have the Red Dwarf books, and theres alot of nuance to both Lister's and Rimmers characters that is lost in the show. A Red Dwarf graphic novel would work out pretty well, I think.
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i have a london jets zero gee football team shirt and it's p funny when people ask me if it's cricket or something
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Johnny Aztec posted:And to be 100%, I'm not sure how they could ever find a more perfect rimmer than Chris Barnes. Yeah, a couple times they tried to do a US pilot and it just didn't work. ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mlnntKi2no Well, that was terrible. Lets try again, but trying making the cat a lady. ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfJsViD9SjM
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i watch the redb borf
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nanoo nanoo earthling
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yeah, a couple times they tried to do a US pilot and it just didn't work. I know I've seen the 2nd one before. Any replacents would be hard, as everyone would be measuring it back against, but christ, that's not even trying. Red dwarf, I think, alot of the humor is character driven. You can't just take anemone else and expect it to provide the same humor.
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lol that must b why they call this place random! lol
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Johnny Aztec posted:And to be 100%, I'm not sure how they could ever find a more perfect rimmer than Chris Barnes. I have the Red Dwarf books, and theres alot of nuance to both Lister's and Rimmers characters that is lost in the show. And I just realised season 11 kicks off in like 3 nights and the first episode is already available stream on UKTV. And they're already confirmed for season 12 next year.
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ZombyDog posted:TBH Chris Barrie could do all of the roles ( In fact he does in the Audio Books, and if I recall correctly he originally auditioned for Lister ) because he was just that good. chris barrie is also an impressionist so that makes sense i think they only used this like once or twice on the show too in season 1 which is a real shame
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ZombyDog posted:And I just realised season 11 kicks off in like 3 nights and the first episode is already available stream on UKTV. And they're already confirmed for season 12 next year. Ugggg, I just don't know, man. It's been...waay too long. For me and for them. Have you watched it? Any good?
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Johnny Aztec posted:Have you watched it? Any good? ![]()
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the first two red dwarf books are better than the tv series
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I'm Crap posted:the first two red dwarf books are better than the tv series True. The books are great, and have a lot of detail the show never gets into (probably because of the cost of sets).
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The first two books, "Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers" and "Better Than Life", were really good. I'd almost place them on par with Douglas Adams. But I really didn't care for "Last Human" at all. It felt like it didn't belong in the same series at all.
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I thought Red Dwarf X was better than 8 and Back To Earth but that's not really saying much I guess I liked the one where Rimmer sends himself a father's day card and then gets incredibly drunk so he forgot that he sent it so it's a nice surprise for him on father's day ![]()
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autoaim.cfg posted:The first two books, "Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers" and "Better Than Life", were really good. I'd almost place them on par with Douglas Adams. But I really didn't care for "Last Human" at all. It felt like it didn't belong in the same series at all. I forget if it was Doug or Naylor but basically one can't really "do" Red Dwarf without the other. One just writes bleak, miserable stuff (Like the insinuation that Lister can only relate to mold) and the other just writes OTT wacky, zany poo poo.
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I remember the last two books (Last Human and that other one) were definitely much more bleak and depressing than the ones before that. If I recall, in one book Ace Rimmer gets slaughtered by the mechanoid and Rimmer and Kryton die in the AR simulation. The other isn't much more upbeat either.
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Drunken Baker posted:I forget if it was Doug or Naylor but basically one can't really "do" Red Dwarf without the other. One just writes bleak, miserable stuff (Like the insinuation that Lister can only relate to mold) and the other just writes OTT wacky, zany poo poo. Doug Naylor wrote Last Human and Rob Grant wrote Backwards. It is correct that they write very different styles of Red Dwarf separately (which have their pros and cons) and as a pair they can crank out some really good stuff.
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Red dwarf finished at the end of series 6 Thanks
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i was tryna kick heron and binged all of red dwarf and it basically mirrored me - high af when it started then it got a lil sleepy then it got covered in goosebumps then it poo poo its bed then I just wanted someone to kill it then it basically curled up in defeat and cried with some back to earth vomit good show though
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britishbornandbread posted:Red dwarf finished at the end of series 6 I still cringe when I think of the one where they end up on Coronation Street. loving hell, what were they thinking? X was better than 7, 8 and 9... But that's faint praise.
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# ? Jun 23, 2025 00:30 |
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Can we get a title change and can we just talk about Red Dwarf a whole bunch? TVIV and CineD are awful, dark places but GBS is cool for talking about things.
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