Red Dwarf!

[Deathlyphil]

Who needs Dave marathons when you have all the series on DVD

Although I don't get why they are showing series 7 and 8 first. Why not go from 1-8?

*Fingers in ears*

Red Dwarf stopped at series 6. Red Dwarf stopped at series 6. Red Dwarf stopped at series 6. LALALALALALALALA


Red Dwarf was originally written by two guys, a science-y guy and a comedy guy. At the end of series 5, the comedy writer left. This is why series 5 has all the best episodes. Series 6 was pretty bad. The less said about 7, 8, and 9 the better. It had it's day. Please, please, please let it rest with some dignity.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Red Dwarf is the best damn British TV show ever made. Fact.

And yes I'm really looking forward to season 10, even though I don't think this season will be as good as it's predecessors, I'm still really looking forward to it.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Two backstories and you both some how forgot Kristine Kochanski. Well since she becomes a regular in the seventh season it seems that she should be mentioned. She is a navigation office who Dave Lister lusts after but never has the courage to ask out. She makes a couple of appearances in the first season, one in the second, one in the sixth and then through the wonders of sci-fi gets brought in to the regular crew for seasons seven and eight.

Now why could we forgot to mention her, why why why... Because she only become snigficant from series seven onwards, when the whole thing started going bad? I mean, they literally had to retcon the backstory between her and Dave before they brought her on as a permanent character in order to make her more significant.

I don't know, I just don't see how you fit her into a description of the overarching story. Before series seven she's about as important as Captain Hollister or Petersen, and I wouldn't really mention characters that become significant in the seventh series when giving a quick rundown of the plot.

Or to be slightly more honest: No one likes Kochanski.

 

[tomtom94]

I liked half of season seven, season eight was meh and Back to Earth was good but not Red Dwarf. However, my fears about season 10 were mostly laid to rest by watching the teaser trailer, it seems Doug Naylor might have learned how to be funny perhaps. Certainly the fact that they're going back to A) the original sets and B) a studio audience bodes well enough for me, and the fact that the sixth and final episode is titled

Spoiler

"The Beginning"

means that hopefully the series will finally get the closure it deserved after series 8, one of the funniest yet most infuriating cliffhangers in TV history.

 

[Total LOLige]

One of my favourite shows. Who wants to go condom fishing? What's the best bait to catch a two pound ribbed black knobbler. The cat is class.

 

[Mr Binary]

I really enjoyed what I had seen, but at some point the over-all quality really seemed to take a dive. So I'll probably not watch the new season at all.

 

[Laughing Man]

Now why could we forgot to mention her, why why why... Because she only become snigficant from series seven onwards, when the whole thing started going bad? I mean, they literally had to retcon the backstory between her and Dave before they brought her on as a permanent character in order to make her more significant.

I don't know, I just don't see how you fit her into a description of the overarching story. Before series seven she's about as important as Captain Hollister or Petersen, and I wouldn't really mention characters that become significant in the seventh series when giving a quick rundown of the plot.

Okay Ill admit that she isn;t worth the detail I gave but she does become a regular character and for the first season and a wee bit of the second she is still a driving force behind Lister's actions, after yet yeah she is all but forgotten but despite the fact that she was hated that doesn't mean she shouldn't at least have a wee mention somewhere.

Also season seven is no where near as bad as people make out, a lot of the hatred seems to be focused on the fact that one character in that season wasn't liked.

 

[Deathlyphil]

I liked half of season seven, season eight was meh and Back to Earth was good but not Red Dwarf. However, my fears about season 10 were mostly laid to rest by watching the teaser trailer, it seems Doug Naylor might have learned how to be funny perhaps. Certainly the fact that they're going back to A) the original sets and B) a studio audience bodes well enough for me, and the fact that the sixth and final episode is titled

Spoiler

"The Beginning"

means that hopefully the series will finally get the closure it deserved after series 8, one of the funniest yet most infuriating cliffhangers in TV history.

That's interesting. Wonder if they are finally...

Spoiler

...going to tie up the storyline in Stasis Leak. That's the one where they go back in time to before RD leaves earth, and find an Alternative Timeline Dave has married Kochanski.

 

[launchpadmcqwak]

I liked half of season seven, season eight was meh and Back to Earth was good but not Red Dwarf. However, my fears about season 10 were mostly laid to rest by watching the teaser trailer, it seems Doug Naylor might have learned how to be funny perhaps. Certainly the fact that they're going back to A) the original sets and B) a studio audience bodes well enough for me, and the fact that the sixth and final episode is titled

Spoiler

"The Beginning"

means that hopefully the series will finally get the closure it deserved after series 8, one of the funniest yet most infuriating cliffhangers in TV history.

That's interesting. Wonder if they are finally...

Spoiler

...going to tie up the storyline in Stasis Leak. That's the one where they go back in time to before RD leaves earth, and find an Alternative Timeline Dave has married Kochanski.

HOLY CHRIST I FORGOT THAT...GOD I LOVE CONTINUITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[omega 616]

I've never heard of it.
What's it about?

What you haven't heard about Red dwarf is what the people are like.

Lister is a sloppy guys guy, he smokes, he eats curry for every meal and is generally a disgusting person with a sharp wit.

Cat is all about looks and style, he thinks he is the most beautiful one on the ship and is best mates with Lister.

Rimmer is obsessed with old wars and generals in them wars, like Custer and Napoleon. He sees himself as a general, staying out of the fight but getting all the glory. He is a total wimp but acts like he knows all the rules and regulations but really doesn't.

Kryton is the robot, he corrects all the rules and regulations Rimmer gets wrong.

Spoiler

Rimmer will say something like "You're breaking chapter 6, section, paragraph 8" to which Kryton will say "you must not feed curry to gold fish" or something rondom with nothing to do with what Rimmer was talking about

.

Kryton also can't swear or lie and has to serve humans, Lister tries to break this programming in order to stop Rimmer ordering him about and to give Kryton some humanity, as Kryton has always wanted to be a human.

They are all idiots though, which makes things even more funny.

 

[Daveman]

It's budget british comedy based on high sci-fi topics. What's not to like?

 

[Oly J]

as fate would have it I started a thread a few days ago asking who else was excited for new Red Dwarf, so yeah I love Red Dwarf and am very much looking forward to another series

 

[Maeta]

I remember I loved everything about it when I was a kid. I watched it all the time.
Last summer, Dave did a run of series 1 and 2, and I caught part of when they were running series 2, so I tracked down all my DVDs out of storage, and set about watching it again. Series 1 was better than I remembered, and I loved every nano-second of it. Series 2 was good. When I got to series 3, I gave up again because it felt like a totally different show. Series 7 was terrible, series 8 was a bit better, and I haven't dared go near Back To Earth.

If series 10 goes as promised and recaptures the magic of series 1, and it wasn't a 'Dave original', I'd trade my darts and pool cue (not really, but you get the point) to see it now. But it's a Dave original, there's been too much character degradation as well as story ass-fucking, so it'll be a massive disappointment. I'll give it a chance, but I'll probably resent it.

If you like the feel of the early series, I recommend the books. The last book was a bit of a let-down as it didn't seem to fit with the other 3, but I honestly think that the first 3 were fantastic, and if they'd kept with the level of them, they'd be my favourite series ever. Fuck it, even just cutting it on a hanging ending would have been good enough for that. Something half the standard of them would have made the series still amazing. The last book means that it was great. But the first 3 books: epic. The last one was too much like series 3 onwards where I felt it fell apart, the characters weren't who they were anymore.

Watch the series: Cat soon stops being a cat, to it's detriment.

 

[F'Angus]

One of the best Sci-Fis out there. But it did go a little downhill later, still funny though.

Back to Earth was a little poor, but I'm hoping the new series can rise up to old standards. I'll be watching anyway.

 

[jbm1986]

I've never heard of it.
What's it about?

[HEADING=1]Smeg[/HEADING]


OT: I've seen a few episodes. Lister and Rimmer are awesome.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Now why could we forgot to mention her, why why why... Because she only become snigficant from series seven onwards, when the whole thing started going bad? I mean, they literally had to retcon the backstory between her and Dave before they brought her on as a permanent character in order to make her more significant.

I don't know, I just don't see how you fit her into a description of the overarching story. Before series seven she's about as important as Captain Hollister or Petersen, and I wouldn't really mention characters that become significant in the seventh series when giving a quick rundown of the plot.

Okay Ill admit that she isn;t worth the detail I gave but she does become a regular character and for the first season and a wee bit of the second she is still a driving force behind Lister's actions, after yet yeah she is all but forgotten but despite the fact that she was hated that doesn't mean she shouldn't at least have a wee mention somewhere.

Also season seven is no where near as bad as people make out, a lot of the hatred seems to be focused on the fact that one character in that season wasn't liked.

To be honest I don't really hate series seven, I just think that's where the quality starts dropping off. Most of the episode plots are of consistent quality with the previous series.

As for Kochanski becoming a main character, I think the problem is that she's nowhere near as flawed as all the others. Her only major problem seems to be that she's kind of uptight and that's only in comparison to Lister, Rimmer and the Cat. I'm not saying that she's written as perfect, she's just perfect in comparison to the rest of them.

 

[Old Father Eternity]

Twas a good show. One can only hope that the writers, who ever they may be are not smegheads.

 

[Terramax]

For those who say this 10th series won't be very good, I say maybe the opposite. After all, the writer has had several years (or a decade even) to write it. In fact, I once saw a documentary on RD that said the writer had several episodes already written, but just couldn't get the funding.

I think it'll go one of two ways. Either fantastic, or absolutely terrible.

 

[Laughing Man]

As for Kochanski becoming a main character, I think the problem is that she's nowhere near as flawed as all the others. Her only major problem seems to be that she's kind of uptight and that's only in comparison to Lister, Rimmer and the Cat. I'm not saying that she's written as perfect, she's just perfect in comparison to the rest of them.

I recon she would have been better had she been played by the original actress, the one that appeared in seasons 1, 2 and 6. The script would have had to have been written very differently as she came across as being a very different person, certainly not the perfect English rose that season 7 and 8 came across as, and that has nothing to do with the fact she was Scottish.