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Red Dwarf: The Promised Land

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
I had no idea Doug Naylor finally got his Red Dwarf movie script filmed as a 90 minute tv special but here we are!



If this was 20 years ago...I wouldn't be excited because Red Dwarf was already bad twenty years ago. But if this was 25 years ago I'd be excited!
 
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I'm pretty sure Naylor's been sitting on this script for about twenty years. I remember reports back in the day of him trying to get the movie made (with JACKIE CHAN and MADONNA in big roles, since they were famous at the time) and it was a story about running into the other Cat people.
 
There have definitely been some missteps in some of the later years of Red Dwarf but I liked the last two series quite a bit. Looking forward to this.

 
Mentalist said:
There have definitely been some missteps in some of the later years of Red Dwarf but I liked the last two series quite a bit. Looking forward to this.
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Without looking it up, tell me the plot of one episode from the last two series.

(The trailer's pretty decent maybe it'll be good somehow who knows!)
 
I remember the one where they join the 20's themed resistance against the prohibition of technology, the one where all the machines go on strike and the one where all their decisions are opposite.

11 and 12 had some good episodes. Nothing mindblowing and there were a couple of clunkers but mostly fun stories. It wasn't high art and not at the level of the early days but they were entertaining all the same.

I'm expecting something similar from the special. I'm not expecting it to be amazing but definitely fun and miles better than Back To Earth.
 
Yeah it was alright I guess. It did feel like they had a bunch of ideas they couldn't work out how to make into episodes on their own ("The cat fleet returns", "Holly is back but he kicks them off the ship", "Rimmer gets superpowers") and sort of mushed them together.

The cat people all seemed pretty eh. Like by the time they had done the third "They're doing a thing like a cat, because they're cats!" joke it was old but they just kept doing them. The three that hung around with the crew didn't really do anything and just sort of disappeared when the plot had nothing for them to do.
 
Yeah in terms of 90 minute Red Dwarf stories it was definitely way better than Back To Earth and whatevere the three part story that opened series 8 was called. I liked finally seeing the other cats as I've been wondering about them for over thirty years (well okay I wondered about them for a while then forgot for thirty years.) The villain was pretty bland though and yeah the other three didn't do much. At least Cat got a character moment at the end (A RARE THING.)

The story about Rimmer's depression was good (thought maybe could have been introduced earlier int he movie) and the scene with him and Lister was really well played by Craig Charles. The thing where he had to plug in his light bee was funny at first but then over-played, in typical Red Dwarf on Dave style. I didn't really laugh much either and some of the jokes felt pretty dated (the sex change stuff. Just saying "haha you'd be a woman!" isn't automatically funny anymore, Doug) but I wasn't like embarrassed or anything.

I'm sure they've done the thing where Norman Lovett appears as Holly and the studio goes "waaay!" about three times now on Dave, but Holly had an actual good scene when he got his memory back so that's progress at least.

NOW BRING BACK KOCHANSKI.
 
I liked how they all had to LEAVE RED DWARF FOREVER when Holly got restored but then like two days later Rimmer just asked him to restore a back-up which he just could have done at the time and avoided all this mess.
 
Remember when he left to be the new Ace Rimmer, then there was a human Rimmer with no memory of the first seven series for a while, and they never really confirmed who the current Rimmer is...
 
Important thought I had during the episode but forgot to post here: Kryten's so fat now he looks like a Dalek.

Glad I got that out.
 
CaptainWacky said:
Remember when he left to be the new Ace Rimmer, then there was a human Rimmer with no memory of the first seven series for a while, and they never really confirmed who the current Rimmer is...
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Speaking on the Two Geeks, Two Beers podcast, series co-creator/writer Doug Naylor confirmed: “[It’s] the original Rimmer.”
He added: “We thought it was a good story [to have the original become Ace Rimmer], but obviously we want the original Rimmer back because… it’s the original Rimmer! So that’s what happened when we rebooted [with Back to Earth, the first episodes made for Dave].”
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