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Red Dwarf XI

CaptainWacky

CaptainWacky

I want to smell dark matter
First episode was...okay. Just about. Started off weak with some strained jokes. But not as strained as the Kryten costume which was almost bursting at the seams! (I'm saying he got fat.) Got better in the second half once they started making science jokes. Was good to see Kevin Eldon. The "pram theory" bit was genuinely funny but then they ruined it by running it into the ground.

All of Earth's history would have been altered and Lister and Rimmer never born as a result of the events of the episode but they never really worry about things like that, I guess? About the same level as series X which means "pleasant enough and not insultingly bad like 7 and 8 but nowhere near the glory days."
 
I haven't seen it yet and I'm not in much of a rush. It's difficult to look forward to it when the recent efforts have been so weak. You'd think with so much time between series they'd be able to come up with some great ideas. There's so much potential from those characters.
 
Msybe Jennifer Saunders and Ruby Wax should write it.

They know how to keep going back to the well for decades with success.
 
Every episode is solely written and directed by Doug Naylor. You'd think they could find someone else to write a couple, but maybe he thinks only he can do it.
 
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Episode 3 seemed to have more effort put into it. There was a plot(!), I liked the Snacky robot, the evil doctor robot looked cool, there was some nice model work and I liked the music when Starbug was escaping the exploding ship. It still wasn't as funny as the old days (I did laugh at the "Captain Bollocks" bit) and the plot didn't really make sense (if Lister's kidneys had already been removed, how did the robot doctor remove them again?) but at least there was an effort!
 
I thought it was pretty good, but it felt like they had the idea of Lister going back in time to steal his own kidney, realised that it wouldn't take up a whole episode, and then wrote a whole bunch of filler about trying to trick The Cat.
 
Episode 4 - For the first half I was enjoying this episode. The 3D printed crewmembers were a funny concept and the captain with his face on the top of the his head was an original idea. The stuff with the crew on Starbug was quite funny. Even though the "Rimmer is promoted" stuff went in a predictable way i was still finding it funny at first (I laughed when Rimmer was on the moving walkway.) Then the multiple Rimmers showed up and it was like they thought just having multiple Rimmers is funny on its own without them do anything funny. There was also some subplot with Lister finding out he had clones that never went anywhere? Then the Rimmer Monster showed up for the last two minutes of the episode and it just abruptly ended seemingly in the middle of a scene. I mean it was literally like they couldn't afford to show the Rimmer Monster blowing up so they cut away. I even wait until after the credits to see if there was another scene but nope! That was it! So yeah, this was going well but they managed to Dave it up in the end!
 
Yeah that ending was really strange. The whole episode felt like a weird mix of the multiple Rimmer stuff from Rimmerworld (not as much Me²) and then it turned into DNA with the Curry Monster at the end. And then it just stopped.
 
Maybe they filmed the explosion but it looked terrible, still better than the bit with the lift last week.
 
Was not a fan of episode 5. Don't like Kryten whining. Him turning himself into a sports car(?) wasn't very funny in the first place then they completely ran it into the ground making it even less funny. The part where everyone was trying to say the Gelf word together made me feel embarrassed for the actors. The stuff with Butler was a bit like Legion and then the stuff with them talking to the universe was a bit like that episode of Futurama where Bender does the same thing...except the Futurama episode was like eight million times better. Then Kryten whined again.
 
So the finale. Are they finally going to do something interesting and introduce a new female Cat? Maybe make her a regular character? LOL, no, she's just a polymorph. Of course she's a fucking polymorph. And the episode had GELFs again like every episode this series for some reason.

They seem to have completely forgotten Rimmer's a hologram (he had a brain scan)?

Ending was really weird as Cat saw them all pointing guns at each other and said "never mind, I'll come back later!" or something like he didn't care. Then in the next scene he just shot the polymorphs. Why did he change? I guess just because the episode needed to end.
 
Also if they have hand held guns small enough to duel weld, and powerful enough to kill a polymorph with a single shot, why do they keep carrying bazookoids around all the time?
 
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